Police on Wednesday arrested a Jubo League leader from the city’s Rupnagar Thana area on charges of, open firing indiscriminately on people participating in the student-people movement at Mirpur on July 20, killing Shamim.
The arrested was identifie…
The interim government has announced the formation of four more new reform commissions on health, mass media, workers’ rights and women affairs, and it is now at “almost final” stage.
National Professor Dr AK Azad Khan will lead the commission on he…
A total of 33,000 teenage girls will be brought under immunization in Khulna city during the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine programme beginning on October 24.
All the girls aged between 10 and 14 will be vaccinated during the 18-day-long vaccina…
A man was killed in a thunderbolt strike in Gabtoli upazila here today.
The deceased was identified as Sultan Sarker, 60, hailed from Shildohobari village in the upazila.
Local people said the thunderbolt struck Sultan when he was working at his ch…
Ahead of the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP16), the government of Bangladesh, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Global Environment Facility (GEF) have partnered to improve the sustainable management of critical wetland ecosyste…
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Under-19 team reached Dhaka today to play a bilateral series against Bangladesh counterpart.
The series includes one three-day and four one-day matches, which will be held in two venues-Shaheed Kamruzzaman Stadium (SKS…
Speakers at a meeting here today opined that community and social support could be the best way of transforming children into worthy citizens of the country through proper physical and mental grooming.
In this connection, they said that integrated e…
The government has reduced the value-added tax (VAT) on imports of crude and refined soybean oil, palm oil, and other edible oils to 10 percent from the existing 15 percent, according to a Statutory Regulatory Order (SRO) issued by the Internal Resou…
Omar Bin Nurul Abshar, a brilliant student of Bangladesh Airlines Training Centre (BATC), who completed 12 of the 13 modules of the three-year course, got an opportunity to work in US-Bangla Airlines.
But the dream of the 24-year-old youth to become…
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