Month: September 2009

The first swine flu death officially confirmed Monday and refusal of designated hospitals to do initial diagnosis caused a wave of panic among people with cold and fever and left them in confusion over where to go, patients and relatives said. A 35-year woman died at the city’s private hospital, LabAid Sunday night and the ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday ordered to formulate separate time schedule for schools, markets, offices and banks with a view to easing the nagging traffic jam in the capital. ” Prime Minister gave the necessary directives to set up new separate time tables for schools, markets, offices and banks to ease traffic congestion in the ... Read more

The government has increased land prices in all city corporations and district towns manifold for the next three years while it lowered the land tax, registration and other fees for the same period, Law minister Shafique Ahmed said yesterday. Briefing newsman at his office the minister said the land prices have shot up two and ... Read more

Cabinet abolishes pry scholarship exams Students of class V will have to face a public examination like SSC exams from this year as the cabinet on Monday endorsed the plan to improve the quality of education right from the elementary level. Centrally controlled by the Directorate of Primary Education, the public examination will mark the ... Read more

Khaleda Zia Ziaur Rahman entered into the political arena, incidentally. But his arrival was inevitable. His coming was necessitated by the demands of the nation and the time to fill the void in the leadership. His did not come to join politics through any tortuous path by means of conspiracy in the dark, but his ... Read more

S Asian climate conference calls for fighting together to minimise risks The glaciers of the Himalayas are melting faster than anywhere else changing its ecosystem and causing grave concerns for the region, said the speakers at the South Asian Climate Change Conference in Kathmandu, Nepal. The Himalayas, widely known as the water tower of the ... Read more

Wildlife board suggests govt reduce number to two-thirds; hunting seen as option The Wildlife Advisory Board of the government has suggested downsizing the deer population at Nijhum Dwip to two-thirds as their number in the sanctuary has risen disproportionately to over 15,000 considering the island’s landscape. Now, what comes as a bad news for the ... Read more

The number of bed for cardiac treatment is only one per 1.5 lakh people in the country, according to a statistic of the Bangladesh Cardiac Society. There are only 1,000 beds for cardiac patients both at private and public facilities in the country where about 75 percent people are at risk of the fatal disease, ... Read more

At least 28 people were diagnosed with anthrax in Pabna after consuming beef infected with the Bacillus anthracis, according to IEDCR. ‘Twenty patients were clinically diagnosed with anthrax in Pabna,’ Mahmudur Rahman, director of the Institute of Epidemiology Disease Control and Research (IEDCR), told New Age Monday. ‘There was no casualty and the

A record 54 women won seats in Japan’s weekend election but female parliamentary representation still remains low by developed world standards at 11 per cent, results showed Monday. The opposition Democratic Party scored a historic win over the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party in Sunday’s vote fielding a high-profile group of female candidates to take on ... Read more