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The nation will observe Begum Rokeya Day on Monday marking the birth anniversary of the pioneer of an awakening for women’s rights in the subcontinent. The Women and Children Affairs Ministry, and various socio-cultural and political organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to mark the day. On the occasion, President Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister

THE patients who need to undergo operations at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital are suffering much as the authorities postponed surgical operations at the hospital amid a crisis over buying medical and surgical requirements since Friday. The surgical operations remind stopped as the

Police arrested a man for impersonating a reporter of a private television channel in Sylhet city Saturday late night. The arrested was identified as Suman Ahmed, 26, of village Tajpur under Osmani Nagar police station in the district, the police said. Local sources said Suman had been extracting

Financial support towards slum households for their small-business promotion could be effective means of freeing the urban poor and extreme poor communities from the vicious cycle of poverty and hunger. Mayor of Rajshahi Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul said this while disbursing bank cheques for block grants worth Tk 8 lakh among 160 poor and extreme

Saved energy could power 5,000 households every day Conventional fluorescent and sodium street lights in eight city corporations are going to be replaced by energy-saving light emitting diode (LED) lamps, some to be run by solar power, saving 10 megawatts of electricity per day. This means an additional 5,000 households in the capital can be powered ... Read more

The International Anti-Corruption Day will be observed in the country on Monday as elsewhere in the world, aiming to raise awareness against corruption. The Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) and the Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) have chalked out separate programmes marking the day. The ACC will bring out a procession from its head office in

The police have rescued 32 people while being trafficked to Malaysia via a sea-route and arrested two members of a human trafficking racket from a hotel in the port city early Sunday. Syed Abdur Rouf, Officer-in-Charge of Chandgaon Police Station said that a racket of human traffickers gathered the people at Al-Sakira Hotel in Chittagong ... Read more

Working Without Pay Oman labour court orders compensation for 36 Bangladeshi workers The Labour Court in Oman ordered authorities concerned to compensate 36 Bangladeshi workers who had worked for a construction firm in the Arab state without regular salaries for over two years. The court order came on Thursday, said Bangladesh Ambassador to Oman Sheikh Sekander ... Read more

A woman was found dead in Karnaphuli third bridge area under the Bakolia police in Chittagong early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Nasrin Akther, 35, wife of Nazimul Islam of South Nimthol area under Patiya upazila in Chittagong. The Bakolia police assistant subinspectorm, Dulal Chandra, said a van driver of the area found the victim lying

The Jahangirnagar Cycling Club was launched on the university campus on Sunday. A press conference was held at the JU Journalists’ Association’s office at the university’s Teachers Students Centre on the occasion. The club started its formal journey on the campus with the motto ‘bliss on wheels’ to make cycling popular as a physical exercise. The club started ... Read more

Italian firm faceh funding constraints An Italian firm, facing funding constraints, failed to start setting up two waste-based power plants in the city outskirts, city corporation officials said Under a deal the government signed with the company in February the Italian firm was required to start setting up the plants, one each at Amin Bazaar ... Read more

The 15th convocation of Independent University, Bangladesh was held on Saturday at the Army Stadium in Dhaka. Delegated by the President, IUB vice-chancellor Omar Rahman conferred degrees on the graduating students. Former chief adviser to the caretaker government Justice Muhammad Habibur Rahman attended the programme as the convocation speaker

Health experts on Saturday said that aggressive marketing tactics by the formula producing companies and their attractive market policy were hampering child nutrition in the country. Different international agencies also were now taking up public-private partnership schemes to eradicate malnutrition for the sake of their own business interest, they said while

Dhaka city on Friday experienced severe traffic congestion as almost all roads, lanes and by-lanes were choked with unusual traffic gridlock on weekends, causing immense sufferings to the city dwellers. People from all walks of life, after being trapped in 131-hour’s non-stop blockade enforced by the opposition alliance, were forced to come out of their houses

Unplanned use of groundwater An environmental degradation is set to engulf the entire Barind region of greater Rajshahi due to unplanned and indiscriminate use of underground water for irrigation. At the same time, drying up of the major rivers crisscrossing the region, including Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj and Naogaon districts, indiscriminate felling of trees and deforestation are ... Read more

Speaker hails women’s empowerment The reunion of the former resident students of Dhaka University’s Shamsunnahar Hall was held on Friday amid festivity on the hall premises. Jatiya Sangshad speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury and DU vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique attended the occasion as chief guest and special

The Press Institute of Bangladesh organised a dialogue at Barisal Zila Parishad auditorium on Friday as a part of the ‘mass communication programme in developing children and women’. The participants in the programme emphasised focusing on children and women related issues in the media with more space and importance. PIB director general Md Shah Alamgir

Health experts have observed that lack of proper monitoring on the directly observed treatment programme of tuberculosis multi-drug-resistant TB is spreading in the country. They have advised the government to strictly monitor the programme as tuberculosis MDR TB could be checked by only checking. Many

The United Airways Limited, a private airliner, has pledged to provide an automatic excavator to the Sylhet City Corporation authorities to accelerate the project of renovating and reclaiming land of main canals in the city. The airways authorities confirmed the matter in a courtesy call on the city mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, at his Nagar Bhaban ... Read more

Bangladesh Railway authorities have decided to halt train services during the night for an indefinite period on four routes under Lalmonirhat railway division. The decision, taken on Thursday night, came following sabotage on the rail tracks, during the opposition alliance’s blockade programmes, which