AMCH gets Tk 29.66 lakh in donation in April

Ahsania Mission Cancer Hospital (AMCH) has received about Tk 29.66 lakh as donation in April, says a press release....

Pakistan should apologise to Bangladesh

Secretary General of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League Senator Mushahid Hussain Syed has demanded that Pakistan should come up with an apology for what, he said, the crimes committed against the Bangladeshi brethrens before and after 1971....

Medicine looted from city hospital

A gang of robbers looted a huge quantity of medicine from the storeroom of the railway hospital at Shahjahanpur after stabbing a security guard in the early hours of yesterday.

The injured security guard, Rassel Talukder, 25, was admitted to a city hospital with several cut wounds on his body.

Police said a gang of about five robbers entered the medicine storeroom on the first floor of the railway hospital breaking open the lock between 2:00am and 2:30am after stabbing security guard Rassel on the ground floor.

Sub-inspector of Government Railway Police Ramiz Uddin filed a case with Motijheel Police Station in this connection.

Huge arms seized

Army recovered huge arms and ammunition from a terrorist den at Madhya Kanchanpur under Laxmichhari upazila in Khagrachhari district yesterday.

Acting on a tip-off, army raided Maidhya Kanchanpur, a remote area of Laxmichhari upazila, at 4.30 m and recovered one M-16 pistol, one SBBL gun, two magazine and 267 fresh ammunition of M-16 pistol, security sources said.

Sensing the presence of army, the criminals fled the den, leaving arms and ammunition.

Victim of domestic violence cries for justice

A woman who fell victim to domestic violence has demanded punishment to her husband, alleging that he has been torturing her since their marriage about 15 years ago....

E-governance a must for better public services

Speakers at a workshop yesterday put emphasis on expansion of e-governance in the national administrative process for providing better services to people....

Time for selling, delivary of AJM structures extended

A meeting of the Advisory Council on Econimic Affairs yesterday approved a proposal for enlisting the investor-cum-operator appointment project in the Private Infrastructure Project under the Rehabilitation-Operation-Transfer of 1200 tons of slipway of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA)....

Lions Clubs Int'l chairman arrives today

Dr Ashok V Mehta, chairman of Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF), will arrive on a three-day visit to Bangladesh today at the invitation of Lions Multiple District 315 Bangladesh, says a press release.

Dr Mehta will inaugurate the 20th Annual Multiple District Convention at BangladeshChina Friendship Conference Centre in the city at 10:00am on Friday.

DIIT denies UGC allegations

Daffodil Institute of IT (DIIT), which was declared illegal by the University Grants Commission (UGC) recently, yesterday denied the allegations and claimed that the institution is being conducted legally....

'Improve condition of indigenous people'

The caretaker government (CG) can take necessary steps to improve the socio-economic as well as human rights situation of indigenous people, said the speakers at a function in Rajshahi yesterday....