The UK's DFID signed a grant agreement with the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) on Sunday for reducing the maternal mortality rate in Bangladesh by improving the quality of midwifery education. Under the Strengthening the National Midwifery Programme (SNMP), the UK grant through UNFPA will support the Ministry of Health...
Read moreThe one and a half years old baby died after she along with two of her family were rescued unconscious at their house in the city's Badda area on Sunday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Aria, daughter of Amjad Hossain, a resident of Uttar Badda area of the...
Read moreSpeakers at a seminar in the city called for increasing government's capability along with international cooperation to reduce disaster risks, reports BSS. Twenty-one local and foreign agencies organised the seminar at the CIRDAP auditorium ahead of an Asian minister-level conference on disaster risk reduction to be held in New Delhi...
Read moreCHITTAGONG, Oct 23: The journalist leaders of Chittagong have demanded of the ruling party lawmaker Mostafizur Rahman Chowdhury to seek apology to staff reporter of the Daily Purbadesh Rahul Das Nayan for threatening him. They have given a 72-hour ultimatum to apologise to Nayan, otherwise stronger programmes would be announced....
Read moreRAJSHHAI UNIVERSITY, Oct 23: Teachers and students of the Mass Communication & Journalism (MCJ) department of Rajshahi University (RU) demanded immediate arrest and exemplary punishment to the killers of Motalab Hossain Lipu, a 2nd year student of the department through protest rally and human chain on the campus on Sunday....
Read moreCivil society representatives suggested on Sunday to forge a common platform for cross border cooperation in human displacement and river basin management in South Asia, involving China, as many international rivers are born there, reports BSS. The demand was raised at a seminar in the city Sunday, little over a...
Read moreAnti-terror probe agency of India NIA will train nearly 200 Bangladeshi police officials in detecting Fake Indian Currency Notes (FICN) after it emerged that the neighbouring country was used for pumping in nearly 80 per cent of counterfeit notes into India, reports Indian Express. The NIA, in collaboration with Reserve...
Read moreRAJSHAHI, Oct 23 (BSS): Admission test for first year honours courses in 2016-17 academic session of Rajshahi University (RU) will begin tomorrow (Monday). According to the sources, the exams will be held from 9:00 am to 4:30 pm in four shifts every day from October 24 to 27. A total...
Read moreJournalist Timir Lal Dutta died at a city hospital on Sunday. He was 62, reports BSS. Timir Lal Dutta, who was former senior reporter of Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), breathed his last at Birdem Hospital around 6:00 am, said Raju Ahmed, general secretary of Dhaka Reporters' Unity.
Read moreForeign anthropologists team calls on DU VC An eight-member delegation of renowned anthropologists from UK, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Maldives called on Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof Dr AAMS Arefin Siddique at his office on Sunday. Members of the delegation were Iliona Outram Khalili (UK), SG Senalankadhikara, RMSS Sanjeewani,...
Read moreLight rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur over Cox's Bazar district and adjoining area and weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country until 6:00 pm today (Monday), reports UNB. The country's highest temperature of 34.6 degrees Celsius was...
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