News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government has issued a gazette notification on Dr Benazir Ahmed’s retirement from the post of Inspector General of Police (IGP) of Bangladesh Police (BP). The move comes as the senior cop will reach his retirement age on 30 September. According to government rules, an official goes into post-retirement leave (PRL) ... Read more
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Dinajpur board’s postponed SSC exams from Oct 10-13
News Desk : dhakamirror.com SSC examinations on four subjects, which were postponed by Dinajpur Education Board, will be held from October 10 to 13. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting chaired by the education board’s chairman Prof Md Kamrul Islam. A routine in this regard has been published on the website of Dinajpur ... Read more
SSC question paper leak: Dinajpur Board postpones 4 exams
The four subjects are Mathematics, Physics, Agricultural Science and Chemistry News Desk : dhakamirror.com Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exams on total four subjects, scheduled to be held under the Dinajpur Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, have been postponed. A notification, signed by the board’s Chairman Professor Md Kamrul Islam, was issued in this regard ... Read more
Japan allocates $3.5 mn for Rohingyas in Bangladesh
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Japan will disburse $3.5 million to UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, to provide protection and humanitarian assistance to Rohingyas sheltered in Bangladesh. The Japanese government and the UNHCR have signed an agreement regarding the assistance that would be used to maintain access to critical and life-sustaining services for Rohingyas living in ... Read more
UNFPA discusses child marriage, menstrual health situation
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Knowledge sharing event on child marriage during the Covid pandemic and menstrual health management in urban slums, organised by UNFPA was held on Sunday. UNFPA arranged the programme to disseminate and discuss the findings of the two studies — one to shed light on the situation of child marriage during covid-19 ... Read more
75pc fishermen face hardship during hilsa ban: study
News Desk : dhakamirror.com 75 per cent fishing workers face financial hardship during the days of hilsa ban while 79.8 per cent of the workers that face economic problem have only one earning member in their families, according to a study. The study found that those who live on fishing did not receive adequate amount ... Read more
Nurjahan group chairman jailed 1 year for selling substandard edible oil
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A Chattogram court today (September 20, 2022) sentenced Nurjahan group Chairman and Managing Director Zahir Ahammed to one year in jail and fined him Tk 2.5 lakh in a case filed by BSTI for marketing low-quality edible oil. Chattogram Metropolitan Magistrate Kazi Shariful Islam passed the order today, our Chattogram staff ... Read more
55-year-old Balayet gets chance to study journalism in Varendra University
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The 55-year-old, Md Balayet Sheikh, has qualified in the admission test of Varendra University for the academic session — Fall-2022. Balayet proved that age cannot be a barrier to education as he got the successful passed the entry test of Journalism, Communication and Media Studies at the Varendra University. Balayet said, ... Read more
BTRC to disable additional SIMs under one NID by November 30
News Desk : dhakamirror.com BTRC (Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission) will disable more than 15 SIMs registered to a single national identity (NID.) There are a total of 3.13 million such SIM cards under 7.24 million NIDs, according to the telecom regulator, and they will all be terminated by November 30. A user may register a ... Read more
Three prisoners sit SSC exams in Khagrachari Prison
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Three inmates from the Khagrachhari district jail are taking the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) exam. The three prisoners are taking exams in the jail’s office room, said AG Mahmud, jailer of the Khagrachari District Jail. SSC exams began across the nation today (September 15, 2022). One of the examinees, Sohag Alam, ... Read more
Police help lost SSC candidates reach exam centres on time in Dhaka
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) yesterday (September 15, 2022) helped two SSC examinees, who were lost after reaching the wrong examination centres by mistake on the first day of the exam, by dropping them off at their respective centres on time. The two incidents took place in the capital’s Shyampur ... Read more
Ban on catching, selling hilsa from October 7-28
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government is going to impose a 22-day ban on catching, selling, hoarding and transporting of hilsa from October 7 across the country to protect safe spawning of the fish during its peak breeding period. This information was disclosed in a notification issued by the Ministry of Fisheries and Livestock today ... Read more
BNP Vice-Chairman Shah Moazzem Hossain no more
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Shah Moazzem Hossain, a veteran politician and deputy leader of the BNP, died on Friday at the age of 83. He died at 9:30 p.m. at his home in Gulshan, said Sayrul Kabir Khan, a member of the BNP media cell, who also noted that he had long-standing age-related health problems. ... Read more
Charges pressed against Babul, 6 more in Mitu murder case
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Police Investigation Bureau yesterday filed charges against seven people, including former Police Superintendent Babul Akhter, in a case linked to the murder of his wife Mahmuda Khanam Mitu. Abu Jafar Mohammad Omar Faruk, of the PBI metro unit and also the investigating officer on the case, filed the indictment in ... Read more
1,000 hawkers drove out in Gulistan
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A team from Dhaka South City Corporation evicted around 1,000 hawkers from sidewalks in Gulistan yesterday as it conducted a drive for the second time this week. Earlier Sunday, DSCC had evicted over 1,000 street vendors, but many of them returned to the sidewalks. MA Kashem, president of the Bangladesh Hawkers ... Read more
HSC exams start on November 6th
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Higher Secondary Certificate examinations for this year will start on November 6. The exam timetable is made available on the Board of Secondary and Higher Secondary Education’s website yesterday (September 12, 2022), According to the schedule published on the Board of Education’s website, the HSC theory exams end on December ... Read more
Sajeda Chowdhury laid to rest
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury, deputy leader of the Jatiya Sangsad and a member of Awami League presidium, was buried with state honors yesterday at the Banani cemetery. One of the country’s political doyen, Sajeda, who played a crucial role in organising the AL following assassination of Bangabandhu, died on Sunday at Dhaka ... Read more
Deputy Leader Sajeda Chowdhury no more
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Deputy Leader of the Parliament Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury passed away last night (September 11, 2022). She was 87. She breathed her last around 11:40pm at Combined Military Hospital in Dhaka, her son her son Shahdab Chowdhury confirmed. Sajeda Chowdhury, also presidium member of Awami League, was admitted to CMH after her ... Read more
Earthquake of magnitude 7.6 hits in Papua New Guinea
News Desk : dhakamirror.com A magnitude 7.6 earthquake was recorded in eastern Papua New Guinea, according to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC). According to the US Geological Survey, the quake struck at a depth of about 50 to 60 kilometers (30 to 40 miles), 67 kilometers (42 miles) east of Kainantu, a sparsely populated ... Read more
A life devoted to welfare of the masses
People from all walks of life pay tribute to Akbar Ali Khan News Desk : dhakamirror.com Former adviser to a caretaker governmentAkbar Ali Khan devoted his life to the welfare of the people and his death is an irreparable loss to the nation, said his colleagues, civil society members and noted politicians before bidding farewell ... Read more