CHITTAGONG: Marine Contractors Association accused Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan of making fortune by anomalies in appointing 600 watchmen in the Chitttagong Port.  President of the association Abdul Khaleq Chowdhury made the allegation at a press conference Saturday at Chittagong

GAZIPUR: People by the thousands took to the street in the district Saturday damaging hundreds of vehicles and setting fire to a godown of a garment factory in protest against implementation of the much-debated Detailed Area Plan (DAP) sponsored by RAJUK for expansion of the capital.

KOLKATA: The Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Friday night issued “red alert” on the India-Bangladesh border apprehending “possible militant attack” on the Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in Kolkata by Harkat-ul Jihad-al Islami (HuJi).BSF sources said the alarm-bell was

RAJSHAHI: Teachers of Department of Fine Arts in Rajshahi University Saturday have boycotted classes for an indefinite period to protest trouble by students.  Agitated students earlier vandalized their classrooms and confined five teachers including the Proctor of the University on

GAZIPUR: An apparently hasty move towards implementing the much-talked-about Detailed Area Plan (DAP) by RAJUK sparked off widespread protests as elected public representatives are taking a bold stance against the gigantic scheme that involves huge acquisitions of private lands. Thousands

DHAKA: The state minister’s interest in acquiring knowledge on Rajuk’s Purbachal Project is not over though the project duration came to an end. State minister for housing and public works Abdul Mannan Khan is out on a ‘learning trip’ with his team to gather detailed knowledge of

SATKHIRA : Indian Border Force (BSF) shot and wounded a Bangladeshi national along Boikari border in Sadar upazila early Saturday.Injured M Abul Bashar, 30, son of Abul Khayer of Gadaghata village in Sadar upazila, was admitted to Satkhira Sadar Hospital in a critical condition. BDR

CHITTAGONG : Police recovered the body of a minor girl from Shantinagar village under Bakolia thana on Friday night, a day after her abduction. The body of Sultana, 8, daughter of Abdul Malek of Shantinagar, was recovered from a drain in Bogar Beel area at about 8pm. Family sources said

CHITTAGONG: Newspaper hawkers on Saturday morning staged a demonstration and refrained from distributing national dailies in the metropolitan area of the port city for assaulting one of their fellow colleagues by the people of a newspaper agent. But they distributed local newspapers to

DHAKA: Academic activities of Dhaka University (DU) resume on Saturday after a month-long summer vacation.Students were seen coming back to different halls Friday as the vacation ended, reports our DU correspondent.Ashraf Ali Khan, director of public administration said DU classes were

KUSHTIA: A youth was chopped to death for alleged extramarital affair at Patikabari union in the district early Saturday.The deceased was identified as Zakir, 30, hailed from Mazila village of the same union.CA Halim, assistant police super of Kushtia, said some 3-4 assailants led by

DHAKA: Mysterious death of a young girl was reported in the city’s Jatrabari area Friday night.The deceased was identified as Farzana Akhtar, 18, daughter of Delwar Hossain of Hazibari at Maspara Matuail.Hospital sources said family members of Farzana took her to Dhaka Medical College

DHAKA: Detectives plan to interrogate banned Islamist outfit JMB chief Saidur Rahman and the three top Jamaat leaders face to face at the DB headquarters.Detective Branch of police sources said the initiative is being taken to examine Jamaat’s ties with JMB. One source of the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Betar steps up its effort to bring 75 percent of country’s population under the FM (frequency modulation) network coverage. The state-owned radio service will install 12 FM transmitters at 10 radio stations across the country in the next four months. “On completion

DHAKA: National Birth Registration Day is being observed across the country on Saturday highlighting the importance of birth registration for every child and adult.The government has chalked out various programmes to mark the day. July 3 was officially declared as National Birth

DHAKA: The doctors, butchers and cleaners of the 5 slaughterhouses of Dhaka City Corporation are getting their salary duly though they have no work to do. Besides, the environment of those butcheries has turned horrible by now, according to a spot view of the disarray.Once these

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League Saturday kicked off two-day protest programmes against the torching and vandalizing of vehicles and Faruque killing centering the June 27 hartal sponsored by the BNP-led mainstream opposition. The programmes are being staged in the metropolitan cities and

DHAKA: The suspended 45 teachers of BSMMU Friday alleged that their suspension was an outcome of “political vengeance” and a design for creating scope for Awami Leaguers.   But Vice-chancellor of the medical university Prof Pran Gopal Dutta readily rejected the allegations, saying

DHAKA: In the wake of a crisis over the new and old passports, the government will brief Sunday the envoys of the manpower-recruiting countries in Dhaka about Bangladesh’s position on the microdot Machine Readable Passport (MRP) to end the impasse. “Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni will

NARSINGDI: Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim suggested the judges to complete day’s trial tasks on the day to speed up the judicial process, as reports say courts are heaving with huge backlog of cases. His directive came while speaking at a reception accorded to him by Narsingdi