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Most of the advance tickets are sold out within a few hours after the counters open every day at Dhaka and Chittagong railway stations, with a large number of people, who wish to celebrate Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja in their village homes, returning empty-handed. The Bangladesh Railway began selling advance

Social Safety Net Programmes WB lends $500m to help 4m poorest households The government yesterday signed an agreement with the World Bank to receive $500 million to strengthen the major safety net programmes covering four million of the poorest households. The fund will support the Safety Net Systems for the Poorest (SNSP) project to be ... Read more

Heavy rainfall for the last two consecutive days under the influence of deep convection formed over North Bay caused serious disruption in civic life, port and businesses activities in the Chittagong city. The coastal regions of Chittagong were swept by a wind-driven surge by 2-3 feet above the normal tide, official sources said. Patenga Meteorological ... Read more

A daylong programme marking Jibanananda Award distribution was held in Barisal on Friday. The late poet Khandakar Ashraf Hossain got the award for his poetic works and Shantanu Kaisar for his prose works on this occasion. The programme was jointly organised by Adda, Dhansiri of Barisal, Sahitya Saikat of Rajapur, Jhalakati and little magazine ‘Durba’

A series of fairs was launched throughout the country on Thursday to create awareness and encourage people to take up English language learning opportunities. The series of fairs titled ‘Ananday Shiki Engreji – English in Action Mela’ would take place in 37 upazilas of the country. English in Action Project

Preparations for the five-day celebration of Sharadiya Durgotsab, the main religious festival of the Bengali Hindus, are going on in full swing in the Barisal city and other parts of the region. However high price of raw materials used for making idols and rainy weather coupled with increase in other costs, may affect this year’s ... Read more

Government on Tuesday inaugurated the Nuclear Industry Information Centre at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Novotheatre in Dhaka to disseminate general knowledge about nuclear energy for the public domain. State Minister for Science and Technology Yefesh Osman, Director General of Russian State Corporation, ROSATOM , Sergey Kirienko jointly

Fellows to besiege LabAid today Several hundred students of Dhaka University on Tuesday observed hunger-strike protesting at alleged ‘wrong’ treatment of one of its students at Labaid Hospital in the capital. The students of political science department postponed their protest in the evening after vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique assured them of

A college girl allegedly committed suicide jumping from the fifth floor of Dhaka district sessions judge court building on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Rabeya Khatun, 22, student of Abujar Gifari College and resident of Malibag Hazipara in the capital. Kotowali police

Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (DWASA) on Tuesday signed a Euro 7.5 million deal with Vitens Evides International, a Netherlands-based organisation, for urban dredging demonstration, aiming to address the problems of urban flooding and water-logging in the capital. Dwasa managing director Engr Taqsem A Khan and regional director (Asia)

Running Cattle Market At Zero Point KCC, KMS, local admin at loggerheads Khulna City Corporation, Khulna District Muktijoddha Sangshad and Khulna district administration are at loggerheads over running a sacrificial cattle market at Zero Point of the city near Khulna–Satkhira Highway. The KCC chief executive officer, Tapon Kumar Ghose, issued an official letter to the ... Read more

The Chittagong airport customs officials recovered 14 gold bars, weighting 140 tolas from a flight from Dubai Tuesday morning. The airport assistant commissioner, Md Selim, said they recovered the gold as it was left abandoned under a passenger seat in BG-026 flight which took off from Qatar and landed at the airport via Dubai at ... Read more

angladesh needs to ensure fair wages and other rights to workers to safeguard the market access for its textile products to Europe in the coming days, European Union Ambassador to Bangladesh William Hanna told a national dialogue here on Monday, reports UNB. European citizens are closely watching

Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas on Monday said the country’s 53 percent of fish produced to meet domestic demand come from aquaculture, reports UNB. “Our fish production was around 27 lakh metric tonnes in fiscal 2008-09 and it increased to 32.62 metric tonnes in 2011-12. We’ve produced

Speakers at a book launching ceremony in the capital’s Bon Bhaban yesterday regretted that many local mango varieties are becoming extinct due to commercial farming while application of harmful chemicals has also become a common practice. The book “Jatiya Brikkho Aamgach”, written by

The Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) demolished another risky building in Lal Dighir Par area of the city yesterday. In a drive, a mobile court led by CCC Executive Magistrate Najia Shirin demolished the two-storied building  “JM Sen Avenue” as it was listed as a risky building by Chittagong Development Authority (CDA). On September 10, the ... Read more

National Girl Child Day was observed on Monday throughout the country aiming to end propaganda against women empowerment and development in the country. ‘Advancement of women is not a barrier to religious ethics and rituals, rather helpful,’ was the theme of National Girl Child Day 2013.

TIB roundtable on RTI act implementation told The Right to Information Act 2009, which allows mass people access to state-held information, is not properly implemented as government officials refuse to reveal information, speakers said at a roundtable in the capital yesterday. The discussion, “Creating Demand for RTI Act 2009 Implementation: Challenges and Solutions”, was organised ... Read more

A court here in Chittagong awarded capital punishment to a man for killing his wife over dowry. The court also fined him Taka one lakh in the same verdict. The man was identified as Rashedul Islam Chowdhury, 35. The Judge of Chittagong Woman and Child Repression Control Tribunal-3 Sharif Mostafa Karim handed down the verdict ... Read more

A woman jumped under a running train along with her daughter at Vodra crossing in Rajshahi city Monday midday. The deceased were Shamima Akter Kakoly, 25, wife of Monsur Ali, and their daughter Labony Akter, 2, of village Islamgasi under Atray upazila in Naogaon. The Rajshahi railway police officer-in-charge,