BSS, Chittagong
Chittagong University on Monday expelled a teacher on charges of sexual assault on a female student amid an intensified campaign against sex crimes in campuses. “The Chittagong University syndicate has ordered dismissal of Abdullah Al Mamun, assistant professor of Anthropology Department, from the service” following investigations, a year after a masters degree level female [...]

Staff Reporter
Thousands of leaders and workers of BNP and its associate organisations from the capital and its neighbouring districts thronged the historic Paltan Maidan Monday afternoon to join a mass procession led by leader of the opposition in Parliament Khaleda Zia.The mass procession was arranged to press its 13-point-demand, including controlling price spiral of [...]

Special Correspondent
The billion dollar Indian credit line agreement has come up for critical scrutiny apparently on the merit of the projects as to how much they are having national priority to be implemented by taking a commercial loan.The 14 projects to be executed under the loan are on top of the list of India for [...]

Staff Reporter
Poor infrastructure is the main obstacle to the country’s power and energy sectors development, said Finance and Planning Minister Abul Mal Abdul Muhith at a seminar in the city yesterday. “We must come out from the present situation of power crisis by initiating a joint efforts with strong determination and willingness,” he told the [...]

BSS, Dhaka
Home Minister Advocate Sahara Khatun on Thursday said the government will take stern actions against those who would take the law in their own hands in future to create anarchy and unrest in the country.“The law and order forces have already been asked to find out those who had taken the law in their [...]

Staff Reporter
Husband’s second marriage and continuous torture prompted another housewife in the city’s South Kamalapur to take an attempt to kill herself and her two children yesterday by setting themselves on fire.Mother Bilashi Khatun, 28, her daughter Rajani Akhter, 8, and son Abu Raihan, 3, are now fighting against deaths at the Burn and Plastic [...]

Special Correspondent
Influential Congress leader and Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee is arriving on a whirlwind visit to the capital tomorrow afternoon to exchange views with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on some sensitive issues and witness the signing of a billion dollar credit line Delhi is offering to Bangladesh government. He is coming in haste although [...]

Staff Reporter
The High Court Division of the Supreme Court yesterday summarily rejected a controversial Writ petition filed by Deb Narayan Moheshwar in reference to Islamic practice of Qurbani (sacrifice) as ‘not maintainable’.After rejection of the Writ, Narayan taking police guard safely reached his residence from the Supreme Court (SC), where hundreds of people agitated demanding [...]

Staff Reporter
BNP Chairperson and Opposition Leader in the parliament will lead the party announced mass procession on August 9 demanding reduction of price of commodities and mass sufferings.Talking to journalists at a press briefing after a joint meeting of the party at its Chairperson’s office at Gulshan in the city yesterday, BNP Standing Committee [...]

Staff Reporter
The Government has asked the authorities concerned to evict all illegal establishments from both sides of five canals in Dhaka city within 15 days.The canals are Katasur, Hajaribagh, Ramchandrapur, Kalayanpur-Ka and Shyampur.The decision was taken yesterday at a meeting of the Task Force on Restoring Navigability and Excavation of Four Rivers in Dhaka.After [...]