Dhaka: City kitchen markets saw further price rises in the just-past week as last two days of rain disrupted supply of vegetables from different parts of the country. Traders at Kaptan Bazar, Shanir Akhra and Karwanbazar Friday also said prices of certain essentials, including sugar,

Chandpur: Detective police arrested four suspected drug peddlers with 10 kg ganja and 69 bottles of narcotic Phensidyl syrup in the district on Friday morning, as an anti-drug drive is underway in different parts of the country. Acting on a tip-off, a team of DB police raided Kakoyrtala

Savar: A garment worker was electrocuted when two others injured at a labor colony of Savar Friday morning.The deceased was identified as Akram Hossain, 23, worker of Ashulia Opex Garments.Sub inspector Abdus Sattar of Ashulia thana said Akram and two of his colleagues were napping at a

Kushtia: Abject poverty forced Aduri Bewa to beg for two meals. At the start, she felt ashamed, but there’s nothing doing. How many days could she survive without food?The once-well-off housewife never imagined of panhandling for bred, but she couldn’t help since her husband lost his

Pabna: Outbreaks of diarrhoea in parts of the district claimed lives of three children and affected over 100 people in 18 hours to Friday morning.Hospital sources confirmed the deaths of three children Friday. The deceased are Ishaq,5,  son of Idris Al of Chatmohar upazila, Asha, 3,

DHAKA: The teachers of non-government colleges who hold M.Phil and PhD degrees Friday demanded immediate implementation of the government-declared special pay scale for them in removing “discrimination” between government and non-government institutions’ teachers.“We want to get

DHAKA: Bangladesh Paribesh Andolon Friday demanded of the government to evict the grabbers of the Meghna River, following up Prime Minister’s directive with decisive action. The demand came from a citizens’ rally organized by the organization in front of the National Press Club in the

Dhaka: A middle-aged man was found floating dead in the capital’s Chandrima Udyan lake close by the national parliament house on Friday morning.Informed by local people, police came and recovered the body of the slain man, aged around 40, at about 10am.The body was sent to Dhaka Medical

Chuadanga: Two motorcycles collided at Darshana in Damurhuda upazila on Thursday night, leaving one of the riders dead and two injured.Police said two bikes coming from opposite direction collided in front of Darshana Filling Station at about 9pm, leaving Wahed, 32, Alamgir, 25, and

Gaibandha: Twelve people were killed and 30 injured in two fatal road accidents in Gobindaganj upazila Friday, in both the cases freewheeling trucks crashing into passenger buses, witnesses said.In the first accident, two people were killed and another seven injured in a head-on collision

Dhaka: Dhaka Metropolitan Police formed a special committee to combat a tide of eve-teasing nuisance and sexual harassment of women, as the government declared ‘zero tolerance’ against the latter-day Romeos on the heels of a High Court order. Mir Abul Kashim, additional police

DHAKA: Green campaigners Thursday blasted government policy on import of alien trees for planting here as they said it causes tremendous loss to domestic biodiversity.They also criticized use of hybrid seeds for bumper production of food-grains, alleging that it yields much but degrades

Dhaka: A street child fell down to death from a mango tree in front of the chief justice’s bungalow at Kakrail crossroads on Thursday morning, police said. The deceased was identified as Monir Hossain, son of Ahmed Hossain of Anandonagar slums in Badda area of the city.Witnesses said

Dhaka: The High Court Thursday declared legal the government decision shutting down Jamuna TV, a private satellite television station, before it could come into public view. An HC bench consisting of Justice Mahmud Hossain and Justice Gobinda Chandra Tagore upheld the government decision

DHAKA. An alleged criminal was Wednesday found dead in an abandoned building near Noor Mosque at Polashpur under Kadamtali Thana in the capital city.The deceased was identified as Sumon alias Patla Sumon, 30, hailed from Nurpur in Shariatpur district.Kadamtali police said they recovered

Dhaka: An annual art exhibition began Thursday at Fine Arts Institute of Dhaka University to encourage young artists to pursue creative artwork.The faculty of Fine Arts of the university has organized the exhibition on its premises, with a total of 300 artworks, including paintings and

Noakhali: At least 14 persons were killed and 50 injured in a fierce fighting between two rival gangs of pirates on a remote island under offshore Hatia Upazila, local sources said.The clash that ensued over the control of Charkalam in Jahajmara Union was on till the filing of the report.

Dhaka: Former Finance Adviser of Caretaker Government AB Mirza Azizul Islam Thursday said no more opportunity should be given for whitening black money by paying penalty and taxes.His advice came from a roundtable meeting on ‘Budget Proposals 2010’ organized by the Daily Vorer Kagoj

Dhaka: The government decided to import around 25,000 tonnes of sugar for keeping the price of the essential item reasonable during the month of Ramadan.“A proposal has already been approved by the Cabinet purchase committee to import the quantity of sugar,” disclosed Industry

DHAKA: Bangladesh will sign a deal with Russia to build two nuclear power plants at a cost of at least US$ 3 billion to be signed during Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s visit to Moscow this coming September, official sources said. “The final agreements are likely to be signed in