DHAKA: The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations were published Saturday with fairly a high pass percentage of 79.98 – 9 steps up the previous year’s mark. The Education Ministry said the examinations took place under 10 educational boards of the

Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Saturday left for Bangkok en route to Seoul on a five-day visit to South Korea and Malaysia with a mission of giving a shot in the arm of Bangladesh’s bilateral relations with the two newly industrialized Southeast Asian nations. A Thai Airways flight

Kushtia: A local commander of Gonobahini, Saydul Islam alias Sayed, 35, was killed in a gunfight on Friday night with Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel in Mirpur upazila of the crime-prone southwestern district, official sources said.Two LG guns, seven bullets and one knife were

Dhaka: A stray group of Dhaka University students Tuesday ransacked the first floor of BIRDEM Hospital in the city and confined its Director in his office chamber, kicking up turbulence in the busy heartland of the capital.    Witnesses said long traffic tailbacks on the

DHAKA: Biman Bangladesh Airlines workers will stage demonstrations Monday for a pay hike. The workers of the national flag carrier, under the banner of Sammilito Sangram Parishad, also demands immediate removal of salary discrimination between permanent and contractual staff members.

Dhaka: Four people, two of them children, were electrocuted in the capital city as they came in contact with live electric wires that tore down during summer storms that lashed some parts of the country on Friday night.  Three of the dead were identified as Sujon Mia, 10, son of Monu Mia

Dhaka: Two schoolboys drowned while swimming with friends to enjoy summer vacation in Hatirjheel waters in the capital on Saturday noon. The deceased were identified as Tusher and Kaiser, both students of Magbazaar T&T High School.Friends of the victims said due to the SSC result the

Dhaka: The disrupted waterway communications returned to almost normal on different routes though Bangladesh Noujan Sramik Federation stuck to their guns carrying on their indefinite strike on day-8 Friday ignoring the government-set deadline.Meanwhile, Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan

Dhaka: Reined in from a costal district, Danny Babu along with his friends admitted reasonability for a horrendous double-murder of his stepmother and sister at Kadamtali in the capital.    The boys gave a macabre picture of their misdeed in confessional statements at a press briefing

Dhaka: Country’s Koumi Madrasas still appear hell-bent on not allowing National Anthem assembly on their premises for religious inhibition. None of the registered madrasas under the Education Board of the Befakul Madarisil Arabia Bangladesh Koumi Madrasa does open with the chorus of

Kushtia: People in the country’s restive southwestern region breathed a sigh of relief as a sombre peace now prevails following the death of several dozen suspected top terrors. The deaths occurred in reported “crossfire” during gunfights between gunmen of outlawed leftist groups

Dhaka: Police on Thursday midnight raided six student dormitories at Jahangirnagar University and the night’s expedition ended up with the recovery of a toy pistol and some machetes. Campus sources said a police team, led by Dhaka district Police Super Iqbal Bahar, conducted the raid

Chittagong: As the ensuing city election comes under spotlight as another important electoral case study under the new government, police and Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) joined forces to forestall any trouble that could overshadow its successful holding. Teamed up in six separate groups,

Dhaka: Opposition BNP alleged that the government is trying to undercut preparations for their much-vaunted Dhaka grand rally by refusing to give power supply to the Paltan Maidan venue, wherefrom their supreme leader is to call for a movement. Party standing committee member and chief

Dhaka: Police early Friday arrested three persons from Patuakhali coastal district in the case of double-murder of an engineer’s wife and daughter in the capital city’s Kadamtali area.Acting on a tip-off, a team of Dhaka metropolitan detective branch of police launched a drive and

Chittagong: Preparation for holding Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) election is being carried out as law enforcers Thursday started searching suspected individuals and vehicles setting up check posts in different points of the port city.Police sources said, they have already set up the

Natore: The chief judicial magistrate of Natore Mohammad Aktarujjaman passed an order Wednesday to arrest 19 persons including 12 policemen in the allegation of unlawful killing of a juvenile.The court sources said, on August 27 2009, Rajab Ali, inhabitant of Bamihal village of Singra

Bandorban: Students of Bandarban Government College here on Thursday formed a human chain to press home their demands in ensuring the quality of education.They demanded efficient teachers and suspension of the principal from the human chain and rally in front of the district press club in

Dhaka: Students of some departments of Jagannath University Thursday boycotted their classes and joined a demonstration demanding the scrapping of a predatory provision of the varsity law. At one stage of the protest procession, the mass students also joined in the demo, all calling for

Dhaka: A young man was caught in the act while allegedly robbing people of their belongings at the crowded Gabtali Bus Terminal in the capital on Thursday morning and beaten to death in a lynch-mob reprisal.The deceased was identified as Anawar Hossain.A source in Darus Salam police