Month: December 2013

Emissions by automobiles put an adverse impact on most of crops and plants, leading to a potential health hazards for mankind, said Dhaka University’s soil, water and environment professor SM Imamul Huq at a daylong seminar on Saturday. He said the pollutants of air from the automobiles including carbon monoxide (CO), lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ... Read more

The infection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has increased more than 25 per cent in the country over the past one year. This was disclosed at an advocacy workshop with media personnel on HIV and AIDS in the city on Saturday. The workshop also informed that a total of 370 persons were infected by HIV ... Read more

[ The prisoners are passing days amid subhumanconditions as its already crowded cells are being overcrowded day by day for large scale arrests ] Chittagong: The Chittagong central jail is now crowded with three times higher number of prisoners than its actual capacity. According to an account

The government has taken initiative to record health-related data on pregnant women, mothers and under five children aiming to set a specific target of reducing maternal and child deaths. It had already launched a pilot scheme to record data in Bashail and Sakhipur upazilas of Tangail in cooperation with the World Health Organisation,

Information and communication technology secretary M Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday called upon the firms to come up with IT training programmes, including freelancing outsourcing for women, in order to create opportunity for their self-employment. ‘There are about 1,000 IT firms in the country. If they provide IT training to women, the number

A young man was beaten to death by unidentified miscreants in the capital’s Chwakbazar area early Saturday. The deceased was Md Billal Hossain, 20, an employee of a local plastic factory. The Chwakbazar police officer-in-charge, Azizul Haque, said they recovered the body from his house at Rahmayganj in the morning. The body

Asian Centre for Environmental Health (ACEH), a new environmental organization, has started its journey here with the aims of eliminating environmental toxins in Asia-Pacific region, reports UNB. ANM Shamsuddin Azad Chowdhury, additional secretary to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, inaugurated the operation of the centre at the conference room of

Labour right activists on Saturday demanded immediate approval of the draft Domestic Worker Protection and Welfare Policy prepared in 2010 to ensure the rights of domestic workers. At a seminar, they urged the government to ratify ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers and to enact law and frame policies in

Chittagong Khulsi Club Limited, a youths’ platform, started its journey through a programme at its rented office in Chittagong city on Friday evening. The club’s founding president, Niaz Murshed Elite, also Borotakia Motors’ managing director, inaugurated the club’s activities in presence of the

National Bank Limited (NBL) distributed scholarship, certificate of appreciation and crest among the children’s of the employees of the bank under ‘NBL Employees Welfare Scheme’ at a function at National Bank Training Institute (NBTI) in the city on Friday.  otal 66 students who secured outstanding result in the SSC and HSC examinations held in 2013 ... Read more