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A faction of the Chittagong University unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) enforced an indefinite strike on the campus today (Saturday) to press for its six-point demand.

Adopting time-befitting measures for combating desertification and land degradation process has become an urgent task in the Barind tract to boost agricultural production for ensuring food security amid adverse impacts of climate changes, speakers at a workshop here said today.

Speakers at a workshop have stressed for strict implementation of the anti-adulteration laws to ensure exemplary punishments to those responsible for mixing chemicals with foods to save human lives.

Distribution of 5,000 blankets allocated from the Prime Minister’s Relief Fund and another 2,000 pieces of blankets given by the Speaker of the Jatiya Sangshad completed in Pirganj upazila here on Tuesday evening.

RAB members recovered 25 live cocktails from Purba Chunakhali area under Chapainawabganj sadar upazila on Tuesday morning.

Operations of several international and domestic flights, which were scheduled to land or take off, faced an unusual delay at Shah Amanat International Airport on Saturday due to dense fog-caused poor visibility.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday paid rich tributes to Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman by placing a wreath at his mazar here.After placing the wreath, the Prime Minister stood in solemn silence for some time as…

Police on Wednesday night arrested Bagha municipality mayor Akkas Ali of the district on charge of making disparaging remarks about Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam.

Police arrested the prime accused in the case for murder of a local Jatiyatabadi Sramik Dal leader and three members of his family in Bhaluka upazila from Togni of Gazipur district early Thursday.

A man was killed and 10 other people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over the ownership of a piece of land at Sadarpur village in Sadullahpur upazila on Wednesday.

Detectives arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 600 pieces of Yaba tablet from Amtali area of the district town on Monday morning.

Communication and bridge construction minister Obaidul Quader said although international extremists trying their best to make Bangladesh to a non-functional state like   Afghanistan, but that would never be possible and allowed by the patriotic citizens of Bangladesh.

Unprecedented cold wave during the last few days has almost halted normal life in this district town.

Despite of disparity, negligence and obstacles, empowerment of female members in reserved seats in Union Parishads has started getting momentum which is good sign of their effective participation to social development process.

Speakers at a discussion have underscored the need for ensuring skill development training for the people with special needs for transforming them into competent workforce.

Speakers at a workshop have underscored the need for comprehensive efforts of all stakeholders and adequate awareness to eradicate the curse of child marriage from the society permanently.

A daylong photo exhibition on “Itihas Kotha Bole: Sangram Theke Swadhinotai Bangabandhu (History speaks: Bangabandhu from struggle to independence)” was held at Moulana Keramat Ali College in the city today.

Several hours after the train accident at Chittagong Railway Station, the railway authorities on Wednesday suspended three of its employees for negligence in duties.

A tanker carrying some 3.57 lakh liters of furnace oil sank in the Shela River at Joymonigol under the East Zone of the Sundarbans on Tuesday morning as a cargo trawler hit it amid dense fog , leaving its master…

Speakers at a daylong discussion urged the farmers and others concerned to expand cotton farming in the vast barind tract for boosting up its production to meet up the country’s demand.

Speakers at a function here yesterday stressed the need for ensuring the rights of education and other existing facilities of the state for the children with disability to enable them to live a decent life.

One week after the abduction, police rescued a shrimp trader from deep forest of Sunderbans on Friday night.

The local administration imposed Section 144 in Porsha upazila today as two groups of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) called their meetings at the same venue and time on the day.

Leaders of different professional and socio-cultural organizations observed programmes in protest of shifting equipments of Khulna station of BTV and the move to close the proposed Cancer Institute of Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) to Dhaka.

Speakers at a discussion here on Monday underlined the importance of creating mass awareness among the people to follow the religious ethics and social values in making a HIV/AIDS free Bangladesh.

Customs Intelligence officials arrested a young man in possession of 14 gold bars and 77 pieces of gold chain weighing 1.5 kilograms at Shah Amanat International Airport in the port city on Monday morning.

Optimum aquifer recharge in the Hard Barind area is very important to protect its overall public health alongside the existing agricultural ecosystem through managing a groundwater basin efficiently and effectively, scientists and researchers at a workshop here said today.

Speakers at a huge human chain and rally programme have stressed for concerted efforts of all with a changed mindset to ensure equal women rights and dignity by preventing all sorts of repressions against women.

Speakers at a daylong training course have stressed for ensuring proper utilisation of the water bodies, involving the real fishermen, to increase fish production for meeting nutritional demand and cutting poverty rate.

Eight people were killed and five others injured in two separate road accidents at Kahalu and Adamdighi upazila of the district last night.