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Health and nutrition experts blamed poor feeding practice due to lack of awareness as a major cause of malnutrition of children across Bangladesh. They told New Age that a large segment of the population is completely unaware about exclusive breast feeding and balanced

The 20th anniversary of the death of Dr Shamsul Alam Khan Milon, whose killing fuelled the anti-autocracy movement in 1990 and led to the fall of the Ershad regime, will be observed today. Milon, the then joint secretary general of the Bangladesh Medical Association, was shot dead on the Dhaka University campus on this day ... Read more

DMCH burn unit achieves commendable recovery rate, reduces number of deaths When success story is rare in public service institutions, the Burn and Plastic Surgery unit at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) is an exception with increasing recovery rate and sliding death toll since its inception in December 2003. The specialised unit can now cure ... Read more

The first global study into the effects of passive smoking has found it causes 6,00,000 deaths every year. One-third of those killed are children, often exposed to smoke at home, the World Health Organization (WHO) found. The study, in 192 countries, found that passive smoking is particularly dangerous for children,

Sixty-seven primary terminal exams candidates, 12 schoolteachers and three non-governmental agency officials were sued in Jaipurhat on Thursday in connection with cheating in the exams hall. The acting RB Government High School headmaster Afzal Hossain, also in charge of the primary terminal examinations centre, filed the

A mobile court yesterday sentenced a college teacher to one-year imprisonment for harassing a female admission seeker at Dhaka University. Saiful Islam, lecturer of physical education department of University Laboratory School and College, was accused of passing indecent

DU Vandalism All arrestees released Police yesterday released all the detainees of Thursday’s car accident and the subsequent vandalism on Dhaka University campus following a negotiation between the car owner and the DU authorities. They were freed around 12:30am yesterday when the owner of the car that hit Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, a fourth year DU ... Read more

Angry students of the Rajshahi University on Thursday evening blocked the Rajshahi-Dhaka highway in front the university’s main entrance after a bus supervisor allegedly stabbed their fellow pupil. Sources said that the bus supervisor of Tuhin Paribahan assaulted Anisur Rahman, a third year student of political science in Rajshahi University, over a trifling matter while ... Read more

Neighbours are asking for private universities in the capital city to move out of residential areas, as the law requires. People living around said that the private universities were causing them problems. Residents complained to New Age about violence from student demonstrations and the bad

Padma Bridge ADB, IDB okay $755m credit WB’s $1.5b in process Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Islamic Development Bank have approved loans of $615 million and $140 million for the construction of Padma Multipurpose Bridge. The development partners took the decisions at their board meetings yesterday, said Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain

9 more youths jailed The father of a stalking victim was assaulted yesterday while nine stalkers were jailed and another nine were fined in Sirajganj, Bagerhat, Tangail, Netrokona and Madaripur. SSC examinee Bipasha of Belkuchi upazila was harassed by Babu, a local youth, on her way home from a coaching centre yesterday morning, reports our

Bangladesh men’s cricket team stand on the brink of bringing the country’s first-ever Asian Games gold home when they take on surprise package Afghanistan in the final in Guangzhou today. Mohammad Ashraful’s boys confirmed the title clash with a five-wicket defeat of a strong Sri Lankan team in the second semifinal of the 16th Asian ... Read more

Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan is going to perform live at Army Stadium in Dhaka and campaign for the Sundarbans to help it become one of the Seven Wonders of the World on December 10. He will vote for the largest mangrove forest on stage. Local private television channel Boishakhi TV will telecast the megastar’s voting ... Read more

A 25-year-old student of the Government Bangla College at Mirpur was killed as train hit him in the Kuril-Bishwa Road level crossing in Dhaka on Thursday, the police said. The victim, Billal Hossain, of Bhola, was a first-year student of mathematics and had lived in Gazipur. The police said a train had hit Billal in ... Read more

Three teenage boys have been found alive after being lost in their boat in the Pacific Ocean for 50 days. The boys, from the Tokelau Islands, a New Zealand-administered territory in the South Pacific, had been given up for dead. A tuna fishing boat picked them up near Fiji and is taking them to hospital ... Read more

The nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way — Andromeda — was born when two smaller galaxies collided, say astronomers. An international team conducted a computer simulation of how Andromeda evolved over time. The results suggest that two galaxies collided some nine billion years ago and

The number of incidents of women’s repression is on the rise and the law on domestic violence is yet to come into force even 56 days inside its enactment, marking that observance of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in the country as nothing but a farce. Nine hundred and forty-five women ... Read more

Teachers, students demand punishment of the killer The prime suspect in the killing of Sylhet Government Women’s College teacher was arrested in a Sunamganj village early Wednesday, eight months after the killing. The arrested Abdul Latif alias Kawsar, 28, an expatriate in the United Kingdom, was sent to the RAB headquarters in Dhaka by air ... Read more

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women will be observed today in Bangladesh like elsewhere across the world. This year’s theme of the day is building partnerships to combat violence against women. The United Nations has been observing the day since 1999 starting with a 16-day global

The Special Court-10 of the Bangladesh Rifles on Wednesday framed charges against 256 medical personnel and other soldiers from attached units at the BDR Hospital for the February 2009 mutiny in the BDR headquarters in Dhaka. After framing the charges the three-member special court, presided over by the BDR’s