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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

Substandard food-supplementary items of unknown companies are being sold in different pharmacies in Sylhet city in the absence of proper monitoring by the Drug Administration and the Bangladesh Standard and Testing Institution. According to sources at different medicine markets in the city, the physicians suggest their patients, irrespective of their ages, to take food-supplementary items ... Read more

Political instability and worsening law and order situation are linked to the violations of human rights in the country and the worst victims of HR violations are women, said Sultana Kamal, a former adviser to the caretaker government, at a seminar yesterday. Though a democratic government is now in power, political stability and law and ... Read more

The Liverpool Hope University of England will provide scholarships for Bangladeshi students in its January session as part of its efforts to encourage insolvent students to study in the UK. “The scholarships will be offered both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels with a view to encouraging insolvent Bangladeshi students with good academic results to study ... Read more

US Diversified Visa HSC minimum educational qualification An applicant of US Diversified Visa (DV) must have a minimum education qualification of HSC or a two-year technical board certificate and work experience to qualify for the DV visa lottery. “We strongly encourage prospective applicants to evaluate their educational and occupational qualifications before entering the lottery,” Sandra ... Read more

Bangabandhu Murder Case CJ to constitute bench for hearing today Chief Justice MM Ruhul Amin is likely to constitute a bench of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court (SC) today for the hearing on the appeals in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman murder case. The hearing is scheduled to take place tomorrow. Five convicts in ... Read more

Launches drive on Oct 11 to ease traffic jam Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha will launch a drive soon to remove illegal structures from the parking spaces at 198 buildings aiming to ease traffic congestion in the city. ‘We will launch the drive on October 11 as the owners of those buildings occupy the roads for car ... Read more

Discussants at an opinion sharing meeting with the journalists here recently called for stern action against those found to be guilty in any sort of fertiliser adulteration, possession and marketing to protect the soil health from degradation. Jano Udyog, a cluster of some non-government development organisations, arranged the meeting styled ‘Excessive of Indian fertiliser and ... Read more

Suggest Japanese experts Bangladesh can introduce light-emitting diode (LED) technology to increase its efficiency of power consumption. This was suggested by Japanese energy experts, who are involved in producing LED light bulbs, at a seminar in the city yesterday. The seminar titled ‘Environment and Electricity’ was organised by Youth Eco Forum at Bangabandhu International Conference ... Read more

Corruption has been alleged in the conservancy department of the Khulna City Corporation over dumping of household wastes by three contracting firms. Three firms — Shikdar Traders, SM Monirul Islam and Mutual Enterprise — were given the responsibility to collect household wastes from three of the total 31 wards and dump them at Rajband, corporation ... Read more

A female giraffe died at Dhaka Zoo yesterday morning, raising the death toll of large wild animals at the zoo to five since August 25. Earlier, a leopard died on August 25 while a giraffe on September 7, a tiger, ‘Ringo’, on

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha will invite applications in January 2010 for some 1,000 residential plots under the Jhilmil housing project at Keraniganj on the outskirts of Dhaka. ‘We will invite applications in January 2010 from people intending to buy plots at the project site,’ Rajuk chairman Nurul Huda told New Age. Rajuk in 1997 undertook the ... Read more

Lottery held for four categories The Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday announced the names of 1,077 plot winners in four categories for the Purbachal New Town Project. Among the winners, Rajuk allotted plots through a lottery in three categories — freedom fighters, artistes/cultural personalities/sportspersons, and Bangladeshi expatriates — while 14 plots were allotted to judges ... Read more

The lottery for the allocation of residential plots in Purbachal satellite town of the Rajdhani Unnayan Katripakkha (RAJUK) will be held at Osmani Memorial auditorium at 11am today. ” The first phase of lottery will be held for those belonging to the category of freedom fighters, artists and expatriate Bangladeshis,” state minister for

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha is planning to construct some 22,000 flats in Uttara under the Uttara Model Town (third phase) project with an aim to meet the growing need for housing in the capital. The flats to be constructed on 214 acres out of some 2,100 acres of the Uttara third phase project will be distributed ... Read more

Almost 50 per cent of the country’s population now live on less than $1.25 a day, a yardstick of measuring extreme poverty level in global standard, reveals the latest release of Asian Development Bank. Bangladesh has been placed in a position just above Nepal among 20 economies of the Asia-Pacific region where over 10 per ... Read more

A section of unscrupulous businessmen are reportedly producing and marketing different sorts of adulterated and substandard food in Chittagong ahead of Ramadan, posing serious health hazards to consumers. Sources in city’s business hub Chaktai-Khatunganj said such businesspeople started producing a huge quantity of vermicelli, noodles, ghee, juice and different sorts of spices using substandard ingredients ... Read more

Water bill worth about Tk 4 crore from different public and private organisations and individuals remains unpaid to the Khulna Water Supply and Sewerage Authority. Official sources said despite servicing notices earlier, the KWASA could not collect the outstanding water bills from a number of organisations and individuals. Different public and private establishments, educational institutions ... Read more

Snakebite has become a public health problem in rural areas of the country, as estimated 6,041 individuals die from snakebites every year, revealed a study yesterday. The study conduct by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) and Snakebite Study Group also said annual incidence of snakebites in rural Bangladesh is 623.4 per 100,000 people. But ... Read more