Some eminent citizens over a BBC programme have urged the government to lift VAT from private universities. The private universities, according to the relevant Act, are supposed to be run on a non-profit basis.

One-and-a-half-year-old Tanvir died of renal failure immediately after given paracetamol syrup tainted with poisonous industrial substance diethylene glycol in 1992.

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP) yesterday urged parliamentary members and law enforcers to take special steps to stop the increasing violence against women and children.

The report in this newspaper yesterday about how the bloggers are losing trust in the law enforcing agencies regarding their capability and indeed willingness to provide them with the minimum of security is very distressing.

It is heartening to note that we have had two consecutive years of good export earnings from the leather and leather goods sector.

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman yesterday called upon the government to take steps to make the commission's independence real.

Sajjad Hassan Saleh (Nintu), a financial risk management professional, died at a hospital in Toronto, Canada, on August 12. He was 47.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her sister Sheikh Rehana stood in solemn silence in front of the Tungipara tomb of the Father of the Nation on the day their family was massacred 40 years ago.

Today is the 12th death anniversary of Amenna Rahman; wife of late Mashiur Rahman (Jadu Mia), a former minister.

Father Of The Nation Remembered

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It is disappointing to note that a great many private universities are violating the conditions and rules set out by the Private University

A recent meeting of superintendents of police (SPs) at the police headquarters brought to the fore difficulties faced by law enforcers in

Hugo Swire, minister of state at the foreign and commonwealth office, UK, said Bangladesh's rich tradition of freedom and religious tolerance should be protected.

The government's decision to fix the speed limit of vehicles on highways across the country at 80 kilometres per hour in an attempt to reduce frequent road accidents may have been well-intentioned, but it has left officials at a loss about how to implement it.

Forty years ago today was the darkest day in our national history. For, on that day Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman without whom Bangladesh, the nation-state we call our home, would not have been born, was assassinated along most members of his family.

Justice is yet to be delivered in the cases filed in connection with the murders of Sheikh Fazlul Haque Moni and Abdur Rab Serniabat,

Despite repeated requests from Bangladesh to send him back, the United States granted political asylum to one of the six absconding killers of Bangabandhu a few years ago.

Accompanied by a dozen armed soldiers Major Dalim had stormed into the office of Gen Shafiullah, the then chief of army, in the morning of August 15, 1975.

Aug 15 Early in the morning, some disgruntled army officers lead the pre-planned attack to assassinate and overthrow President