Commuters especially government job candidates and admission-seekers of different institutions underwent immense suffering in the capital due to transport strike on Friday.The strike was enforced by the transport owners and workers to press the government either to withdraw the latest price hike of petroleum products or increase transport fares.Apart from...
Read moreThe Minamata Convention has urged parties to phase down the use of dental amalgam, a filling material that contains about 50 per cent mercury. The next step is to prepare for the global phase-out and there is a movement to phase out this toxic and polluting product at the second...
Read moreCHATTOGRAM, Nov 03: A section of traders are felling trees indiscriminately in the port city to construct shops beside roads, on footpaths and in open spaces of Chattogram City Corporation violating rules.Sources said some local influential people, including ruling-party leaders and workers, are constructing markets and shops illegally on government...
Read moreNorth South University (NSU) waived tuition fees worth Tk 1.33 billion for the last five semesters during the Covid-19 pandemic to help its students continue their study. Besides, it waived tuition fees totally for 54 students who had lost their parents during the pandemic, said NSU Vice-Chancellor Prof Atiqul Islam...
Read moreCHATTOGRAM, Nov 05: Chattogram Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has hiked the price of water by 5.0 per cent with effect from January next year. In the 64th board meeting held on Thursday, the authority took the decision to raise the price of water. As a result, the consumers...
Read moreCHANDPUR, Nov 05 (UNB): A woman drowned and another was missing as a boat sank after being hit by a launch in Meghna River near the Dakatia of Chandpur on Friday.The dead is Rojina Begum (50) while the missing is Nasima Begum (30).Additional Superintendent of Police Belayet Hossain said the...
Read moreThe admission test for first-year honours of 'Science unit' for the 2020-21 academic year in seven affiliated colleges of Dhaka University (DU) will be held today (Saturday), reports BSS.Dhaka University Vice-Chancellor Dr Md Akhtaruzzaman will visit Eden College's examination centre at 10.15 am.
Read moreWeather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country until 6:00 pm today (Saturday), according to Met office.. Night temperature may fall slightly and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.The country's maximum temperature on Friday was recorded at 31.5 degrees Celsius in Sylhet and...
Read moreUCEP Chairperson Parveen Mahmud presides over a function marking the UCEP Day 2021 and the birth anniversary of its founder Lindsay Allan Cheyne at its head office in the city on Thursday
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