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Farming of resilient and mixed crops can help mitigate food scarcity in South Asia’s coastal areas and fight against the adverse impacts of climate change, speakers told the inauguration of a workshop yesterday. They also emphasised conserving soil nutrition and harvesting rainwater to combat challenges of irregular rainfall which has detrimental effects

Nine people were killed and 47 others injured in road accidents in Dinajpur, Tangail, Comilla, Chuadanga, Jhenidah, Bogra, Pirojpur, and Jamalpur on Thursday and yesterday. Our Dinajpur correspondent reports, a woman and her seven-year-old daughter were killed and her husband was injured as a truck hit their running motorcycle

The academic activities of Jahangirnagar University will resume today after a 15-day vacation of Eid-ul-Azha, Durga Puja and Laxmi Puja. The official activities of the university have already been started from October 22 after observing the 10-day vacation, university sources said. Most of the resident students have

Kathin Chibar Dan, one of the largest annual religious festivals of the Buddhist community in Chittagong Hill Tracts, was celebrated at a temple, Ajita Mahathero Dhyani Bihar, of Bandarban district yesterday. Thousands of devotees from Bandarban, Rangamati and Khagrachhari arrived at the temple where its chief and most venerable monk Bhadanto Ajita

Immediately after the end of the ban on netting hilsa, the wholesale fish market in Barisal and 19 other retail ones are now abound with the dazzling fish. Seven thousand maunds of hilsa arrived in Barisal fishery ghat on Thursday at 10.00am barely 10 hours after the restriction ended. Same thing was reported from 18 ... Read more

Ten people, including three of a family, were killed and 16 others injured in road accidents in Dhaka, Tangail, Gazipur, Netrakona, and Dinajpur on Wednesday and yesterday. Our staff correspondent reports, a bus ran over a newspaper hawker at Dainik Bangla intersection in the capital yesterday morning, leaving him dead on the spot.

Journalists and human rights activists in Rajshahi city on Thursday urged the government not to enact the recent amendment of the ICT law. They are afraid the law could easily be misused. They remarked this during a roundtable

Broken DMCH Radiotherapy Machine Cancer patients’ lives hang in the balance  A radiotherapy machine at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) worth around Tk 20 crore has been out of order since Monday morning creating apprehension among cancer patients on consequences of the interruption in their scheduled therapies. At present, 44 patients were receiving doses

Family Planning City areas, slums, remote places lag behind The government has failed to achieve success in family planning in the city corporation areas, slums and hard to reach areas as the people living in those areas are less interested to use family planning methods, health ministry high officials said on Thursday. ‘Family planning success ... Read more

United Nations Day was marked on Thursday in Dhaka with the urge for creating opportunities for the country’s young generation to assert themselves in development sector. The UN resident coordinator Thushara Fernando stressed the need for role of youth for economic growth. Inaugurating UN Day 2013 at the Bangabandhu

A three-member team of Sarus Beyond Borders, an international organisation based on Cambodia and Vietnam, called on vice-chancellor of Dhaka University AAMS Arefin Siddique at the latter’s office of the university on Thursday. Founder director of the organisation Wesley Hedden is leading the team. Other members of the team are William M Orr and Sylvia Murray.

Department of Environment (DoE) on Thursday fined a private hospital and a diagnostic centre Tk 4.5 lakh for violation of environment laws, reports UNB. After a hearing at its headquarters, DoE director (monitoring and enforcement) M Alamgir fined Salahudding Specialised Hospital Ltd in Tikatuli area Tk 4 lakh

On Friday afternoon the traditional 8th annual boat race in Khulna, popularly known as ‘Nouka Baich’ competition-2013 will be held in the Rupsha River which flows by the east side of divisional city. The competition has been going on for the last eight years. Khulna Nagar Samajik o Sangskritic Kendra (NSSK) will arrange the competition ... Read more

The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has expressed its willingness to provide US$ 1 billion for the development of the country’s power sector. A high-powered IFC team, on Wednesday, gave the assurance to Bangladesh, at a meeting with energy adviser Dr Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury,

Parliamentary Elections 85pc people think more women should run for general seats  Reveals nationwide survey Around 85 percent of the country’s people think that the political parties should nominate women to run in parliamentary elections for general seats for their empowerment. In a five-month survey conducted over 3,565 people across 40 districts of the seven ... Read more

Fighting Climate Change Bangladesh should clarify position before global alliances  Say environmentalists Environmentalists at a press conference yesterday urged the government to take sustainable long-term action plans to deal with impacts of climate change. They said Bangladesh should make its position and demand clear before the global alliances as an “innocent victim” of climate change. Oxfam ... Read more

Plan International report launch told In the event of disasters, cyclone and flood shelters are usually where adolescent girls get sexually harassed the most, speakers said at a report launch yesterday. The report, “Double Jeopardy: Adolescent Girls in Disasters”, commissioned by Plan International, was unveiled marking the occasion of International Day

Administrative activities of Rajshahi University (RU) resume today after a 13-day vacation on the occasion of Eid-ul-Azha and Durga Puja. The regular classes and examinations will resume on October 30 while all the dormitories will open on October 29, said an RU press release yesterday.

Customs authorities yesterday recovered gold weighing over 1kg from inside a laptop at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital. On a tip-off, the officials intercepted Zakir Hossain, 35, on his arrival from Thailand and found about eight gold bars hidden inside the battery chamber

At least three people, including two of a family, were killed and four others injured critically in a road accident on Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Charpara under Mirzapur upazila of Tangail district Wednesday morning. The deceased were identified as Maynul Haque, 65, secretary of ward 42 of Dhaka city Awami League, his wife Shamsun Nahar, 55, and ... Read more