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Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 2,000 kgs of hisla fish while those were being smuggled out to India through Gatipara border here early Wednesday.

The government has merged the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications with the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology. The fresh nomenclature for it would be the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology, said a government handout on Monday.

So far, 19 newspapers in the country have implemented the 8th Wage Board, Information Minister Hasanul Huq Inu told Parliament on Monday. An 8-member ‘Monitoring Committee’ has been formed with representatives from the government as well as of journalists and…

Speakers at a function here on Sunday stressed the need for providing quality and standard services to the municipality dwellers regularly through ensuring transparency and accountability.

All types of export and import-related activities at Hili land port will remain closed for the next four days from Monday because of the ongoing road reconstruction works on the Indian side.

Police recovered the bodies of two unidentified men from rail tracks in two separate places in Sadar and Sharsha upzilas of the district on Saturday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested 20 people, including seven women and two children, from Putkhali border here on Sunday morning while trying to go to India illegally.

A mugger snatched away all belongings of three women and kept a new born baby hostage for sometime demanding ransom Saturday here at a private clinic.

Dhaka – At least five people, including a couple, were killed and six others injured in separate road accidents in Chandpur and Chuadanga districts on Saturday. In Chandpur, three people, including a couple, were killed and five others injured as…

Dhaka – The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent examinations begin across the country on Sunday. This year, a total of 14,32,727 students under 10 educational boards, including one madrassah and one technical boards, will sit for the examinations…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized Indian contraband items worth about Tk3 crore from Putkhali and Baro Achra borders in Benapole on Friday.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) pushed back nine Bangladeshi people into the Bangladesh territory through Darshana border early Friday.

Election commissioner Md Shah Nawaz on Wednesday said stern action will be taken if any candidate hurts religious sentiments of others during upazila election campaign.   “No candidate is allowed to hurt religious sentiments of others,” he told reporters at his…

Bagerhat – Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard rescued four fishermen, kidnapped by pirates for ransom, from Katlarkhal area of the Sundarbans East Zone on Tuesday afternoon.

A mobile court here on Monday noon sentenced a young man to six month’s jail for eve teasing.

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a man along with 40 bottles of Phensidyl from Bus Terminal area of the town on Saturday afternoon.

Three people, including a couple, sustained bullet wounds in a gun attack by miscreants at Dighirpar village in Tongibari upazila on Friday night.

Police in a drive arrested two people along with arms and bullets at Bijoynagar in Godagari upazila on Thursday.

The Election Commission will sit with the top brasses of law enforcing agencies on February 6 to finalise the security measures for the 4th countrywide upazila elections, beginning on February 19.

Dhaka – A youth, accused in a murder case of a former Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader, allegedly attempted to commit suicide by slitting his throat in police custody in the city on Wednesday. Police said Motiur Rahman Ripon tried…

RAJSHAHI, Jan 29, 2014 (BSS)- A mobile court in the city fined seven pharmacies Taka 38,000 last night.

Speakers at a seminar have unequivocally called for substantial and sustainable development of the country’s animal resource sector through removing its existing problems to face the nation’s protein deficiency.

Cabinet Purchase Committee on Monday approved six (6) proposals including appointment of a private firm to issue machine readable passports (MRPs) among 600,000 Bangladeshi expatriates in Malaysia.   The committee’s nod to the proposals came from a meeting, attended by senior…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered 25.5 kgs of Indian silver at Bhadiali village in Kolaroa upazila on Saturday night.

At least 27 Bangladeshi people returned home through Benapole check post on Friday night after languishing for two years in an Indian jail.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 40 bottles of Indian liquor worth Tk 60,000 from Masimpur Uttarpara village in Bishwambharpur upazila on Saturday.

A university student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself at his house in South Surma upazila on Thursday afternoon.

Police arrested a college teacher from Shilmaria Bazar in Puthia upazila on Wednesday afternoon on charge of circulating video footages of his romantic moment with a female student.