National,Front Page
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Saturday said wildlife hunting and trafficking must be checked to protect biodiversity. She called for conservation of all wildlife including tigers and elephants, saying deforestation should be stopped to protect existing fo...
City
Adviser to the interim government Asif Mahmud Shojib Bhuyain on Saturday said the law enforcers would take stern action if any organization linked to mass-killing tries to hold any political programme.He gave this warning in a post from his verified Facebook account today in the backdrop of calling ...
World
The US government has brought charges against an Afghan national in connection with an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump before he was elected as the next president.The Department of Justice on Friday unsealed an indictment against Farhad Shakeri, 51, alleging he was tasked with &ldqu...
Education & Culture
Pabna University of Science and Technology (PUST) today celebrated the World Town Planning Day arranged by the Department of Urban and Regional Planning.Marking the day, a colourful procession was brought out from the administrative building of the university at 10 am. PUST Vice Chancellor Professor...
Country
The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized six gold bars weighing around 1103.15 grams from Kakdanga border in Kalaroa upazila of the district on Saturday.The BGB members also arrested rickshaw-van puller Rashedul Islam, 24, son of Md Anis Zaman of Keragachi village in Kalaroa upazila in connection wi...
Journalists can play a crucial role in dispelling misinformation about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and increasing registration in hard-to-reach areas to make the HPV campaign successful.Health officials and experts expressed the view on Saturday in an orientation workshop on ‘HPV va...
Business
The state-run Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) has taken necessary preparations ahead of the holy month of Ramadan through importing commodities as well as local procurement of items.As part of its huge activities, the TCB would sell some 20,000 metric tons of lentil, two crore liters o...
BNP Standing Committee Member Gayeshwar Chandra Roy on Friday urged the interim government to complete electoral reforms first as people will not wait for the next national election for an indefinite period."The interim government has been tasked with the main issue of ensuring a credible elect...
Environmentalists have reiterated their call to the government to take immediate steps to build circular waterway around Dhaka to save the city. In a human-chain programme they also called for taking urgent measures for dredging of the Buriganga and other rivers around Dhaka to restore wa...
Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) will test dengue free of cost aimed at detecting the patients suffering from dengue through proper diagnosis.From now on, the patients' sufferings from dengue fever can avail the test facilities at City Hospital and Urban Primary Healthcare Centres.Besides, the ci...
Science Technology
Mobile phone operators and other stakeholders have welcomed the move of opening doors for satellite internet, appealing to telecom regulator to consider collaborative approach and non-discriminatory treatment for successful integration of this service into the country’s telecommunications land...
The rickshaw, which carried the body of Ghulam Nafiz, a martyr in the anti-discrimination movement, will be kept as a memorial at the July Uprising Memorial Museum in Ganabhaban in Dhaka. Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology and Information and Broadcasting Adviser Md. Nahid Isl...
National,Back Page
Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on Thursday asked students and teachers to come forward in contributing to advancement of science and knowledge. “Students and teachers should come forward in contributing to science and knowledge," he said while speaking at the inaugural ceremo...
Any attack on media freedom will not be tolerated as the government believes in freedom of press," Chief Adviser's Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam said on Thursday."We won't tolerate any attack on any newspaper. We are 100 percent committed to press freedom," he told reporters a...
The interim government led by Chief Adviser Professor Dr Mohammad Yunus has started winning people’s trust and confidence, which was shattered during the immediate past regime, mainly because of its inclusive approaches in taking decisions about the state affairs.Immediately after taking the c...
Foreign adviser Md Touhid Hossain on Thursday expressed confidence that there would not be a significant shift in the United States policy towards Bangladesh under Donald Trump's administration compared to the current Biden’s government.“There is no need to speculate. We will wait an...
Advisor to the Ministry of Shipping Brigadier General (retd) Dr. M Sakhawat Hussain on Thursday urged local and foreign investors to invest in the country's maritime and offshore industry to tap huge opportunities of the sector.He made the call while inaugurating the 6th edition of International...
The Center on Integrated Rural Development for Asia and the Pacific (CIRDAP) has urged Bangladesh and its other member states to collaborate for observing July 6 as World Rural Development Day.The urged was made while newly appointed CIRDAP’s Director General presented his credentials to forei...
Environment, Forest and Climate Change Adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Thursday said 45 percent corals of the Saint Martin’s Island have been bleached and the rest are likely to be damaged by 2045 if economic activities cannot be controlled.“Corals can be recovered through controlling eco...
British High Commissioner in Dhaka Sarah Cooke on Thursday paid a courtesy call on Chief Justice Dr Syed Refaat Ahmed at his office in the Supreme Court in the capital.The British envoy, during the meeting, lauded different initiatives take by the chief justice recently to institutionalize the freed...
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