DHAKA: Troops deployed to support two government projects on machine-readable passport and visa preparation will return Wednesday to their barracks, an ISPR announcement said.  The army men were supporting the civil administration in running the projects titled ‘Machine Readable

Dhaka: A Dhaka court Tuesday fixed October 22 for hearing on the defamation suit filed by prime minister’s energy adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi against acting editor of Daily Amar Desh and former energy adviser Mahmudur Rahman.Judge Ali Hossain of Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate

Dhaka: Cigarette and tobacco products silently kill 57 thousand people while cripple some 3-4 lakh others annually in the country, anti-tobacco campaigners said Tuesday, fixing a latest social malaise, stalking, emerging as the most heinous hazard. They observed drug users create stalking

Dhaka: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) strongly condemned the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) authorities for the disappearance of Salim Miah, a resident of Kapasia, allegedly after his arrest by a team of the awe-inspiring elite force. Selim reportedly went missing after Rab men

Dhaka: Muggers stabbed to death a young man on Sunday night in city’s Nabinagar area under Khilgaon thana.Police recovered the body of the victim, wearing jeans and green T-shirt.Eyewitnesses said a gang of 3/4 bandits waylaid the youth on his way to Nabinagar from Sipaibag. “They

Dhaka: Once people used to go to Dhaka’s Dholaikhal downmarket to reclaim their much-loved things stolen away. The Dholaikhal model bas now been replicated by burglars and pilferers in many parts of the capital.      At least three such swag markets were explored in the city in

Dhaka: Courts Monday granted bail to 22 workers, including nine arrested during the river-transport strike, as fruitful negotiations between the government and their trade union broke a debilitating deadlock in countrywide waterway communications.Dhaka’s Metropolitan Magistrate Court

Dhaka: Foreign Minister Dipu Moni left Dhaka Sunday for Tajikistan to attend the 37th session of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers Meeting, at the first stop on her way to Moscow. The meeting will take place in the Tajik capital city of Dushanbe on May 18-19.  Foreign Ministry

Dhaka: As the red-earth Barind region burns under perennial droughts, residents of Rajshahi district Monday rallied in the capital to demand that the government immediately go for implementing the long-forsaken North Rajshahi Irrigation Project (NRIP) for saving the ecology and crops in

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Monday made a strong plea at a UN agency meet for creating an open global trade regime that ensures effective access of products of the Least Developed Countries (LDC) to developed countries’ markets. She also called for adequate representation of

Dhaka: A fire broke out on Monday morning in a power sub-transmission room adjacent to the Finance Ministry building at Bangladesh Secretariat, in a close repeat of blaze in the precincts of government’s administrative headquarters.The fire occurred around 10:15am in the room on the 3rd

Dhaka: A fire gutted five storehouses of garment leftovers called jhut in the capital city’s Pallabi area early Monday. On information, eight units of fire service rushed in and brought the flames under control within two hours, sources said. It took up to 7 in the morning to completely

Dhaka:  Two factions of Chhatra League Monday clashed over distribution of food at a programme of Dhaka University Debating Society (DUDS), leaving three students injured, including a DUDS member. Campus sources said a group of BCL activists, led by Enamul Haque Prince, went to the TSC

Dinajpur: Boropukuria coalmine workers will go on strike from May 22 if their demand for regular appointment is not fulfilled by Tuesday, their union announced Monday, at the height of a series of demonstrations. Boropukuria Coalmine Labour-Workers Union issued the ultimatum, after

Chittagong: The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) moves to float a new professional forum following the footprint of the ruling Awami League to shore up their campaign for Chittagong City Corporation elections slated for June 17. A party source said the new platform would be

Chittagong: Ship owners and agents at Chittagong seaport claimed they had to count around Tk 35 crore in loss for the shipping deadlock caused by the vessel workers’ strike.The flagged and lighter ships were of no use during this eight-day-long holdup as no goods from the big ships

Dhaka: Nine unnatural deaths were reported in the capital in 24 hours to 9pm Saturday, causing some difficulties to the staffers of Mitford Hospital and Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgues in doing so many postmortems.DMCH sources exclaimed “as if it were a procession of dead

Dhaka: The Law Minister Sunday said the two embroiled newly appointed additional judges of the High Court--Ruhul Kuddus Babu and Khashruzzaman--would take their oath soon as allegations against them were “not true”.“Their oath will be administered soon as allegations against them,

Dhaka: Bangladesh and Russia are ready to sign an initial agreement on setting up nuclear power plant in the South Asian country when Foreign Minister Dipu Moni goes to Moscow at the end of this month. “During her visit to Russia, the foreign minister-level agreement may be signed

Dhaka: A defamation suit was filed against 15 journalists of the private satellite channel NTV, including the Chief News Editor, the producer and the reporter, for a broadcast in the crime-based programme ‘Crime Watch’.Golam Ali Emam Bhuiyan, a resident of Gobindapur of Shonir-Akhra