DHAKA:  A section of officials and employees of Dhaka City Corporation are impeding conversion of its cars to gas usage that could cut down fuel costs, DCC sources said.Several officials, wishing not to be named, said some officials and drivers of DCC are preventing conversion of a fleet

DHAKA: Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of the recently closed daily Amar Desh, Thursday denied before the Supreme Court the contempt-of-court charge brought against him for publishing news insinuating into the apex court’s stay jurisdiction. “And I will not beg any pardon,” said

Dhaka: Samiul Azim was killed by his mother’s boy friend Shamsuzzaman Bakku alias Arif, Police said.  “Police did not find Ayesha’s involvement in the murder,” Deputy Commissioner of Tejgaon Division Chowdhury Manzurul Kabir told a press briefing at Adabar Thana Wednesday.He also

DHAKA: Several changes have been made to the census questionnaire on ethnic groups for the National Census 2011 to get the real picture of the indigenous people in the country.  The new questionnaire has given importance to the ethnic groups and disabled people—as both deserve special

DHAKA: A parliamentary sub-committee has been formed to probe into the matters of alleged tender manipulation and corruption in the mismanaged Dhaka zoo.The parliamentary standing committee on Fisheries and Livestock Ministry took the decision in Its 12th meeting at the parliament bhaban

CHITTAGONG: A group of 78 BDR jawans of Baitul Ijjat training center in Satkania upazila were Wednesday arrested and sent to jail on court order for their trial on charge of involvement in last year’s massive mutiny.A special court ordered their arrest. The four-member special court-4,

SAVAR: Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man from Moragang area in Ashulia Wednesday.The bullet-hit body was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.Ashulia thana sources said local people found the body floating in the river near Taiyabpur-Isakandi

DHAKA: The vice chancellors of private universities would be the presidents of the syndicates from now on - the finalized private university bill - 2010 that would be placed next Sunday in the parliament included this rule, said the sources from Education ministry.The parliamentary

DHAKA: Supreme Court’s Appellate Division Tuesday asked the government to produce detained Mahmudur Rahman, the acting editor of the recently closed daily Amar Desh, and four others before the court Thursday at 9am to face a contempt-of-court charge. A full bench of the apex court,

Patuakhali: Armed pirates shot dead a fisherman and injured another in an attack in the Bay near Kuakata on Monday evening.The pirates also looted 40 trawlers and abducted 50 fishermen during the several-hour long foray that began in the evening.  The dead fisherman was identified as

DHAKA: A local company from now on will manufacture the body of world-renowned luxurious Japanese Hino AC bus.  Local manufacturing will save Tk 30 crore in the first year of the move.Aftab Automobile Limited, a concern of Navana Goup, will manufacture the body. Bangladesh used to import

DHAKA: In order to control different diseases of goat and sheep, a laboratory will be set up in Savar within a year under the Trans-boundary Animal Disease Control Project under the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation or SAARC, officials said. Two other laboratories -- Foot

NAOGAON: A Jubo Dal leader died on flight as police broke opposition BNP human chain by baton charge and gave the activists a hot chase in the district town Wednesday, witnesses said.The deceased, Enamul Haq Omar, 45, was the general secretary of Raninagar thana Jubo Dal, the former

Dhaka: In a latest move, the government has made some changes in the public administration.  According to a notification by the Establishment ministry on Wednesday, Deputy Secretary of Establishment Ministry Abul Kalam Azad was transferred to Economic Relations Department.Deputy

DHAKA: The government has finalized the much-talked-about Coal Policy that is deemed to be in favour of the multinationals vying for a stake in the huge reserves of fossil fuel in the countryÔÇÖs northern mines. A copy of the finalized Policy, which is highly likely to be approved, has

Dhaka: Dhaka Bank Limited (DBL) will provide scholarships to the students of social science faculty of Dhaka University as a part of celebrating its 15th year anniversary.Reshadur Rahman, Chairman of DBL on Monday handed over a cheque to A A M S Arefin Siddique, Vice-Chancellor of DU to

DHAKA: Deputy Leader of the House in Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury will act as President of the ruling Awami League as Prime Minister and party chief Sheikh Hasina is now abroad.Prime Minister Hasina left for Abuja, the capital of Nigeria, on Tuesday night on a three-day visit to

SATKHIRA : A father and his son were killed in a tiger attack in the Sundarbans Tuesday night, said a Forest Department source. The dead were identified as Nawshad Gazi, 65, and his son Ismail Hossain, 13, of Kadamtola village in Shyamnagar upazila An official of Kadamtala Station in the

DHAKA: The probe-body to investigate Monday’s violent clash between two rival factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League on Jahangirnagar University campus started investigation Wednesday. Meanwhile, JU Vice-Chancellor Prof Sharif Enamul Kabir asked the committee to submit its report within

RAJSHAHI: A Bangladesh national was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel on Charmazar Diyar border in Poba upazila Wednesday, official sources said.The deceased was identified as Faruque Hossain, 25, son of late Jamshed Sheikh in Kishorepur area under Rajpara thana in