1,500 journalists to receive Tk 10,000 grant: info minister

The government is giving Tk 10,000 as grant to 1,500 journalists each at the primary stage during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Information Minister Hasan Mahmud told parliament yesterday.
29 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Prof Shamsuzzaman Khan new president of Bangla Academy

Former Bangla Academy Director General Prof Shamshuzzaman Khan yesterday returned to his old workplace, but at a new capacity.
29 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Ten die with symptoms of Covid-19 in 4 dists

At least ten people died after showing Covid-19-like symptoms in four districts between Sunday and yesterday morning.
29 June 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Human trafficker’ arrested in M’singh

Detectives arrested an alleged member of a human trafficker gang in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh early yesterday.
29 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Elderly people should avoid this year’s Eid cattle markets: DSCC mayor

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh asks elderly people not to go to cattle markets this year to avoid getting infected with coronavirus.
29 June 2020, 10:54 AM

Charges pressed against Papia, husband in arms case

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) today pressed charges against JuboMohila League's expelled leader Shamima Nur Papia and her husband Mofizur Rahman in an arms case.
29 June 2020, 09:53 AM

United Hospital fire: HC orders to compensate victim families

The High Court today directed the United Hospital authorities to provide compensation through amicable settlement to families of the victims who were killed in a fire at its isolation unit on May 27.
29 June 2020, 09:07 AM

Govt gives nod to two foreign flight operators

The government has given permission to two more foreign air operators -- Turkish Airlines and Air Arabia -- to operate regular flights to and from Dhaka from July 1.
29 June 2020, 07:12 AM

Liberation War minister’s wife dies of Covid-19

Layla Arjumand Banu, wife of Liberation War Affairs Minister AKM Mozammel Haque, has died of coronavirus at the age of 71.
29 June 2020, 05:06 AM

Launch capsize in Buriganga: 32 bodies recovered so far

Rescue workers have recovered the bodies of 30 people after a launch capsized in Buriganga river at Dhaka's Shyambazar.
29 June 2020, 04:38 AM

Monoara Zaman passes away

Mosammat Monoara Zaman, mother of lawmaker Saifuzzaman Shikhar, has passed away at her Magura residence yesterday afternoon. She had been suffering from old age complications, family sources said. She was 75.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Police Brutality On Jashore Student: 3 cops took ‘unethical benefits’ to release Imran, SP tells HC

Superintendent of Jashore Police Muhammad Ashraf Hossain yesterday submitted a probe report to the High Court, saying that three police personnel of Kotwali Police Station had taken “unethical benefits” from the father of college student Imran Hossain for releasing him from their custody.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

ACC sues govt officer, 2 UP members for stealing relief

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has filed a case against a government officer, two union parishad (UP) members and three others for misappropriating about 39.3 thousand kg rice from Food for Work project.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Phone theft racket active in city: CID

They mostly worked in small groups -- around three to four persons in each one.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Fitness Docs Outdated for 10yrs: 11,000 vehicles to be ‘written off’ tomorrow

Over 11,000 vehicles, including 1,572 belonging to different government agencies, have not had their fitness certificates renewed for more than a decade in breach of rules, and authorities are going to declare those “write-offs” after tomorrow, officials said.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

An integrated South Asia the key: analysts

International relations analysts have called for a new move to strengthen South Asian integration for the sake of improving the lives of its huge population, a lot of who are poor, human rights and environment.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Covid-19: Petition seeks quick disposal of test results

A Supreme Court lawyer yesterday filed a writ petition with the High Court seeking its directive on the health secretary and director general of the
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

State-Owned Mills’ Shutdown: Jute workers in Khulna prepare for movement

Workers of the nine state-owned jute mills in the Khulna region are preparing for an organised movement to protest the decision to hand all state-owned jute mills over to public private partnership.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

‘Self-serve’ report pickup and time-travelling tests

Allegations of mistakes and mismanagement in Covid-19 test results have been growing at the Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) in Chattogram city, as the centre continues to work through the health crisis with limited resources.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM

Writer Barun Das no more

Writer Barun Das, an employee of Bangladesh Betar, has breathed his last on Thursday afternoon after suffering a cardiac arrest.
28 June 2020, 18:00 PM