Speakers at a roundtable yesterday said relocating Kamalapur railway station and container depot to Tongi will worsen the traffic situation in the city in future instead of improving it.

The struggle for creating Pakistan poisoned Hindu-Muslim relations in the subcontinent, Indian scholar Tapan Raychaudhuri said yesterday.

Representatives of Child Parliament yesterday called on the government to raise the issue of children's vulnerability to global climate change in the upcoming international conference on climate change in Copenhagen.

A total of 303,242 students were absent yesterday from taking the examinations of Mathematics and Religion on the second day of the Primary Education Terminal Exami nation.

Cheated by a travel agency, some 62 hajj pilgrims finally left for Saudi Arabia last night with contribution from their group leader and own pockets to perform the hajj in Makkah.

Chief state counsel Anisul Huq yesterday asked the Amnesty International (AI) to refrain from making request for commuting the death sentence on the former army officers convicted of the murder of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

The government is going to modernise madrasa education and expand technical education, Education Adviser to the Prime Minister Prof Dr Alauddin Ahmed said yesterday.

Students of Nightingale Medical College and Hospital (NMCH) yesterday demanded to take immediate measures to migrate 165 students of NMCH to another medical colleges for the sake of their future.

Armed muggers snatched away Tk 1.85 lakh from two shop employees leaving them injured on their way to shop from a bank at Bangshal in the city yesterday.

Speakers at an award giving ceremony on Saturday said the challenge of Bangladesh as the most vulnerable country to climate change is to transform it into the most adaptive country in the world.

Bangladesh Diploma Unemployed Nurses Association yesterday started observing a fast unto death at the Central Shaheed Minar in the city demanding the government recruits about 9,500 nurses by December.

Seven women were awarded 'Anlene-Prothom Alo Nari Shakti Shammanana' (women of strength) Award for their outstanding achievements in various fields, says a press release.

US Navy Rear Admiral RDML Sean Pybus, Commanding General, US Special Operations Command, Pacific, is visiting Dhaka soon to strengthen bilateral security cooperation.

The High Court (HC) yesterday adjourned the hearing on the petitions filed by BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and her elder son Tarique Rahman till December 7 for staying the proceedings of Zia Orphanage Trust embezzlement case against them.

The Flag Raising Ceremony of newly established 403 battle group and five units under its command was held at Momenshahi Cantonment in Mymensingh yesterday.

Abu Yusuf Butt, a leader of Kashmir-based militant organisation Hizbul Mujahedeen, was taken on a fresh remand for three days yesterday in connection with the August 21 grenade attack case.

A writ petition was filed with the High Court (HC) yesterday challenging the government action stopping the test transmission of Jamuna TV, a private satellite television channel.