War heroes honoured

Default loans in the first nine months of this year have increased by 4 percent or Tk 928 crore and stood at Tk 23,904 crore, thanks to sluggish business and global economic recession.

About 1.83 million class V students took part in the newly introduced public examinations across the country yesterday with great enthusiasm.

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police authorities are going to swing to traffic light signals phasing out the manual controlling system from today to ease traffic congestion in the capital.

Ruling party backed trade unions within Dhaka's Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) have over the last two decades been at the centre of a network of corruption involving crores of taka being siphoned off from the organisation every year by its revenue inspectors, commonly known as 'meter readers'.

Police yesterday arrested 14 members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from a house near the district truck terminal in Jhenidah.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina requested Opposition Leader Khaleda Zia to lead her deputies back to parliament as the two rival political leaders exchanged pleasantries at

Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of the Muslim Ummah after hajj, will begin from January 22 on the bank of the Turag River in Tongi.

Speakers at a seminar yesterday said referring to a World Bank study that environment pollution is responsible for 22 percent of all deaths from diseases in Bangladesh.

A leader of inter-district dacoit gang was shot dead in a gunfight with police at Salabhara bus stand under Kaliganj upazila, Jhenidah early yesterday.