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News Desk : dhakamirror.com A mobile court yesterday sentenced a fake doctor to two-year imprisonment in Thakurgaon town. The convict is Shariful Islam, 39, of South 24 Parganas district in India’s West Bengal, he claimed. Mohammad Samsuzzaman, executive magistrate and assistant commissioner, led the mobile court. The court also fined the convict Tk 1 lakh. ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Gonoshasthaya Kendra trustee board members and executive council members of its sister concerns at a joint meeting on Saturday reiterated that all the Gonoshasthaya Kendra institutes would operate on the basis of the ideology of its founder Zafrullah Chowdhury, who died past month. The meeting was held at Savar Gonoshasthaya Samaj ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The forest officials and police yesterday recovered the body of an elephant from Bakakura area of Garo Hills in Sherpur’s Jhenaigati upazila. A herd of elephants entered the area from across the Indian border and raided paddy fields, causing a lot of damage to the crops, said Monirul Alam Bhuiyan, officer-in-charge ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com According to the fire service, there were 100 ponds in the capital Dhaka in 2018. This number has decreased to 29 in 2023. So, in the last five years, 71 ponds have been filled up in Dhaka. Fire Service and Civil Defense Director (Operation and Maintenance) Lt Col Tajul Islam Chowdhury ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Armed Police Battalion arrested a man along with gold worth around Tk 54 lakh at Hazarat Shahjalal International Airport premises early today. A team of APBn arrested Billal, 53, from the car park area at the Arrivals Canopy: 2 around 12:30am, said SM Mizanur Rahman, an additional superintendent of Airport APBn. ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com According to a recent study, by 2050, searing heat waves will affect the lives and livelihoods of more than 3.5 billion people worldwide, half of whom live in urban areas. Extreme heat poses major risks to cities and is becoming more dangerous every year, according to the study Building Urban Heat ... Read more

Says Jatri Kalyan Samity News Desk : dhakamirror.com At least 328 people were killed and 565 injured in 304 road accidents in 15 days (from April 15 to 29) during the Eid rush, Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity said today. The organisation said the road crashes and road accident-related deaths during this Eid rush were 18.2 ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Unemployment increased to 2.59 million in the first quarter (January-March) of 2023, up from 2.32 million in the last quarter of 2022, according to the quarterly data from the Labour Force Survey released by the BBS on Tuesday. The rate of unemployment is currently 3.51%, according to the survey findings disclosed ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Biman Bangladesh Airlines has ushered in a new horizon in South Asian aviation history by providing line training to foreign pilots on state-of-the-art Dreamliner 787. The training programme started auspiciously on Friday by providing training to a pilot of Mongolian Airlines on Dhaka-Sylhet-London route flight. Twelve pilots of Mongolian State Airlines ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The World Bank (WB) approved a $1.25 billion financing in three new projects under a new Country Partnership Framework to help Bangladesh achieve greener and more resilient development. The approval came on Thursday at a meeting of the global lender’s Board of Directors in Washington on Thursday, according to a statement ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Meta platforms including Facebook, Instagram and Whatapp’s official advertisement services will be “unavailable or limited” in Bangladesh until further notice due to dollar crisis, said Meta’s revenue collection agent Httpool Bangladesh Limited. Httpool, Meta’s sales partner in Bangladesh, made the announcement in a letter. The letter from the organization stated that ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com After holding the office of president for the longest time — 10 years spanning two consecutive terms — Abdul Hamid went into retirement on Monday and left Bangabhaban, the office and residence of the head of state. But even after his retirement, Abdul Hamid is going to get some benefits, including ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Chief of Bangladesh Army General SM Shafiuddin Ahmed left Dhaka today for India on a three-day official visit at the invitation of Indian Army Chief General Manoj Pande. During the visit, he will take the parade salute as the chief guest at the passing out parade of the commissioned officers at ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) predicted that the mercury may rise one or two degrees Celsius in the next two days before dropping by month’s end. According to the Met office bulletin, “Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind are likely at a few places in Khulna, Barishal, Chattogram, Mymensingh and ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Eid-ul-Fitr, the largest religious festival of the Muslims, will be celebrated tomorrow as Shawal moon was sighted this evening. The National Moon Sighting Committee sat at the Islamic Foundation’s Baitul Mukarram National Mosque office after Maghrib prayers. Meanwhile, all preparations for holding Eid congregations have already been completed in the capital ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Saudi Arabia will celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr on Friday (21 April) as the Shawwal crescent has been sighted today. According to the sighting committee in the Tumair observatory, the Shawwal crescent moon has been sighted, meaning Ramadan will only last 29 days this year, reports Saudi Gazette. The kingdom’s International Astronomy Center said ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com At least four people were killed and 18 others injured in a traffic accident on Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Shologhar area of ??Shreenagar Upazila in Munshiganj Thursday morning. Three of the deceased were identified as Hajera Begum (50) and Saiful Islam (30) Arif, 23. Hasara highway police acting officer-in-charge Molla Zakir Hossain, ... Read more

Heat wave passes 15th day News Desk : dhakamirror.com Parts of Bangladesh endured the ongoing heat wave for the 15th consecutive day on Wednesday, with little possibility of rain giving the inhabitants of these areas relief from the intense spell of heat anytime soon. The latest weather forecast from the Bangladesh Meteorological Department advised people ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com People with some 12.28 lakh mobile connections left Dhaka on April 18, the last day of work before the start of holidays for the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr. However, people with 6.67 lakh SIMs entered Dhaka on the same day. Telecom Minister Mustafa Jabbar disclosed the information at a post on his verified ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Motorbikes will be allowed to cross the Padma Bridge from 20 April after eight months of hiatus. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader confirmed the matter at Ganabhaban after attending an Ecnec meeting on Tuesday. Motorcycles will be able to cross the Padma Bridge through the left-side service lane. The ... Read more