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Adviser to the Prime Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Dr. Tawfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury has expressed optimism to overcome the ongoing power and energy problem in the country created due to the Russia-Ukraine war with united efforts of all.The Energy Adviser was speaking at a roundtable t...
Social media users discussing August fuel hike protests in Bangladesh have mistakenly shared unrelated footage from 2013, suggesting it is from 2022, according to the Reuters Fact Check team.The video shows people looking at objects on fire in the street, launching projectiles, and police officers d...
National,Back Page
The icddr,b under the supervision of the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), will start administering the second dose of oral cholera vaccine from Wednesday.The week-long campaign will continue till 10 August, except Friday, 5 August and Ashura Day on Tuesday, 9 August, from 8.00 am until...
Global experts have suggested taking safeguard against threats that can wither away gains made in fighting AIDS.TB, despite being preventable and curable, continues to be the biggest cause of deaths of persons with HIV. With the best of TB preventive therapy, diagnostics and treatments, no one shoul...
Taorem Sananu, a student from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), bags the first prize at the Global Media Competition (GMC), a design competition organised by the Global Center for Good Governance in Tobacco Control (GGTC), a partner of STOP (a global tobacco industry wa...
Life-saving care for high blood pressure, also known as hypertension—the leading preventable risk factor for heart disease, heart attacks, and strokes—could be expanded nationwide in Bangladesh for about $9 per patient per year, according to a new study published in the British Medical J...
All Section,City
The non-government organisation Odhikar withdrew its writ petition from the High Court before the final judgment on Wednesday.The High Court bench of Justice Md Khasruzzaman and Justice Md Iqbal Kabir was supposed to give the final decision of the writ filed in 2019 on Wednesday. But before that, Od...
Indian Army Chief General Manoj Pandey is currently visiting Bangladesh at the invitation of Bangladesh Army Chief General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed.General Manoj Pande paid a courtesy call on his Bangladesh counterpart General S M Shafiuddin Ahmed at Army Headquarters in the capital on Monday.The ...
The WHO’s Science Council of experts has issued its first report on accelerating access to genomics for global health arguing that it is not justifiable ethically or scientifically for less-resourced countries to gain access to such technologies long after rich countries do.The field of genomi...
City
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) on Wednesday appointed Mohammad Harun ar Rashid, joint commissioner of police (Cyber and Special Crime and Detective North) as the head of the Detective Branch of DMP.DMP commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam signed the office order on Wednesday, said DMP p...
As the total number of people in the world tops 8 billion in the next few months, the UNFPA urges all to celebrate human progress instead of just counting the numbers.“People are the solution, not the number,” UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem said in a message on the World Popu...
National
Lamenting the disgraceful inclusion of the indemnity of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's killers in the fifth amendment to the constitution, Prime Minister's ICT Advisor Sajeeb Wazed termed it as the beginning of the culture of impunity."Today is the notorious Ju...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Commissioner Md Shafiqul Islam said the threat of terror attacks can never be completely ruled out as they never sit idle.DMP commissioner made this remarks after inspecting the security arrangements at the National Eidgah Maidan on Friday.The city police chief furthe...
The US aid agency, USAID, says it is facilitating awareness message campaigns targeting cattle markets, assisting in veterinary medical camps, and organising hands-on training for butchers on improved slaughtering techniques and practices in Bangladesh ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha.The USAID funded Feed ...
Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) arrested the president and the general secretary of Grameen Telecom Workers’ Union over allegations of fraud and embezzlement.DB nabbed president of the union Kamruzzaman, 37, and general secretary Firoz Mahmud Hasan, 42, early Wednesday...
Indian police arrested a death row convict militant in connection with the killing of blogger and science writer Ananta Bijoy Das in Sylhet.They arrested was identified as Faisal Ahmed, 27. Indian police arrested him from Bengaluru of India. Anti-Terrorism Unit (ATU) of Bangladesh Police Superi...
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) nabbed Henolux Group Managing Director Nurul Amin and his wife Fatema Amin from city’s Uttara area on Tuesday for abetting the suicide of former Bangladesh Chhatra League leader and also a contractor, Gazi Anis, who set himself on fire in front of the Na...
Business & Commerce
Bashundhara Group Managing Director and Bangladesh Jewellers’ Association (BAJUS) President Sayem Sobhan Anvir inaugurates the B2B summit ‘Sonar Bangla’ in Goa, India on June 28.Leading Indian businessmen have expressed their interest to invest in setting up jewellery manufacturing...
Friendship NGO has built a resource centre in Cox’s Bazar to get Rohingya children accustomed to their own education and culture. The Rohingya population forced out of Myanmar lost their education and ties to their culture after taking refuge in Bangladesh for years. Friendship is bu...
The Department of Biomedical Engineering of MIST hosted a nationwide competition on technology and memory titled "ANURONON 2022" held at MIST Complex in Mirpur Cantonment. More than 300 contestants from 15 universities of Bangladesh including MIST participated in the competition in th...
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