Day: September 18, 2022
Reza Mahmud :Flames are not ablaze in the cooking burners at day time in most in the areas of the capital city for long. Homemakers are suffering most due to the acute gas shortages which makes them compelled to cook day time meals at night. Meanwhile, buying of LPG cylinder at increasing prices also make the people tired. “The gas is found at night only. It comes right in the evening and goes before the sun rise,” Sayeda Nurunnahar, a...
UNB :Leader of the Opposition and Head of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer on Saturday said ‘Bangladesh and the UK are bound by excellent ties and further reinforced by the British-Bangladesh diaspora’.He observed this during his meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her place of residence here.The prime minister is in London on a four-day visit to attend the state funeral of Queen Elizabeth II.According to a press release, Sheikh Hasina reiterated her profound condolences at the Queen’s...
News Desk :The government will take different strategies for the development of 87,230 villages with focus on creating employment opportunities in rural areas to materialise the ‘My Village My Town’ programme.This will also help the government to attain its ‘Vision-2041’ and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), reports UNB.Besides, large-scale projects will be undertaken as per the technical committee’s recommendations of the programme.All will be taken as per the pledges of the government in the Election Manifesto-2018 to implement ‘My Village My...
Staff Reporter :Respiratory tracts of famous comedian actor Abu Hena Rony have been burnt in the explosion of helium balloons during a programme marking the 4th founding anniversary of the Gazipur Metropolitan Police (GMP) on Friday evening.Dr SM Ayub Hossain, Resident Surgeon of Sheikh Hasina National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery (SHNIBPS) confirmed the matter to the media saying that “About 24 percent of the surface area of the body of the comedian was burnt in the blast. His...
Staff Reporter :More than 32,000 examinees of the Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and equivalent examinations were absent from attending two papers in the last two days under nine Education Boards. On the first day of the SSC and equivalent examinations on Thursday, a total of 16,627 examinees were absent in the Bangla-I paper, while 16,322 were absent in the Bangla-II paper on Saturday. On Thursday’s exams, a total of 3711 examinees were absent in Dhaka Board followed by Cumilla Board...
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh wants a peaceful solution to the continuous violation of international border sovereignty rules by the Myanmar army, but, if necessary, the issue will be raised in the United Nations. The government is regularly voicing against the firing of mortar shells and bullets by Myanmar army along the Naikhongchhari border area in Bandarban and Rakhine state of Myanmar in the name of containing the Arakan army over the last few weeks. The Foreign Ministry called the Myanmar Ambassador...
Staff Reporter :The government has decided to stop inoculating of the first dose of Covid-19 jab by October 3, but nearly 33 lakh people are yet to get the first dose.“About 33 lakh people are yet to receive their first dose of covid-19 vaccine and 94 lakh people did not receive their second vaccine shot across the country,” Health Minister Zahid Maleque said at a workshop over Covid-19 vaccination for children, aged 5-11 years, in a hotel in the capital...
BBC Online :In a pine forest at the edge of Izyum the stench of death filled the air as a mass exhumation got under way.The earth is giving up its secrets. Ukrainian officials believe war crimes have been committed, which they are determined to document.Around 100 Ukrainian emergency service workers wearing blue plastic coverings dug into the earth, opening makeshift graves.They are trying to establish the cause of death of hundreds of people buried in a forest at the edge...
UNB :Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam has said that those who will hamper public movement by keeping construction materials roads will face action.The DNCC mayor said this while attending an awareness-raising campaign against dengue in Mirpur’s Paikpara area on Saturday.“While searching for Aedes larvae, I found that building owners have kept construction materials including rods, cement and sand open on road and footpath, which were blocking the drains and causing water logging on the streets. This practice must...