Eid-ul-Azha: BR to sell all advance tickets online from June 14
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Bangladesh Railway will start selling advance train tickets from 14 June to tackle the home rush on the occasion of the upcoming Eid-ul-Adha.
The authorities will start selling tickets from June 14 at two different time slots to reduce the load on its server.
The West Zone will start selling tickets online at 8:00am while the East Zone will start at noon.
Moreover, BR will introduce a new train on the Dhaka-Chilahati route on June 4 and operate a total of eight special trains during the Eid rush.
A lucky escape
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Mocha makes landfall in Myanmar, weakens; causes no serious damage in Bangladesh
Cyclone Mocha veered towards Myanmar and eventually made landfall there a few hours earlier than forecast and it did not cause massive damage that many in Bangladesh feared.
Around 13,500 houses were affected by the cyclone in Cox's Bazar, including St Martin's Island, and the Rohingya refugee camps. And some 15 to 20 people had minor injuries, said officials concerned.
Holiday Inn Dhaka City Centre launches Mediterranean restaurant ‘The Ilish’
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Holiday Inn Dhaka City Centre launched a one of a kind Mediterranean restaurant called 'The ILISH' on on 18 May. For those with an adventurous palate, this is a great opportunity to find new twists on the familiar feel, as there are only few Mediterranean themed restaurants in Dhaka, says a press release.
The Ilish has been launched on grounds at 16th floor Holiday Inn Dhaka City Centre at 23 Shaheed Tajuddin Ahmed Sharani, Tejgaon, Dhaka - 1208 and it has been started commercially on 19th May.
Week-long Asian food festival kicks off in Chittagong
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A week-long Asian Fusion Food Festival started at Hotel The Peninsula in Chattogram city on Thursday.
Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) chairman M Zahirul Alam Dovas inaugurated the food festival at Laguna Restaurant located on the 5th floor of Peninsula Chattogram while general manager of Peninsula Chattogram Sumedha Gunawardene along with invited guests and all department heads and officers of Peninsula were present.
BINA Dhan-25 shows hope
Farmers get higher yield from newly developed rice variety
Sajjad Hossain
Mannan Joaddar cultivated BINA Dhan-25, a newly developed variety of paddy, on one bigha of land in Moghi village of Magura 93 days ago.
The 55-year-old farmer is now over the moon. He had not seen such thin and long grain in his 20 years of farming.
"I am hoping to get around 30 maunds of crop, which would be more than any other variety I have grown so far. It looks more like Basmati rice," Mannan told The Daily Star yesterday.
Banana cultivation shows bright prospect
Shykh Seraj
Agriculture in Tangail region has changed a lot in the last three decades.
Once the land of this region was unfit for any cultivation. Back then, it wasn't possible to grow crops due to uneven land surface and lack of irrigation facilities.
In the early 80s, the topography of Tangail's Sakhipur, Ghatail, Basail and Madhupur upazila were almost the same.
But nowadays, a great variety of fruits has reached the region. Alongside pineapple, banana has now become a cash crop for many local farmers.
Equal education leads to a better society
Opinion
Mehreen Chowdhury
EDUCATION is known to be strongest when voices and diverse perspectives are heard and shared around the community. It is vital that young people are given the space and safety to express them without feeling ashamed. The idea of special education is governed by the concept that education is for all. It is true that not everyone learns the same way; hence, teachers in institutions should examine how a child learns and what struggles they face regularly.
A system called ‘Special Educational Needs’ was developed to help individuals who needed it learn more effectively. Special needs that are not met are a problem in Bangladesh and other countries. More support is needed to guarantee that kids with SEN have the same learning opportunities as students without SEN. Due to hidden or neurodivergent difficulties, children in special education may need instructional adaptations.
Alarming increase in child marriage
Opinion
Zillur Rahaman
CHILD marriage is one of the social ills in Bangladesh. It was once an epidemic in Bangladesh. It, however, came under control because of various measures and the supervision of the government in the past decade or so, but has been increasing at an alarming rate since the Covid pandemic, which increased the poverty rate sharply. For girls in remote areas, this term is a dark chapter of horror. When many say it is a social curse, poor parents call it a social reality.
Bangladesh still has the highest rate of child marriage among Asian countries. A report by the United Nations Population Fund, released globally on April 19, says that almost 51 per cent of girls get married before the age of 18 in the country, which is a very alarming figure.