News Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh largely escaped the worst impacts of very severe cyclone Mocha, as the storm barely touched the country’s southeastern tip while making landfall on Sunday afternoon on the Bangladesh-Myanmar coast. The cyclone, however, made a mess of St Martin’s island, about 9km south of the southeastern tip of mainland Bangladesh, with ... Read more
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Monday’s SSC, equivalent exams in all boards postponed
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government on Sunday postponed the Secondary School Certificate and equivalent examinations scheduled for Monday in all boards for the situation due to cyclone Mocha. The National University authorities also cancelled its B.Ed examinations across the Bangladesh scheduled for Monday for the cyclone. Earlier, the government postponed the SSC and equivalent ... Read more
IFIC Banker awards employees’ children
Business Desk : dhakamirror.com Employees of IFIC Bank were felicitated by giving gold coins to newborns and children of different ages. On the occasion, an award giving ceremony was organised at Sena Malanch in Dhaka Cantonment on Saturday, reads a press release. Shah A Sarwar, managing director and chief executive of the bank, attended as ... Read more
EBL hosts AML and CFT conference in Sylhet
Business Desk : dhakamirror.com To enhance Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating Financing of Terrorism (CFT) knowledge and skill of its employees, Eastern Bank Ltd (EBL) organised a day-long conference for BMs and BAMLCOs of Sylhet zone at Grand Sultan Tea Resort and Golf on Saturday. Masud Rana, additional director, and Md Rokon-Uz-Zaman, joint director of ... Read more
SUB Pharmacy Dept organises international conference
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The Department of Pharmacy, State University of Bangladesh (SUB), has organised the International Conference on Pharmaceutical Sciences. Senior officials of pharmaceutical companies, respected researchers, faculties, students from more than 30 universities in the world, including the United States, South Korea, Malaysia, India and Nepal, are participating in the conference, reads a ... Read more
Zaynax Health achieves gold at ITEX, Malaysia
Business Desk : dhakamirror.com Zaynax Health, South Asia’s first Health Super App, has been awarded Gold at ITEX, Malaysia 2023 competing with around 3000 participants from more than 40 countries, said a press release on Saturday. The event is regarded as the largest international exhibition for invention, innovation, and technology in Asia and the award ... Read more
Five districts have very low literacy rate
Kamrun Nahar Sumy Five districts lag far behind in literacy rate from the national average, among people aged seven and above, which has increased to 74.66 per cent, according to the preliminary report of the Population and Housing Census 2022. The rate of literacy, defined as the ability to read and write, was 51.77 per ... Read more
Mocha starts crossing Cox’s Bazar coast, wind speed up to 215 kmph: BMD
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The very severe cyclone Mocha has started crossing Cox’s Bazar-north Myanmar coast and is likely to move north-northeasterly direction further and complete crossing Cox’s Bazar-North Myanmar coast near Sittwe of Myanmar by afternoon or evening on Sunday, according to the latest bulletin of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department on Sunday morning. The ... Read more
Mocha approaches coast with 200 kmph speed
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Cyclone Mocha is approaching the coastal areas of Bangladesh and Myanmar with a maximum wind speed of 200 kmph, said the latest weather bulletin of the Bangladesh Meteorological Department. According to the bulletin, at 6:00pm, the very severe cyclonic storm was centred about 605km south-southwest of Chattogram port, 525km south-southwest of ... Read more
What do the storm-related port signals 1 to 11 mean?
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Cyclone Mocha has been dominating discussions in last few days, cautionary, warning and danger signals, which the Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) is urging ports to hoist, have become a foremost of the news. The following is a look at what each of the signal means, according to BMD: Distant Cautionary Signal ... Read more
Cyclone Mocha intensifies into ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’: IMD
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Mocha has intensified into an extremely severe cyclonic storm over east central Bay of Bengal and was 760km south southwest of Cox’s Bazar at 2:30am (local time) today, according to the Indian Met Department’s last update. It is moving north-northeastwards and likely to intensify further and cross Bangladesh and Myanmar coasts ... Read more
BINA Dhan-25 shows hope
Farmers get higher yield from newly developed rice variety Sajjad Hossain Mannan Joaddar cultivated BINA Dhan-25, a newly developed variety of paddy, on one bigha of land in Moghi village of Magura 93 days ago. The 55-year-old farmer is now over the moon. He had not seen such thin and long grain in his 20 ... Read more
Bangladesh coastal areas are under danger signal number 8
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh is ready to evacuate about a million people in Chattogram and Cox’s Bazar as the very severe cyclonic storm over the east central Bay of Bengal looked ferocious with rapid intensification and is forecast to begin to have impacts on the south-east coast of the country from Saturday night. The ... Read more
Rooftop solar panels a contemporary necessity
Speakers tell webinar In December 2020, a knitting factory in Kashimpur in Gazipur had a rooftop solar panel installed for 19.89 crore Tk, saving the company 3.19 crore Tk per year, according to a study. The investment will be returned by 6.23 years, according to the study, after analyzing the electricity production data for the ... Read more
Bangladesh Railway will conduct special mango train
News Desk : dhakamirror.com Bangladesh Railway will operate a special Mango train on the Chapainawabganj-Dhaka route via Rajshahi this season for the fourth consecutive year. Asim Kumar Talukder, general manager of the western zone of the railway, said that they have already started preparations for deploying two trains to transport mangoes at a lower cost ... Read more
Half-yearly exams, pre-test deferred for secondary students
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The government deferred the schedules of the half-yearly and pre-test examinations for a week for students of the government and non-government secondary schools across the country. The decision was made to facilitate the implementation of the new national curriculum in the Classes of VI and VII, said a notice issued by ... Read more
Deep depression over Bay has intensified into Cyclone Mocha: IMD
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The deep depression over southeast Bay of Bengal today intensified into Cyclone Mocha and headed in a north-northwest direction at a speed of eight kilometres per hour, the Indian Met Department said. The cyclone lay centred 1,210km from Cox’s Bazar, it added. Mocha is very likely to intensify into a very ... Read more
No exams for pre-primary students, only assessment for Class I
News Desk : dhakamirror.com No examinations will be held to evaluate the pre-primary level students in the current 2023 academic year following the new national curriculum. Class I students will be fully evaluated through continuous assessment while no marginal/annual examination will be held and no fees can be charged from the students or the guardians ... Read more
Grameen UNIQLO announces closure of its operations in Bangladesh
Business Desk : dhakamirror.com Grameen UNIQLO, social business of Fast Retailing Co Ltd in Bangladesh, is set to close all 10 of its stores in the country by June 18, according to a press release issued on Wednesday. Japan-based Fast Retailing Co Ltd established the clothing business in 2010 in partnership with the Grameen Bank ... Read more
Cyclone Mocha raises storm alert in Bangladesh
News Desk : dhakamirror.com The deep depression over the southeast Bay of Bengal intensified into a cyclonic storm, confirmed Bangladesh Meteorological Department in a special weather bulletin issued at 8:30am on Thursday. The cyclone, named Mocha, moved north northwestard at about 6:00am, the BMD said. The cyclone was 1,295kms south southwest of Chattogram port, 1,220 ... Read more