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Human rights activists formed a human chain in Sylhet on Sunday afternoon, demanding immediate steps to end violence against the ethnic minority groups in the country. Human Rights Congress for Bangladesh Minority Sylhet unit formed the human chain in front of the city’s Central Shaheed Minar in Chowhatta area.

The overseas employment of female workers has significantly increased although Bangladesh witnessed a negative growth of remittance inflow and drastic fall of labour migration in 2013, according to Bureau of Manpower, Employment and Training. Bangladeshi female workers, mostly housemaids and garment workers, were being employed in Jordan, Lebanon,

Solid municipal wastes left uncollected here and there in the city almost throughout the day increased public health and environmental hazards. The city’s taxpayers blamed growing indifference and inefficiency of the two city corporations for the problem. Municipal waste on streets and open dumpsites has been a perennial source of

The first spell of cold wave is sweeping over the south-western part of the country including Khulna and neighbouring districts, halted the normal activities of the people. Md Amirul Azad, Officer-in-charge of Khulna Met Office said over cell phone that they recorded the lowest temperature at 13.0 degrees Celsius yesterday while it was recorded 12.0 ... Read more

Child rights activists in a seminar in Dhaka on Monday demanded inclusion of domestic works on the list of hazardous works for children. Bangladesh Shishu Adhikar Forum organised the programme titled ‘rights of child domestic workers at risk: possible way forward’ at Bangladesh Institute of Administration and Management Foundation auditorium. They that

At least 50 lakh dwellers of the Chittagong city have been facing an acute crisis of drinking water because of extreme salinity in the water supplied by Chittagong Water Supply and Sewerage Authority over the last 20 days, forcing people to search for water from distant areas. The salinity was found at places in the port ... Read more

Rural institutions, cadet colleges perform poorly Results of the Junior School Certificate and the Junior Dakhil Certificate exams published on Sunday showed that the success rate and the number of GPA 5 scorers increased this year compared with that of 2012. The combined pass rate in JSC and JDC exams increased to 89.94 this year, while ... Read more

Participants in a volunteer training programme conducted by the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed in Barisal city urged for extending coordinated medicare facilities as a right for the disabled persons on Sunday. The centre manager, Mahmudul Hassan Al Imam, also a physiotherapist, chaired the programme held at Barisal ARDRID-CRP centre in the city.

Emissions by automobiles put an adverse impact on most of crops and plants, leading to a potential health hazards for mankind, said Dhaka University’s soil, water and environment professor SM Imamul Huq at a daylong seminar on Saturday. He said the pollutants of air from the automobiles including carbon monoxide (CO), lead (Pb), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), ... Read more

The infection of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) has increased more than 25 per cent in the country over the past one year. This was disclosed at an advocacy workshop with media personnel on HIV and AIDS in the city on Saturday. The workshop also informed that a total of 370 persons were infected by HIV ... Read more

[ The prisoners are passing days amid subhumanconditions as its already crowded cells are being overcrowded day by day for large scale arrests ] Chittagong: The Chittagong central jail is now crowded with three times higher number of prisoners than its actual capacity. According to an account

The government has taken initiative to record health-related data on pregnant women, mothers and under five children aiming to set a specific target of reducing maternal and child deaths. It had already launched a pilot scheme to record data in Bashail and Sakhipur upazilas of Tangail in cooperation with the World Health Organisation,

Information and communication technology secretary M Nazrul Islam Khan on Saturday called upon the firms to come up with IT training programmes, including freelancing outsourcing for women, in order to create opportunity for their self-employment. ‘There are about 1,000 IT firms in the country. If they provide IT training to women, the number

A young man was beaten to death by unidentified miscreants in the capital’s Chwakbazar area early Saturday. The deceased was Md Billal Hossain, 20, an employee of a local plastic factory. The Chwakbazar police officer-in-charge, Azizul Haque, said they recovered the body from his house at Rahmayganj in the morning. The body

Asian Centre for Environmental Health (ACEH), a new environmental organization, has started its journey here with the aims of eliminating environmental toxins in Asia-Pacific region, reports UNB. ANM Shamsuddin Azad Chowdhury, additional secretary to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, inaugurated the operation of the centre at the conference room of

Labour right activists on Saturday demanded immediate approval of the draft Domestic Worker Protection and Welfare Policy prepared in 2010 to ensure the rights of domestic workers. At a seminar, they urged the government to ratify ILO Convention 189 on Decent Work for Domestic Workers and to enact law and frame policies in

Chittagong Khulsi Club Limited, a youths’ platform, started its journey through a programme at its rented office in Chittagong city on Friday evening. The club’s founding president, Niaz Murshed Elite, also Borotakia Motors’ managing director, inaugurated the club’s activities in presence of the

National Bank Limited (NBL) distributed scholarship, certificate of appreciation and crest among the children’s of the employees of the bank under ‘NBL Employees Welfare Scheme’ at a function at National Bank Training Institute (NBTI) in the city on Friday.  otal 66 students who secured outstanding result in the SSC and HSC examinations held in 2013 ... Read more

Environmentalists on Friday demanded punishment for those who had cut down and destroyed hundreds of trees during recent political violence across the country. At a protest rally, participants urged political parties to stop all types of non-political activities like tree felling, uprooting trees and blocking

The Jahangirnagar University Teachers Association donated Tk 4.80 lakh on Thursday for the children of some of the Rana Plaza collapse victims. JUTA president Professor Ajit Kumar Majumder and general secretary Professor Sharif Uddin handed over the cheques of Tk 60,000 to eight children each,