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Ninety-five new titles hit the Amar Ekushey Book Fair on the Bangla Academy premises in the city yesterday. With yesterday’s new titles, 791 new books hit the month-long annual fair in the first seven days as against 606 in the first one week of the fair last year, academy sources said. Twenty-nine collections of poems, ... Read more

Experts at the Department of Environment have classified three rivers in the capital as “biologically dead.” Laboratory tests have proven that the water in most parts of the Buriganga, Turag and Balu rivers contains no dissolved oxygen and is therefore totally devoid of aquatic life. A senior DoE scientific official said, “According to official standards, ... Read more

Says US Under Secretary Judith A Mchale Visiting US under secretary of State Judith A McHale on Sunday assured Bangladesh of providing more assistance from her country. He also praised the programmes of the present government for overall development of the people as well as the country. Judith gave the assurance and appreciated the works ... Read more

Experts at a seminar yesterday termed chronic kidney disease as a major public health concern in the country as its 90 percent people are unable to bear treatment cost. About two crore people are somehow suffering from the disease, while 40,000 die of longtime kidney failure a year in the country, they

RU students agitate Students of oriental arts at Rajshahi University (RU) yesterday laid a siege to the administrative building demanding recruitment of teachers for the subject. Scores under 2003-04, 2004-05, 2005-06, 2006-07, 2007-08 and 2008-09 academic sessions also blocked the building’s main gate for an

The Dhaka City Corpo-ration (DCC) polls will be held in May if the writ petition filed with the High Court (HC) seeking demarcation of the DCC wards based on the latest census is settled within the time, the Chief Election Commi-ssioner (CEC) said, reports The Financial Express. CEC ATM Shamsul Huda disclosed the plan while ... Read more

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday said that computerization of the government activities is very much needed to establish good governance and also to curb corruption in the country. He noted that to fulfill the dream of Digital Bangladesh, digitization process should be ensured in every sphere of life, which would lead to the establishment ... Read more

The High Court on Tuesday asked the government to give jobs within three months to the 652 civil service candidates who passed the 27th BCS examinations in 2005 but were later disqualified. The High Court bench of Justice Miftahuddin Chowdhury and Justice Abu Bakar Siddiqui gave the order after pronouncing judgment on four petitions filed ... Read more

Says Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman The two-day ‘Citizens’ Rights Fair’ kicked off on Friday at Shilpakala Academy in the city organized by an alliance of 57 grassroots development organisations working across the country. Former chief adviser to a caretaker government Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman inaugurated the fair. There is no alternative other than building a ... Read more

DHAKAMIRROR.COM Three-day ZOOM Laptop Fair- 2010 will be held tomorrow at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre, organized by Maker Communication. Mobile phone operator Citycell is the title sponsor of the fair while, Acer, Asus, HP and Lenevo are the co-sponsors.  Bdjobs.com is the online partner, radio ABC is the radio partner and bdnews24.com is the news

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