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DU Correspondent :Different student bodies have condemned and protested the BCL’s Tuesday attack on Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) on the Dhaka University (DU) campus. They also demanded restoration of co-existence among the students’ bodies on the campus saying that the attack is the sign of the failed DU administration. Chhatra Odhikar Parishad, Bangladesh Chhatra Union, Bangla-desh Chhatra Federation and other student organisations issued a press release in this respect. BCL carried out the attack in front of Nilkhet Police Outpost...

Staff Reporter :Motijheel police arrested seven Directors of Homeland Life Insurance Company Limited from the company’s head office on allegation of not settling the insurance claim of policyholders.A Dhaka court sent them to Dhaka Central Jail in Keraniganj after rejecting their bail petitions.These accused are company directors Abdur Rob, Jamal Uddin, Kamal Mia, Abdur Razzaque, Jamal Mia, Abdul Hai and Foyzul Haque.The court, however, ordered the accused to appear in Magura court by Wednesday. For the first time, seven directors...

Staff Reporter :After four days of the boat accident in the Karatoya River in Panchagarh district, the death toll on Wednesday stood at 69 while three others were still missing. The divers recovered 68 bodies in the last three days of the accident. The deceased were mostly women, children and old men who were heading for the Bodeshwari temple by the overcrowded engine-run boat on Sunday. The body which was recovered on Wednesday was Himaloy Chandra Roy. He was with...

Staff Reporter :The Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) is not willing to pay the gas price fixed by Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC). Recently, the fertilizer factory has refused to pay dues due to the new price of gas for fertilizer production. Shahjalal Fertilizer Company has been trapped by Jalalabad Gas Distribution Company by supplying gas for fertilizer production. Shahjalal Fertilizer has a pending gas bill of Tk 119 crore. And even if the fertilizer company pays the bill, it is...

Reuters :Cuba’s electrical grid collapsed late on Tuesday, local officials said, leaving the entire country in the dark shortly after Hurricane Ian plowed through the western end of the island leaving a path of destruction in its wake.The sprawling Category 3 hurricane was barreling north towards the Dry Tortugas, off the Florida Keys, late on Tuesday, with maximum sustained winds of 120 miles per hour (195 km per hour), the US National Hurricane Center (NHC) saidCuba’s electrical grid – decades-old...

Staff Reporter :A Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) leader of Eden Women’s College unit filed a case against eight students including President of the suspended BCL Eden Women’s College unit Tamanna Jasmine Riva and General Secretary Razia Sultana on charges of extortion and attempted murder.Jannatul Ferdous, Vice-President of BCL Eden College unit filed the case on Wednesday with the Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate court. Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Syed Mostafa Reza Noor of Dhaka court ordered the Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Lalbagh Police...

Staff Reporter :World Heart Day will be observed on Thursday. The theme of this year of the day is “Use heart for every heart”. Cardiovascular or heart diseases (CVD), which is often caused by tobacco use, is the world’s number one killer and it claims nearly 1.9 million lives per year, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).In Bangladesh, about 2,77,000 deaths are caused by CVD, while tobacco is responsible for 24 percent of these fatal ailments. According to the...

News Desk :The repair work on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Daudkandi in Cumilla has created a 25-kilometre tailback.Travellers were stranded for hours as vehicles were allowed to use only one Dhaka-bound lane since Wednesday morning, reports bdnews24.comBy afternoon, the tailback stretched from Chandina’s Madhaia to Daudkandi toll plaza via Gouripur. Ambulances were also stuck.Mohammad Sohel, a Dhaka-bound bus passenger from Cumilla, said it took six hours for him to reach Gouripur as the bus could move only half a kilometre...

News Desk :Bangladesh is unlikely to get any additional liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Qatar before 2025 as the gulf country has recently turned down a request in this regard.According to official sources in Dhaka, Qatar straight away rejected a plea to increase its supply of LNG right at this moment when Bangladesh has desperately been looking for primary fuel at a cheaper rate, reports UNB.Petrobangla chairman Nazmul Ahsan, who recently led a delegation to Qatar, said the energy-rich gulf...

Staff Reporter :Election Commissioner (EC) Brig Gen Md Ahsan Habib Khan (Retd) said, what we will do, just wait and see. The allegation which has been raised against the EC will be solved in a proper manner.How all registered political parties will take part in the next parliamentary polls, in a response to reporters quarry, EC Habib made the comment at his Agargoan office on Wednesday.He said, we are working to bring all political parties in next polls. We will...