DHAKA: State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resource Ministry Nasrul Hamid categorically said the government would ensure coal and energy policy soon as it had became the prime concern of the ministry. He made the comments while addressing a discussion with officials of

JAHANGIRNAGAR UNIVERSITY: Newly elected executive committee members of Jahangirnagar University Teachers’ Association took charge on Sunday morning.President Professor Farid Ahmed and general secretary Professor Muhammad Quamrul Ahsan took charge from the previous president and general

DHAKA: Mohammed Salim, FCMA has been elected as President of the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh (ICMAB) for the year 2014.  The decision was taken in the 1st meeting of the 15th Council of ICMAB held on 30 January, says a press release.      The council

DHAKA: President of the Islamic Republic of Iran Hasan Rouhani congratulated Sheikh Hasina for her re-election as the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.External Publicity Wing of Ministry of Foreign Affairs disclosed the matter in a press release on Sunday.In the message, the Iranian President

RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY: Three platoons of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members were deployed on Rajshahi University campus and a syndicate meeting was called on Sunday evening amid the unrest of agitated students.Sources said that three-platoon BGB members were deployed around 4:00pm

DHAKA: Three more devotees, injured in a road accident in Turag Thana area, died at National Institute of Traumatology Orthipedic on Sunday afternoon.They were injured as bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Rustam area under Turag Thana around 11:00am while they were returning home from

KISHOREGANJ: A Kishoreganj court on Sunday placed Abu Bakar Siddique, a fourth-class employee of Sonali Bank of Nikli Upazila Branch, on a three-day remand in a case of looting the bank.Senior Judicial Magistrate M Hamidul Islam passed the remand order after police produced him before the

DHAKA: A bus helper was killed in a road accident in Malibagh area of the city on Sunday afternoon.  The deceased was identified as Yeasin, 35.Police sources said a bus ran over Yeasin while he was taking fares from passengers on the street in the area around 3:00pm, leaving him dead on

DHAKA: The government has given approval to appoint some 392 executive magistrates to maintain law-and-order in the upcoming upazila elections.  Public Administration Ministry gave the approval in response to request of the election commission (EC).  As per the government order, a total

DHAKA: A post-poll survey has revealed that the majority of Bangladeshis want political parties to sit across the table and take immediate steps for holding fresh elections in the national interest.Democracy International (DI) on Sunday released the findings of what it calls ‘Nationwide

KUSHTIA: A minor girl was killed in a road accident on Kushtia-Alamdanga road in Sadar upazila of the district on Sunday morning.The deceased was identified as Akhi Khatun, 8, daughter of Akbar Ali, hailed from Kaburhat area of the upazila, also a student of class II of a local

DHAKA: Street sex workers are across Bangladesh are being increasingly exposed to HIV and Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) resulting in death and infertility.    Rampant unprotected heterosexual intercourse with multiple partners is fuelling the spread of veneral diseases in urban

FROM IJTEMA GROUND: A total of 26 pilgrims died during this year’s Biswa Ijtema, world’s second largest congregation of Muslims, on the banks of river Turag in the outskirts of Dhaka city. Biswa Ijtema health camp sources said that ten people died in the first phase and ten others in

GAZIPUR: A father and his daughter were killed as a septic tank explosion in Markun area Tongi upazila of the district on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Mostafa Kamal, 60 and his daughter Mukta Akhtar, 22. Local sources said that the explosion occurred at around 6:00am

DHAKA: A Dhaka court on Sunday ordered to return the seized items of the daily Inqilab on charge of publishing fabricated news. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Shamsul Arefin passed the order after hearing on the plea of its senior reporter Afzal Bari seeking the court’s order to get

DHAKA: The students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) put blockade on streets of the city’s Azimpur, New market and Dhaka University areas on Sunday. Following a road accident, the students created blockade and vandalized a private car. Earlier, a BUET

DHAKA:  The International Crimes Tribunal-2 on Sunday framed charges against Syed Qaiser for his alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the liberation war. The Justice Obaidul Hasan-led three-member ICT has charged Qaiser, a former Jatiya Party state minister, on 16

SAVAR, DHAKA: At least 20 people were injured as a passenger bus overturned on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Jorpul bus stand area of Savar in city on Sunday morning. The injured were sent to local hospital. Sources said that a Gulistan-bound bus of D-link Paribahan overturned on Jorpul bus

MOULAVIBAZAR: The monthly allowance for freedom fighters (FF) has increased to Tk 5,000 which was previously Tk 2,000. Liberation war affairs AKM A. K.M. Mozammel Huq came up with the declaration while addressing a rally arranged by Muktijuddher Chetona Bastobayon Mancha and Road

FROM IJTEMA GROUND: Lakhs of people participated in the Akheri Munajat, final prayer, in the second phase of 49th Biswa Ijtema, the second largest religious congregation for Muslims around the globe, in Tongi, near Dhaka on Sunday.The munajat, conducted by Maulana Zubayerul Hasan from