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Experts warn major earthquake any time Ten earthquakes measuring 2.0 to 4.8 on the Richter scale having epicentres in the Chandpur areas rocked Bangladesh in the past week, giving a warning of a major earthquake any time, according to the Dhaka University Earth Observatory. The earthquakes included the two that took place on the eve ... Read more

Fresh anthrax infection reported; govt says many are panic-driven The country remains on high anthrax alert as reports of fresh infections in different districts continue to swell amid significant fall in consumption of beef and mutton. Three more people have been infected with anthrax in Meherpur and Lalmonirhat yesterday raising the number of confirmed infections ... Read more

Water in the Brahmaputra-Jamuna and the Ganges are in falling trend while the Padma and the Meghna follows a rising trend thus further deteriorating the flood situation of the country, according to the Flood Forecasting and Warning Center (FFWC). The flood situation in low-lying areas of Kurigram, Gaibandha, Bogra, Sherpur, Jamalpur,

The thirst for speed claimed the lives of a mother and her daughter on a Dhaka street yesterday. Taking the opportunity of relatively light traffic after the Eid holidays, a speeding bus crushed Jahura Begum, 35 and Asma Akhter, 10, a class-III student of Angel Academy in Jagannathpur, against the central reservation of Progati Sarani ... Read more

Anyone under 18 years considered children in child policy draft The government has drafted the National Child Policy-2010 with provisions for prohibiting use of children in political activities and their employment in hazardous jobs. The draft proposes that anyone under 18 years of age would be treated as a child, updating the child policy of ... Read more

More than 2 lakh people marooned in 11 dists Flooding of low-lying areas in northern and central districts worsened on Tuesday as the Brahmaputra, Jamuna and Padma rivers marked a further rise because of heavy rainfall, according to the authorities concerned. More than two lakh people in chars and low-lying areas along the banks of ... Read more

Most of the government and private offices in the capital, including the secretariat, had little activities on Tuesday, the second working day after the Eid holiday ending on Sunday, because of thin attendance. Officials of different ministries housed in the secretariat said about 70 per cent of the officials were present as many were still ... Read more

Myanmar has agreed to a proposal for construction of a tri-nation highway connecting Chittagong and the Chinese city of Kunming through Myanmar, the Chinese ambassador in Dhaka said. ‘Myanmar has now agreed to the Chinese government’s proposal for connecting Chittagong with Kunming through Myanmar,’ the state minister for forests and environment, Hasan Mahmud,

A total of 13 new cases were identified with anthrax infection in three districts, including nine from Araihazar Upazila of Narayanganj, said officials of the Institute of Epidemiology, Diseases Control and Research on Tuesday. With these latest cases, the total number of confirmed anthrax infected patients in

At least 41 people, including two policemen and an Air Force sergeant, were killed and 305 injured in separate road accidents in Bagerhat, Rangpur, Manikganj, Narsigndi, Noakhali, Faridpur, Gazipur, Khulna, Kushtia, Lalmonirhat, Jhenaidah, Dhaka and Mymensingh between Thursday and Monday. Government Eid holiday spanned three days beginning

Most essential buildings for providing earthquake victims with support, shelter and treatment are still vulnerable to moderate tremors indicating the authorities will be in real trouble after a disaster. The government has so far failed to take initiative to retrofit vulnerable buildings like hospitals, schools and fire stations which would be used for victims’ treatment, ... Read more

Three earthquakes, with two having their epicentres close to Dhaka, jolted the capital and parts of Bangladesh within a span of 14 hours on Friday night and Saturday, according to news agencies bdnews24.com and the United News of Bangladesh. The Met Office had said the first earthquake, measuring 2.7 on the Richter scale, was

A three-year old male tiger was beaten to death in Jorsingh, a village adjacent to the Sundarbans Thursday morning. The village is under Koyra upazila in Khulna district. Villagers said a fish hatchery worker, who first spotted the straying tiger at the village bazaar by the side of a pond of the hatchery early in ... Read more

As many as 150-MW electricity was added to the national grid as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina formally inaugurated the Shikalbaha 150-MW peaking power plant in Chittagong yesterday. She opened the power plant built at a cost of Taka 777.98 crore by unveiling its plaque. Of the amount, Taka 553.15 crore is foreign currency and 21.71 ... Read more

Dhaka-Chittagong Highway 4-lane project stuck in consultancy row The launch of Dhaka-Chittagong four-lane highway may be delayed by one year as the scheme is stuck in consultancy glitches and frequent changes of project directors. This unexpected delay might make the highway one of the most impossible roads to negotiate with as the number of vehicles ... Read more

Cheated, Abused in Libya Workers finally return to work The Bangladeshi workers in Libya finally went back to work for the company yesterday, which they had left a week ago protesting abuse and non-payment of salaries. “The workers joined work on Wednesday morning,” Ahsan Kibria Siddiqui, first secretary of Bangladesh Embassy in Libya, told The ... Read more

SolarWorld this year honoured Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus by presenting him 2010 SolarWorld Einstein Award. Prof Yunus received the award in Valencia, Spain, in recognition of the work of “Grameen Shakti,” a company he founded in 1996 for providing solar energy to rural homes throughout

A half of people aged 7 years and above illiterate Literacy for all remains elusive as at least a half of the people aged seven years and above are still illiterate, according to experts. People in rural areas lag behind people living in urban areas in literacy rate and so do the females in comparison ... Read more

Colourful balloons and festoons catch eyes as one enters the atrium of the mall. A red car, decorated with ribbons and balloons, is placed on the way to the elevators filled by shoppers of all ages. Some are going upstairs while some are coming down, holding shopping bags containing clothes, footwear and so

Anthrax Infection 76 more cases detected in Satkhira, Lalmonirhat Seventy-six more cases of anthrax infection have been detected in Lalmonirhat and Satkhira, taking to 413 the total number of such cases in seven districts. Twenty-six cases of anthrax infection were first detected in Sirajganj on August 19. Other places from where the infection has been ... Read more