Abducted businessman's wife seeks PM's help

The wife of a businessman, who was allegedly abducted a week ago in the capital's Uttara, sought the prime minister's intervention from a press briefing yesterday.
9 July 2015

Taps run dry in Kazipara of Dhaka for 2 months

Over 1,000 families living in North and East Kazipara in the capital have been facing a severe water crisis for about two months.
9 July 2015

Our Correspondent, MymensinghAppeal for help

Both the kidneys of Md Ali Hossain, 17, who passed the SSC examinations this year, have been damaged.
9 July 2015

CU authority asks risky hill dwellers to evacuate

The authorities of Chittagong University yesterday urged the people living in the risky hill slopes of the campus to shift to safer places.
9 July 2015

Torrential rain paralyses Chittagong

Torrential rain across the country yesterday crippled city life, submerging streets and causing daylong gridlocks in Chittagong and Dhaka.
9 July 2015

DUJA gets new executives

ARM Asifur Rahman of Prothom Alo and Lalon Mahmud of The Daily Sun have been elected president and general secretary of Dhaka University Journalists'
8 July 2015

Couldn't traffic be managed better?

Hours of traffic diversion and a few closed streets around Gono Bhaban create a traffic mess, causing thousands of city dwellers to miss iftar at home.
8 July 2015

Rainfall leaves Chittagong city roads battered

Continual shower since late June has left major thoroughfares in Chittagong city in a dilapidated state with numerous potholes and craters which are
8 July 2015

Qamrul slams media for 'false stories'

Pictures of wheat infested with insects published in some newspapers are not of wheat imported from Brazil, Food Minister Qamrul Islam
7 July 2015

Many from 2nd merit list protest being still in dark

Some college aspirants and their guardians demonstrated before Viqarunnisa Noon School and College yesterday, protesting the
7 July 2015

Plainclothes to be on highways for prevention during Eid

A large number of plainclothes police officers will be deployed at highways around the capital this Eid to prevent extortion by a section
7 July 2015

Rajshahi city also sees traffic jam now

Rajshahi district has also started witnessing traffic jam in this Eid season which is a rare scenario for the region but a very usual one for
7 July 2015

Newborn's body found stuffed in carton in capital

Police found the body of an unidentified newborn baby boy stuffed inside a medicine carton on the Dhaka International Trade Fair premises in the capital's Sher-e-Bangla Nagar yesterday.
7 July 2015

Under-construction building falls on shanties in capital

A four-story under-construction building tilted and fell on three shanties at Suvaddha jheel in South Keraniganj last night.
6 July 2015

Savar missing boy found dead after 6 days

Police recovered the decomposed body of a seven-year-old boy from a pond beside his house at Baherchor of Savar, outside the capital, yesterday six days after he went missing.
6 July 2015

Mufti Hannan, five others indicted for N'ganj AL office bombing

A Narayanganj court yesterday framed charges against six people, including Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, Bangladesh (Huji-B) chief Mufti Abdul Hannan, in a case
6 July 2015

HC seeks list of grabbers of Rayer Khal in Barisal

The High Court yesterday ordered the authorities concerned to submit a list of structures, which were built filling up historical Lakutia canal, known as Rayer Khal, in Barisal, in six weeks.
6 July 2015

Students demonstrate against VAT on private higher education

Students of different private universities and medical colleges yesterday wearing black badges staged a rally in the capital's Dhanmondi, demanding cancellation of the recently imposed VAT (value added tax) of 7.5 per cent on private education.
6 July 2015

Six Bangladeshis to compete in 56th int'l math Olympiad

Six young Bangladeshi mathematicians will participate in the 56th International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), to be held in Thailand's Chiang Mai on
6 July 2015

Rampage near Titumir College in Dhaka

A group of youths have gone on rampage near Dhaka’s Titumir College in Mohakhali and vandalised several vehicles this afternoon.
6 July 2015