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‘Digital TV Expo,’ an exposition of mainly latest television technology and allied products for home users and business clients, drew huge crowd on the second day of the fair at Sheraton Hotel in the city yesterday, says a press release. Event management firm EventPro has organised this visual items’ fair for the first time in

Popular private FM radio station, ‘Radio Aamar’ won eight awards in the Prime Bank-BPS FM Radio Award 2010. The award was announced in an award giving ceremony held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka recently. The categories in which ‘Radio Aamar’ received awards include ‘Best Interactive Radio’, ‘Station

The government should introduce mass commuter services in the capital to ease the nagging traffic congestion, a roundtable was told on Wednesday. Speakers at the discussion observed that the bus rapid transit or BRT, an integrated system for at quicker urban mobility based on buses or specialised vehicles on roads and dedicated lanes, is the

The government will construct two flyovers – from Golapshah Mazar to Babubazar and from Kuril to Airport – at a cost of Taka 600 crore to ease traffic jam in the city. Besides, link roads would be built from Karwan Bazar Railway Crossing to Mohakhali, from Indira Road to Panthapath and from extended Madani Avenue ... Read more

Speakers at a dissemination seminar yesterday said 79 percent of the returnee migrant workers have no knowledge of modes of the HIV transmission that increases the risk of their being infected with the virus. Currently around seven million Bangladeshis are working as migrant worker at around 100

Declaring Bangabhaban a smoking-free zone president Zillur Rahman has called for keeping all government offices and educational institutions free from smoking. “Smoking is very bad habit,” he told a delegation of noted physicians, led by national professor Brig Gen (retd) Dr Abdul Malek that called on him at

Bangladesh Road Transport Authority is to offer a three-month special service for driving licence seekers from July. The plan, aiming to simplify the process will make way for fake licence holders to legitimise their documents, officials at the BRTA

Luxury ship Keari Cruise and Dine, a sister concerned of Keari Tours and Services Ltd, has started journey with modern facilities for visitors enjoying the picturesque natural beauty of Ashulia. This initiative will provide pleasure to the visitors who want leisure for few hours with fresh air and modern facilities, organiser told the journalists at ... Read more

World No Tobacco Day was observed on Monday in the country as elsewhere in the world with a call to raise awareness about harmful effects of smoking, especially among the women. ‘Let there be all days free from smoking’ was the slogan of the day this year in Bangladesh while the global theme was ‘Gender ... Read more

Voters of Chittagong City Corporation elections would be able to text to a certain number and know which polling station they are supposed to cast their votes at. Voters in Dhaka City Corporation will also have the same facility in the DCC polls, Humayun Kabir, secretary to the Election Commission Secretariat, said

The results of the 28th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) examinations under Public Service Commission (PSC) will be published on Thursday, according to source at the PSC. “The results will be published within this week,” said an official, adding that all members and chairman of the PSC held a meeting on Monday to finalise the quota

Century-old ‘puthis’ and manuscripts, rare books, newspapers and periodicals printed in Bangladesh during the last century have been wearing out at the Dhaka University central library for lack of proper preservation and proper materialisation of the exiting resources. The authorities had taken hardly any measures to preserve these rare documents even after being

The National Vitamin A Plus Campaign-2010 will be held across the country today with a view to preventing childhood blindness, reducing child mortality rate and strengthening immunity. Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque formally inaugurated the campaign at Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS) at Mahakhali in the city yesterday morning by feeding

The 34th death anniversary of Shilpacharya Zainul Abedin will be observed today. Teachers and students of Dhaka University’s Fine Arts Faculty will place flowers on Zainul’s grave in the university’s premises at 8:30 in the morning. A discussion on Zainul will be held in the Faculty’s auditorium at

Canada has tightened the visa policy aiming to ensure that the North American country welcomes only clean people. The Canadian Citizenship and Immigration department recently decided that it would not allow people visiting Canada or studying, working or migrating there should they have any history of

Green and civic rights activists on Wednesday urged the government to adopt a policy of restricting private cars in order to facilitate the expansion and the use of public mode of transport, which would help ease traffic congestion in the cities. Speaking at a news briefing, they also stressed the need for a coordinated transport ... Read more

Findings from a study yesterday revealed that women health workers have been found to be acting as change makers of society at the community level since the sixties of last century. The study conducted over community health programmes of the government, ICDDR,B, BRAC and Gonoshasthya Kendra in Matlab, Savar and Jamalpur said that the recruitment ... Read more

The admission process in colleges will begin in mid-June and classes on July 1. A meeting of the education ministry with the heads of public and private colleges in the city reached this preliminary decision yesterday, meeting sources said. The ministry’s college section convened the meeting at the Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education

The University Grants Com-mission has undertaken a Tk 681 crore project titled ‘Higher Education Quality Enhance-ment Project’ for improving the quality of higher education and research in the country, reports UNB. The International Development Association, a soft lending arm of the World Bank, will provide Tk

Speakers at a workshop on environment in Dhaka on Saturday said rooftop gardening could immensely help protect environment as well as biodiversity in the capital city. Paribesh Bachao Andolon and Sweet Heaven Garden jointly organised the workshop followed by a display on environment in Siddheshwari in