A boost to agro-transportation

Bangladesh Railway (BR) yesterday signed a contract with a Chinese joint-venture firm to procure 125 railway luggage vans to boost transportation of agro-based products.
31 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Body of war hero CR Dutta reaches home

Body of war hero and commander of Sector-4 during the country’s Liberation War, Maj Gen (retd) CR Dutta, Bir Uttam, reached the country yesterday morning from Florida, USA.
31 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Cooperation framework on education proposed

Deputy Education Minister Mohibul Hasan Chowdhury yesterday proposed for a cooperation framework on education between Bangladesh and India as part of a greater goal of building a knowledge-based and democratic society.
31 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Technical courses at general stream to be delayed: Edu minister

Introduction of technical and vocational courses at all general stream schools and madrasas for developing skilled and efficient human resources will be delayed by one year, due to the coronavirus situation.
31 August 2020, 18:00 PM

HC seeks info on state of Covid-19 testing in country

The High Court yesterday wanted to know how many Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 hospitals are operating in the country.
31 August 2020, 18:00 PM

19-year-old arrestee flees from DMCH

A 19-year-old boy, who was arrested over a case filed following a clash, has escaped from Dhaka Medical College Hospital while receiving treatment there.
31 August 2020, 15:47 PM

Mountaineer Reshma’s death: Microbus driver gives confessional statement

The driver of a microbus has given a confessional statement in the case filed over the hit-and-run accident that left mountaineer Reshma Nahar Ratna dead in Dhaka on August 7.
30 August 2020, 17:21 PM

College student stabbed in Dhaka’s Lalbagh

A college student has been stabbed by unknown attackers in Old Dhaka’s Lalbagh area.
30 August 2020, 10:31 AM

‘Ansar al Islam man’ arrested in Dhaka

Rab claimed to have arrested an alleged member of banned militant group Ansar al Islam from Dhaka’s Kalyanpur area earlier today.
30 August 2020, 10:06 AM

Woman gang raped in Ctg, 4 held

A woman was gang raped by five people after the perpetrators confined her husband inside a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Chattogram’s Bayezid area earlier today.
30 August 2020, 09:07 AM

Youth stabbed dead in Old Dhaka

A youth was stabbed to death by unknown assailants in Dhaka’s Bakshibazar area this afternoon.
30 August 2020, 08:56 AM

Govt spending Tk 3,280cr to protect coastal areas: state minister

The government is constructing 139 polders in the coastal belt to protect the areas from tidal surges and floods, State Minister for Water Resources Zaheed Farooque said yesterday.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Seven killed in road accidents

Seven people were killed in three road accidents in Sylhet, Netrakona and Barguna districts yesterday
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Prisoner held within hours of escape from city hospital

Authorities of Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj detained a prisoner yesterday afternoon, 10 hours after he escaped from Mitford Hospital where he had been receiving treatment.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Formulate law to prevent sexual harassment now’

Women employed in formal sectors of the country experience a shocking extent of sexual harassment in the workplace, and this trend continued even during the pandemic. In most cases, the victims are denied any form of justice.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Don’t pay heed to rumors over HSC exams

The education ministry yesterday urged all not to pay heed to any rumour about HSC and equivalent examinations.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

‘It’s govt strategy to continue autocracy’

BNP yesterday alleged that the current government has made enforced disappearance as its main political strategy to continue its “despotic” rule by eliminating its opponents.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Of uncertainty and struggle

Parvez Hossain gave Tk 500 to his wife Farzeena Akhter before leaving home seven years ago. That was all she was left with.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Hoping against hope

Sumi Rani Das never forgets to wear her sakha (bangles) and sindoor (vermillion).
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM

Lamia lies in agony

Nearly a day and a half after she was hit by a stray bullet in front of her own house, 15-year-old Lamia was lying in a bed at Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) in unbearable anguish last night, the piece of metal still lodged deep inside her body.
29 August 2020, 18:00 PM