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The sixth installation programme of Sylhet Valley Rotary Club was held in the city on Sunday night. The club outgoing president, Shawkatur Rahman, handed over the charge for 2013-14 rotary year to its incumbent president Khalilur Rahman Chowdhury at the programme held at a city hotel. Former rotary district government Manzurul Haque Chowdhury,

Every four out of seven children do well in school if they have a balanced diet and eat foods like fish, meat, milk, egg and vegetables, said researchers yesterday. On the other hand, only three out of four children, who are deprived of such foods, are able to succeed, they said referring to a study ... Read more

The Department of Environment on Sunday conducted a five-hour drive and demolished five chicken and fish feed factories at Hazaribagh of the capital for using tannery wastes to produce chicken and fish feed in unhygienic way. During the drive, DoE sealed four industries for producing feeds in an unhygienic way by processing tannery wastes. DoE ... Read more

Eminent journalist Nazim Uddin Mostan died at his journalist colony residence at Mirpur in the city on Sunday afternoon. He was 65. Nazim Uddin Mostan, also a recipient of Ekushey Padak, left wife, a son, two daughters, grand children and a host of friends and admirers to mourn his death. One of the legendary figures ... Read more

Sylhet MC College students on Sunday formed a human chain in demand of immediate arrest and exemplary punishment of the attackers on their fellow. General student of the college formed the human chain in front of the college at around noon. Speakers in a rally during the programme blamed

Bangladesh Environmental Lawyers Association on Sunday sought all documents relating to the environmental clearance certificate given by Department of #environment for the proposed Rampal Power Plant near the Sundarban under the Right to Information Act. The department recently gave the environmental clearance

A student of Chittagong University was found dead in his residence in the port city on Sunday. The family of the deceased claimed that it was an incident of suicide while police found no sign of such act. The deceased is Tasfia Tarannum, a first year student of law department under Chittagong University, also daughter ... Read more

The World Bank is providing about $170 million to the government to support improving water supply in Chittagong metropolis where nearly five million people suffer from inadequate water supply and poor sewerage system. The government will fund the rest of the project, cost of which

A tourist drowned in the Piyan River at Jaflong under Goainghat upazila in the district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Radwanush Shalehin Shuva, 25, son of Khorshed Alam at Kadamtaly Shanir Akhra area in capital city. Police said that Shuva along with his family member went to take a bath in the river ... Read more

A large number of fishermen, wood-cutters, mawalies and extractors of forest resources, are hostage in the hands of organised armed terrorists in the Bay of Bengal adjacent to the Sundarban during the peak Hilsa season. The pirates have gone out of control now as they use sophisticated arms for committing heinous crimes while the forest ... Read more

Bangladesh secretariat has turned into a virtual car parking lot for the ministries and divisions at night posing great risks to the ‘key point installation’ of the government, officials said. They said hundred of cars of the ministries and divisions are parked inside the secretariat illegally at night threatening security of the protected

Psychologist and prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s daughter Saima Hossain Putul on Saturday called upon parents of special kids to be brave in their day to day fight for their children. ‘Don’t demean yourself, don’t demean your children,’ she said as she tried to infuse in them strength to manage their kids in a society, which ... Read more

A mugging suspect was lynched and two others were injured in a mob beating in the capital’s East Monipur under Mirpur police station on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Sohel, 27, and the injured were identified as Yusuf and Babu. Their detail identity could not be known. Mirpur police station sub-inspector Masud Parvez ... Read more

A Jamaat-backed ward councillor has been sued in Chittagong in connection with a bomb explosion incident in which a man was injured while making bomb. The police lodged the case against Mahfuzul Alam Chowdhury, councillor of 13 North Khulshi Ward of Chittagong city corporation.  The police said

A low lies over west central Bay and adjoining northwest Bay off Orissa-Andhra coast. Under its influence, steep pressure gradient lies over North Bay and deep convection is taking place over North Bay, Met Office sources said. Squally weather may affect North Bay, adjoining coastal area of

The police on Friday recovered the body of a man from Shaplabagh in Sylhet city. The deceased identified as Milon Chowdhury, 42, son of Nayeb Chowdhury of Gulshi village in Netrakona, was a mason by profession. Nazma Begum, second wife of the deceased, said Milon was

City dwellers have alleged that some bus operators were charging extra fares from them while the owners said they were not aware of such allegation. Khandakar Nazneen Sultana, a passenger, on Friday alleged that Saydabad-Gazipur-bound Balaka Service charged Tk 50 from her for going

The bodies of three members of a family were recovered on Friday after they went missing in the river Karnaphuli on Wednesday night. The deceased were Md. Harun, 40, his son Maruf, 4, and his daughter Israt, 6. Officer-in-charge of Karnaphuli Police Station Mohiuddin Mahmud said locals recovered the

The five hundred years old historic Manasa Temple, popularly known as ‘Bijoy Gupter Manasa Mandir,’ reopened at Goila in Agoiljhara of Barisal after completing reconstruction and renovation on Friday. Other works of reconstruction and renovation with the unique dome-shaped architecture were opened to people on the day by lighting Mangal-Prodip

The prevalence of tuberculosis among the inmates of Dhaka Central Jail is about 20-fold higher than among the general population in Bangladesh, according to icddr,b. The icddr,b investigation team in 2005 started active screening for pulmonary TB among incarcerated persons at Dhaka Central Jail, the largest correctional