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News Desk : dhakamirror.com After a long hiatus, Biman Bangladesh Airlines is scheduled to start direct flights from Dhaka to Japan’s Narita on September 1. On this occasion, national flag carrier Biman Bangladesh Airlines has begun selling tickets for direct flights from Dhaka to Japan’s Narita at a discounted price from July 25. The airline ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Visiting European Union special representative for human rights Eamon Gilmore on Tuesday said that human rights remaining at the centre of the relationship between the EU and Bangladesh were linked to trade and economic activities. He said that human rights had been at the heart of their relationship with the country ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The High Court yesterday sought a list of people who have illegally grabbed lands of Bangladesh Railway across the country. The court ordered the authorities concerned of the government to prepare the list and to submit it in 30 days. At the same time, it issued a rule asking the authorities ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com In order to prevent gender-based sex selection, a national guideline based on a study of gender preference and the associated risks was presented yesterday. Entitled “National Guideline for Prevention of Son Preference and the Risk of Gender-Biased Sex Selection-2022”, it was presented at an event jointly organized by the Ministry of ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Mild heatwave is sweeping over the districts of Dhaka, Rajshahi, Pabna, Feni and Chuadanga and it may continue, said a met office forecast for the next 24 hours begins 9:00am on Tuesday. Light to moderate rain or thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com SM Nazia Sultana, senior assistant secretary (WTO Wing) of the Ministry of Commerce and a mother-to-be, died of dengue on Tuesday morning (25 July) at a capital hospital. She was eight months pregnant at the time of her death and was admitted to the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Rehabilitation in ... Read more

Study says this may increase risk of urban disasters News Desk : dhakamirror.com Around 80 percent of the country’s population will live in the cities by 2041, which could lead to an increased risk of urban disasters, according to a study. The study, “Disaster Risk of Bangladesh”, jointly conducted by Buet professors Raquib Ahsan and ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Two people including a driver of Fire Service and Civil Defence were killed and seven others injured in an accident as a vehicle of a fire fighting unit met a fatal accident while it was on way to fight a fire at a garment factory in Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The 65-day ban on all types of fishing in the country’s marine waters has been lifted as ban ended at 12:00midnight on Sunday. Public Relations Officer of Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock Iftekhar Hossain confirmed this to media. The government had imposed ban on all types of fishing in the country’s ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Cox’s Bazar Development Authority (CoxDA) is set to prepare a master plan to turn Cox’s Bazar into a modern and smart city, an official said. “We’re working to devise the master plan for 20 years from 2023 to 2043 to transform Cox’s Bazar into a smart city as its formal ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com A total of 114 Bangladeshi hajj pilgrims died in Saudi Arabia till July 23. Of the deceased, 25 were female and 89 male, according to the hajj portal of the religious affairs ministry of Bangladesh. Age of most of the deceased pilgrims was between 50 and 71, according to the portal. ... Read more

11 more die, 2,242 hospitalised in 24 hours News Desk : dhakamirror.com A total of 120 people died of dengue in the past 22 days of July, which was the highest death toll in a single month in 23 years keeping nine days in hand since 2000 when the government started keeping records of dengue. ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Biman Bangladesh Airlines Ltd has partnered with SITA to adopt a suite of state-of-the-art connectivity solutions that will increase network speeds, optimise the airline’s operations, and reduce expansion costs, said a press release. SITA Connect Go is a new Secure SD-WAN (Software-Defined Wide Area Network) solution designed specifically for the air ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com At least 17 people were killed and 26 others injured as a bus fell into a pond by the side of Khulna-Barishal highway at a location adjacent to Dhansiri Union Parishad under Sadar upazila in Jhalokathi district Saturday morning. Jhalokathi Civil Surgeon Jahirul Islam confirmed the casualties. Five of the deceased ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Gold price has hit a record high of Tk 1,00,777 a bhari (11.664 grams) on the local market. According to a Bangladesh Jewellers’ Samity press release, the price of 22-carat gold was on Thursday raised by Tk 2,333 a bhari from Tk 98,444 a bhari in line with an increase in ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com A student of Barishal University was found dead in her room at a dormitory in Barishal city Wednesday night. The deceased is Ribna Shahrin, a first-year student of Botany Department and resident of Molla Chhatri Nibas, locally known as Rokeya Hall, near the university. She is from Pirojpur district. The university ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com At least six people were killed and three were injured in a head-on collision between a microbus and CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Sylhet-Bholaganj Road at Salutikor under Gowainghat upazila in Sylhet district on Thursday. One of the deceased is Kazi Amir Uddin, a teacher of Anwar High School and College, while identities ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Privately-run television network Channel 24 on Wednesday introduced Bangladesh’s first-ever artificial intelligence news presenter named ‘Aparajita.’ AI-generated news presenter Aparajita made a brief appearance in the prime-time news bulletin of Channel 24, one of the top news channels in the country, in the evening. Talat Mamun, executive director at Channel 24, ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government has cancelled the two-week-long summer vacation for secondary schools and colleges across the country. The vacation was scheduled to begin tomorrow but it would be later adjusted with the winter vacation in December, Education Ministry Public Relations Officer (PRO) Abul Khair said. He said that the ministry took the ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com A recently published report by Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy suggests that labour supply and productivity are projected to decline by 46% in Bangladesh by 2080 under a 3°C warming scenario unless workers and employers are able to fully ... Read more