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News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Cabinet on Monday gave the final nod to a draft law on food security with a provision of life-term imprisonment (up to 14 years) for illegally stockpiling food products. The approval came in a cabinet meeting held at Parliament Complex, with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, reports BSS. ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The site of Bangabazar Shopping Complex, which was burnt to the ground on April 4, is being prepared so that the affected shop owners can resume their business from makeshift shops. Abu Naser, spokesperson of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC), said the site is being prepared for business under the supervision ... Read more

The government has raised the prices of urea, DAP, TSP, and MOP News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Bangladesh government has raised the prices of four types of fertilisers – urea, DAP, TSP, and MOP – by Tk 5 per kg. An order signed by Sheikh Badiul Alam, deputy chief for fertiliser management and monitoring at ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com April 20 will also be part of the Eid holidays as the government decided to extend the holidays this year by a day through an executive order. Cabinet Secretary Md Mahbub Hossain informed journalists about the development after the weekly cabinet meeting at the Secretariat today. Before the executive order, Eid ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Veteran freedom fighter and Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder Zafrullah Chowdhury is now on life support as his health situation deteriorated while he was undergoing treatment at the Gonoshasthaya Kendra Nagar Hospital in Bangladesh capital Dhaka. Gonoshasthaya Kendra in a statement said that he was transferred to life support on Monday at about ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Fire Service and Civil Defence marked the city’s Rajdhani Super Market as vulnerable to fire. They made this observation after assessing fire safety system of the market on Sunday afternoon. Bazlur Rashid, deputy assistant director of fire service, told journalists that unplanned power connection has exacerbated the risk of fire in ... Read more

Mercury hits 39c at daytime News Desk : dhakamirror.com A mild-to-moderate heat spell swept across five of the eight divisions of Bangladesh on Sunday as the day temperature reached 39C in the south-western district of Chuadanga. Weather forecasters warn that the temperature will keep climbing for there is no chance of rain anytime soon. April ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Hijra community donated Tk20 lakh in cash to Bangabazar traders affected by the fire on Sunday (April 9). “We have been collecting money from the traders in Bangabazar for the past 30-40 years,” said Bangladesh Hijra Development Organisation President Kashmiri Dipali. “Today, amid such a difficult time, we stand beside ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com This year during the Eid-Ul-Fitr no restrictions on the movement of motorcycles would be imposed, said the road transport and bridges minister, Obaidul Quader on Sunday. The ongoing ban on motorcycle movement on the Padma Bridge would be in force, he said while attending a preparatory meeting to make Eid journeys ... Read more

Another market catches fire News Desk : dhakamirror.com Another fire broke out on Saturday in Gulistan’s Barishal Plaza Shopping Mall near Bangabazar when a few traders affected by the April-4 devastating fire erected makeshift shops under the Mayor Hanif Flyover to resume their business. The Saturday’s fire originated on the third floor of the shopping ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The massive fire at Bangabazar Market was fully doused yesterday morning, after more than 75 hours of breaking out on early Tuesday. The fire was doused around 9:30am, said Rakibul Hasan, duty officer of the Fire Service and Civil Defence control room. The fire originated around 6:10am on Tuesday at Adarsha ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Gonoshasthaya Kendra founder and freedom fighter Dr Zafrullah Chowdhury has been admitted to Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital in the capital after falling seriously ill. Gonoshasthaya Samaj Vittik Medical College’s acting principal and Gonoshasthaya Nagar Hospital’s coordinator Mohibullah Khandaker told media on Friday afternoon. “Dr Zafrullah has been suffering from kidney complications for ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com 564 people were killed and 1,097 injured in 486 road accidents throughout the country in March this year, according to a report of Road Safety Foundation. Among them, 88 were women and 73 were children. The foundation said about the report in a press release today. It prepared the report based ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Supreme Court chamber judge today stayed till June 5 a High Court verdict scrapping the provisions in a law that gave sweeping powers to upazila nirbahi officers (UNOs) to act as the chief executive officer and secretary of upazila parishads. The chamber judge of the SC’s Appellate Division, Justice M ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Islamic Foundation has fixed this year’s Fitra at a minimum of Tk 115. The maximum limit was set at Tk 2,640 per person. The decision was taken at a meeting of the National Fitra Fixing Committee in the conference room of the Islamic Foundation today. The meeting was presided over ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The High Court today directed the government to take necessary steps to set up breastfeeding corners at all work places, shopping malls, airports, bus stops and railway stations across the country. The court delivered the verdict following a writ petition filed by Advocate Ishrat Hasan on October 24, 2019. The name ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com A Bangladeshi man was shot dead by the Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along the border in Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila last night. The deceased is Rabiul Islam, 54, of Kalabagan area undar Patgram upazila and the injured one who is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Lalmonirhat is Shahidul Islam, 30, ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Two more stations have been added to the MRT-6 route, Dhaka’s first metro rail, which now connects all of the stops along the Uttara-Agargaon line. On Friday at 8:30 am, the Shewrapara and Uttara South platforms opened for service. All stops along the route are now accessible to travelers. “Passengers began ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com In order to provide high-speed internet links in 2,600 unions throughout Bangladesh, the government has given the jobs to Summit Communications and Fiber@Home. A draft public-private partnership deal for revenue sharing with the providers of internet infrastructure was approved yesterday by the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (ECNEC). The ... Read more