City Desk : Shahbagh police station will be relocated from its current location to facilitate the implementation of the Shadhinata Stambha project at Suhrawardy Udayan in Dhaka. The decision came from the cabinet meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her office in the city. The Shahbagh Police Station Bhaban needs to be relocated due to the construction of Swadhinata Stambha (Independence Monument) Project in the historic Suhrawardy Udyan, said Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain while briefing reporters after...
City Desk : The Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) and equivalent examinations will begin across the country on Sunday (June 30). The total number of nine general education boards, madrasa and technical boards is 14, 50,790 this year, reports UNB. Of them, 7, 50,281 are male examinees and 7,00,509 are female students. The examinations will take place at 2,649 centres will end on December 13. According to the instructions of Ministry of Education are: Candidates should enter the examination hall at...
City Desk :Bangladesh Awami Jubo LeagueLeaders and activists of Bangladesh Awami Jubo League, Rangpur district unit distributed sarees, lungis and cash as Eid gifts among 500 popor, distressed and needy people of Rangpur city. The Eid gifts were distributed in a function arranged on Thursday in front of the mural of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman at Bangbandhu Sqaure on the DC Mour area in the city. Rangpur District Jubo League former Joint Convener Laxmin Chandra Das...
City Desk :The Detective Branch (DB) of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested seven dacoits from Rampura area while they were taking preparation for committing robbery using fake identities of DB and the elite force RAB.The arrested people were identified as Md Jalal Uddin alias Captain Jalal, Md Badal Hossain Sheikh alias Badal Majhi, Syed Monir Al Mahmud, Md Khokon, Shahdat Hossain, Md Babul Miah and Md Mahidul Islam Sheikh, reports BSS. The plain clothed police recovered a toy...
BSS : Existing units on the industrial estates belonging to Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) generated employment for 14,724 people, both male and female, during the first nine months of the current fiscal. The people got the jobs in various fields like enterprise development, skill development and training, industry ownership transfer and establishment of new industries. There are 1,027 units on 2,481 allocated plots in 19 industrial estates in around 471.28 acres of land in the country’s northwest...
City Desk : Father of the nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman dedicated the Joliot-Curie Peace Award to the country’s people, especially the liberation war martyrs and freedom fighters. “The honour goes to those who laid down their lives for the cause of our freedom and those who valiantly fought the war . . . the Joliot Curie peace medal belongs to the entire Bengali nation; to the 75 million people of my country,” said Bangabandhu after receiving the prestigious award...
BSS :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said collective responsibilities of all are required to ensure access to insulin and...
City Desk :Education Minister Dr Dipu Moni has said 1.10 lakh rural institutions will be brought under broadband connections through optical fiber cables within the next one year.Of those, 70,000 educational institutions will be given internet connections. At present, 12 crore people in the country remain under broadband internet connections, reports BSS. Dipu Moni made the observations while virtually addressing the opening ceremony of a two-day ‘4th International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Telecommunication and Engineering- 2022’ here today as...
The government would modernize 8,500 post offices as e-centres across the country by June, 2017 to disseminate information and communication technology services to the rural people.State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak said this on Sunday on behalf of State Minister of the Post and Telecommunications Tarana Halim while replying to question from a treasury bench member Jebunnesa Afroz in the Jatiya Sangsad.The government has undertaken different projects to modernize the post offices through introducing express mail...
Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said some 900 volunteers would help police for managing traffic during the...