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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

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