• It’s time govt took effective actions against stalkers
  • Proper disposal of medical wastes essential
  • Series of snubs: Padma Bridge, Teesta water and cricket
  • Our expectation from Rio+20
  • Obama has an Afghan game plan
  • Remembering the Colonel
  • Shapmochan enthralls audience at Shilpakala
  • Timeless Tagore songs presented
  • France readies for poll, Sarkozy closes on Hollande
  • Syrian troops tear-gas Damascus mourners
  • Inflation down to single digit in April
  • Economists, experts for separate budget for local govt
  • BPL franchises say ‘no’ to icons
  • Khulna stun Dhaka to clinch Inter-District title
  • Chemically-treated fruits flood Barisal markets
  • Celebrities join hands with maternal heath campaign
  • Agitation will continue, says BNP
  • Govt urged to reduce power prices
  • Hillary decries political violence
  • Hold talks to settle differences
  • 309 jailed, 1 acquitted
  • Dissatisfaction grows in BNP as leaders remain in hiding
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Chemically-treated fruits flood Barisal markets

Chemically-treated summer fruits have flooded markets in Barisal in the absence of proper monitoring by the authorities concerned. Mobile vendors are selling mangoes, litchis, jackfruits... Full story

Celebrities join hands with maternal heath campaign

Celebrities take part in a programme at Rupashi Bangla Hotel in the capital on Saturday, joining their hands in a campaign for child and maternal health promotion. — New Age photo
Celebrities on Saturday joined hands with the United States Agency for International Development, pledging promotion of maternal and child health in Bangladesh where more than 7,000 mothers die every year while giving birth and 185,500 children cannot celebrate their fifth birthday. Full story

Documentary, audio album on Ashraf Siddiqui launched

A documentary, audio album on selected poems and website on the life of noted poet, litterateur and researcher Ashraf Siddiqui were unveiled at Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Auditorium of Dhaka University on Saturday. Full story

Immediate RUCSU polls demanded

Rajshahi University students on Saturday held demonstrations on the campus, demanding immediate election to the university central students’ union. Several hundred students of different departments brought out a... Full story

RU crop science students continue demo

STUDENTS of crop science and technology department at Rajshahi University on Saturday besieged the university administrative building as a part of their continuing demonstration to press their demand for shifting their... Full story

Pritilata’s birth anniversary observed at CU

The 101 birth anniversary of revolutionary Pritilata Waddedar was observed in the port city Chittagong on Saturday. Different organisations, both political and cultural, arranged programme to... Full story

RU teachers for national teachers’ day on Feb 18

The Rajshahi University teachers urged the government for declaring February 18, the day when its teacher Shamsuzzoha was killed by the army during 1969 mass uprising, as national teachers’ day. Full story

SUST student found dead

A student of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology was found dead at a boarding house in the Sylhet city on Saturday. The deceased was Saiful Islam Suman, a second-year student of the city... Full story

Thundershowers or rain likely

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over Rangpur Rajshahi, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and in the regions of Jessore, Kustia, Noakhali... Full story


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