Dhaka: Anti-tobacco move got a new momentum as works for making country’s all police stations smoking-free began Monday following a government initiative.Home Minister Sahara Khatun announced the plan Sunday at a seminar here marking the World No-Tobacco Day. And freeing the police

Dhaka: Anther quantum of 519-megawatt electricity will be added to the national power grid by next February as the government Monday approved deals with another six private companies under a crash course. The cabinet committee on public purchase gave the nod to the unsolicited project

Dhaka: A group of unidentified outsiders Monday ransacked three teachers’ rooms at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University—a repeat of such incident of violence at the country’s highest seat of medical education and medicare. Sources said the agitated strangers at about 11:00am

DHAKA: The cabinet Monday approved the much-talked-about National Education Policy 2010, aimed at updating country’s outmoded educational system in tune with needs of the new millennium.A regular meeting of the cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair approved the policy

Dhaka: The seven Jamaat activists, including an Indian national, who were held at Uttara on Sunday evening were all sued early Monday. Uttra thana SI Salim told banglanews24.com.bd, “The case was filed on the allegation of hindering traffic movement on the busy road of the capital. As a

Dhaka: Jamaat’s defiant bid to stage a grand rally in the capital Monday failed as police enforced a government ban rounding up anyone who moved towards the venue at Paltan Maidan.“The government imposed ‘political curfew’ to foil our scheduled rally,” Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami

DHAKA: The government Monday appointed additional secretary of the Finance Division M Fazle Kabir as Director-General of the BCS Administration Academy, said an official notification on the latest administrative reshuffle. In another change, two of the secretaries of the administration

Dhaka: Police herded up over 50 activists of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami in raids in the city’s Paltan Maidan area from Sunday midnight to Monday noon, in a preemptive action against the Islamic party’s defiant move to hold a rally. “They were accused of taking preparation to attend

NOAKHALI: Four people were killed and 40 injured in house-collapse incidents as a tornado lashed Shubarnachar and Hatiya upazilas on Monday afternoon, as the weather was inclement across the country since early hours.Charklark UP chairman Khairul Alam Selim said the twister swept the

Dhaka: A young man was found dead and dumped near Motijheel AGB Colony in the capital early Monday. “A patrol team found the body of a male, aged around 25,” said Motijheel thana SI Mizanur Rahman.The body of the unidentified boy was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue. A

DHAKA: Police held a young girl with arms and ammunition in the city on Sunday night, indicating a new turn in the paradigm of crime.Jatrabari Thana sub-inspector Majharul Islam said acting on intelligence report, they raided Selim Haji’s residence at Dholaipar Kobirajbagh village and

DHAKA: Three people were severely burnt as a gas cylinder of a car exploded in the city’s Shyamoli area on Sunday night. The injured were identified as band musician Tanjib Ahmed, 32, businessman Ajadur Rahman Shimul, 30, and car-driver Hafiz Uddin. They were admitted to the burn unit

DHAKA: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina got a clean sheet with the last one of 15 graft cases filed against her during the past BNP government and the immediate-past interim regime now gone on Sunday’s High Court orders.      The High Court quashed the proceedings of the Bepza

DHAKA: Irked by the blocking of facebook following the satirical cartooning of country’s top politicians, technology-crazy youngsters Sunday warned the government against taking stand against the young generation.The warning came from a human-chain demo staged by the students of Dhaka

DHAKA: Foreign Minister of Russia Sergey Lavrov expressed his keen inteerst in a close cooperation with Bangaldesh in exploring gas and oil, as the two countries just initialled a framework accord on joint action in energey turf.”He made the comment in meeting with Foreign Minister Dr.

DHAKA: Chairman of the Information Commission Mahammad Jamir Sunday emphasized the imperative of creating mass awareness about the Right to Information Act 2009 to make common people conscious about their rights and responsibilities.He also suggested bringing private and multinational

DHAKA: Home Minister Sahara Khatun Sunday asked the paramilitary BDR and coastguards to act more carefully in protecting the border as she said India fenced off the frontier and sometimes BSF soldiers try to trespass into Bangladesh.The instructions came from a press briefing after a

DHAKA: The High Court Sunday asked the government to explain within three weeks why it should not be directed to remove a salt industry built on the Buriganga riverbank in the city’s Lalbagh area in defiance of prohibition.A division bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and

Dhaka: Unidentified goons stabbed and critically wounded a dyeing trader as he denied them toll in the city’s Shyampur area Sunday. The injured, Ismail Hossain, 50, the owner of King Enterprise and Dyeing Mill, from Postagola Industrial Area in the capital claimed that local gang-leader

NARAYANGANJ: A local leader of the ruling party’s student arm Bangladesh Chhatra League was killed and ten other people were injured in a fighting over control of toll from sand-carrying barges in the river Dhaleswari in Munshiganj on Sunday morning.The deceased, Mohammad Mamun, 25, son