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The government has undertaken special projects to reduce deaths from thunderstorms. The project includes constructing special towers used to attract high voltage electrical charges produced in the cloud during thunderstorms and release its energy down into the ground.Lightening took 246 lives of peo...
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Seismic zone mapping shows that large areas of Bangladesh are at high and medium magnitude earthquake risk. All organisations and individuals must follow the building code and take required preparations to deal with earthquake effects, experts opined. There are many real estate companies, who are bu...
Dhaka city does not have adequate parking space for the growing number of vehicles. The increasing number of buses, trucks, private vehicles, motorcycles and some other vehicles find it challenging to park their vehicles in the city, especially during business hours.Mostly bus and truck owners park ...
It is a matter of deep concern that chemical godowns from residential buildings of old Dhaka are not taken away. Experts opined that, for the safety of citizens chemical godowns must be shifted from residential areas. After the devastating fire incident at Churihatta in Chawkbazar of the capital las...
The government has taken up a plan to set up 389 technical schools and colleges at the upazila level to increase enrolment in technical institutes by 20% by 2020. This decision is aimed at developing skilled human resources. At present, student enrolment is 14 percent in technical education.Technica...
Slow speed, over speed and tendency of overtaking are the main reasons behind the increasing number of road accidents in highways, experts say.In 2019 most of the accidents took place in highways. The number of total accidents in 2019 was much higher than that of the previous year.At least 5,227 peo...
Country’s about 97 percent of people have been brought under advanced sanitation in last ten years from 2009-2019, according to a government statistics.Bangladesh has made significant progress in stopping open defecation. However, ensuring healthy sanitation is still a challenge.Yesterday, whi...
Eighty-seven percent of the people in the country have the ability to purchase nutritious food, while 13 percent do not, according to a joint report published by the World Food Programme (WFP).This groundbreaking figure emerged in the report titled ‘Fill the Nutrition Gap,’ jointly prepa...
Due to various government initiatives to tackle the unemployment problem, around 65.7 percent youths obtained jobs after completion of master’s degree in last year. According to a recent survey, the rate of unemployed youths with bachelor degree, however, remains at an alarming 36.6 percent, p...
About 44 percent of the total income of a Dhaka dweller goes to house rent, according to a recent study report. Most of the city dwellers are struggling to make their ends meet due to the abnormally high house rent in the capital. It is considered that, house rent should not be over 30pc of the tota...
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Three day-long International Winter Art Festival 2019 kicks off at Gallery 3 of Chittrashala Bhaban in Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on Saturday.The exhibition programme is organised by Alluring Artwork group, non-profit organisation dedicated to enrich and showcase Bangladeshi artwork culture to th...
Due to lack of acquaintance with the family planning system, most of the low wage earners, uneducated and poor people of urban and rural areas, are fighting shy of birth control plans.Pregnancy rate among the underprivileged and highly educated group is higher than others. Use of birth control pill ...
Awareness is the best way to eradicate gender-based violence (GBV) from society in Bangladesh's perspective, experts said.A recent study revealed that two-thirds of women in Bangladesh, around 66 percent, have been victims of domestic violence- and 72.7 percent of them have never disclosed their...
Women play a major role in disaster management, according to a recent study of a non-governmental organization.It stated that natural disasters are frequently hitting Bangladesh as a consequence of climate change, especially in coastal areas with intensity increasing day by day. Women and child...
The severe cold wave now sweeping the country is causing serious cold-related diseases as many people, mostly children and aged people, are falling sick every day. Patients with cold-related diseases are getting admitted at different government and non-government hospitals in capital Dhaka and other...
The mild cold wave sweeping across the country on Thursday sent thousands of people to swarm in and shop for warm clothes and blankets in the city’s major markets. The city street vendors, defying a ban on vending, invited people to crowd and buy cheaper warm clothes in city’s major...
As per a study of the World Health Organization (WHO), more than 15,000 people are suffering from breast cancer every year in Bangladesh. More than 98 percent of them are women.Permanent hair dye chemicals have been blamed for breast cancer, according to a recent study by the National Institute of H...
There is no cure yet for HIV, although antiretroviral (ARV) treatment can slow or retard the growth of the virus, meaning that people with HIV can live long and healthy lives. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Viruses) transmission rates are relatively low in Bangladesh compared to neighboring countries. ...
Around ninety percent of the females laboring in the factory are subjected to mental torture while 51 percent of women to physical abuse.43 per cent of women were sexually assaulted, the Bangladesh Labor Rights Forum and Citizens’ Initiative Research paper reported. The report is based on a su...
Agricultural arable land sharplylessening in the country. On the contrary,the demand for food is increasing. For its consequences, the agricultural land must be protectedand at the same time crop production must be increased, experts said.Human expansion throughout the world caused that agriculture ...
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