Metropolitan

Ordinary tap and tube well water filled in bottles with labels of different mineral water brands are being sold at the Barisal launch, steamer and bus terminals, New Age can reveal. Criminal gangs are employing street children to bottle ordinary tap and tube well water in used mineral water bottles and selling them to the ... Read more

Green activists on Saturday demanded immediate cancellation of the Demra housing project, which grabbed ‘chhota dighi’, the only clean water source for the local people. They also urged the government to implement the Detailed Area Plan immediately at a press briefing, jointly organised by Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan and inhabitants

Twin test tube babies (one male and another female) from the first successful frozen embryo transfer technique were born yesterday to a childless couple at Apollo Hospital Dhaka. The babies were born under guidance and care of Dr Mrinal Kumar Sarker, obstetrician/gynaecologist and infertility specialist, says a

Experts tell seminar Smoking related diseases account for death almost five times more than people killed in road accidents every year, said speakers at a seminar yesterday. Urging to stop smoking at public places, they said 12,000 people, on an average, die in road accidents while 57,000 people die due to diseases

Save the Environment Movement yesterday called upon the government to take immediate steps to protect and preserve the Lalbagh Kella (fort) in old Dhaka as per the High Court order. The demand came at a human chain programme titled “Evict the illegal grabbers of the historic Lalbagh Kella.” Save the Environment Movement and Bangladesh Scouts ... Read more

Dozens of families of the victims in traffic accidents, government officials, social organisations and university teachers in a rally on Friday said that lack of proper enforcement of the existing law was a major cause for reckless driving that took a heavy toll on human lives every year. Families United Against Road Accidents, a platform ... Read more

Green activists yesterday demanded that the dam construction on the Brahmaputra River by China be stopped saying such a project would adversely impact on environment and agriculture in downstream Bangladesh and India. China has started building a dam on the river to set up Zangmu Hydropower Station in Tibet,

The railway passengers in Rajshahi have been suffering as the intercity trains on the Rajshahi-Dhaka route are failing their schedules every day from two days before Eid-ul-Azha. The passengers alleged that the three intercity trains on the route — Silk City Express, Padma Express and Dhumketu Express — are being late five to six hours ... Read more

Photo Exhibition on Everest Mission Musa wants to plant 16cr saplings to fight climate change “When the Bangladesh national flag was flying high on Everest on May 23, 2010 at 5:16am, for the first time, I instantly wanted to jump back to Bangladesh and say look we have done it,” said Musa Ibrahim, the first ... Read more

Relatives ransacked a private clinic in the Rajshahi city Friday evening after a female gave birth to a stillborn baby allegedly because of the negligence of on-duty staff of the clinic. Sources said Akhi Khatun, resident of the city’s

The second Suchitra Sen Film Festival, in memory of Suchitra Sen, the screen legend of Bangla films, began in Pabna yesterday. Film director Amzad Hossain inaugurated the 8-day festival, organised by Suchitra Sen Smrity Sangrakhan Parishad, on the town hall premises of Pabna, the hometown of the actress, around

Says Ilias Kanchan No killer driver has ever been brought to justice in nearly two decades with every successive government taking benefit of massive extortion from the transport sector, said a pioneer campaigner for road safety. “I have not seen a single killer driver being punished in seventeen years,” said Ilias Kanchan, a popular film star, ... Read more

The Khulna Metropolitan Police is going to introduce online general diary service, first of such kind outside the Dhaka city, soon. Officials in KMP, however, said the service may be delayed due to some technical problems. The KMP deputy commissioner (South), Md Zulfikar Ali Haidar, said that online

Unidentified gunmen shot a rickshaw-van garage owner in the city’s Muradpur area around 2:00pm.yesterday. The victim was identified as Mohammad Titu, 45, admitted to a private clinic at Maghbazar in critical condition as the criminals shot him pointing pistol at his

The government must take effective measures to improve the country’s river transport system and ensure passengers’ safety, speakers at a discussion have demanded. Waterway transport is the cheapest and most viable means for carrying passengers and goods, but its condition is worsening by the day due to the

The issues of gender sensitivity and human values will have to be incorporated in the textbook curriculum so that children can learn to respect women and give them due dignity, speakers at a roundtable said yesterday. Bringing changes in the curriculum is not enough, mindset of teachers who are the main component to build the nation ... Read more

YouNG green activists demand coherent steps to fight global climate change and successful discussion at World Climate Summit in Cancun in Mexico. They placed their demands at a discussion organised by Youth in Action on Climate, a forum of 10 youth organisations working with climate

Government asked to keep election pledge regarding women rights Speakers at a rally in the Rajshahi city said brutal violence towards women escalates in Bangladesh in absence of cohesive community response against sexual harassment of women. They also criticised the government for its failure in ensuring safe and suitable workplace, educational institution and homestead for ... Read more

Chittagong City Corporation Mayor M Manjur Alam yesterday said they are planning to start double shift system for rickshaws in the port city in a bid to reduce traffic jam. He said this while speaking he was speaking at a view exchange meeting with the related sectors of the city’s traffic system at K B ... Read more

Dhaka University (DU) Kha unit admission viva, scheduled for tomorrow, has been postponed due to unavoidable circumstances, says a press release. DU Vice-Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique told The Daily Star that new dates for the subject