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National Cancer Institute on Sunday launched a 21-day long programme to treat breast cancer patients free of cost on the eve of the world breast cancer month. The institute has arranged free clinical tests and counseling on breast cancer. There will be facilities for diagnosis and treatment of cancer, said

Urges EU Terming death penalty “cruel and inhuman,” the European Union (EU) urged the countries to stop use of the capital punishment. “The European Union considers death penalty to be a cruel and inhuman punishment, which represents an unacceptable denial of human dignity and integrity,” says a press release of

Says survey About 200 households and 2.75 acres of private land will be affected due to construction of metro rail from Uttara to Sayedabad in the city, said a preliminary findings of a survey. Christian Commission for Development in Bangladesh (CCDB) revealed the finding at a shareholder meeting on Mass Rail Transit (MRT-Line-6 project) at ... Read more

A two-day seminar on ‘Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief’ to discussion the socio-economic impact of natural disasters on the countries of Indian Ocean region began in the city on Monday. State minister for environment and forest Hasan Mahmud inaugurated the moot organized by Indian Ocean Naval Symposium under the supervision of Bangladesh Navy at hotel ... Read more

Distinguished media personality, Shykh Seraj, was awarded Bangladesh Caterers Association (BCA) Golden Jubilee Awards for his contribution to rural agriculture and mass media. The UK-based association presented the award to Seraj, director and head of news of Channel i, at tha channel’s 50th anniversary at Park Plaza West Minister Hotel, London on

World Mental Health Day observed World Mental Health Day was observed on Sunday with the country having only 130 psychiatrists and 10 psychologists caring for some 13.7 lakh people suffering from different mental health problems. According to World Health Organisation Assessment Instrument for Mental Health System in Bangladesh, conducted in 2007, about 16 per cent ... Read more

Demand NGO activists Some NGO activists yesterday placed a six-point demand, including necessary measures to keep global temperatures stable, to face challenges posed by climate change. Global temperatures now are around 1.5 degree Celsius more than that of the pre-industrial period, they said. They placed the demands at a human chain programme organised by Youth ... Read more

Climate change responsibility Mock show exposes leaders of developed nations People at a mock show in the southern coastal city of Khulna on Sunday squarely blamed the leaders of the developed countries of ignoring their living conditions deteriorating by the day due to climate change. The demonstrators said that they were exposed to increased saline ... Read more

Speakers at a programme yesterday stressed the need for creating mass awareness and establishing rule of law to prevent stalking from the society. They also held the dominating attitudes of both male and female responsible for the spread of stalking in Bangladesh

Bangla Academy introduced a Student Ambassador Leadership Programme, aiming to create leadership among students in school and provide poor children with education facilities. Bangla Academy yesterday launched the programme at a press conference in the National Press Club in the city. The academy launched the similar programme in Australia on August

People protest pollution, misuse of the river Bangshi in Savar People from various organisations and localities joined a campaign yesterday in Savar to protest pollution and misuse of the river Bangshi, to save rivers and to reduce carbon emissions in the atmosphere. The programme was part of a global campaign to fight climate change, in ... Read more

A debate should be started to prohibit death penalty and the government could stop its execution before deciding on it, Professor F Bellivier, deputy secretary general of International Federation for Human Rights said yesterday. Poor and illiterate people mostly suffer from death penalty than the rich people as they

Maasranga Television, a concern of Square Group, started its test transmission yesterday morning. Syed Fahim Munaim, the chief executive officer (CEO) and chief editor of Maasranga, said they have a plan to go for a full-fledged transmission by the end of this year. They will give equal importance to both the news and entertainment programmes,

World Mental Health Day Today Frame law to ease sufferings of 1.4cr mentally ill people Rights activists urge govt World Mental Health Day will be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world with rights activists urging the government to enact a law immediately to ease the sufferings of the country’s over 1.4 ... Read more

Poor Waste Management Minister says Dhaka uninhabitable Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said Dhaka is now not a liveable city, as it has no effective waste management system. The minister said this while he was speaking at the launching of a book titled “Solid and hazardous waste management” at Bangladesh University of Engineering and ... Read more

Continuous rainfall under the influence of depression in the Bay has been disrupting life in the metropolitan cities of the country for the past tow days. Our Chittagong correspondent adds: Many parts of the city have gone under ankle to knee-deep water because of the rainfall in the last two

The government, for the first time, has included its representatives in the management of the private universities of the country to ensure monitoring over the universities. The University Grants Commission (UGC) finalised a list of 51 educationalists to function as syndicate members of 51 private universities, said UGC sources. It has been sent to the

Dozens of minority-community members in Dhaka on Friday said they have been facing discrimination and exploitation in workplaces and in society because of their place of birth and professional identities. People from the community at a human chain also urged the government to take initiatives to eliminate disparity between the community members and other people ... Read more

The registration for admission to Rajshahi University Engineering and Technology BSc honours courses under the academic session 2010-11 started on Friday and will continue till October 25 through mobile phone short message service. The admission test will be held on November 8 at 9:30am to 1:30pm, a RUET press

A Unesco delegation has wrapped up a two-day visit to Santinekatan in West Bengal state to assess whether Rabindranath Tagore’s abode of peace, which also hosts Visva Bharati University, could be listed as a world heritage site, officials said yesterday. Led by Kai Wisa, head of the International Council for Monuments and Sites (ICMOS),