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Speaker of the Jatiya Sangsad Dr Shirin Sharmin Chaudhury, MP, at Pirganj here on Monday said the government has taken a project at a cost of Taka 194 crore to save the flood-prone areas of Rangpur from floods.“Implementation of the project will save standing crops, properties and the people of flood-prone Pirganj, Mithapukur, Pirgachha, Kawnia and Kawnia upazilas from floods of the Jamuneswari, Kartoa, Ghaghot and Teesta rivers in future,” she said.The Speaker was addressing a function arranged for distribution...

Manikganj Correspondent :State Minister for Information and Communication Zunaid Ahmed Polok has said that in the last 13 years, 20 lakh jobs have been created in the IT sector. By 2025, the export income from the ICT sector will be 5 billion. In the same period, 3 million people will be employed in the ICT sector.He was speaking to reporters after laying the foundation stone of Sheikh Kamal IT Training and Incubation Center at Ghior in Manikganj on Sunday. The...

Manikganj Correspondent : Health Minister Zahid Malek has said that 75 per cent people of the country have been brought under corona vaccine. Bangladesh ranks 8th out of 200 countries in vaccination program. This has been possible with the guidance and cooperation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.He made the remarks while attending the inaugural ceremony of Lung Rehabilitation Week organized by Incepta Pharmaceuticals Limited at the conference room of Manikganj Colonel Malek Medical College on Saturday (March 12).The health minister...

A union parishad chairman sustained stab injuries in an attack allegedly by activists of the ruling Awami League at Dakhkhin Keowa village in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning.The injured was identified as Sona Miah Bepari, 70, chairman of Mohakali union parishad and an adviser of the upazila unit of BNP.Sona’s younger brother Samad Bepari said a group of miscreants, numbering 7-8, stormed the house of Sona Miah at the village around 9:15am and called him out of the house.The miscreants...

RU Correspondent :Some political activists, said to be of local unit Awami League and Rajshahi University unit Chhatra League, on Friday forced to postpone a recruitment test of the university for not relaxing some conditions of the test.Witnesses said a group of RU unit BCL staged demonstrations on the campus demanding cancellation of the test and put the main gate of Science Bhaban of the university under lock and key.Besides, local Awami League leaders and activists allegedly locked different gates...

Khulna(South) Correspondent :A special team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested three members including Assistant Nayek of banned militant outfit ‘Allahar Dal’ from the city on Monday night.The arrested were identified as Md Rakib Hasan, 24, son of Abdur Razzak Biswas also an assistant nayek of Jashore ‘Allahar Dal’, resident of Chougacha upazila under Jashore district, Ashikuzzaman Ashikul, 36, son of Ali Hossain and Shafiqul Islam, 39, son of Mofazzel Hossain of Jhikargachha upazila in Jashore.Acting on...

Netrakona Correspondent :State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Ashraf Ali Khan Khasru MP said here on Friday that the anti-liberation forces led by General Ziaur Rahman assassinated father of the nation Bangbandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975 for turning the country into a failed state. “The forces, who opposed the country’s independence during liberation war in 1971, under the direct patronisation of general Zia killed Bangabandhu and his family members for destroying the spirit of the liberation war and steering...

Jessore Correspondent :Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested an alleged arms trader along with two pistols, two magazines and five rounds of bullets from Terghor in Benapole border area on Friday night.The arrestee was identified as Mukul, 42, son of Mantaj Uddin, a resident of Doulotpur village of the area.Lt Col Arifur Rahman, commander of Khulna BGB battalion 21, said tipped off, a team of the border force conducted a drive in the area and arrested Mukul while he...

Sylhet Bureau :The ‘Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Complex’ will be built in Sylhet in the name of the architect of independence Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. For the first time in the country any such initiative has been taken. The construction of this complex will cost one and a half thousand crore rupees. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has given initial approval to the project. The project is now awaiting budget approval from the finance ministry.Information about the construction of ‘Bangabandhu Complex’ in...