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News Desk : dhakamirror.com Ticket prices of three inter-country trains on Bangladesh-India routes are going to be hiked from November 10. The fares are going to increase due to high exchange rate of US dollar and rising travel tax, according to the Bangladesh Railway officials. The trains are – Maitree Express on Dhaka-Kolkata, Bandhan Express ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com A man and his nephew were struck by lightning in Satarbari village of Longair union under Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh yesterday. The deceased were identified as Sohel Mondol, 40, a trader of pharmaceutical drugs, and his nephew Razib Mondol, 35 a rice trader in the village. Quoting locals, Raju Ahmed, officer-in-charge ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The ICC Cricket World Cup 2023 captures the attention of sports enthusiasts across the world and an intriguing trend is emerging in Bangladesh’s television market. While events of this magnitude have traditionally led to an increase in TV sales, recent figures from September show a 30% decline compared to the same ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The heritage volunteers participating in UNESCO World Heritage Volunteers Programme 2023 visited Paharpur archaeological museum in Naogaon on Friday. The ten-day workshop programme organised by Nagar Upakhyan-Perceive started on October 1, said a press release. The Heritage volunteers’ team visited Paharpur archaeological museum which is on the UNESCO World Heritage tentative ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Three people including an eight-year-old child died in separate incidents of mud walls collapsing during heavy rain in Sadar and Kaliakoir upazilas of Gazipur. The deceased are Faridul Islam, 8, son of Matiur Rahmon of Konabari Baimile under Sadar upazila, and Imarat Hossain, 65, and his wife Achia Begum, 56, of ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Eminent human rights activist Advocate Sultana Kamal has been elected as the chairperson of the Board of Trustees of Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB). She takes over the position from Prof Perween Hasan, the Bangladesh chapter of Berlin-based global anti-graft watchdog said in a press release on Wednesday (4 October). The decision ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The hanging body of a student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology was recovered from his room of a student dormitory adjacent to the main entrance of the university at Akhalia in Sylhet city. The deceased is Arif Mia, a second-year social science student of the university and also a ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government has decided to observe a minute’s silence in Dhaka city on October 15 from 10:00 to 10:01 a.m. to raise awareness about noise pollution. The ministry of environment, forests and climate change took the decision in an inter-ministerial meeting at the secretariat on Wednesday to prevent noise pollution, according ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Cybersecurity awareness month will be observed in October with this year’s theme ‘secure our world’. On the occasion, different educational and technology-based organisations have taken elaborate programmes in the capital Dhaka today, Sunday, the first day of the month. In 2004, the United States declared that the month of October would ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Jewellers today reduced prices of gold, a move that comes after three days of slashing its rates by 1.2 percent, according to a press release by Bangladesh Jewellers Association (Bajus). From tomorrow, prices of each bhori of gold will be Tk 98,210, down by 1.74 percent from today’s rate Tk 99,960. ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Additional Inspector General of Police Habibur Rahman took charge as the 36th commissioner of Dhaka Metropolitan Police today. The outgoing commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq formally handed over the charge to Habibur, after receiving a heartfelt farewell from officers at the DMP Headquarters, said a press release. Habibur served as deputy commissioner ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Dhaka North City Corporation mayor Md Atiqul Islam has been nominated as a member of the United Nations Advisory Committee of Local Authorities. On September 25, 2023, a letter signed by UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres informed about the nomination of Mayor Atiqul Islam. After receiving consent, the DNCC mayor was formally ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Between January and August this year, at least 493 girls aged 18 or younger were raped in the country, including 39 children with disabilities, according to a National Girl Child Advocacy Forum presentation. The organisation disclosed the findings of ‘News Analysis on Violence Against Girl Children’ in the capital on Wednesday, ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Justice Obaidul Hassan took oath as the 24th chief justice of Bangladesh today (26 September). President Mohammed Shahabuddin administered the oath at 11am at the Darbar Hall of Bangabhaban, witnessed by the president’s wife Dr Rebecca Sultana, Cabinet members, former chief justices, judges of both the Appellate and High Court divisions, ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Festival of Tolerance was held on Sunday at Zilla Shilpakala Academy in Chattogram with the goal of building a peaceful, tolerant, and harmonious Bangladesh. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) organised the festival as part of its Partnerships for a More Tolerant and Inclusive Bangladesh (PTIB) project, with support from ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Shil, a 55-year-old lawyer was shot by a stray bullet in the capital a week ago. Lawyer Bhuban Chandra Shil, 55, who suffered bullet injuries in the head during an attack on a police-listed terrorist in the city street a week ago, died at the intensive care unit of a hospital ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com Three young lives were cut short on the street of Dhaka as they were struck by a train on Saturday morning. The incident occurred at 6am in Mohakhali area, when a train en route from Kamalapur to Dewanganj hit the children as they attempted to cross the railway tracks. The children, ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com World Bank has approved a $300 million fund to help Bangladesh recover from learning losses caused by the Covid-19 pandemic It will introduce supplementary online learning combined with in-class teaching to strengthen system resilience, improve learning outcomes and teaching quality, and reduce school dropouts, says a World Bank press release. “Bangladesh ... Read more

News Desk : dhakamirror.com A three-day regional tourism fair aimed at promoting cross-border connections, improving cultural exchanges and boosting economic growth has begun in the capital. The fair styled ’10th Asian Tourism Fair and Bangladesh Tourism Development Summit 2023′ began at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center on Thursday. Md Mahbub Ali, state minister for civil ... Read more