Metropolitan

Minister for civil aviation and tourism GM Qader Sunday said the government was preparing two separate master plans for Cox’s Bazar and Kuakata to develop the places as highly attractive tourist spots with global standard, reports BSS. The minister presided over a inter-ministerial meeting to review the progress of preparing master plans for the two ... Read more

Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will introduce school buses for educational institutions to facilitate the authorities and students with the special service for avoiding hazards of using other transports and help lessen the city’s traffic congestion, reports The Financial Express Officials said authorities of some schools and colleges have already signed agreements with the BRTC ... Read more

Getting rid of the city’s huge garbage is no easy task, but its recycling can help keep it at minimum level apart from turning it into organic fertilizer, according to an expert, reports UNB. “About 5000 tons of domestic refuses are dumped everyday in Dhaka city and its suburban areas,” said Dr Mohammed Ataur Rahman, ... Read more

Speakers tell discussion Speakers at a discussion yesterday said Bangladesh is one of the few countries in the world to have devised a climate change adaptation and mitigation plan. The cabinet-approved Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2009 is a proof that the country is prepared to face the challenges of climate change, they ... Read more

Bangladeshi is coming under a telecommunication transmission network soon with a view to strengthening communications to cope with the challenges of the 21st century. Fiber@Home Ltd, the first firm to have license of Nationwide Telecommunication Transmission Network from Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission, has been working on the network. The firm already brought Dhaka, Khulna, Rajshahi, ... Read more

Hotel owners and employees staged a demonstration in Rajshahi city on Saturday in protest at ‘harassment’ of the hoteliers during the mobile court drive. Several hundred hotel owners and employees from different parts of Rajshahi division brought out a protest procession from Saheb Bazar at 1:00pm. They paraded the main streets in the city and ... Read more

A festive mood was abuzz in the air of Narayangonj since early morning on Friday. Two days after the victory day celebrations, thousands of garment workers thronged at the Osmani Stadium to celebrate the second garment workers festival. The daylong cultural programmes provided the workers with an apt opportunity to seek relief from the unimaginable ... Read more

Seventeen months after mysterious disappearance of two young girls of Kishoreganj town, two persons have confessed, before a senior judicial magistrate, to killing them following rape Maniruzzaman Halud Mia, 28, a suspended police constable of Kishoreganj Police Lines, and Shamim Houladar Jahir, 35, a cleaner of an electronics company in Chittagong, strangulated after raping Urmi, ... Read more

One hundred and forty-three people have been diagnosed to be suffering from AIDS and 39 persons died of the disease in Bangladesh this year, according to an official statistics released on the occasion of World AIDS Day, which fell on December 1. ‘We are intensifying surveillance and the campaign against HIV/AIDS as the prevalence of ... Read more

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday released a report which said most of the world’s 83 million chronically undernourished children under five are in South Asia. The report said 24 countries bear 80 percent of the global burden of under nutrition and the top five are- Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan, India and Nepal, Unicef ... Read more

3rd Phase Lottery 283 get plots at Uttara, Purbachal Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday announced the names of 283 plot winners of the third phase lotteries for Purbachal New Town Project and Uttara Model Town Project. Of the total, the names of 55 winners were picked in one category – journalist — for Purbachal project ... Read more

From The New Nation Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, while celebrating 400 years of capital Dhaka, organised a day-long programme on the city’s traditional cuisine on Saturday. The programme included academic workshop in the morning and a food exhibition in the afternoon. In the workshop, experts presented 18 papers on various aspects of traditional Dhakaia cuisine, ... Read more

From The Daily Star Dhaka University (DU) Vice Chancellor Prof AAMS Arefin Siddique yesterday said university authorities have no lack of interest in holding the election to Dhaka University Students’ Union (Ducsu). However, there is a pressure to maintain a congenial atmosphere on the campus. It should be ensured that academic activities are not hampered ... Read more

From NewAgebd Seventy-seven per cent of women living in different slums of the capital give birth to their babies at home while 23 per cent mothers deliver their babies with help of untrained midwives. Though most of the slum mothers deliver their babies at home, 73 per cent are aware of the proper place for ... Read more

A Dhaka court framed charges against six physicians of negligence in treatment that allegedly led to the death of popular film actor Manna on February 17 last year. Earlier, the doctors, who work at United Hospital Limited, submitted petitions for dismissal of the case. Judge Firoz Alam of the Special Judge’s Court-1 said the case ... Read more

Applicants for Purbachal plots in three categories — government service holders, autonomous body officials and Armed Forces members — will get more than a half of the 6,000 plots, Rajuk officials said. After city planning authority Radhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on November 25, 2008 invited applications, 1.57 lakh people applied for a total of 6,800 plots ... Read more

The results of the 29th Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) preliminary test were published yesterday. Some 13, 536 candidates of the preliminary test have been provisionally selected for written test. The successful candidates are requested to collect forms from the Public Service Commission office from November 1 to 19 from

The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) announced the names of 1,173 plot winners in three categories for Purbachal New Town Project yesterday. The three categories are private service holder, businessman and lawyer. Private service holders got 10 percent of the total allocation, businessmen eight percent and the lawyers two percent. Rajuk officials said over 40,000 qualified ... Read more

The government with support from the World Bank Monday launched a Tk 487 crore mega project to improve the air quality of the densely populated Dhaka city. The five-year project, the Clean Air and Sustainable Environment, will be implemented by the Department of Environment, Dhaka City Corporation and Dhaka Transport Coordination Board. This is the ... Read more