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Focus on alternative jobs for sustainable haor livelihoods

Livelihood of haor dwellers can be improved through long-term farming plan, creation of alternative jobs, better early warning system for flash flood, and repair and construction of long-lasting embankments, according to a study.The study also suggested setting up manufacturing facilities in the haor region to generate jobs other than agriculture...

Law enforcers to remain alert during March 25 'blackout'

Members of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) and intelligence agencies will remain alert so that no miscreant can carry out any subversive act in the city during the countrywide one-minute 'blackout' programme on the night of March 25, marking 'Genocide Day', reports UNB.DMP Commissioner Asaduzzaman Miah said this while addressing a...

BGB, BGP hold joint border patrol

COX'S BAZAR, Mar 14: Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Guard Police (BGP) of Myanmar completed a joint patrol in the Naf river on Wednesday. According to BGB sources, a number of BGB and BGP personnel took part in a one hour long joint border patrol in the river and...

USAID support to hill people will continue : Bernicat

BANDARBAN, Mar 14: US Ambassador in Bangladesh Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat has said US Agency for International Development (USAID) will continue expansion of its supports in improving the lives of people and bringing peace in the hill region. The ambassador made the comments on Wednesday while talking to reporters after...

Death anniv of Dr Aleem Al-Razee today

The 33rd death anniversary of Dr. Aleem Al-Razee, the celebrated jurist, parliamentarian, educationist and philanthropist will be observed today (Thursday) with due solemnity in the country, reports UNB.He died on March 15, 1985. Razee was at the forefront of all political struggles and socio-cultural movements unleashed in the country to...

BAPS postpones work abstention programme

Employees of Bangladesh Association of Pourashava (municipality) Service (BAPS) postponed their work abstention programme on Wednesday following assurance by the government to fulfil their demands. "The government accepted our demands. You will get salaries and other benefits from state exchequer within the next two months," Mayor of Gopalganj municipality Liaqat...

I feel pity, not anger, for attacker, he says

Professor Dr Muhammed Zafar Iqbal said I feel pity and not anger for the attacker, a radicalised young man who stabbed him during an event in Shahjalal University of Science and Technology or SUST in Sylhet, reports bdnews24.com.Prof Iqbal was speaking to reporters at the airport while heading to Sylhet...

Police charge baton on anti-quota ptotesters, seven hurt

Police foiled on Wednesday a bid of job-seekers to march towards the Public Administration Ministry to submit a memorandum demanding reforms of the quota system in the government recruitment examinations, reports UNB.Several thousand job seekers, including students of different universities, brought out a procession from Shahbagh intersection around 11am as...

BMP closes eight DB men over torturing Barisal journalist

BARISAL, Mar 14 (UNB) : Eight members of Detective Branch (DB) of police have been closed to the district police lines over torturing a cameraperson of a private television channel in the city.Deputy Commissioner (South) of Barisal Metropolitan Police(BMP) Golam Rauf said they also formed a probe committee to look...

RAB nab gang-rape prime accused

SYLHET, Mar 14 (UNB): Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested the prime accused in a case filed over the gang-rape of a housewife in Sunamganj from Upashahar area of the city on Tuesday.The arrestee is Faizul Haque (34), son of late Arju Miah of Kolagaon village...

WEATHER-15-03-2018

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty/squally wind is likely to occur at one or two places over Rangpur and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Noakhali & Comilla and weather may remain mainly dry with temporary partly cloudy sky elsewhere over the country in the next 24 hours till...

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaking at a meeting

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina speaking at a meeting with the ministers and high officials relating to the US-Bangla plane crash in Nepal at her office in the city on Wednesday — Focus Bangla