DHAKA: Academic activities of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) will resume on Saturday after one-month closure following student unrest.However, the student dormitories will open on July 22, campus sources said.Shah Alam, public administration officer of BUET,

DINAJPUR:  A raucous siege to Barapukuri Coalmine coupled with road-rail barricades came to an end early Tuesday following “successful” negotiations between the protestors and the authorities over compensation payments to the affected locals. Jiban and Sampad Rakkha Committee

CHITTAGONG: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel raided the den of land-grabbers in Jangal Salimpur hills in Sitakunda upazila on Tuesday morning and arrested 16 persons of the gang, including the ringleader, along with a cache of arms.Chief of Chittagong RAB Lt. Col. Sajjad Hossain

DHAKA: The expansion of the network of government-operated mobile-phone company Teletalk has been stalled for three months for want of power.A total of 116 Based on Transfer and Receiver Stations (BTS) were built across the country but it was not possible to run them for lack of power

BOGRA: The stand-in chief of the banned militant outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), Anwar Alam alias ‘Bhagne’ Shahid, reportedly confessed that he along with his cohorts had attacked eminent writer and Dhaka University teacher Dr Humayun Azad in 2004. Inspector Abdur Rashid

NARSINGDI: Power generation from Ghorashal Thermal Power station has halved after Sunday`s fire, Tamal Karmaker, Chief Engineer of the plant said.The 950MW power station is now generating only 415MW MW, he said.      The unit 6 of Ghorashal that generates 210-megawatt power was shut

MYMENSINGH: Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League Monday went on the rampage vandalizing the Polytechnic Institute here failing to get party activists admitted under special arrangement.  Police and institute sources said the first-year admission test at the college is

DHAKA: An environment polluter will have to serve five years in jail or/and pay a fine of Tk 5 lakh under provision of a new law endorsed Monday by the Cabinet for enactment.  The approval to the Environment Act 2010 was given at the cabinet meeting held at the Secretariat with Prime

Dhaka: Body of a chef from capital’s Gulshan 2 area was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital Monday noon. The deceased was identified as Sumon, 20, who was working as chef in a flat at a House 1/D Road 73 in Gulshan 2.Tarique, the telephone operator of the building, took his body to

DHAKA: A coalition of good-governance campaigners Monday launched a cross-country campaign to make people aware and motivate the government in taking decision for decentralizing the administration.  Leaders of the Governance Advocacy Forum at a press conference held at the National Press

DHAKA: A van-puller was killed in a road mishap at the Airport intersection in the city early Monday.  Sub-Inspector Shariful Islam of Airport Thana said a private car rammed a rickshaw-van in front of Hajrat Sahajalal International Airport intersection at midnight. Duty police rushed

DHAKA: The High Court Monday again warned that custodial death would not be tolerated anymore and those guilty of such lynching, whoever they may be, would be meted out legal action.An HC bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain gave the

CHITTAGONG: A suspected burglar was beaten to death by a mob of villagers at Gabindorkhil village under Patia upazila in the district early Monday.    Imtiaz Ahmed, Officer-in-Charge of Patia Thana, said local people caught a young stranger at around 4am in front of one Mohammad

DHAKA: The government Monday brought some changes in the administration in a latest spell of reshuffle, including removal of an official of the crisis-ridden power sector.According to separate notifications issued by the Establishment Ministry Monday, member of the Power Development Board

DINAJPUR: Hordes of affected locals Monday laid an indefinite siege to Barapukuria coalmine amid a rowdy demonstration to realize compensation for the homesteads and farmlands they lost.Witnesses said the demonstrators also enforced road-rail blockade piling up logs on the Dhaka-Dinajpur

DHAKA: Inspector-General of Police Nur Mohammad Monday raised a riddle over ward councilor and BNP leader Chowdhury Alam’s disappearance as he said it could be an act of “sabotage” centering “business conflict” or next Dhaka City Corporation election. “Investigation is

DHAKA: The government is working to achieve cent-percent literacy in the country by the year 2014, ensuring education for all the children aged 6-18, an international meet in Dhaka was told Monday, as Bangladesh still hosts a large number of illiterates.  State Minister for Primary and

DHAKA: The Government has gone for enhancing health and housing facilities for officials and employees by establishing a modern hospital and constructing multistoried buildings in the capital. An official source said the initiatives have been taken mainly for those government officials

DHAKA: Detained Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was Monday taken on three days’ remand for grilling over the ‘attempt to murder’ Dhaka University Professor Dr. Humayun Azad.Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofael Hasan granted the remand when he was produced in the court, at the end

DHAKA : A student of Open University was shot dead by unidentifiedassailants at capital`s Khilgaon area Sunday, police said.Sub-inspector of Khilgaon police station Mostafizur Rahman said some10 to 12 unidentified youths sprayed bullet indiscriminately on ShetuReza at around 9.30pm while