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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

Two subjects, Bangla and Global Studies, as published by the National Curriculum and Textbook Board, will be made mandatory for the English medium schools, said Nurul Islam Nahid, who recently resigned as education minister. Nahid, while speaking at a discussion at International Mother Language Institute, announced that Bangla and Global Studies would be made mandatory ... Read more

Robbers looted a jewelry shop in old Dhaka’s Tantibazar on Monday afternoon. The Kotwali police officer-in-charge, Shah Alam, said the robbers hurled hand bombs in the area to create panic among the people and looted Mandira Jewelers’ at around 2:00pm. The owner could not estimate the measure

The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority on Monday conducted a drive to reclaim two city canals from encroachment. A DWASA enforcement team, led by magistrate Khalilur Rahman, conducted the seven-hour drive to save Kalyanpur Cha and Ramchandrapur canal. The magistrate said they started the drive near

The admission tests for the evening MBA programme at the accounting and information system department of Rajshahi University will be held on December 20. The department chairman, Subhash Chandra Shil, disclosed it at a press conference on Monday at his office. The admission seekers have to register by collecting

The Dhaka University’s Ga unit admission test results were published on Monday. A total of 3,813 examinees out of 45,883 came out successful in the test held on November 15. A total of 49,235 aspirants from business studies background in higher secondary level had applied against 1,115 seats in the Ga unit. The DU vice-chancellor,