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Staff correspondent Amar Ekushey book fair started gaining momentum on its 5th day on Thursday with a large number of book lovers visiting the fair at the Bangla Academy. Around 100 new books hit the fair on the day which witnessed long

Shamim Jahangir Nearly 100-year old palm tree of rare species still stands at the centenarian Baldha Garden weathering many onslaughts since the British rule is now on way to its slow death. The 107-feet in height palm tree flowered for the first time only last month and bore fruits. The caretaker, who is also forest ... Read more

Zoom Laptop Fair kicks off Country has a lot to achieve in ICT: Faruk Khan Staff Correspondent To create awareness among selective groups of target customers like corporate personnel, business people, university students and to provide different brands of laptop to potential buyers under one shed, a three day “Zoom Laptop Fair” began at Ban-gladesh-China ... Read more

EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR Few buyers, more browsers Staff correspondent Sales of books are yet to get momentum at Amar Ekushey Granthamela 2009, with a few visitors buying books and a good number merely browsing through the titles before they decide which one to buy later on in the month-long

Shahnaz Parveen Kafé Mukti, a coffee shop of freedom was opened recently for the victims of human trafficking in the country to help them become self-reliant in life by providing them with jobs. Four cafes managed by women victims of human trafficking were launched by International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Dhaka as a pilot ... Read more

Mismanagement disappoints visitors Staff correspondent The Ekushey book fair on the second day on Monday had a few visitors till evening and the environment remained dusty as it was on the opening day. Titles by Humayun Ahmed and Muhammad Zafar Iqbal topped the sales of the day which witnessed arrival of 110

‘Shantir Swapney: Samayer Smriticharan’ Gen Moeen explains how martial law was averted Staff Correspondent It sounded like a veiled threat to Army Chief General Moeen U Ahmed when envoys of some powerful countries told him, prior to 1/11 changeover, that they would request the UN to withdraw Bangladeshi peacekeepers if the army cooperates in holding ... Read more

Our Correspondent . Rajshahi Participants in a seminar on Monday stressed the need for utilising huge quantity of household wastes produced in the Rajshahi city everyday. Household wastes can be turned in assets such as gas and fertiliser by properly utilising them, they told the seminar held at Nagar Bhaban in the city. The Rajshahi ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Mobile operator Citycell and a number of computer manufacturers will begin a three-day long Zoom Laptop Fair on Wednesday at the Bangladesh-China Friendship Conference Centre, organisers said on Monday. Customers at the fair will get special offers of Zoom at the Citycell pavilion by showing the proof of purchase of any laptop from ... Read more

Taib Ahmed Although Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha had designed the Detailed Area Plan for the Dhaka city, the planning standard was not accurate, according to the review committee formed to revise the DAP. The 12-member review committee, which is entitled to rectify the DAP, held two meetings in this regard and found that the draft DAP ... Read more

City Correspondent His fingers lingered on the computer keyboard like an elementary student getting his first lessons on a computer. Too bad, he is no elementary student. And too bad for the sixteen odd people queued before him to deposit the charges for driving licences and other car related documents at the Sub Post Office ... Read more

High salinity found in WASA water Tushar Hayat . Chittagong The people in the Chittagong city have been facing acute crisis of drinking water for the last two weeks as they cannot use WASA-supplied water because of high salinity. The water supplied by the Water Supply and Sewerage Authority, Chittagong contains high salinity and it ... Read more

Zaman Monir . Sylhet Poor infrastructure and acute shortage of manpower is hampering healthcare service at Sylhet Chest Diseases Hospital. The hospital authorities cannot provide proper treatment for the patients due to severe staff crisis coupled with poor infrastructure, according to hospital sources. Out of the total 58 posts of medical officers, nurses and other ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Most passengers’ sheds in the capital have been occupied by a section of hawkers, drug traders, shopkeepers, floating people and counter men of bus services in the absence of steps by the authorities concerned to evict them. As a result, passengers and pedestrians have to suffer a lot mainly during the rainy and ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The Rapid Action Battalion arrested two suspected drug traders at a flat in the city’s Shyamoli area early Tuesday and seized 2,250 Yaba tablets from their possession. The battalion said that a RAB-3 team raided the flat on Shyamoli Ring Road upon information about trading of the contraband drugs at about 1:30am and ... Read more

“It is not a life” Staff Correspondent The rootless people now living in city’s at least 4200 slums have been passing days without food, pure drinking water, sanitation and treatment. “We don’t have any land in our village. We want to do work. We have lost everything due to various natural disasters like flood, storm ... Read more

Noise Pollution Hydraulic horns of 13 vehicles seized Staff Correspondent Department of Environment (DOE) yesterday filed cases against 24 vehicles in the city and realised Tk 19,000 in fines for violating sound pollution rules. The DOE team also seized hydraulic horns of 13

Bss, Chittagong Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Muhammad Faruk Khan yesterday assured the entrepreneurs in Readymade Garment (RMG) sector of all necessary policy support so that Bangladesh could secure the top position among the

Dilshad Hossain Various cultural organisations occupied the rooms at the Teachers-Students Centre of Dhaka University soon after the landslide victory of the Awami League in the December 29 national polls. The cultural platforms that are affiliated to the victorious parties took control of the TSC rooms after the political change-over, saying these rooms had earlier ... Read more

Rajuk Misses Deadline Uttara third phase plots to be allotted in June Helemul Alam The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) will start distributing the plots under Uttara Model Town third phase from June this year, instead of this month, as 20 percent work of land filling is still incomplete. Missing its previous deadline, the Rajuk tried ... Read more