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Rajshahi Board attains 81.24 pc pass rate in HSC exams

The Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Rajshahi has attained 81.24 percent pass rate in Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations.

A total of 24,902 students, including 14,597 girls, got GPA-5 and the female students did better comp…

Govt starts OMS of egg, potato, onion, vegetables at lower prices

The government has started selling 10 agricultural products at affordable prices under Open Market Sale (OMS) programme at different areas in the city.

Adviser for the Ministries of Finance and Commerce Dr Salehuddin Ahmed today formally inaugurated …

2 more arrested over shot dead Mizanur during student movement

Police today arrested two more persons on charges of firing gunshots at the anti-discrimination student movement that led to kill a shop employee Mizanur Rahman of the city’s Banosree area.

The arrested were identified as Abdur Rahman, president of M…

RSS launches news service in Maithili, Nepal Bhasa languages

The Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS) has launched on trial the news service in the Maithili and Nepal Bhasa languages from today.

RSS Executive Chairman Dharmendra Jha marked the beginning of the two services by disseminating news on both the languages…

Former minister Faruk Khan arrested in city

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in an overnight drive arrested former civil aviation and tourism minister and ex-parliament member of Gopalganj-1 constituency Lt Colonel (Retd) Faruk Khan.

Faruk, also a presidium member of the Awami League, was rounded …

Dhaka board witnesses 79.21 pc pass rate in HSC results

Dhaka Education Board witnessed 79.21 percent pass rate in this year’s HSC examinations.

A total of 314,707 students, including 149,500 male and 165,207 female, appeared in the HSC exams under the board while a total of 2,49,278 students have success…

RAB arrests jail-fled death row convict from Kishoreganj

Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) today arrested Shah Alam, who was awarded death sentence for raping a three-year-old child but fled from Kashimpur High Security Central Jail from Kishoreganj Sadar.

“We arrested Shah Alam, a death row convict in a case f…