PATUAKHALI: Three minor girls including two siblings drowned in a pond in Subidkhali village area under Mirzaganj Upazila of the district on Monday.The deceased were identified as two sisters Marufa Begum, 8 and Maria Begum, 5, daughters of M Fajlul Haque and Mitu, 2, daughter of M Majid

DHAKA: When school students in Bangladesh returned to their classes in January, those who are blind or visually impaired were left at a considerable disadvantage. Textbooks in Braille were months late in coming, leaving them without resources for their studies.“Millions of normal

DHAKA: The admission tests of session 2013-14 under medical and dental colleges will be held on October 4.A source of Department of Health confirmed it to banglanews.The date is likely to be finalized in a meeting regarding the admission test on Tuesday morning.Health Department source

DHAKA: The opposition BNP has proposed to make the Jatiya Party (JP) president Ershad as President of the country for contesting the upcoming parliamentary election as a component of the BNP-led electoral alliance.Confirming the matter, some of the presidium members of JP said that they

DHAKA: The 37th death anniversary of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is being observed Tuesday, the 12th Bhadra in Bangla calendar, across the country in a befitting manner.Nazrul Islam, mostly known as rebel poet, died in Dhaka on August 29, 1976. He was buried with state honour on the

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DHAKA: Opposition BNP policymakers split over the question of joining parliament and left the decision with party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Thursday night.The party standing committee sat for a second time on Thursday night to take a decision on the important matter, but some of the

CHITTAGONG: Two defeated mayoral candidates Thursday opposed in writing an appeal for repealing Mayor Manjur’s case of information holdback filed with a Chittagong court.The case has been filed against him on charge of concealing information and submitting wrong affidavit in poll

DHAKA: ICB Islamic Bank authorities Thursday rebutted a report in a national daily about alleged corruption.  They gave their rejoinder and claimed that the Inqilab report about the irregularities in the bank’s management and recruitment process was ‘totally false and

DHAKA: Information Minister Abul Kalam Azad emphatically claimed that both the print and electronic media in the country are enjoying full freedom, dispelling some doubts raised by opposition critics. “The government has passed the ‘Right to Information Act’ as it strongly believes

DHAKA: Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Thursday said government has no accurate statistics of Kaumi madrasas.“But the government is working to prepare the statistics,” said the Minister while replying to a written question of Shammi Akther MP of BNP.He also informed to the House

DHAKA: India Thursday once again assured that its border guards would not shoot anymore Bangladeshis to death without reasons on the frontier, as the two countries opened comprehensive talks on border-management problems.The assurance came from visiting BSF Director-General Raman

DHAKA: The government decided to buy 70,000 metric tonnes of wheat from neighbouring India to increase the stock of food under a contingency measure.Officials said the total cost of the wheat import would be Tk 162.42 crore at the rate of $332.90 per MT. The finance would be allocated for

DHAKA: A joint force of RAB and Anti-Piracy team Thursady seized some 32 computers for allegedly producing pirated audio and video CDs from a city shop.“The law enforcers raided the electronics market of Karwan Bazar and confiscated the computers and CDs,” said an official of law

DHAKA: The government reduced court fees to some extent following protests by leaders of the Supreme Court Bar Association, now dominated by opposition BNP faithful. “A government notification has been issued to this effect,” said Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister

SAVAR: Army troops moved out in the field here to deal with a much-orchestrated anthrax endemic, amid prevailing apprehensions among the commoners in different districts of the country about the cattle-borne disease.A team of the 9th battalion of the army already started operation

New York: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina urged the US lawmakers to make a new law with provision for Bangladesh’s duty-and quota-free access to the US market, as Dhaka’s long effort for this facility in order to lift a little its poor standing in world trade is yet to yield

DHAKA: A member of the elite-force Rapid Action Battelion (RAB) reportedly comitted suicide by shooting him down with his own gun during duty in the city’s Badda area on Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Milon Sarker, 30, nayek of RAB-1 stationed at Uttara.RAB sources

DHAKA: A huge amount of money is going to be invested in a scheme for expansion of the state-sector mobile-phone service based on latest technology. The project is already underway, involving about Tk 1,447 crore, equivalent to 211 million US dollars, official sources said. The EXIM Bank

DHAKA: A top-level border conference between Bangladesh Rifles and the Indian Border Security Force began at the BDR headquarters in the capital Thursday for resolving a wide range of issues to maintain a secure and peaceful common frontier that stretches over 4,500 kilometres.  BSF