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Guardians confine education officer, staff over schoolgirl harassment in Rangpur

Rangpur, Sept. 3 -- An assistant teacher of a government primary school in Gangachara upazila of Rangpur was suspended Wednesday following allegations of sexually harassing a fifth-grade student, trig... Read More


JU student Ahsan Labib made acting president of Jatiya Chhatra Shakti

JU, Sept. 3 -- Jahangirnagar University (JU) student and senior vice president of Jatiya Chhatra Shakti Ahsan Labib has been named acting president of the organisation, following the sudden resignatio... Read More


Past govt's flawed policy of import dependency to blame for power crisis: Finance and Planning Adviser

Dhaka, Sept. 2 -- Prime Minister's Finance and Planning Adviser Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir blamed the past (Awami League) government's flawed energy policies, including over-reliance on imports, alongsi... Read More


CIID seizes smuggled goods worth nearly Tk 1cr at Dhaka, Chattogram airports

Dhaka, Sept. 2 -- Customs Intelligence and Investigation Directorate (CIID) officials have seized foreign cigarettes, mobile phones, LCDs, mobile phone motherboards, liquor and gold ornaments worth ne... Read More


'Poet of the soil' Al Mujahidi remembered at Bangla Academy seminar

Dhaka, Sept. 2 -- Noted poet Al Mujahidi was remembered at a seminar at the Bangla Academy on Wednesday, with speakers recalling his distinctive contribution to Bangla poetry and lifelong engagement w... Read More


Mirza Abbas returns home after over five months of treatment abroad

Dhaka, Sept. 2 -- BNP Standing Committee Member and Prime Minister's Political Adviser Mirza Abbas returned home on Wednesday night after undergoing treatment in Singapore and Malaysia for five and a ... Read More


President visits hospital to see ailing Energy Minister Tuku

Dhaka, Sept. 2 -- President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday visited ailing Energy Minister Iqbal Hassan Mahmood Tuku at Ibrahim Cardiac Hospital in the capital. The President went to the hos... Read More


Mindfulness may help lower blood pressure within 8 weeks, study finds

, Sept. 2 -- Simple practices such as mindfulness, gratitude journaling and optimism training may help improve heart health within a few weeks, according to a new review of clinical studies. The rese... Read More


7 police officers dismissed for various breaches of govt service rules

Dhaka, Sept. 2 -- Seven police officials, including a former joint commissioner of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Detective Branch (DB), have been dismissed from service on charges of misconduct,... Read More


10 more parliamentary standing committees formed

Sangsad Bhaban, Sept. 2 -- Ten more parliamentary standing committees on different ministries have been formed, with senior BNP leaders and other lawmakers being appointed as chairmen. The Agricultur... Read More