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Do more to promote climate change adaptation

President Abdul Hamid said on Tuesday the developed nations and donors will have to play more active roles and spend more money for promoting climate change adaptation, report agencies.He came up with the remarks when President of the Marshall Islands Hilda C Heine paid a courtesy call on him at...

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Employee shifting goods

An employee shifting goods to a safer place from a shop which went under ankle-deep water triggered by torrential rain. The photo was taken from Oxygen intersection in Chattogram city on Tuesday — Focus Bangla

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Dengue epidemic higher this year: DSCC Mayor

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) Mayor Sayeed Khokon said on Tuesday the infection rate of dengue fever is comparatively higher this year than the previous years, reports UNB."The medicines we're using to kill mosquitos are slightly less effective than promised ... overall, the outbreak is relatively higher," he told reporters...

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Flooding, landslides put Rohingya children at risk: Unicef

Thousands of people in Cox's Bazar Rohingya camps and host communities are facing the risk of flooding and landslides after several days of heavy rain, Unicef said on Tuesday, report agencies .Some of the over 4,000 families affected in the camps have been relocated to safe places.Unicef has appealed for...

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Stop publishing milk ads, reports containing misleading info

The High Court (HC) asked on Tuesday the lawyer of Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) to stop publishing advertisements and reports on milk that might spread misleading information among the people, report agencies.The bench of Justice Syed Refaat Ahmed and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir gave the verbal order.It also...

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Marshall Island President, Ban Ki-moon in city

Marshall Island President Dr Hilda Heine and former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Dhaka on Tuesday on a two-day visit to attend the 'Dhaka Meeting of the Global Commission on Adaptation', report agencies.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is scheduled to inaugurate the key part of the two-day meeting today...

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Journo Muhammad Jahangir on life support

Muhammad Jahangir, a journalist and executive director of Centre for Development Communication, was put on life support at a hospital in the city on Monday, reports UNB.He has been suffering from cancer and put on life support at Asgar Ali Hospital in the city, said Tanbirul Islam, assistant general manager...

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Journalist Lablu passes away

Syed Akhteruzzaman Siddiqui Lablu, chief reporter of the Bangla daily Bhorer Kagoj, passed away on Tuesday night while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) in the city.He was 52. He had been suffering from liver cancer for long, reports BSS.He was laid to eternal rest at the...

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WEATHER 10-07-2019

Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely at most places over Dhaka, Mymensingh, Rangpur, Barishal, Chattogram and Sylhet divisions and at many places over Rajshahi and Khulna divisions with moderately heavy to very heavy falls at places over the country in the next 24 hours...

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