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86.37pc pass in SSC exams

86.37pc pass in SSC exams

The results of this year’s Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinations have broken all records with 86.37 percent success rate, private TV channel ATN Bangla reports.   The combined pass rate of all the 10 education boards, including, Dakhil examinations under Madrasa Board and SSC vocational examinations under Technical Education Board, is 86.37 percent, 4.21 point [...]

Good ties with all parties :Pranab to Khaleda

Expecting a “peaceful and democratic Bangladesh”, visiting Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee yesterday said his country wants to establish ties with all the political parties of Bangladesh, not with just a specific one. During a meeting with BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia at her Gulshan office, Pranab emphasised the need for interaction between the peoples of [...]

Land deal too to take time :Pranab to PM

Land deal too to take time :Pranab to PM

Exchange of adversely possessed lands and 162 enclaves, and demarcation of boundary with India will be delayed indefinitely, as the Congress-led ruling coalition does not have the required majority in the Lok Sabha to amend the Indian constitution. Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee pointed this out during his interaction with editors of newspapers and electronic [...]

Metro Rail Bangla’s costliest project

Munima Sultana The metro rail project has turned out to be the country’s most expensive scheme as its total cost has now been estimated at US$ 3.29 billion including the amount that will be needed to acquire private land beyond Uttara to set up a depot of the mass transport project. The Padma Multipurpose Bridge [...]

Pranab arrives

ndian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Dhaka Saturday night on an official visit to Bangladesh.   Foreign Minister Dipu Moni received Pranab on his arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport around 9:30pm.   The visit coincides with the first official tour to Bangladesh by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who arrived in Dhaka [...]

Man commits suicide after killing wife, two children

Man commits suicide after killing wife, two children

A man allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself after strangling his wife and two children in Rangunia upazila of Chittagong early Saturday.   Babul Akhtar, assistant superintendent of police (ASP) of Hathazari circle, told The Daily Star that Prakash Barua, 40, a village doctor, first strangled his wife Rozi Barua, 35, at his Sonaichhari residence [...]

309 jawans jailed for mutiny at Pilkhana

309 jawans jailed for mutiny at Pilkhana

Three hundred and nine jawans of 36 rifles battalion of BDR (now Border Guard Bangladesh) were sentenced to rigorous imprisonment ranging from seven years to four months for their involvement in a mutiny at Pilkhana headquarters in 2009.   In addition to jail terms, the court also fined each of the convicts Tk 100.   [...]

VC ‘may have to go’; anti-VC teachers postpone agitation as PM steps in

VC ‘may have to go’; anti-VC teachers postpone agitation as PM steps in

The teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) who had been demanding removal of the vice-chancellor yesterday postponed their demonstration on assurance from the prime minister that she would look into the matter. Prime Ministe vice-chancellor’s resignation.r Sheikh Hasina yesterday talked separately to both factions of JU teachers in an effort to end the ongoing deadlock over [...]

Ex-Rab commander held for robbery

Ex-Rab commander held for robbery

Arrestee Lieutenant Colonel (sacked) Zulfiqar Ali Majumder was the commanding officer of Rab-7 when 20 to 30 people, including the Rab men in plain-clothes, looted a shrine at Talsara village of Anwara upazila in Chittagong on November 4 last year. Later, a robbery case was filed with Anwara Police Station against dozens of people including [...]

Patient dies during a minor operation in City

A man died during a surgery in his wrist at a private hospital in the capital’s Shyamoli area Monday night. The two doctors — Hafizur Rahman Khan, orthopaedic consultant of Pongu Hospital, and anaesthetist Habibur Rahman — who had performed the surgery went into hiding since the incident. Police yesterday arrested SM Shakhwat Hossain, owner [...]

No unconstitutional transfer of power: PM Hasina

No unconstitutional transfer of power: PM Hasina

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Tuesday said the country will be run constitutionally and nothing unconstitutional will be allowed. “We do believe in constitutional power…the country belongs to people and it’ll be run constitutionally…nothing unconstitutional will be allowed,” the Prime Minister warned. Photo: Banglanews24 She was addressing a workers’ rally organised by Jatiya Sramik League [...]

Students go on hunger strike in Jahangirnagar University

Students go on hunger strike in Jahangirnagar University

The general students of Jahangirnagar University on Tuesday started a fast-unto-death on the campus demanding resignation of Vice Chancellor Prof Shariff Enamul Kabir. The students demonstrating under the banners of ‘Jahangirnagar Sangskritik Jote’ and ‘Sontrasher Birudhdhe Jahangirnagar’ began the hunger strike at 11 am. Photo: Banglanews Earlier, the Sangskritik Jote activists brought out a procession [...]

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