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The government is working on developing a mass transport system with specialised rapid bus service facility stretching from Gazipur to Sadarghat. Asian Development Bank (ADB) and World Bank will finance the project, officials said yesterday. The disclosure came at a workshop organised by Roads and Highways Department (RHD) at

The Bangladesh Red Crescent Society, as part of its earthquake preparedness campaign, will provide training on first aid to students of 55 schools and eight colleges in Dhaka, Chittagong, Sylhet and Rangpur in the next six months. First aid boxes, awareness leaflets and banners with Dos and Don’ts would also be

The state-run financial institution, Infrastructure Develop-ment Company Limited, holds a two-month campaign programme that includes a series of workshops, discussions and exchange of views to increase the use of bio-gas in Bangladesh. As a part of the programme, a workshop on ‘sensitisation to increase the use of bio-gas as

An employee of a renowned boutique was allegedly beaten to death by his employer at an apartment in city’s Dhanmondi Sunday night. Dhanmondi Police broke into the house yesterday afternoon and recovered the body. Haider Ali Shaad owner of Valinda allegedly flogged Nurun Nabi, 28, to death and fled

A child drowned, a college girl and a youth went missing, and five others were injured after a launch rammed a boat in the Buriganga river near Sutrapur area last evening. The deceased was Fardia Akter, 7, daughter of Mohammad Firoz of Kaliganj in South Keraniganj while her relative and college student Shoma Akter, 18, ... Read more

A mobile court yesterday fined two companies in the city Tk 40,000 for selling bottled drinking water without licence from the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI). The team fined AR Enterprise at Arambagh Tk 10,000 and Safe Water Co at Uttar Shahjahanpur Tk 30,000, says a BSTI

At least five people were killed and 10 others injured in separate road accidents in Bogra, Khulna and Barisal yesterday and on Sunday night. UNB from Bogra reports: Three people were killed and 10 others injured as a truck rammed into a bus on Bogra-Santahar road at Murail in Kahalu upazila on

Breast Cancer Khulna patients to get telemedicine from Oct 2 A breast cancer service centre in Khulna will provide telemedicine to the breast cancer patients in the city through videoconference from October 2. Under the Amader Gram Breast Care e-Health Programme, patients will be able to get access to health care from expert oncologists from ... Read more

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) launched its month-long eviction drive in the city yesterday and demolished some makeshift shops and sheds of small businesses while ignoring the concrete structures on the way. RCC’s Executive Magistrate M Sadekul Islam led the drive, with help from Boalia Police Station

Japanese broadcaster NHK is soon to broadcast its bangla programmes through the various zonal centres of Bangladesh Betar in the country. A contract was signed between NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) and Bangladesh Betar on the matter, and its announcement was made through

Wedding bells are all set to ring for young Indian politician Varun Gandhi who is set to tie the knot with a Bengali girl Yamini. Varun’s mother and BJP lawmaker, Maneka Gandhi, said on Sunday the 30-year-old leader, also of BJP, will get married this

World Heart Day JBFH provides 100th ECP therapy The Japan Bangladesh Friendship Hospital of Dhanmondi in the capital gave the 100th external counter pulsation therapy to a heart patient on Sunday, marking the 1st anniversary of the introduction of the therapy in the country. The information was disclosed by the ECP heart therapy specialist Dr ... Read more

As many as 54 local and international airlines owe Tk 316.78 crore to the Civil Aviation Authorities of Bangladesh (CAAB) for using Shahjalal International Airport in Dhaka. During question time yesterday, Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister GM Quader placed in parliament a list of names of the airlines that did not pay the arrear to

Dhaka University (DU) today will launch its first-ever online application process for the participants of the upcoming admission tests for 2010-11 session. Admission seekers for the various departments can get application forms for the tests from the website addressed www.admission.univdhaka.edu starting from

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha is foot-dragging on inviting applications for allotting approximately 1,200 plots at its Jhilmil residential project in Keraniganj, about five kilometres from the city’s zero point. It already shifted its tentative and unannounced schedule thrice since January for inviting the applications with pressure mounting on residential facilities for the city’s growing

Adivasi Forum urges govt Bangladesh Adivasi Forum yesterday reiterated its demand for constitutional recognition of the ethnicity, language and culture of the country’s indigenous people. They also demanded constitutional recognition of the indigenous people of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) for their political, economic, social, cultural and religious

Pathological tests in all four branches of LabAid Diagnostic Centre halted for almost nine hours yesterday as the medical technologists went on work abstention over assault on one of their fellows. The technologists, who perform diagnostic analyses, started the agitation in front of the Dhanmondi branch at 8:00am, leaving a number of patients waiting in ... Read more

Speakers at a meeting yesterday urged the people to vote for the Sundarbans to keep it in the list of the seven natural wonder’s list to boost the country’s tourism. They said all should contribute to inclusion of the Sundarbans in the new list of seven natural wonders. They were speaking at a discussion to ... Read more

WFTO Conference Begins ‘Strengthen fair trade for marginal producers’ A three-day biannual conference of World Fair Trade Organisation (WFTO) of Asia region kicked off yesterday with a call to strengthen fair trade to create opportunities for small and marginal producers and artisans. Fair trade is an alternative trading approach that seeks greater equity in international ... Read more

Meena Day observed Teachers for corporal punishment to be punished: minister The primary and mass education minister, Afsarul Amin, on Friday said cases would be filed against any teacher who would be found to exercise corporal punishment in classrooms. ‘Ensuring attendances in school is not enough; they will have to be properly educated where