The fire at Drug International Limited’s pharmaceutical factory in Tongi, Gazipur, has been brought under control, but it may take until Thursday morning or longer to extinguish it completely, Fire Service and Civil Defence Director General Brigadier General Sultanul Afreen Junaid said. Speaking...
The new vice-chancellor of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET), Dr Sheikh Shariful Alam, could not begin work normally on Monday, even after entering his office 21 days after his appointment, as protesting students confined him to the administrative building. After breaking...
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has said mental health protection is an important component of the government's public welfare-oriented health policy, stressing that health encompasses physical, mental, spiritual and social wellbeing rather than merely being free from illness. In a message issued on...
Battery-run rickshaws in Dhaka will be brought under an eight-zone system to ease traffic congestion and restore discipline in public transport, Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) administrator Md Shafiqul Islam Khan said on Thursday. Dhaka North and South city corporations will each be divided...
The government has stepped up monitoring across the country to ensure that liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) is sold at prices fixed by the authorities, Prime Minister's Information and Broadcasting Adviser Dr Zahed Ur Rahman said yesterday. Speaking at a press conference at the Secretariat on the...
Seven people, including a woman and a child, were killed in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Mymensingh on Friday (October 2). The accident occurred in the Harguzirpar area of Dapunia Union on the Mymensingh-Muktagachha bypass road in Sadar upazila....
