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There are around 100 private medical and dental colleges across the country. As there is no specific law for these institutions, those are running on the basis of government policy for this sector.Against this backdrop, the government has designed a law to ensure discipline in private medical and de...
The lack of open spaces as well as playgrounds and parks in the capital city affects sports and physical activities of children, hampering their mental and physical development.Dhaka city covers an area of about 306 square kilometers with over 20 million people. About half of this population compris...
More than 5,000 prisoners, sentenced to life-term imprisonment by courts, and now in detention, are going to be released following the publication of a Supreme Court judgement.The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court has delivered its written judgement, saying that a convict awarded life-term imp...
The reproduction of native fish is diminishing in Haor areas due to lack of heavy rain. The fish breeding process is also hampered as the unplanned construction of dams obstructs the entry of fresh water into many Haors, particularly in Sunamganj. Fishermen and fisheries officials are in doubt ...
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Fatal road accidents on the highways in Bangladesh have by now become regular phenomena. The number of mishaps on some highways, including Dhaka-Chattogram Highway and Dhaka-Sylhet Highway, continues to rise with hundreds of casualties.About 43 per cent of the total road accidents take place on the ...
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(Continued from last day's section)However, despite opposition, the-then government of India adopted a proposal to establish Dhaka University. In a letter on April 4 in 1912, the government directed the Governor of Bengal to prepare a complete project with financial ledger for the establishment ...
Many patients die every year in Bangladesh for the negligence of healthcare professionals and hospital authorities.However, under the current legal framework, no codified law exists in the country to deal with medical negligence as well as to ensure remedy.Legal experts and relatives of many medical...
Dhaka University is the oldest university in Bangladesh. Many chapters of the country’s history are closely associated with this university. It has become the embodiment of many luminous chapters of the history in its long journey. Dhaka University set foot in 100 years with its golden pa...
The coronavirus spread in the tea gardens of Bangladesh is still not a concern. So far, no Covid-19 case has been reported in most of the tea gardens in the country. However, a few workers and their family members tested Covid-19 positive in some gardens of Sylhet division last year. Two ...
“I was unaware that the noise that engine of vehicles makes also affects the drivers. I know that the noise disturbs the people outside the vehicles and disables them to focus on their thoughts while walking along the roads and footpaths, but I was unaware that the roar of vehicles affects peo...
Noise pollution in urban life is created from different sources, including industries and construction work, but the hydraulic horns of vehicles are the main source of the pollution in Bangladesh. According to experts and environmentalists, the noise that the engine of vehicles produces i...
The government has taken an initiative to make the registration of Qawmi madrasahs mandatory. The Technical and Madrasah Education Division of the Education Ministry has formed a 15-member committee to formulate an integrated policy in this regard, said Syed Asgar Ali, an assistant secretary of...
The government is working to convert the old ordinances into permanent laws. The Cabinet Division has been working on the issue for some months. Urmi Tamanna, Deputy Secretary of Cabinet Decisions Implementation Coordination Branch of the Cabinet Division told this correspondent, “Wo...
The existing arbitration law should be amended for reducing the cost and time in disposal of cases, and to make the law user-friendly to help boost inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Bangladesh, said experts.Talking to the Bangladesh Post on Friday Director of the Bangladesh International ...
The government has taken initiative to set up a number of child daycare centres for supporting the children of working women.The government is going to implement its latest initiative after enactment of a law in this regard in a bid to bring the child daycare centres under rules and regulations and ...
Noise pollution, air pollution, water pollution, soil pollution and pollution in other ways are intensifying in Bangladesh with noise pollution in urban life rising to a terrible magnitude day by day.According to the World Health Organization (WHO), noise levels above 55 decibels are harmful to the ...
Frequent earthquakes have created panic among the people of Sylhet as at least seven mild tremors jolted the region recently.Experts feared that the series of tremors could be a warning sign of a major earthquake in Dauki faultline. About a 300-km faultline stretches south of the Shillong plateau an...
A section of dishonest lawyers, their assistants and clients and some court employees in an unholy nexus are allegedly involved in fraudulent practice of securing bail through making fake documents.The High Court bench of Justice Md Abu Zafor Siddique and Justice KM Hafizul Alam on Wednesday ordered...
Women’s direct participation in different polls to the local government bodies in Bangladesh is declining day by day in both general and reserved seats.Although women’s participation is increasing in other arenas, their participation has decreased by over 50 per cent in the local level e...
Experts and anti-tobacco activists said that the lack of strong and effective law and its weak enforcement are the main obstacles in controlling tobacco consumption in Bangladesh. The existing law should be amended in order to save the common people from the adverse impact of tobacco products, they ...
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