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Free Cfls Distribution Over 1cr energy saving lamps given The first phase of the free distribution of energy efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) under ‘Efficient Lighting Initiative for Bangladesh’ programme has been completed in which more than 1 crore CFLs have been delivered to households. The government of Bangladesh with World Bank assistance initiated the ... Read more

A young man was killed and a rickshaw van peddler injured in a road accident in front of district Jail Bilding at Fatulla in Sadar upazila on Thursday night. The dead was identified as Jahirul Islam, 29, son of Abdul Latif of Dalipara village of Panchaboti. Police said the accident took place around 11:30pm when ... Read more

5,214 candidates to compete for 665 seats The first year admission tests for bachelor’s degree courses in the 2010-11 session under three faculties at Khulna University of Engineering and Technology are going to be held on November 6. A total of 5,214 candidates are expected to compete for 665 seats in the tests. The tests ... Read more

USAID Smiling Sun Franchise Program (SSFP) signed an agreement with Space Race Bangladesh Limited to provide access to infotainment and newsfeed options to the customers visiting the Smiling Sun clinics. The signing ceremony was held at SSFP headquarters on October 31. Shahzreh Huq, chairperson of Space Race and Juan Carlos Negrette, chief of party of ... Read more

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL) is planning to kick off National Internet Exchange (NIX), the country’s first ever state-run initiative, on December 31. NIX, a non-profit venture is currently being set up at the Moghbazar telephone exchange officials of BTCL announced yesterday, at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on

At least nine people were killed and 25 others injured in separate road accidents in Cox’s Bazar, Mymensingh, Gaibandha, Benapole, Satkhira and Lamonirhat districts yesterday. A correspondent from Cox’s Bazar reports: At least three people including two minor girls were killed and nine others injured in a road accident in Khodaibari area under Sadar upazila ... Read more

Speakers at a human chain in Rajshahi University on Wednesday called for launching a mass movement and forging social resistance against harassment of girls and women to free society from the social crime. They stressed the need for bringing back the morally deviated boys and other young men to normal life through proper counselling and ... Read more

Academics and students on Tuesday stressed the need for inclusion of topic related to traffic laws in the school curriculum to make people aware of the issue from the very childhood. They also called upon the government to take immediate steps to implement traffic laws strictly and take punitive measures against the law

Speakers at a public gathering on Tuesday stressed the need for immediate recovery of four canals in the city from grabbers to save the environment of the capital. They also condemned lawmaker Aslamul Haque’s interference in the drive of a task force to recover a canal and criticised the government for its failure to implement ... Read more

Turkish President Abdullah Gül said direct flights between Dhaka and Istanbul will begin in December, hoping that the connectivity would definitely enhance trade and investment between Bangladesh and his country. Gül told this to the newly appointed Bangladesh Ambassador to Turkey Md Zulfiqur Rahman on Monday. Rahman met the Turkish president to present his

The Barisal Metropolitan Police is reeling under manpower, accommodation and transport crisis even four years after its inception in 2006. With a jurisdiction area of 182 square kilometres, the BMP started functioning with only old Barisal kotwali police station with three

Korea International Cooperation Agency (Koica) held a workshop at Lake Shore Hotel in the city on Thursday to upgrade Korea Overseas Volunteers Programme in Bangladesh. At the workshop, participants spent half the day finding better ways to boost this programme in Bangladesh. A number of dignitaries and representatives from the programme’s host organisations along

A student of a private university allegedly committed suicide by hanging with a scarf from the ceiling fan at Maddhya Pirerbagh in city’s Mirpur yesterday. The dead Mahjabeen Munni, 20, was a first year student of Presidency University. Officer-in-Charge Kazi Wajed Ali of Mirpur Police Station said Munni’s mother went to the room

King of Sweden Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus said his country is ready to support Bangladesh in its battle against climate change. The King told the newly appointed Bangladesh Ambassador to Sweden AFM Gousal Azam Sarker who called on His Majesty to present his credentials on 27 October, says a foreign ministry

Early diagnosis can cut congenital birth defects for which 4.40 lakh children die each year in the low and middle-income generating countries, including Bangladesh, said speakers at a seminar yesterday. Dr Fawzia Hossain, Bangladesh Representative of Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (RCOG), said the main causes of congenital birth defect are genetic, radiation, environmental

Admission tests for first year honours courses of 2010-11 session at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) will be held on November 6. Examinations of ‘ka’ (Faculties of social science & business studies) unit will be held at 10:00 am and `kha’ (science) unit at 3:00 pm on the

At least seven people were killed and 36 injured in separate road accidents in Dinajpur, Netrakona, Benapole and Sylhet on Saturday and yesterday. Our correspondent from Dinajpur reports: At least three people, including two children, were killed in separate road accident in the district

Some Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men from Dhaka University (DU) Jagannath Hall vandalised two idols and shops at Ramna Kali Mandir in the city early yesterday over taking control of the shops. Police arrested three BCL activists in this connection. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shahbagh Police Station Rezaul Karim said some 70 to

Overhead Cables to Underground ISPs, cable operators get one month The deadline given to internet service providers (ISP) and cable operators to reroute their overhead cables to underground has been extended by one month. Power ministry officials, at a meeting yesterday, took the decision to give the service mongers time until November 31 for removing ... Read more

Archaeologists urge govt Archaeologists at a roundtable yesterday said Lalbagh Fort is under threat of encroachers and urged the government to protect the heritage site. The speakers portrayed a grim picture of the famous Mughal-era palace cum fortress. They said encroachers demolished the surviving walls on the west side, and many multi-storied