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A book stall at Amar Ekushey Boi Mela bears a message expressing grief at the death of Sagar Sarwar, a news editor of private TV channel Maasranga Television, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla, yesterday. Inset, a visitor at the stall holds a book, Colonel Ke Ami Mone Rekhechi, which Sagar wrote and published last year. Photo: Palash KhanKhandaker Sohel was unable to find something to console himself over the death of his former colleague Sagar Sarowar. Publisher of one of his books, Sohel thinks an unfulfilled desire will haunt him throughout his life.
Print EditionWhite Panel, a pro-BNP-Jamaat backed teachers' panel of Chittagong University (CU), yesterday demanded exemplary punishment of those involved in the clash on the campus on Wednesday that led to the death of two students.
Print EditionThree more bodies were recovered from the Surma yesterday afternoon as a boat capsized in the river in Dharmapasha upazila of Sunamganj.
Print EditionThe government will be forced to take action if the BNP creates anarchy in the name of rally on March 12, warned Railways Minister Suranjit Sengupta yesterday.
Print EditionCentral committee of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) yesterday suspended seven of its leaders and activists of Rajshahi University (RU) unit for assault on a journalist and other unruly activities on the campus.
Print EditionDepartment For International Development (DFID) yesterday donated eight second-hand vehicles to Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP).
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Qulkhwani of Sadik Ahmed Rumu, senior marketing manager of Eastland Insurance Company, will be held tomorrow at 66/B in Malibagh Chowdhury Para after the Maghrib prayers.
Print EditionDr Rokeya Begum, a former professor of Dhaka University (DU) and sole female clinical psychologist of Bangladesh, died of cancer at a hospital in the USA yesterday at the age of 67, says a university press release.
Print EditionAlimun Nessa, mother of Md Ataur Rahman, senior vice president of public relations department of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited, passed away on Friday. She was 97, says a press release.
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Abdur Rahim Choudhury, eminent cultural personality of Bogra, passed away on February 9 at the age of 73.
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Today is the third death anniversary of Prof SHK Yusufzai, a former dean of Civil Engineering faculty of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (Buet).
Print EditionCitizens from all walks of life and socio-political organisations yesterday strongly condemned the brutal murder of Sagar Sarowar, a news editor of private TV channel Maasranga Television, and his wife Meherun Runi, a senior reporter of ATN Bangla.
Print EditionEminent jurist Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday stressed the need for establishing a sound and healthy political culture in the country to protect the people's rights and build a repression-free society.
Print EditionSuicidal tendency is higher among women victimised by different forms of domestic violence than non-victims, experts said at a seminar yesterday.
Print EditionSpeakers at a roundtable yesterday urged the government to set up a "Civil Traffic Monitoring Committee" to reduce traffic congestion in the port city.
Print EditionSection 144, imposed by the Hathazari upazila administration in Chittagong on Friday, remained effective for the second day yesterday to stop clashes between locals over a religious event.
Print EditionThe International Crimes Tribunal is scheduled today to hear a charge framing against Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami in connection with crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
Print EditionIndia's Border Security Force (BSF) will go more desperate and border killing would increase for the recent remarks of the BSF chief that it would never be possible to totally stop firing along border, leaders of some left-leaning parties said at a human yesterday.
Print EditionSpeakers at a human chain programme yesterday demanded exemplary punishment of the drivers responsible for road mishaps.
Print EditionDifferent political and socio-religious organisations yesterday demanded the arrest of the people involved in a series of clashes between two groups at Hathazari in Chittagong on Thursday and Friday centring a religious event.
Print EditionBNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the government would be forced to step down from power through the party's March 12 grand rally.
Print EditionPolicymakers of the UK and Europe support the war crimes trial and opined that the government was under international obligation to hold the trial, said Ekatturer Ghatak Dalal Nirmul Committee Executive President Shahriar Kabir.
Print EditionTwo people, including a journalist, were killed and two others injured in separate road accidents in Gazipur and Sirajganj early Friday and yesterday.
Print EditionPro-Awami League teachers of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday announced a week-long counter programme to defend the university administration from the ongoing movement by a group of teachers, who are opposing the vice-chancellor (VC), to realise their seven-point demand.
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