Staff Reporter
Bangladesh has urged the border security force (BSF) of India to use alternative to firearms to avoid deaths of ‘innocent Bangladeshi people’, home secretary Abdus Sobhan Sikder has said. Home Minister Sahara Khatun made the call in a meeting with Raman Shrivastava, chief of the Indian BSF at her office yesterday, the home secretary [...]

Staff Reporter
Election Commission (EC) can’t declare ANM Ehsanul Haque Milon winner in Chandpur-1 constituency, Election Commissioner Brig Gen (Retd) M Shakhawat Hossain has said. He said this yesterday following an appeal made by Najmun Nahar Beby, wife of Milon, to declare the nearest rival as the winner after EC had declared the constituency [...]

UNB, Dhaka
Speakers including eminent local government experts at a dialogue on Thursday called for increased use of ICT tools in conducting the activities of the local government to deliver fast services to the citizens.They also demanded for expansion of ICT usage among citizens as well as creating awareness among people, making the ward councils effective, [...]

Staff Reporter
Unidentified assailants stabbed Monirul Islam Moni, an Awami League lawmaker from Barisal-2 (Ujirpur-Banaripara) constituency, in the divisional headquarters yesterday.Police arrested Reaz Hawladar, 28, son of Lehajuddin, a resident of Hospital Road area in this connection.Moni was taken to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital around 8:45 am. “The MP is out of danger,” SM Nazrul Islam, [...]

BSS, Chittagong
A fighter aircraft of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) crashed in the sky of the port city Chittagong and fell into the Karnaphuli River adjacent to the Shah Amanat International Airport here on Thursday afternoon. But, the lone passenger and pilot of the training aircraft Ahmed Sanjid ejected and landed safely by a parachute, [...]

Staff Reporter
The government yesterday restarted Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice in the capital and different districts of the country, considering the plight of the limited income group.Under the OMS programme, a person can buy five-kg rice at a time. The rate of one kg rice has been fixed at Tk 24. Dealers will [...]

Staff Reporter
More than four kha illegal rickshaws are now plying on the Dhaka city streets causing terrible traffic jams and increasing public sufferings, according to Traffic Control Department of Dhaka Metropoliton Police. But the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has no information about the actual number of illegal rickshaws under the corporation area. The [...]

Staff Reporter
Excessive interference of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is behind the instability of the stock market, believes the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Ministry of Finance.Committee President AHM Mostafa Kamal MP advised the SEC to consult issues with the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE), Chittagong Stock Exchange (CSE) and the Association of Publicly Listed Companies [...]

BSS, United Nations
US President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for greater urgency in the fight against the world’s social ills as a UN poverty summit ended with tens of billions of dollars of pledges but lingering pessimism about the impact. Obama unveiled a new “big-hearted but also hard-headed” US aid policy to push the world’s [...]

UNB, Panchagarh
Some terrorists backed by a ruling party leader ransacked the Civil Surgeon office early Monday as their recommended candidates could not pass in the written test held under Health Department.The terrorists also ransacked the vehicles of Additional Deputy Commissioner and Civil Surgeon.Sources said a written test was held on Sunday for fulfilling five posts [...]