The Holy Shab-e-Barat, known as the night of fortune and forgiveness, will be observed across the country on Tuesday night with due religious fervour and devotion. The Muslim devotees will spend the night at mosques and homes offering prayers, reciting...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has imposed a ban on carrying and blasting of any kind of explosives, fireworks, crackers, and other harmful and injurious objects from Tuesday evening. The DMP imposed the ban for peaceful celebration of the Holy Shab-e-Barat,...
A passenger ship carrying 458 people sank in the Hubei section of China’s Yangtze River on Monday night. The ship, named Dongfangzhixing (Eastern Star), sank around 9:28pm (11:28pm Bangladesh time) in the Jianli (Hubei province) section of the Yangtze River,...
The education ministry has directed all public and private colleges to start the admission process from June 6. Classes will start from July 1. Like in previous years, the ministry issued a guideline on Monday for admission based on the...
Muhammad Zamir | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
Tales of trauma, anguish, ransom, rape and murder perpetrated in the coastal mangrove swamps and forests of Thailand and Malaysia by human traffickers have drawn the attention of conscious citizens all over the world. Anyone, even remotely aware of human...
Jafar Ahmed Chowdhury | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
Unemployment is a scourge for a country. At present Bangladesh has 3.0 million (30 lakh) unemployed youth population, according to available statistics. Every year 2.0 million (20 lakh) active population is entering the labour market. The industrial sector cannot accommodate...
A drop in the pass rate by 4.3 percentage points from the previous year's record of 91.34 per cent pass seems to have alarmed all involved with the education system and beyond. The authorities and others were quick to point...
Shamsul Huq Zahid | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
Last Saturday's issue of the Financial Express carried two items on the front page -- one was on the probable allocation in the next national budget to foot the pay bill of a large number of public servants and the...
Neil Ray | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
A picture of the foot overbridge between the Ramna Park and the Suhrawardy Udyan carried in this newspaper's May 26 issue speaks volumes for the condition of this structure and the risks it poses to passengers and vehicles using the...
Recently the Sunderban Hotel has been vacated completely as the adjacent road suddenly caved in due to the faulty piling of a nearby building. We see around us that many construction companies do not follow safety rules that make people...
The world observes "no tobacco day" every year on 31st May and the day is also celebrated in our country with earnest. I was glad to know that the government is going to issue orders for the tobacco companies to...
Everyday hundreds of patients are in need of blood particularly after surgery. But compared to the need, the number of voluntary blood donors is very limited in our country. Every healthy citizen between the age of 18-60 can donate blood...
Helal Uddin Ahmed | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
A decision was taken at the Eighth WTO Ministerial held in December 2011 to grant preferential access in services to all least developed countries (LDCs) on an unconditional basis to facilitate their services exports. It invoked an enabling clause that...
Sarwar Md Saifullah Khaled | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
Difference between rise in the prices of commodities and purchasing power of the common people is ever widening. The people with limited income and low salary are in serious trouble. Instability in the prices of food and other commodities in...
RAJSHAHI, May 31 (BSS): Around 7 million (70 lakh) people are suffering from bronchial asthma in the country and the number of patients are gradually increasing due to various reasons, specialists and medical practitioners in a scientific seminar here said....
RAJSHAHI, May 31 (BSS): Speakers at a seminar here Sunday unequivocally called for more connectivity among the neighbouring countries, especially with India, Nepal and Bhutan for substantial and sustainable development of the region. They mentioned that connectivity at people's level...
MAGURA, May 31: World No Tobacco Day was observed in Magura on Sunday. Magura Health department organised different programmes to observe the day. A rally was brought out in the town in the morning. A discussion meeting at Magura Sadar...
From A Correspondent | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
SYLHET, May 31: Eighty five per cent litigation is derived of the land related complexities. The suffering and harassment of common people will come to end if we can complete the digitalisation of the land record system. State minister for...
Our Correspondent | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
GOPALGANJ, May 31: A minor boy was electrocuted at Charprashanadhi under Muksudpur upazila in Gopalganj district Saturday. The deceased was identified as Arif Sheikh (10), a Madrasha student, and son of Odut Sheikh of village Charparshanadhi of Muksudpur upazila in...
RANGPUR, May 31 (BSS): Leaders of 'Durniti Birodhi Andolan' here today demanded assurance of formalin-free foods for saving the future generations from the wrath of deadly diseases. They demanded stopping sale of fruits, vegetables and other foods mixed with formalin,...
BAGERHAT, May 31 (UNB): A girl who failed in this year's SSC examinations allegedly committed suicide on Saturday at Samadderkhali village in Morelganj upazila as she could not bear the pain of failing in the exams. The deceased was identified...
From A Correspondent | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
SYLHET, May 31: The loss of Boro paddy due to the hailstorm and inundation in Sylhet division has been estimated at about Tk 100 million, official sources informed. Boro paddy was cultivated on 46,1518 hectares in 4 districts in the...
BENAPOLE, May 31 (UNB): Police recovered a touchstone statue of a Hindu goddess worth Tk 3 crore and arrested a woman in this connection at Kodalia village in Sadar upazila of Jessore district early Sunday. The arrestee was identified as...
COMILLA, May 31 (UNB): A man was chopped to death allegedly by his mother at Jhanora village in Barura upazila on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Jasim Uddin (35), son of late Abdul Malek of the village. Locals said...
RU Correspondent | 2015-06-01 00:00:00
RAJSHAHI UNIVERSITY, May 31: The academic activities of Rajshahi University (RU) including classes and examinations will resume tomorrow (Monday) after a 25-day summer vacation that began on May 7. Earlier on Saturday all dormitories of the residential students opened at...
LASMIPUR, May 31 (UNB): An NGO employee was killed in Bismillah road area of Chandragonj in sadar upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Lutfar Rehman (25), a field worker of SSS NGO, who hailed from Jamalpur district. Abul...
Two bodies recovered in Sylhet, Rajshahi Police recovered the bodies of a man and a woman in Sylhet and Rajshahi districts on Saturday. In Rajshahi, police recovered the body of a man from the river Shib in Tanore upazila. The...
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