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Chittagong Khulsi Club Limited, a new platform of young entrepreneurs and industrialists of Chittagong, is set to launch its journey today evening. The inauguration was declared in a press conference held on Thursday in the port city. Founder president of the club Niaz Morshed,

The Jahangirnagar University Debate Organisation observed its 8th founding anniversary and formed a new executive body on the campus on Wednesday. The former JUDO president, Nur-E-Alam, declared the new executive body at a programme marking the anniversary day of the organisation.

The Dhaka University Teachers’ Association election will be held on December 31. The voting for electing the 15-member executive committee of DUTA will be held at the Teachers’ Club of the university from 10:00am to 2:00pm without any break. Pro-Awami League teachers under ‘Blue panel’,

The communications ministry has given owners one year more to replace some 4,500 CNG auto-rickshaws. The decision came at a meeting with the vehicle owners at the ministry on Tuesday. Following the announcement, the owners withdrew their pre-scheduled 72-hour strike from Thursday, said the ministry officials. The ministry has also taken an initiative

High prices of warm clothes have been putting pressure on the poor, leaving many of them to endure the bite of cold. During a visit, New Age found that, many shops, especially those on the footpaths, were open during the 83-hours BNP-led opposition blockade. Many people, mainly the low income group, thronged the footpath shops at Mohakhali, ... Read more

A field level action research study report has revealed that eliminating poverty and preventing migration from rural to urban areas would be impossible without major reformation of land administration and management related laws and systems. The study was done by the Society for People’s Education, Empowerment and Development trust in association with

Dalit leaders on Monday demanded formulation of an act to end all kinds of discrimination against them in society. At a discussion on ‘duties to improve education, employment, housing, water and sanitation facilities for Dalits’, experts said though they contribute a lot, they are still deprived of their rights. Bangladesh Dalit and Excluded Rights Movement and

A four-day inter-university debate competition begins on the Jahangirnagar University campus today. The Jahangirnagar University Debating Society is organising the competition with the financial assistance from Polar, Bangladesh. ‘The programme is being arranged marking the 42nd Victory Day of Bangladesh,’ said the JUDS general secretary, Aninda Saimum Emon,

Speakers at a youth festival in Rajshahi city on Sunday said the involvement of youth in national development is essential. In fact, youths play one of the most important roles in nation building, they said. Non government organisation Action for Community Development organised the daylong youth festival in its conference room Attending the programme as chief ... Read more

Participants in a view exchange and consultation programme at Barisal Sher E Bangla Medical College on Sunday called for extending coordinated medicare facilities as a right for the people with disabilities. They also suggested a disability inclusive development agenda by creating a sustainable infrastructure. The programme was arranged by ARDRID-CRP

Actor Khaled Khan, who died of a heart attack in BIRDEM Hospital on Friday night after suffering from motor neuron disease for about 12 years that left him paralysed, was buried in his parental house at Mirzapur in Tangail on Saturday. The body was kept at the Central Shaheed Minar on Saturday morning for two hours ... Read more

Oral polio vaccines were administered to the children under five on Saturday with an aim to free the country from polio, a serious infectious disease that can cause permanent paralysis. Due to the blockade programme, presence of children at vaccination centres was less than normal time, said health workers who administered

Stakeholders on Saturday sought intervention of the prime minister’s office in the nutrition programme to scale up nutrition as the multi-sector intervention was not working. At a roundtable on ‘Child nutrition: multi-sectoral approach for investing in the future’ organised by BRAC and The Daily Star at The Daily Star

A six-year-old boy was injured when a crude bomb he was playing with exploded in Upashahar New Market area in Rajshahi city on Saturday. The injured was identified as Fahim Islam, a resident of Upashahar in the city. His father died few years ago and his mother works as a domestic help.

The Pan Pacific Sonargaon, Dhaka would arrange a lineup of exciting events to celebrate the Christmas and New Year, said a press release on Saturday. Both on the days of Christmas and New year, live band music would be arranged for the guests at the hotel’s Balcony Bar from 8:00pm onwards.

The health ministry has recently launched an awareness campaign against Nipah in 27 districts of the country to prevent the people from taking raw date or palm juice. The directorate general of health services has identified 217 Nipah-prone upazilas in the 27 districts, Be-Nazir Ahmed, director of disease control at

Apart from taking a heavy toll on businesses and children’s education, the ongoing political turmoil is also creating great difficulties for those planning to marry, causing many couples in the capital to delay their wedding ceremonies and receptions. In the last two months, at least 70 wedding ceremonies

Girl Guides in a daylong camp on Thursday stressed empowering girls through acquiring self-sufficiency and self-defence to achieve millennium development goals. The programme was held on Barisal Islamia College campus as part of the sixth camp of Girl Guides ranger-unit of the college. The camp was conducted by

The Sylhet City Corporation authorities formally started reclaiming and re-digging an encroached canal on Wednesday to reduce the water-stagnation problem in the city. The city mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, inaugurated the renovation work of Gavial Khal, one of the nine major canals of the city that covers

The preservation of the mass killing ground and torture cell at the then WAPDA campus, used as regional cantonment of the Pakistan occupation army during the liberation war, has remained stalled. Barisal city mayor Shawkat Hossain Hiron on June 14 unveiled the curtain of a proposed project to preserve the spots, but the initiative fell through. After ... Read more