DU CorrespondentDhaka University has published the results of the admission test of ‘Kha’ unit, for humanities students, yesterday. “The results are available on www.admission.univdhaka.edu,” Dhaka University’s public relations officer Ashraf Ali Khan told the New Nation yesterday evening.The test was held on October 28. Some 4737 applicants out of 28,422 have passed in the examination [...]

Ehsanul Haque Jasim
The month-long countrywide protest programme announced by BNP ended on Sunday and it failed to observe a number of programmes in districts and upazila headquarters due to Section 144 imposed by administration. Actually the party was under Section 144 and it was not in a position to hold rallies, processions, gatherings [...]

Sirajganj CorrespondentA school girl committed suicide yesterday, as a stalker picked up her from the way and put vermilion on her forehead by force.After killing a teacher and a mother for protesting eve teasing, stalkers have now led the student to take her own life. The victim Rupali Rani, 16, daughter of Sunil Barati of [...]

Kazi Zahidul Hasan
Country’s manufacturing sector is reeling under deep crisis due to staggering power cut.The crisis also forced many industrial units to reduce productions causing drastic fall in Gross Domestic Products (GDP), says the economists.Contribution of the manufacturing sector in GDP was recorded at 7.1 per cent in FY 2003-04, in 2004-05 at 8.19 [...]

Nasir Muzahid
Implementation of the new road safety rules was found hardly effective on the first day of its imposition yesterday as there was no drive to create adequate awareness among the city dwellers. Even, the officials of the law enforces agencies were found on the streets without bothering the new rules.Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) set [...]

Special Correspondent
The army housing project at Rupganj that ironically forced the service people to be in action to quell local resistance was the work of some over-ambitious people piloting the same, insiders say.They say the project was initially developed to provide housing to about 8,000 army officers, mainly from captain to major ranks of [...]

Staff Reporter
Eviction of illegal encroachers from the four out of six canals in the capital city Dhaka by the end of October, a dateline set earlier by the government, has miserably failed. The national task force, formed with a view to preserve navigability of rivers and other watercourse, instructed the concerned authorities to free [...]

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Staff Reporter
A fire broke out at a chemical warehouse at Armanitola in the densely populated Old Dhaka in the morning yesterday.Abdur Rashid, Deputy Director of Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the fire originated in the warehouse on the ground floor of a three-storey building near Anandamayee School at about 11:40 am. The reason behind [...]

Staff Reporter
Outgoing Ambassador of European Union (EU) Dr Stefan Frowein said at the meet-the-reporters at the Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) yesterday that the EU had no role in 1/11 though a section of media believes it to be so. He rejected a section of media’s beliefe that the EU did pull the string behind [...]