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The annual daytime temperature in Dhaka city has risen by about 4 to 5°C in the last couple of years while the world is struggling to keep global temperature increase below 1.5°C.Temperature rise is among the major consequences of shrinking wetlands in Dhaka, capital of Bangladesh. All kinds...
About 150,000 people are diagnosed with new type of cancer in Bangladesh every year. Among them, 1,08000 die. Early detection can help cure any kind of cancer, experts said at a roundtable in the capital on Saturday. According to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), about 6...
National,Back Page
]are awfully low. The country has a long streak of continuous female rule as a female prime ministers have led the country for about 30 years after 1991. However, in the reality of Bangladesh politics, this long period of female leadership regime doesn’t reflect the proper participation o...
A policy, to become effective soon, has been designed to prevent bullying and ragging at educational institutions in the country. The government is moving forward to formulate the policy over bullying and ragging following the reports of maltreatment or abusive culture from some education...
Bangladesh is the first country in the world to ban plastic and polythene bags but polybags are ubiquitous and its use is still now rampant in the country. Polybags are so handy in market that it does not look like a ‘banned item’. People across the country are seen carrying utiliti...
The sanitation workers, who work for the preservation of sanitation systems, are among the most exploited, disadvantaged and discriminated members of society in the country. Although there are approximately five to six million sanitation workers in Bangladesh, their occupational safety, he...
A draft law titled ‘Land Crime Prevention and Remedy Act, 2023’ is almost ready for enactment. The unified land law is being enacted to ensure speedy legal remedies for the affected parties by disposing of cases quickly. The Ministry of Land has finalised the draft of t...
The construction work of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel, the first ever under-river tunnel in South Asia beneath the Karnaphuli river in Bangladesh, is nearing completion by the end of 2022.Since the construction work of the tunnel has almost been completed, it was scheduled to op...
An initiative has been taken to amend the ‘Environment Court Act, 2010’aiming to remove some loopholes in the existing law.According to the existing Environment Court Act, any victim of the environmental issues or environmental organisations or any other cannot file case directly with th...
Just as Dhaka often ranks among the world’s top most cities for air pollution, now the city often tops the list of noisiest cities as well. The noise pollution in the capital city of Bangladesh is mainly caused by the traffic horns. Alongside the leading source, uncontrolled use of loudsp...
Residents of many areas in Dhaka city are suffering badly from mosquito menace, and even during this winter season, people are not at all free from the severe mosquito menace. However, the outbreak of dengue has worried the people of the capital city. Many of them alleged that the city authorit...
When the people are struggling to cope with the high prices of daily essentials and utility services, in such a situation the prices of education materials have also increased, making the situation of the people of limited income more dire. Many parents are now being forced to pay even 30 per c...
An initiative has been taken to enact a new law for preventing the sexual harassment in the country. The draft of the proposed law is now at the Legislative and Parliamentary Affairs Division.The National Girl Child Advocacy Forum (NGCAF) and some other platforms are working so that the pr...
The month of December has come and eleven days have already passed, but the winter has not yet arrived fully although people of Bangladesh are now experiencing the taste of winter as the light cold weather accompanied by fog has been sweeping in different places at night and in the morning.In rural ...
Dhaka city has long been grappling with the grim issue of air pollution. The air quality of the capital city of Dhaka usually turns very unhealthy in winter particularly beginning from the month of November. But this is the first time in the last seven years that the air pollution in Dhaka cit...
The existing one-year pre-primary education, the foundation of childhood education, is going to turn into a two-year pre-primary education system.The government is going to implement the plan of introducing the two-year pre-primary education at primary schools in Bangladesh from January 2023. T...
The construction work on the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Tunnel, the first under-river tunnel in South Asia, has reached a major milestone after the completion of its south tube.Almost 94 percent of the construction work of the much-awaited multilane tunnel that is being constructed under the ...
The local government institutions in different places have already begun implementation of the mandatory licensing system for retail shops of tobacco products. Although the draft of the proposed amended tobacco control law of Bangladesh has recommended that all types of tobacco businesses, inc...
Front Page,Sports,Football
Although Bangladesh is unable to compete in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 and the Bangladesh football team never qualified for the grandest stage of world football, the world cup fever grips the country.It seems that no Bangladeshi believes that the Bangladesh football team doesn’t participate...
A proposed law ensuring equal rights for both Hindu men and women inheritors to their ancestral properties has been gathering dust at the concerned office for years. The government had taken a plan to reform the Hindu laws in a bid to ensure equal rights of Hindu women of Bangladesh to their an...
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