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Incorporate e-learning in Nat'l Education Policy

FE REPORTSpeakers at a webinar in the city on Saturday recommended incorporating e-learning guidelines in the upcoming National Education Policy aiming to cope with the evolving global challenges for ensuring increased economic growth and sustainability of livelihoods.They also suggested popularising effective e-learning system in a new normal post-pandemic situation, which...

181 schools, colleges damaged by floods in Sylhet division

SYLHET, Sept 12: Three separate spells of flood since early June have caused various types of damage to as many as 181 high schools and colleges in three districts of Sylhet division. Most of these are now unusable and badly in need of immediate repair, said officials. A detailed report...

Zahid Faruk inspects rivers around city

State Minister for Water Resources Zahid Faruk visited on Friday rivers of Turag, Buriganga, Tungi Canal, Balu, Shitalakkha and Dholeswari and circular waterway around Dhaka city by a speedboat, according to a press release.The state minister visited the Tongi-Demra Eastern Bypass Project's embankment cum road and rail alignment and the...

Biomedical wastes creating health, environment hazards

Biomedical wastes, including the PPE-related ones, are posing a serious threat to the public health and environment during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic as such wastes generated outside hospitals and clinics remain out of management across the country, reports UNB.Even, there is no proper management for biomedical wastes generated in healthcare...

DNCC to start drive against illegal billboards

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Atiqul Islam on Saturday said the corporation will start cleansing drive against illegal billboards and signboards from September15.He also called upon the owners of billboards and signboards to take permission within next two days.The mayor made the call while inaugurating Justice Sahabuddin Ahmed Park...

Mercury up further in city

The mercury further rose on Saturday in the city amid almost no rain and low wind speed.Humidity of 81 per cent in the morning to 67 per cent in the evening caused a surge in temperature further on the day, said the Met Office.The maximum temperature recorded in the city...

A true leader is always simple and humble: Rubana Huq

President of Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) Dr. Rubana Huq Saturday said a true leader is always simple and humble.Speaking on leadership, the first ever female president of BGMEA said a leader always need not speak, but focus on goals."Sometimes silence is the most important thing a leader...

Police investigator lists accused, who is alive, as 'killed in gunfight'

The police have pressed charges in court in a case describing one of the suspects as "being killed in gunfight", but he is alive and even appears in court hearings, reports bdnews24.com.Chattogram Metropolitan Police have suspended Sub-Inspector Dipankar Chandra Roy, the investigation officer of the case. Saleh Mohammad Tanvir, the...

Choreographer Ivan Shahriar in jail over human trafficking

A Dhaka court has sent Ivan Shahriar, an award-winning choreographer and dancer, to jail over his alleged ties to a human trafficking ring that smuggled women to Dubai, reports bdnews24.com.Metropolitan Magistrage Begum Yasmin Ara issued the order after the Criminal Investigation Department of police sent him to the court on...