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UP polls  The number of voters at present in the country is 8 crore 47 lakh 47 thousand 698, which is 36 lakh 89 thousand more than the last year’s total number of voters. The number of voters in the country was 8 crore 10 lakh 58 thousand 698 during the 9th parliamentary election held ... Read more

Machine readable passports (MRPs) are set for launch on March 31 in a move to speed border clearance and improve security for travellers. “We will issue the three categories of MRPs – red for diplomats, navy blue for government officials and green for the general people starting the last day of March from the Dhaka ... Read more

The government has taken up a nine-point plan to check population boom in the country. Health and family welfare minister AFM Ruhal Haque informed the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday. The minister was replying to a scripted question of Awami League legislator Sukumar Ranjan Ghosh from the Munshiganj-2 constituency during the

For the first time, the forest department has started bird ringing and strapping satellite transmitter to migratory birds to carry out a study on them. The study will be conducted to determine if migratory birds spread avian influenza virus from one country to another. It will also be able to locate their migration

There is no natural food crisis for animals living in the Sundarbans but there are symptoms of dying up sweet water sources gradually. Besides, the trees are suffering from diseases called top dying which has been recorded officially two decades back, according to officials. The UNESCO declared the Sundarbans — 6,017 square kilometers including three ... Read more

Country would observe daylight saving time again from midnight 31 as per the decision of the cabinet by moving the clocks one hour forward. ‘The clock will again be put forward by one hour from March 31, and it will remain so until October 31, 2010. The decision was made in light of factors such ... Read more

The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has initiated an innovative service to allow its commuters to reserve train tickets 10 days in advance over their mobile phone through Grameenphone’s ‘Mobitaka’ service. ‘Mobitaka’ ticketing service was formally announced Thursday by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the ‘Digital Innovation Fair 2010’ when

The three-day 12th annual education UK Exhibition began Thursday in the city to help the students with the admission information to different colleges and universities in the UK and find out how a UK education will prepare the students for an exciting career of their choice. Adviser to the Prime Minister Dr Alauddin Ahmed inaugurated

The Dhaka Education Board authorities yesterday posted the revised schedule of the upcoming Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinations on its website (http://www.dhakaedu-cationboard.gov.bd/). According to the revised routine, the examination of logic 1st paper will be held on May 16 instead of March 19 and the examination of logic 2nd

Govt to create pool of 20,000 primary teachers for filling in leave vacancies The government plans to create a pool of 20,000 primary school teachers to tackle teacher shortages due to leaves of absence. A vast number of teaching posts fall vacant for a temporary but significant amount of time due to maternity leave, professional ... Read more

To be effective from May 1 The government, in its bid to increase non-tax revenue, has decided to double the official price of land, sources in the law ministry told New Age on Monday. The decision, to be in effect from May, will reduce undisclosed money, sources added. The flat registration fees will also be ... Read more

33,000 posts of public health professionals vacant  Public health services across the country are being severely hampered by a staggering shortage of health professionals. According to officials from the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), there are currently 33,000 vacant posts, which is more than a fifth of the total workforce, reports The Daily Star. The ... Read more

Polls in the Dhaka City Corporation will be held in the last week of May, chief election commissioner (CEC) ATM Shamsul Huda said on Friday, reports bdnews24.com. His statement came after five writ petitions filed over demarcation of DCC wards were rejected by the High Court. The CEC said the commission plans to conduct bye-election ... Read more

Presence of the increasing number of tourists with traditional and modern electronic devices are creating various problems for wildlife living and reproductive cycle in the Sundarbans, reports BSS. Preservation of the forest is possible checking unnatural sound. A number of steps, including freeing the Sundarbans from the sound pollution, have been

Access to adequate, safe and nutritious food is essential to achieve economic and social development in the country, said an expert, reports UNB. “Safe and balanced food is essential to ensure productive human resources – a precondition of economic growth and development of a nation,” said Dr. AFM Saiful Islam, the executive director of

CHITTAGONG, Feb 26: Shipping Minister Shahjahan Khan here today said that process was underway to carry pilgrims from Chittagong by sea routes at an affordable cost from October 1 next, reports BSS. The Shipping Minister informed this while talking to reporters after inaugural function of Free Medical Camp under the auspices of

One killed in fresh violence The administration in Khagrachari ordered curfew of the town after at least one person had been killed and more than 50 injured and dozens of houses burnt down on Tuesday as fresh violence erupted in the town three days after the ethnic violence at Baghaichhari in Rangamati on Friday. Troops ... Read more

The renaming of the Zia International Airport as Shah Jalal International Airport was performed on Monday by putting up printed banners on the entrance and departure sides of the main terminal building, but the entire process of change would reportedly cost the exchequer Taka 1400 crore . The process of name changing would involve not ... Read more

Prosecution tells court about the bloodbath as BDR court starts first trial in Pilkhana Darbar hall of BDR Pilkhana headquarters, where a 33-hour carnage set in just shy of a year ago, turned into a courtroom yesterday with Bangladesh Rifles beginning its first mutiny trial in the capital. On the opening day, the three-member Special ... Read more

A special court accepted charges against 86 soldiers of Bangladesh Rifles in the first mutiny trial that began at the Darbar Hall of the border guards’ headquarters at Peelkhana yesterday, exactly a day before the first anniversary of the bloody carnage of February 25-26 of last year in which