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PM foresees no crisis of consumer goods

Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina on Friday assured the people that there won't be any crisis of consumer goods in the country, reports UNB."There will be no problem regarding consumer goods. We've started importing (goods) from Ukraine and Russia as well," she said.The premier was addressing the 5th National Conference...

Eco-based programmes ongoing for climate adaptation: Minister

The government is implementing a number of ecosystem-based programmes for effective adaptation approaches to climate change impacts in Barind and Haor regions of the country. Under such a programme, re-excavation of canals and ponds and afforestation are going on in Hakaluki Haor area of Sylhet division.In the Barind tracts of...

Woman killed in city road crash --

A woman was killed in a road accident in the capital's ECB intersection bus stand in the cantonment area on Friday.The deceased was identified as Kulsum Begum (65). The incident also left a child injured who was with the woman.A police official at Cantonment Police Station told the FE that...

Inqilab editor, reporter sued for 'defamation'

A defamation case has been filed against the Bangla daily Inqilab editor and publisher AMM Bahauddin and its reporter Sayeed Ahmad Khan for publishing a report under the banner of 'Tk 100 billion embezzled in the name of loan' that brought allegation against the 'Noman Group of Industries'. Barrister Enayet...

Child's body cut into pieces in Ctg

CHATTOGRAM, Nov 25: Seven-year-old child Ayat was strangled to death. She went missing 10 days ago from the CEPZ police station area of the port city Chattogram. The killer chopped the child into six pieces and threw them into the sea. A team of the Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI)...

BD logs 19 more Covid cases

Bangladesh reported 19 more Covid cases in 24 hours until Friday morning, reports UNB.With the new numbers, the caseload rose to 2,036,488, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The total fatalities remained unchanged at 29,431 as no death was reported during this period.The daily case test positivity dropped...

Over 60pc of undergraduate seats remain vacant at IU

KUSHTIA, Nov 25 (UNB): Over 1,300 seats for undergraduate courses at the Islamic University (IU) in Kushtia remained unfilled after two rounds of allotment in the 2021-22 academic session.Not even 60 per cent of the candidates who secured admission in the university's first round of seat allocations, against 1,990 seats,...

Invigilators suspended over HSC answer sheet going missing

GAZIPUR, Nov 25 (UNB): Authorities suspended two invigilators after an answer sheet of an HSC examinee went missing from an exam centre in Gazipur's Tongi on Thursday.According to sources at the centre, a student of Tongi Shahaj Uddin Sarker School and College was involved in the case as he attended...

One more dengue patient dies

With another death from dengue recorded in 24 hours until Friday morning, the official death toll from the mosquito-borne disease rose to 242 this year, reports UNB.During this time, 221 more patients, including 141 in Dhaka city, were hospitalised, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The latest death...

News in brief-(2022-11-26)

MBSTU student killed in Tangail motorcycle crashTANGAIL, Nov 25: A third-year student of a public university was killed in Tangail after his motorcycle crashed into another two-wheeler Thursday night, police said. The deceased identified as Nurul Absar Jewel, 24, was a student of the textile department of the Mawlana Bhashani...

Weather (2022-11-26)

Weather may remain dry with temporary partly cloudy sky over the country in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Saturday), according to the Met Office. Light fog may occur at places over the country during early morning. Night and day temperature may remain nearly unchanged over the country.The...