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Travelling by launches on the Barisal-Dhaka route has become insecure in recent time for lack of adequate security staff. The water vessels plying the route are mostly manned with ansar members far less than required in number, placing the passengers always in a constant fear of sabotage at the time when the country is passing ... Read more

The agitating teachers of Jahangirnagar University have given a 20-hour ultimatum to the vice-chancellor, Professor Anwar Hossain, to resign. They put forth the ultimatum in a press conference held on the campus on Tuesday. The convener of the General Teachers Forum,

Green activists at a seminar in Dhaka on Tuesday stressed the urgency of creating new leadership with scientific perspective to implement the climate change strategies announced by the government. They said new leadership especially from youths and students would be better to implement the climate change strategies to cope with adverse impacts of global

Twenty journalists, including Ershad Komal Khan of New Age, have got Dhaka Reporters Unity-Grameen Phone Reporting Award-2013. Each of the winners got Tk 75,000 provided by the Grameen Phone and a crst and certificate. The speaker of parliament, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, distributed the awards at a programme at Hotel Sonargaon in the city.

The Banglalink Grandmaster Season-3 which was launched few months back has engaged enormous no. of students around the around the country, with above 8000 registered students in a single competition to start something new through technological advancement-specifically, mobile internet based applications that can change people’s lives. Grandmaster

Officials of the two city corporations in Dhaka have yet to make any decision over establishing two landfills at Dhaka’s two corners for dumping city garbage. At present the city corporations have two landfills at Matuail and Aminbazar while there was a plan to establish two more at two other corners of Dhaka.

US Congressman Steve Chabot will arrive in Dhaka today on a two-day official visit to discuss the current political challenges Bangladesh is facing over the upcoming general elections. Chabot will also discuss the Dhaka-Washington bilateral relation with Bangladesh’s top political leaders, according to a press release of the US embassy.

The Rajshahi city dwellers are experiencing acute water crisis currently as the water plants are failing to supply sufficient water. The water pumps and tube wells in the city cannot lift enough water from underground to meet the public demand. At present the Rajshahi Water Supply and Sewerage Authorities are supplying water using 70 deep tube wells

The Asian Development Bank has approved US$ 250 million assistance for a Dhaka WASA project to bring 50 crore litres of water per day from River Meghna to reduce its dependency on groundwater. ADB, which is the lead financier of the project, at its board meeting held recently at its Manila headquarters approved the project assistance, ... Read more

Cabinet okays draft The cabinet yesterday approved the final draft of the Bangladesh Journalist Welfare Trust Act, 2013 to financially assist journalists in need. Financial aides will be provided in the case of deaths, accidents or loss of working ability, Cabinet Secretary Musharraf Hossain Bhuiyan told reporters.

MD says using leased ones brings no profit Biman Bangladesh Airlines will use its own aircraft to carry Hajj pilgrims from next year instead of using leased aircraft which brings no profit, said its Managing Director Kevin John Steele yesterday. Keeping to the trend of past years, several Hajj flights on the sole leased Boeing ... Read more

Private airline United Airways on Monday began operating its flight on Dhaka-Singapore route, said a release. A 167 seated MD-83 aircraft of the airline took off from Dhaka for Singapore 83 at 3:00pm. The airline fixed Tk 18481 as the airfare for a one-way ticket for its Dhaka-Singapore flight and Tk 34001 for a return ticket including ... Read more

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police presented five rickshaws to the tortured domestic help, Aduri, on Monday in a programme at its media centre. The DMP commissioner, Benazir Ahmed, formally handed over the keys of the rickshaws to Aduri, an 11-year old domestic help, who was severely tortured

A driver was drugged to death at the capital’s Jatrabari on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Md Islam, around 35, driver of Sylhet Divisional Commissioner. The victim’s colleague, Sahidul Islam, said Islam was coming to Dhaka on Sunday night. At Jatrabari bus stand, some miscreants

A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Monday between Dhaka University (DU) and the Hiroshima University (HU) of Japan at the Vice-Chancellor’s office of DU, reports BSS. DU Treasurer Prof Dr M Kamal Uddin and Kazuhiro Yoshida, Director, Center for the Study of International Cooperation in Education (CICE) of HU

Divisional Commissioner of Khulna Md Abdul Jalil on Monday stressed by exercising the religious and moral values and maintaining preventive measure in over day-to-day life, we must protect ourselves from the deadly disease AIDS. He added, “Lack of knowledge of the issue must be addressed as the patients feel shy to discuss it in public.” ... Read more

Around 8,000 battery-run easy bikes are plying Khulna city roads illegally under the auspices of a section of law enforcers. As a result, accidents and severe traffic congestion have become a common phenomenon as most of its drivers of these illegal vehicles are not trained in driving and do not have licence. According to source of Khulna ... Read more

A team of three students of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology has won the 2nd prize in the contest, ‘Imagine a City of Tomorrow’, at the final round held in Paris last month. The team of Tasnim Firoz Ananya, Kashfia Nehrin and Tasfia Tasnim of Urban and Regional Planning Department of BUET secured the ... Read more

A CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver was found dead after being drugged and mugged by a gang of criminals on the capital’s Bijoy Sarani early yesterday, said police. The deceased was Yousuf Mridha, 42, son of Ali Akbar Mridha of Patuakhali. Kazi Wazed Ali, officer-in-charge of Kafrul police,

Dhaka Metro Rail Nippon Koei set to become consultant The government is going to appoint a consortium led by Nippon Koei Company, a Japanese firm, as consultant for Dhaka Mass Rapid Transit Development Project. A proposal for awarding the contract will be placed for approval at the meeting of the Cabinet committee on purchase today. The ... Read more