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News Desk : dhakamirror.com News President-Designate Dr Sultan Al Jaber has called on governments, industry, and all stakeholders to “disrupt business as usual” and take decisive action to tackle the climate crisis. Speaking at the Ministerial on Climate Action in Brussels, which brings together the environment ministers of the European Union, Canada, and China, Dr ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Indian Visa Application Center (IVAC), Bangladesh has introduced new rules for the Bangladeshi citizens whereby they would not need to leave their passports with the IVAC for the entire period when visa application is under process. The applicants, who wish to get back their passports for other purposes while their ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com At least five people were killed in road accidents in three districts yesterday, report our local correspondent and a news agency. In Narayanganj, two cousins were killed as a covered-van hit their motorcycle on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Bandar upazila. The incident happened around 3:00pm in Keodhala area, said police. Aman Ullah, ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved two project proposals of Palli Karma Sahayak Foundation (PKSF) to combat the adverse impacts of climate change. The $50 million “Resilient Homestead and Livelihood Support to the Vulnerable Coastal People of Bangladesh (RHL)” project will enhance climate resilience for the vulnerable coastal communities, and ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Md Atiqul Islam on Sunday endorsed four books of World Resources Institute to use as reference for creating a safe and sustainable Dhaka. He endorses the books after a capacity building workshop arranged for the engineers of Dhaka North City Corporation named “Collaborative Design Learning Workshop” ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Thai Airways will operate two daily flights on the Dhaka-Bangkok-Dhaka route from July 16. This was announced Monday in the event of Thai Agent Networking at a local hotel in Dhaka. These double daily Dhaka-Bangkok flights will continue until the end of the summer flight schedule. Speaking at the programme, Ahmed ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The incident of leaking sensitive personal information of millions of Bangladeshi citizens on the internet from the website of a government organisation was due to technical weaknesses of the site, Zunaid Ahmed Palak said on Sunday. “We saw that there were technical glitches,” the state minister for post, telecommunications and information ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Exposure to unclean air triggers diseases that increase the healthcare cost for individuals, and each person had to spend Tk8,334 per year on healthcare from their pocket in 2019, said the Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD). Deaths from diseases associated with air pollution have risen by 9% over the last 20 ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The number of Internet subscribers in Bangladesh rose by about 12 lakh in May compared to the previous month, on the back of a surge in the country’s mobile subscriber base. This has brought the total number of Internet subscribers to 12.76 crore, according to the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Four people were killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between an ambulance and a truck in Gopalganj Sadar upazila yesterday. The deceased are Shamsul Alam, 60, a retired doctor of Khulna Shipyard; his attendant Jewel Hossain, 36; ambulance driver Momin Khan, 42; and his assistant Faisal, 25. Shamsul ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Rotary Bangladesh will implement more than five hundred large projects nationwide in the fiscal year 2023-24. Ashrafuzzaman Nannu, governor of Rotary International District-3281 Bangladesh announced the annual programme of Rotary for the session of 2023-24 in a press conference at the National Press Club in Dhaka on Thursday, reads a press ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com With six new deaths reported on Wednesday (5 July), the number of Bangladeshi Hajj pilgrims who died this year has reached 81, according to the Ministry of Religious Affairs. Among the deceased individuals, 63 were men and 18 were women. The ministry’s latest Hajj bulletin, released on the night of 5 ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Muslims across Bangladesh on Thursday celebrated the Eid-ul-Azha with due solemnity, a sense of sacrifice and religious fervour amid monsoon rain. On this day, the 10th day of Arabic month of Zilhajj on the lunar calendar, some 4,500 years ago, Prophet Ibrahim (AS) offered to sacrifice his beloved son Hazrat Ismail ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The driver of the ambulance that caught fire after hitting a flyover railing at Maligram under Bhanga upazila in Faridpur on Saturday morning, killing all seven passengers, died in Dhaka in the afternoon. As a result, the death toll in the accident has risen to eight. Faridpur superintendent of police Md ... Read more

The finding of the Swiss Embassy’s Bangladesh Microinsurance Market Development Program News Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh has suffered US$3.72 billion in economic losses over the past 20 years from climate change, an expert at the Swiss embassy in Dhaka said yesterday. Bangladesh is the seventh-most vulnerable country in the world by climate change and ranks ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Ashraful Hossain Alom, known as Hero Alom, got back his candidacy to compete for the Dhaka-17 by-elec tion. Ashoke Kumar Debnath, additional secretary of Election Commission, confirmed it while talking to reporters at the commission office in Agargaon this afternoon. “The two appeals [against EC’s decision to scrap their nominations] by ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) raised the demand for a quick passage of the draft amendment of the tobacco control law. The organisation made the demand during a meeting held at the capital’s BMA Bhaban on Wednesday (21 June), said a press release. It was informed during the event that tobacco ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com There are over 3.55 lakh posts vacant in public administration, State Minister for Public Administration Farhad Hossain told parliament today. He said this in reply to a query of ruling Awami League MP Kazim Uddin Ahmed. With Speaker Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury in the chair, the question-answer session was tabled. The state ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The holy Eid-ul-Azha, one of the biggest religious festivals of the Muslims, will be celebrated across the country on June 29 as the moon of Zilhaj was sighted in Bangladesh today. The decision came at a meeting of the National Moon Sighting Committee at the Islamic Foundation this evening. Eid-ul-Azha is ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government today decided to extend this year’s Eid-ul-Azha holidays by a day, with June 27 included as part of the holidays. According to a source close to developments, the decision was taken today during a cabinet meeting presided over by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Prothom Alo reported. The earlier announcement ... Read more