Rahima Khatun, mother of The Daily Star senior reporter Rejaul Karim Byron, passed away yesterday at her residence in Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira.
Today is the fifth death anniversary of Hamida Begum, wife of late Adeluddin Ahmed, founder member of Awami League and former minister, said a press release.
A 71-member new committee of the 35th BCS batch Bangladesh Administrative Service Association (BASA) was formed on Saturday, said a press release.
Ain O Salish Kendra (ASK) in a press release yesterday expressed deep concern over the recent killings of Bangladeshi nationals by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along different bordering areas of the two countries.
The group of five people did not own the car they put on sale. They rented it, sedated the driver on the way, and then went on to sell it. But they ran out of luck this time -- their prospective buyers were detectives.
Every media outlets should establish a code of conduct and sexual harassment cell, women journalists suggested at a conference yesterday.
Ayub Bachchu was slated to perform at a concert in Rajshahi yesterday, and while his fate was written otherwise, thousands of music lovers of the city, and the performing musicians at the event, paid rich tributes to the recently-deceased rock icon.
Meter readers and messengers of Palli Bidyut Samity in Sylhet enforced an indefinite strike yesterday to press home their four-point demand, including regularisation of their jobs.
Fifty-five eminent editors and senior journalists have called upon Barrister Mainul Hosein, former adviser to a caretaker government, to apologise publicly for hurling abusive words at journalist Masuda Bhatti and terming her “characterless” at a television talk show on Tuesday night.
To highlight the importance of project design and implementation in addressing sustainable challenges, a session was held on the closing day of the 3rd Annual Conference for Sustainable Development at University of Liberal Arts Bangladesh.
