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News Desk : dhakamirror.com Light to heavy rain brought temperatures down across most of the country yesterday, giving people relief from the searing heat that has swept across the country in recent weeks. According to the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD), further rain or thunderstorms are threatening various parts of the country, including Dhaka, will occur ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Election Commission has moved to ease the hassle for people in correcting information on National ID Cards. EC officials prepared a draft Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) which will make it easier for fixing NID corrections. It has re-designated officers’ jobs and proposed increasing the powers of field officers of the ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The “Mango Special Train”, loaded with the seasonal delicacies, started its service yesterday. Railways Minister Nurul Islam Sujan inaugurated the service on Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route via Rajshahi at Chapainawabganj Railway station on Thursday as the chief guest. One train will be operated every day from Rohanpur Railway Station at 4:00pm and will ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government will hold the Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent examinations for 2023 across Bangladesh between August 17 and September 25. The education ministry on Thursday published the routine. According to the routine, the theoretical part of the examinations will be held between August 17 and September 25 and the practical ... Read more

Business Desk : dhakamirror.com Libin Shishir Rodrik, sous chef at Biman Bangladesh Airlines Flight Catering Center (BFCC), clinched second place in the cooking competition at the “Phoenicians Festival for Tourism and Hospitality” in Beirut, Lebanon. In recognition of his achievement, he was presented with a certificate, crest, and medal from Lebanon as a token of ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Police on Wednesday recovered the bodies of a man and a woman from a private car in the Tejgaon area of ​​the capital. The car was parked in a garage in the government officials’ quarters in Tejgaon-Elenbari area. The deceased were Delwar Hossain Molla, 53, an office assistant at a government ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com According to the Disaster Forum, up to 20 people across the country have died from heat stroke since April. The disaster preparedness network said 14 men, five women and one child were among the dead, citing news reports. Most of them are low-income workers. A severe heat wave has been raging ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Directorate of Secondary and Higher Education has announced that classes at all secondary schools in the country will remain closed on Thursday (June 8) due to the severe heatwave. The decision was announced in a press release from the Directorate for Secondary and Higher Education on Wednesday (7 June). The ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The High Court yesterday granted conditional bail to Mohammad Rassel, founder and CEO of e-commerce platform Evaly, in a case filed under the Digital Security Act. According to the conditions, Rassel cannot leave the country, he has to surrender his passport to the authorities concerned, he cannot tamper evidence, he must ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Amid the scorching heatwave, Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicted rain in Chattogram and Sylhet today. “Rain or thundershower accompanied by temporary gusty wind may occur at one or two places in Chattogram and Sylhet divisions in the next 24 hours starting 6:00pm on Monday,” said BMD. The weather may remain mainly ... Read more

New Desk : dhakamirror.com The government today decided to close the primary section attached with the secondary schools till June 8 due to the ongoing heatwave. The government also instructed the authorities to suspend the assembly session at all schools. Additionally, the Directorate of Secondary and Higher education (DSHE) instructed all the educational institutions not ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Ashraful Hossain Alam, known as Hero Alam, will contest the by-election to the Dhaka-17 constituency, scheduled for 17 July, which fell vacant following the death of actor Akbar Hossain Pathan Farooque. He collected the nomination paper from the Election Commission (EC) office in Dhaka on Sunday (4 June). Hero Alom said ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com A shopkeeper was beaten and stabbed by a mob in front of Police Staff College in the capital’s Mirpur-13 yesterday for allegedly hurting religious sentiments. A team of Kafrul Police Station rescued and sent him to Dhaka Medical College Hospital around 9:45pm, said Saddam Hossain, sub-inspector of the police station. “Someone ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Due to the severe heatwave in the country, the government has decided to keep all public primary schools closed from June 5th to 8th. The decision was taken considering the health safety of the children going to the schools, the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education said in a press release ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Drugs for hypertension and diabetes will now be available in community clinics across the country as part of the government’s plan to ensure primary health care in rural areas. The drug list update committee for community clinics has taken the decision in a meeting on May 14, 2023, according to a ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Two Bangladeshi citizens from Rajshahi and Bogura are among the injured in India’s one of the worst rail disasters in Odisha last night. Of the injured, Russel-uz Zaman, 27, from Rajshahi was a passenger of Chennai-bound Coramandel Express from Shalimar near Kolkata, a senior official of Bangladesh Deputy High Commission in ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com World Vision, an international development agency dedicated to child welfare, and the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) have signed a memorandum of understanding to end all forms of violence against children and build a country free of child marriage. A MoU signing ceremony was held on 1 June with National Human ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com A commercial building in the capital Shyamoli caught fire last night, killing one person. The identity of the approximately 45-year-old deceased could not be immediately confirmed. His body was recovered from the 17th floor of the 20-story Rupayan Shelford building, said Abdul Mannan, senior station officer of Mohammadpur Fire Station. The ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com From now on the metro rail will run from 8:00am to 8:00pm six days a week. Mahfuz Rahman, manager of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), confirmed to The Daily Star that the metro rail started following the new schedule from yesterday morning. As per the new schedule, weekly closure of ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Biman has fired Capt Dildar Ahmed Tufail for negligence in duty while captaining a flight on January 15. He was reportedly napping in the crew rest area, leaving the cockpit of the Boeing 777-300ER technically unmanned. A passenger had a heart attack during the overnight flight to Dhaka from Jeddah. Capt ... Read more