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Genetically modified foods or crops should not be classified as food at all, as they are liable to cause various health problems affecting the liver and kidney, and hence unfit for human consumption, said a noted agriculturist, reports UNB. Dr Mohammed Ataur Rahman of International University of Business Agriculture and

The Rajshahi City Corporation has planned to sell bottled water by using all of its four idle water treatment plants when the city’s one-third population, mostly poor, are out of its water supply network. The RCC circulated a notice on March 2 in this regard, seeking proposals from interested

Jatka Preservation Week Begins Today Additional 4.8 lakh tonnes of hilsa produced in 6 yrs An additional 4.83 lakh tonnes of hilsa worth Tk 12,075 crore has been produced in the last six years since the government started implementing jatka (hilsa fry) preservation programme. Around five lakh fishermen are directly involved in catching hilsa in ... Read more

Around 2.5 lakh children die from easily preventable causes in Bangladesh a year before they reach the fifth birthday, speakers at a national consultation on newborn and child survival said yesterday. Save the Children organised the consultation to launch a five-year worldwide campaign titled

MA Muhit, a Bangladeshi and a member of Bangladesh Mountaineering and Trekking Club (BMTC), is set to start an expedition to the Mount Everest next month. If he can make it, Muhit will be the first Bangladeshi to conquer the Everest, the 8850-metre (29,035ft) giant lying across the Nepal-Tibet

Qatar has pledged $100 million assistance to rejuvenate the River Buriganga by diverting water from the River Jamuna. The chief of planning of the Bangladesh Water Development Board, Abdul Wadud Bhuiyan, told BSS that a eight-member delegation from Qatar led by the international relations minister, Mohammad Al Atiyah, made the

CHITTAGONG, Mar 16: Malaria Research Group of Bangladesh in collaboration with Tanzania and Ghana won British Medical Journal (BMJ) Group Award- 2010 for the best scientific research publication. BMJ Group Award, an international unique recognition for service in research and

Green activists have held the drastic fall of water flow, caused by the constructions of dams and barrages by upper riparian India, responsible for the dire state of the country’s rivers. They were addressing the participants of a public rally jointly organised by the Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan and the National River Protection Movement, in

Two new areas in the city — Purbachal-2 and Uttara-3 — will be freed from electric poles, overhead wires and cables. The Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources yesterday directed the Dhaka City Corporation and Rajuk to take necessary steps to install all types of cables and pipes of all utility services in an ... Read more

Shortage of teachers, officials and staff is seriously hampering the academic activities at Sylhet Agricultural University. According to sources of the university, more than 60 per cent approved posts of teachers and 78 per cent posts of officials and staff have remained vacant since the university started its journey in

Department of Career and Professional Development Services (CPDS) of North South University is going to organise the national career fair- 2010 on March 19- 20 at North South University (NSU) own campus. This is the first time CPDS is organising this event on the NSU own campus at Bashundhara. It is also the country’s

Hundreds of kites in the forms and colours of marine creatures, including red tortoises, dolphins, lobsters, jellyfish, mermaids and purple sharks along with rainbow coloured butterflies, cobras, birds and insects flew over the skyline of Inani sea beach in Cox’s Bazaar yesterday. The beach, located 35 kilometres off the tourism town of Cox’s Bazar, had ... Read more

A UK charity that has been warning of unsafe conditions in Bangladeshi factories for years is appealing to British Bangladeshi business leaders for cash donation following a recent fire that killed over 21 garment workers, to help prevent further tragedies. The call from War on Want follows the deaths of 21 workers and injuries to ... Read more

Bangladeshi Radio listeners have access to Bengali Radio Programmes from German radio Deutsche Welle (DW) via FM brand like BBC and VOA Bengali services, under an agreement signed Tuesday. Director General of Bangladesh Betar (BB) Md Mahbubul Alam, and Managing Director of DW-AKADEMIE, Ms Gerda Meuer yesterday signed the deal at the

Top ten women of the country, who were the first to occupy centre stage at the top of their professions, received lifetime achievement awards of Channel i yesterday. First female editor of the country Nurjahan Begum, editor of Begum, first female deputy leader of parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, first home minister Advocate Sahara Khatun, also ... Read more

The government should implement the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women for ensuring development of the country’s women. The call was made at a news briefing organised by Barendra Unnayan Prachesta, a non-governmental organisation in Rajshahi, on Sunday to mark 100 years of

International Women’s Day on March 8 Call to recognise women’s contribution Different organisations chalked out a number of programmes yesterday to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the International Women’s Day on March 8 this year. Karmojibi Nari (KN) organised a rally with the slogan ‘Recognition and equal rights of women in a world free from ... Read more

Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) and Bangladesh Debate Federation (BDF) for the first time is going to organise a shadow parliamentary anti-corruption debate competition and training for high school students. Students of class eight to class ten (new) will be able to participate in the debate competition

Residents in many areas of the Dhaka city are getting water fouled with filth and stench from the WASA supply lines for the last few weeks, making their lives miserable. The situation deteriorated in the past two weeks in several areas of the city, including Moghbazar, Naya Paltan, Sheorapara and

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government would consider the prospect of mobile computer laboratory on boats to introduce information and communication technology to the rural students. “We have already started mobile computer laboratories in jeeps and microbuses which will