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Bangladesh’s 33 million children, a half of all the children in the country, live in poverty, according to a report of United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. Released in Dhaka on Thursday, the report states that one in four children in the country is deprived of at least four basic needs

Bangladesh will have to spend a colossal amount in the next 10 years to help 30 million victims of the rising sea level. ‘According to the health ministry’s estimate, the government will have to spend at least $2,081 million between 2010 and 2021 because of the rising sea level,’ said Iqbal Kabir, coordinator of the ... Read more

A female student of a private university was stabbed to death allegedly by her friend in Amirbagh area of the port city yesterday. The deceased was identified as Mridhat Sarima Rahman, 19, daughter of Mizanur Rahman of the city’s GEC area and a third-semester BBA student of

Fatullah Model Police Station yesterday finally recorded a rape case, three days after a 16-year-old mentally challenged girl was violated at Bhuiyanbag in the town. Talking to this correspondent in Kashipur Bhuiyapara area, victim’s younger brother Monir Hossain said the rapists demanded Tk 20,000 as toll from their family after capturing the rape

The terminal examinations for primary students will begin on November 23. The exams will end on November 29 and the results will be published on December 26. This year, 21,57,400 students will take the exams in 5,971 examination centres. There will be six examination centres in outside the country where 496 students will take the

Japanese Woman Death still shrouded in mystery The body of Japanese national Kazuko Uful, who died on October 18 mysteriously, was taken to the capital’s Apollo Hospitals mortuary yesterday after autopsy at Dhaka Medical College Morgue. Police are yet to know the reason behind the death but morgue sources said it could be a suicide. ... Read more

States UNFPA report; minister Razzaque feels food security threatened The country’s population is now 16.44 crore while the population growth 1.4 per thousand, said a UNFPA report. The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) yesterday launched its world population report 2010. As for Bangladesh, Food and Disaster Management Minister Muhammad Abdur Razzaque unveiled

Cost rises to $2.9b for design change; Muhith terms talks with WB fruitful; donors firm on graft issues Construction of the Padma Bridge will start in March next year instead of this year, and the cost will be $2.9 billion instead of the earlier projection of $2.4 billion, said Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday. The ... Read more

Ecnec okays project The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) in its meeting yesterday approved Tk 2,169 crore in seven projects including one for setting up 3,500 kilometres new electric lines in Khulna division. Ecnec meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair okayed rural Electrification

A regional Counter-Terrorism Centre will be set up in Dhaka with financial and technological assistance from European Union to train people across South Asia to combat terrorism. The international standard centre will start functioning early next year, said Dr Stefan Frowein, ambassador of EU Delegation to

The home affairs ministry on Tuesday directed the agencies concerned to take legal action against any irregularities in mobile subscriber identity module card registration to curb crimes such as extortion, harassment of girls and women and intimidation of people over mobile. The home minister, Sahara Khatun, at a meeting on containing mobile phone crimes

The government is planning to formulate a law restricting wholesale felling of trees as part of its policy to mitigate climate change, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed has said. “There could be a provision that two trees have to be planted if one fells one tree,” he said, emphasising that the environment must be protected to ... Read more

The government has published results of the 30th Bangladesh Civil Service’s preliminary examinations, reports bdnews24.com. Public Service Commission (PSC) exam controller (cadre) A E M Nesar Uddin told bdnews24.com that 14,470 candidates passed the

Leaders of the national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports on Tuesday called on all the progressive forces to take part in its week-long Dhaka–Phulbari long march during October 24–30. The committee will hold the long march to push for its seven-point demands including end to export of national resources, cancellation ... Read more

Cousin among 7 teen kidnappers arrested by Rab The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday rescued a three-year-old girl and arrested seven amateur kidnappers, six of whom are teenagers, at Chasara, Narayanganj. Neha Akhter was kidnapped from Baro Moghbazar Friday afternoon by some teenagers, of whom one is her cousin Shaon. Neha is the only child of ... Read more

At least six persons received severe injuries when an explosion with big bang blown off roof of a tin-shed mess at Masdair in Fatulla early yesterday. Members of different agencies started investigation just after the incident. Police recovered some religious books, ID cards and some evidences from the

Encroachers march against eviction The Dhaka District Admin-istration postponed for two days their drive in Ramchandrapur canal yesterday, as agitating encroachers brought out a procession against the drive. Dhaka Water Supply Authority (Wasa) officials who are in charge of maintaining the canal once the deputy collector’s office completed the eviction were present on the site. ... Read more

A trader was shot dead at his shop in the city’s Jatrabari last night. Deceased Pronab Mondol, 32, used to run a signboard and banner shop, “Sign Maker” behind the Elish Paribahan counter in the area. Witnesses said a gang of three armed men came at the shop on a motorbike around 10:00

Durga Puja, the greatest religious festival of the Hindus, ended yesterday with the immersion of the idols of goddess Durga and her children on the fifth day of celebration of it across the country. Bijoya Dashami processions were brought out on the day. Devotees with tearful eyes joined the processions carrying the idols to bid ... Read more

Thousands of people affected by cyclone ‘Aila’ in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira have been forced to migrate to upper cities after the cyclone last year made them both homeless and workless. Their lives are now under severe threat and face uncertainity and at the same time population density in other cities being higher, a field ... Read more