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Smoking, both active and passive, causes cancer of lung, throat, mouth and stomach and it also affects heart functioning and breathing, speakers at a participatory discussion said in Rajshahi on Thursday. They viewed there has been many evidences that smoking and uses of tobacco products kill thousands of people every year. So, there is no alternative ... Read more

The admission tests for the first year honours courses of BSc engineering and Bangladesh urban and rural planning of Khulna University of Engineering and Technology under 2013-14 academic session begin on November 23, a KUET press release said. This year, the tests will be held for 10 departments under three faculties. A total of 7,625 admission seekers ... Read more

Gold smuggling through Chittagong Shah Amanat International Airport has seen a sudden escalation in recent times with a syndicate of international gold smugglers reportedly remaining active for long. Sources said at least 10 to 15 groups of local smugglers having link with the international syndicate bring in huge smuggled gold into the country from abroad ... Read more

ATN Bangla chief adviser Saiful Bari died of old age complications at a city hospital on Tuesday morning. He was 77. Saiful Bari, who had been undergoing treatment for prolonged illness, including cancer, breathed his last at LabAid Hospital around 5:00am, said Rafiqul Islam, newsroom editor of ATN Bangla. Bari, also a veteran journalist, was born ... Read more

THE interns at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Wednesday threatened to launch an undefined strike in protest at allowing internship of private medical college students at the hospital. They pressed for their demand in a meeting with the hospital’s acting director Professor Dayem Uddin at his office at noon. RMCH sources said recently

The three-day Bangladesh International Tourism Fair 2013 starts on November 28 at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre of the capital. The Bangladesh Foundation for Tourism Development and the Association of Travel Agents of Bangladesh in collaboration with the Ministry of

Nabanna Utshab1420, harvesting season in late autumn, was observed colourfully on Wednesday by Dalit Matua Community at Natun Bazar in Barisal. Participants in the festival called for an end to communal violence and observing the festival nationally. Matua Sampradaya, the Hindu Dalits sect

Rampant saline water-based shrimp cultivation on agricultural lands in the south-western coastal region of the country including Khulna, Bagerhat and Satkhira districts poses a threat to soil fertility, thus casting an ominous shadow on country’s food security and environment as a whole. The farmland of Koyra, Paikgaccha, Dacope upazilas of Khulna district,

KGDCL supplying 210m to 220m cft gas against total demand of more than 360m cft Dissatisfaction is spreading among the businessmen and industrialists in the port city due to the stopping of gas supply and new gas connection to the industries of Chittagong. Ignoring the demand of the businessmen and industrialists of Chittagong and Chittagong ... Read more

Environment and rights activists said on Tuesday lack of public toilets at places of mass gathering in Dhaka causes health hazards and environment pollution. They said every day a large number of citizens of the capitals’ have to defecate on roadsides and open spaces in the absence of adequate

The installation of water supply line at Dakkhin Surma in Sylhet city began on Tuesday to bring the three wards of this area under drinking water facility coverage. The Sylhet city mayor, Ariful Haque Chowdhury, inaugurated the work in the morning at Daria Shah Shrine Road inhabited by around 1,50,000 people.

The physicians of all government and private hospitals in Khulna on Tuesday observed a two-hour work abstention from 9:00am, demanding immediate arrest of and exemplary punishment to the killer of physician Gouranga Das. The physicians, however, provided treatment in the emergency departments of the hospitals and clinics. Due to the two-hour

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has launched the “Bagh Project”, which will be implemented by WildTeam, to protect the Bengal tiger. Reducing wildlife trafficking; minimising human-wildlife conflict; enhancing communications, outreach, and gender engagement and expanding

Sachetan Sylhetbasi, a social forum of the Sylhet people, on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology vice-chancellor in protest at the authorities’ move to allow those students, who would be successful in the intake test to be held at Jessore University of Science and Technology, to get admitted at ... Read more

About 41 candidates will vie for each seat in upcoming admission test for first year honours courses of Khulna University (KU) for the session of 2013-2014. The admission test will begin from December 7 (Saturday) and continued till December 9 (Monday). The admission seekers may also have all the information about the admission test on ... Read more

Jahangirnagar University students under the banner of Jahangirnagar Cultural Alliance on Tuesday brought out a procession on the campus in protest at allowing MPhil and PhDs researchers to cast vote and compete the forthcoming election to the university central student’s union. The procession began on the premises of new

A syndicate has become active again on the campus to leak out question papers of the admission tests of Jagannath University (JnU) targeting the Science Faculty (A- unit) admission test scheduled to be held on November 22. Earlier, leakage of the question paper of the Commerce Faculty (C- unit) admission test was detected on Friday. ... Read more

Department of Livestock has estimated that a total of 65,39,308 cattle heads were slaughtered during last Eid-ul-Azha on October 16, showing more eight lakh cattle slaughtered than the last year. Livestock officials said the numbers of slaughtered cattle have been found higher as the countrymen bought more cattle for slaughtering ‘due to cheap price and good

Patients in some of the major public hospitals have to suffer immensely because of the unhygienic toilets when the country is going to observe World Toilet Day today. Experts have said unhygienic toilets cause health hazards and psychic complexities to the patients, attendances and others who use such toilets. Dhaka Medical College

Schoolgirl Killing In Barisal 6 including killer sent to jail The judicial magistrate court in Barisal on Monday afternoon ordered the imprisonment of the killer of a schoolgirl, his father, uncle and three aunts. Drug addict Nayan Bala, 20, hacked to death Tania Aktar, 11, at Gouranadi upazila on Sunday. Local people held the killer ... Read more