Metropolitan

Hatirjheel, Begunbari Twin Lakes Failure to develop recreation facilities disappoints city Since hurriedly opening the Hatirjheel and Begunbari twin lakes to the visitors in January the authorities virtually forgot their commitment to develop the planned recreation facilities around them. The visitors do not find the promised viewing decks, games facilities for children, water-taxi terminals, footbridges ... Read more

Frequents visits of medical representatives of drug companies continue to hamper treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital although the authority had imposed restriction on their entry. The then hospital director brigadier general Abus Sabur Miya on August 4, 2011 at a meeting made the decision and asked all concerned to impose restriction on

Environmentalists and physicians on Saturday urged the government to take immediate initiative to check electromagnetic radiation of mobile phones and mobile network towers. They made the urge at a seminar on ‘Mobile phone and mobile network tower: impact on environment and public health’ organised by Bangladesh Poribesh Andolan

A restaurant on Satmasjid Road in the city caught fire on Saturday morning. Nilufar Yasmin, a duty officer at fire service, said that the fire broke out on the ground floor of the two-storey building of the restaurant, Golden Spoon, near Graphic Arts College of Satmasjid Road at around 11:45am. Three fire fighting units from Mohammadpur ... Read more

The Border Guard Bangladesh, Narcotic Control Department and the police have seized heroin worth about Tk 1 crore in City Gate area of Akbar Shah police station in Chittagong on Saturday morning. Kotowali circle police inspector Md Ibrahim Khan said that nobody was arrested in this regard as the heroin was left off in luggage ... Read more

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, will visit Ashulia, a suburban area of the capital, today to lay the foundation stone of a 12-storey dormitory complex designated for woman garment workers. Last minute preparation is going on in full swing in Ashulia ahead of her visit. The PM is scheduled to address a rally on Ashulia ... Read more

The installation of solar panels to power Dhaka city’s traffic signals along with new count down timers, intended to show commuters how many seconds remain before the signals change, will be delayed until at least the end of the year. Under the Clean Air and Sustainable Environment project, which started in June 2009 with funding ... Read more

Human rights activists in Barisal city on Friday urged the government to stop enforced disappearances. They made the call from a human chain and rally organised by the Human Rights Defenders Network, Barisal unit to observe annual commemoration of International Day of the Disappeared that falls on 30 August. It was addressed, among others, by Mozammel ... Read more

The district administration has issued a public notice in regard to incorporating three more municipalities in the Narayanganj City Corporation. There will be a 30 days’ probation for the inhabitants to submit any objection against this public notice issued on Thursday. After 30 days from the day of public notice announcement,

Bus trips from Gabtali terminal to and from Barisal have remained suspended since Thursday night after a bus was vandalised by local people at the terminal in Dhaka. The Barisal Bus Owners’ Association vice-president, Dipak Chandra Das, said the bus owners cancelled the trips from and to the Gabtali terminal because a bus of

An army man was killed allegedly by drugging gang at Khilkhet in the capital on Thursday night. The victim was identified as Tajerul Islam Taj, 35, a corporal of Bangladesh Army. Tajerul was found unconscious under the foot over-bridge at Khilkhet at about 10:30pm. He was rushed to Combined Military Hospital at 11:00am

Participants in a daylong divisional workshop on Friday in the Barisal city stressed strengthen capacity of local government institutions to play an instrumental role in transforming them into fully functional, democratic and transparent entities. They also underscored the need for drastic reforms to the existing local government system and amendments to the related acts to enable ... Read more

Water experts at a seminar on Thursday stressed providing legal water connection to the city slums with a view to ensuring access to safe water for the slum dwellers. They said the slum dwellers are always keen to have legal water connection of WASA and pay for the water, but often they are denied legal ... Read more

A web portal to provide comprehensive picture of people with disability at Shahrasti upazila in Chandpur was launched in the capital on Thursday. The online database, launched under a pilot project, would give information including number, types of disability, age, religion and social status of disabled people

Speakers at a sensitisation workshop underscored the necessity of monitoring the prisoners and take steps to prevent spread of HIV in the prisons. The Khulna Mukti Sheba Sangstha, a social development organisation, organised the workshop on Thursday at a Khulna city hotel. The Khulna BNP unit president,

The certificate award ceremony of No 93 Junior Command and Staff Course of Bangladesh Air Force was held at Bangladesh Air Force Command and Staff Training Institute at Dhaka Cantonment on Thursday. Assistant chief of Air Staff (operations & training) Air Vice Marshal Abu Esrar attended the ceremony as the chief guest and distributed certificates ... Read more

The intake tests for admission into the four year bachelor courses in Dhaka University under its 2013-14 academic sessions is likely to begin from November 1, said the university officials. The university’s deans committee took the decision on Thursday at a meeting, chaired by the university’s vice-chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique, said DU public

Stagnant rain water accumulated in different parts of the capital after downpour under the influence of an active monsoon is causing sufferings to the city dwellers. The Dhaka met office said the intermittent raining under the influence of monsoon active over Bangladesh might continue till today and then

Unidentified miscreants killed a young businessman in Sylhet city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Mazharul Islam alias Sohel Miah, 35, who lived in boarding house at Tantipara in the city, police said. Sohel, who was involved in manpower export,

Speakers at a community advocacy meeting in Rangpur on Tuesday stressed disseminating proper education, knowledge and social values to create awareness for preventing the threat of spreading the deadly HIV/AIDS diseases. They were addressing a seminar on ‘HIV Prevention and Control among High Risk Population and Vulnerable Young People in Bangladesh’