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Almost all (99.3 percent) the farmers use chemical pesticides for banana cultivation, according to a recent study. The study says that for hopper control in banana, 37 percent farmers use Carrate, 33 percent use Sythrin and 22 percent use Ostad while to control fly, 36 percent of the farmers use Sumithion. It reveals that about ... Read more

International Ozone Day Observed Call to create awareness on ozone depletion International Ozone Day was observed in the country yesterday with colourful programmes emphasising on creating awareness about depletion of the ozone layer and its adverse effects on this planet’s environment. This year’s theme of the day was ‘Ozone layer protection: governance and compliance at ... Read more

Padma Bridge ‘Bid on to start work early next year’ Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain yesterday said the government is making all out efforts to start the construction of Padma Bridge at the beginning of next year. Once this construction starts, initiatives would be taken to build another bridge at the

Gono Bishwabidyalay, in order to bridge the gap between education in village and town, is going to introduce four new subjects for its four-year bachelor degree courses from the coming session, said a press release on Tuesday. The new subjects are Bengali language, literature and culture, English, applied mathematics

A cross-country car rally among Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and China will be held next year with a view to establishing regional communication and strengthening mutual cooperation. The route of the car rally has already been finalised starting from Kunming of China via Dhaka and Sylhet of Bangladesh to be ended in Kolkata of

Income Tax Day Today Call to develop tax culture The National Income Tax Day will be observed in the country today with a call to develop tax culture. The slogan of the Day is “Commitment to charter for change, let us be partner of it.” On the eve of the day, President Zillur Rahman and ... Read more

An Army staff threw acid on two sisters and their mother on refusal of marriage proposal in Gaibandha on Monday night. The victims are Rehena Akhter, 22, a student of Dhaka Northern International Medical College, her sister Ruma Akhter, 14, and their mother Rezia Siddique, 40, of

Preparations have already been made to hold Eid-ul-Fitr jamaats in the capital and other districts across the country. The main Eid congregation will be held at the National Eidgah in the High Court premises at 8:30am on Eid day. Five jamaats will be held at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque, scheduled at 7:30am,

Eid Congregation Some to seek blessings, some to beg alms City dweller heading to the mosque or eidgah with family members early on the Eid day morning to attend the Eid congregation is a common scenario. Thousand of beggars go there too, but with a different purpose altogether. They gather in front of different mosques ... Read more

The results of assistant teacher and headmaster recruitment examinations for government primary schools were published yesterday. Directorate of Primary Education (DPE) published the results in its website at www.dpe.gov.bd. At least 30,712 examinees succeeded for the post of assistant teacher and 1,852

International Literacy Day will be observed in Bangladesh as elsewhere around the world today with the theme — Literacy and women’s empowerment. The day is being observed with girls still accounting for more than a half of the 6.75 crore out-of-school children in the world and with females accounting for two-thirds of the 79.6 crore

Dhaka University on Tuesday launched its online admission site as the authorities aims to digitalise its admission process. The admission seekers can download and submit their application forms from the site between September 27 and October 14, official sources

Bangladesh Environment Lawyers Association (Bela) yesterday served a legal notice on different ministries and government offices asking them to stop pollution of Dholaibil, Bilbaghil and Karnapara canals in Savar. Industries mostly dyeing, spinning and textile, and dairy farms situated by these three canals dump toxic wastes in the canals polluting their water, the legal notice ... Read more

The results of Masters final part examination of 14 subjects held in 2007 under the National University were published on Sunday. The departments are Bengali, English, sociology, statistics, marketing, geography, home economics, Arabic, Pali, Sanskrit, psychology, library and information science, soil science and

Eid-shopping in Rajshahi markets has picked up with people rushing to the shops, shopping centres, markets, business centres and makeshift shops on roads. A huge number of people of different ages from every walk of life are coming to the market to buy dresses, clothes and others products for celebrating Eid, sellers

Newspaper Owners Association of Bangladesh (NOAB) members will observe holiday on September 9, 10 and 11 on account of Eid-ul-Fitr. Therefore, no newspaper will be published on September 10, 11 and 12, said a press release here yesterday. If Eid is celebrated on September 11, holiday will be observed on September 12 as well, in

An anti-adulteration mobile court on Saturday fined five business houses and seized a huge quantity of papaya and destroyed 1,500 kilograms of dates at Shyambazar and Waizghat in the Dhaka city. The mobile court, led by executive magistrate Muhammad Al Amin, also awarded two months’ imprisonment to a fruit wholesaler Russell Enterprise’s manager Jahirul Islam. ... Read more

Bangladesh Army is going to replace its contingents at United Nations Mission in Sudan. A total of 315 members of two contingents BANEN-GINEER-10 (Demining) and BANEN-GINEER-11 (Construction) will be deployed in Sudan by two flights, said an ISPR release. In the first flight, a total of 165 army personnel including officers led by Lt Colonel ... Read more

The Shahjalal University of Science and Technology authorities are going to hold a reunion of former students of the university for the first time after two decades of its inception in 1991. The authorities have also formed an advisory body and the 1st reunion observation committee for carrying out the preparatory

This year the sales are much less than that of the previous year, claimed sellers of attar (fragrance), surma (kohl), caps and rosaries at the Baitul Mukarram Mosque Market and on the surrounding footpath on Friday. Although it seemed a busy day at the market with a good number of customers bargaining and buying with ... Read more