Man held over rape of 10-yr-old girl in port city

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) has arrested a man on charge of raping a 10-year-old girl in Chattogram city’s Jalalabad area.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Kidney patients in a fix

Patients of Chattogram Medical College Hospital (CMCH) are gravely worried about whether they would be able to avail of dialysis service from next week.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Beekeepers welcome a sweet yield

The commercial beekeepers are now hard at work to collect honey from flowers at mustard fields of different regions in Tangail district.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM

53pc drowning deaths go unreported: study

Although Bangladesh has one of the highest under-five drowning rates in the world, and drowning remains the dominant reason for child deaths in the country, a recent media monitoring report revealed that 53 percent of drowning deaths go unreported.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Graft Case: Tufan Sarkar gets HC bail

Md Tufan Sarkar, a suspended Sramik League leader of Bogura, who came to the limelight after allegedly raping a college girl and shaving heads of the victim and her mother in July, 2017, got bail yesterday in a money laundering case.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM

An alternative gateway to Dhaka

The project to upgrade Hatirjheel-Amulia-Demra highway into a four-lane expressway is finally moving forward. The planned thoroughfare will work as an alternative gateway to Dhaka’s centre from Chattogram and Sylhet, and help reduce traffic congestion.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Priority now on metro for port city

Chattogram residents can look forward to a metro rail service after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called for one as part of the government’s efforts to improve connectivity.
4 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Can Tigers make history?

After dismal showings in the longest format of the game over the years, Bangladesh started to show glimpses of heading in the right direction as they maintained an upper hand over New Zealand for the fourth consecutive day in the first Test at Mount Maunganui.
4 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Narayanganj city polls: Will free office from contractors’ grip

Independent candidate Taimur Alam Khandakar said he wants to make Narayanganj a pro-people city by reducing the tax burden on residents and freeing the city corporation office from the “grip of contractors”.
4 January 2022, 18:00 PM

BCL general secy hurt in infighting

Chhatra League General Secretary Lekhak Bhattacharya was injured in infighting between its two factions yesterday at a programme on the Dhaka University campus marking the student front’s 74th birth anniversary.
4 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Why do we urinate more in winter?

You are warm and cosy under the blanket and suddenly you feel the need to pee, even though you emptied your bladder just a little while back.
3 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Omicron: Govt set to slap curbs

The government will soon announce restrictions to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus, but has no plan right now to enforce any lockdown.
3 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Contesting Narayanganj city polls: BNP removes Khaleda’s adviser Taimur

BNP has removed its Chairperson Khaleda Zia’s adviser Taimur Alam Khandakar, who is contesting Narayanganj City Corporation election as an independent candidate.
3 January 2022, 12:16 PM

Unreasonable airfare: Govt, Biman, BAIRA served legal notice

A Supreme Court lawyer today served a legal notice on the authorities concerned to take proper steps and bring unreasonable air ticket prices for Bangladeshi expatriate workers down to a reasonable level.
28 December 2021, 12:48 PM

Behind enemy lines: Story of a Bengali family stuck in Pakistan during 1971

To instil the patriotic fervour of our ancestors on to future generations to come.
15 December 2021, 18:00 PM

On the road again

The death of Notre Dame College student Nayeem Hasan under the wheels of a garbage truck in Gulistan on November 24 reignited the
11 December 2021, 18:00 PM

Europe faces Covid freeze

Austria yesterday became the first country in western Europe to reimpose lockdown since vaccines were rolled out, shutting non-essential shops, bars and cafes as surging caseloads raised the prospect of a third winter in deep freeze for the continent.
22 November 2021, 18:00 PM

SC forms committee against sexual harassment

The Supreme Court administration has formed a five-member committee to receive complaints of sexual harassment on court premises, conduct inquiry into them and make necessary recommendations to this effect.
4 November 2021, 18:00 PM

Hindu community celebrating Kumari Puja

Hindu devotees are celebrating Kumari Puja amid religious fervour and festivity across the country today.
13 October 2021, 09:50 AM

Travel ban on graft suspects: SC modifies HC ruling on prior court permission

The Supreme Court today modified, with some observations and directions, the High Court ruling that Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has to take court permission to impose embargo on corruption suspects or accused from leaving the country.
27 September 2021, 06:13 AM