Ducsu Polling Centres: Demand ignored

Ignoring the demand of most of the student bodies, the Dhaka University authorities yesterday announced the schedule of elections to Ducsu and hall unions saying the polls will be held on March 11 with polling centres set up at the dormitories.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Lead, Pesticides in Milk: HC orders ACC to launch probe

The High Court yesterday directed the Anti-Corruption Commission to enquire about the adulteration of milk, curd and cattle feed and to take legal action against those found responsible.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Two cops face rape allegation

Two police officials have been withdrawn for allegedly raping a girl in the district's Saturia upazila.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Hajj trips to get costlier

Although the government has reduced the airfare, Bangladeshis will have to spend more this year to perform hajj, mainly due to increases in house rent and other service charges in Saudi Arabia.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Class-III staff used SUV for a decade

He was a class-III employee of Bangladesh Power Development Board (PDB), but he used a SUV of his office for around 10 years which cost the government about Tk 1 crore. Although he went into retirement in September last year, he was using the vehicle until yesterday when a team of the Anti-Corruption
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Worries over wastewater

Textile industries would be dumping a mind-boggling 20,300 crore litres of untreated wastewater into the country's waterbodies every year from 2021 if the current situation did not improve, said a Buet study.
11 February 2019, 18:00 PM

PM for master plan to protect cultivable land

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday asked the local government, rural development and cooperatives ministry to work out a master plan for every upazila for protecting cultivable land and checking the unplanned construction of buildings, roads and houses on croplands.
10 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Lead, pesticides in milk

A government-commissioned study has found in raw cow milk excessive levels of lead, regular consumption of which is harmful to human health.
10 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Boys' dropout highest in seven years

The dropout rate of boys at the secondary level increased to 36 percent last year, the highest since 2011, according to a draft report prepared by the government.
10 February 2019, 18:00 PM

ACC files five cases against Crescent boss

The Anti-Corruption Commission yesterday filed five cases against 22 individuals, including Crescent Group Chairman MA Kader, for allegedly misappropriating about Tk 1,746 crore from the Janata Bank.
10 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Ex-principal of Eden college found dead at city home

A former principal of Eden Mohila College was found dead at her house in the capital's Elephant Road yesterday.
10 February 2019, 18:00 PM

'Optimist' FM hopes for Teesta water solution

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen yesterday expressed optimism that Bangladesh and India will gradually resolve the water-sharing issues of all common rivers, including the Teesta, saying the two countries have already solved some big issues.
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Eviction drive on, so is grabbing

Even as the authorities are removing illegal structures along roads and highways, illegal occupants continue to set up new ones.
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Vitamin A Capsules: Five-day national campaign begins

A 16-month-old boy died hours after being given a vitamin A capsule in Jamalpur's Sarishabari yesterday, the first day of a previously postponed national campaign.
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM

A great cover!

It seems drug dealers never run out of options to dodge law enforcers.
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Transplant of kidney from brain-dead to begin soon

Bangladesh is all set to begin kidney transplant from brain-dead to partially meet the demand of kidney transplant.
9 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Probe on to crack 'Hercules' mystery

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday said law enforcers were carrying out an investigation to unravel the mystery surrounding the murders of suspected rapists using the name of “Hercules”.
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

30 Rohingyas rescued from 'traffickers'

Border Guard Bangladesh yesterday rescued 30 Rohingyas, including women and children, from Teknaf upazila in Cox's Bazar while they were being trafficked to Malaysia.
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Soul of resilience

After Marjia Rabbani Shashi finished her arguments in court on New Year's Day, her first day at court as a lawyer, the judge acquitted the man she was defending.
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM

Tamim explodes Dynamites

Dhaka Dynamites had everything a T20 team would want in their arsenal to win the final of the Bangladesh Premier League (BPL). Yesterday, however, Comilla Victorians had something better in the form of a single player.
8 February 2019, 18:00 PM