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Dengue patients decrease by 2pc in Dhaka

The number of dengue patients at different hospitals in the capital decreased by 2pc during the last 24 hours, says a press release. According to the release sent to media on Wednesday noon by Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS), a total of 1,626 dengue patients were admitted while 1,818 w...

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‘Masterminds behind Bangabandhu killing to be tried’

Bangabandhu and Bangladesh are synonymous. One cannot be separated from the other. The Pakistani rulers wanted to suppress the voice of Bengalis but this was not possible because of the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Liberation War Affairs’ Minister AKM Mozammel Huq came up w...

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DNCC launches dengue combing drive

Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) on Tuesday launched a combing operation in the city to control the menace of Aedes mosquito which is spreading viral dengue infection. DNCC Mayor Atiqul Islam formally inaugurated the operation at Dr Fazle Rabbi Park in city’s Gulshan area in the morning. &l...

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Trump talks with India, Pakistan PMs

The US President Donald Trump spoke with the prime ministers of India and Pakistan on Monday, urging them to reduce tensions over the disputed region of Kashmir, report agencies. “Spoke to my two good friends, Prime Minister (Narendra) Modi of India, and Prime Minister (Imran) Khan of Pakistan...

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First highway bridge connecting China, Russia

Aerial photo taken on Monday shows the construction site of the first highway bridge connecting China and Russia across the Heilongjiang River. Measuring 1,284 meters long and 14.5 meters wide, the bridge across the Heilongjiang River, known in Russia as the Amur River, stretches from Heihe, a borde...

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Dhaka-Mawa highway almost complete

The 33-km Dhaka-Mawa highway with almost 70 percent completion of construction work has already become an eye-catching sight with a blend of scenic and artistic design. After full completion of construction work, this road will contribute significantly to the socio-economic development of the countr...

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Police stations dump corners breeding Aedes

Dumping corners of city’s police stations have become an ideal breeding place for deadly Aedes mosquitoes responsible for menacing dengue fever. Police dump vehicles that they confiscate for various reasons at a corner of the Thana premises till the courts settle the fate of those vehicles. So...

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Cool heads glide jet to safety

The Russian pilots who crash-landed a fuel-laden Airbus jet in a corn field, without any serious harm to the 233 people on board, are being hailed as heroes, report agencies.The A321 was moments into its flight, after taking off from Moscow's Zhukovsky airport, when a flock of gulls got sucked i...

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REB to install 2 crore pre-paid meters by 2025

The Rural Electrification Board (REB) has taken an initiative to install 2 crore smart pre-paid meters by 2025 to facilitate its clients in paying hassle-free monthly electricity bills, official said.At present REB has 2 crore 70 lakh clients. They want to replace the electro-magnetic meters by smar...

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Finland signs contracts for first parts of north-south power line

Finland has signed contracts to construct the initial two sections of a 310 kilometre power line that will primarily help transport electricity from its north to its south, state-owned Fingrid said on Friday, report agencies. The planned $110.82 million line, called Forest Line, will cross thro...

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Weekly storage of natural gas in U S up 1.8 pct: EIA

Working gas storage in the contiguous United States was 2,738 billion cubic feet (about 77.53 billion cubic meters) in the week ending Aug. 9, a net increase of 49 billion cubic feet, or 1.8 percent, from the previous week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) said in a report on Thursda...

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Denmark sees resolution soon to EU rift on 2050 climate goal

The new energy and climate minister of Denmark, a frontrunner in fighting climate change, said on Friday he was confident fellow EU countries would soon agree to go carbon-neutral by 2050 despite resistance in the east of the bloc, report agencies. A push by most European Union nations for the ...

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Renewable energy can generate billions of dollars in health benefits

Ten states across the Midwest and Great Lakes region of the US could see $4.7 billion in health benefits in 2030 if they stick with current renewable energy standards, according to a new study from MIT. That’s about a 34 percent return on the $3.5 billion price tag associated with actually bui...

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Ctg seasonal rawhide trade in peril

Seasonal traders and the grassroots level beneficiaries from the price of rawhide are the worst victims of the alarming fall of price of hide during the just-concluded Eid-ul-Adha. The seasonal traders of Chattogram had to count a loss of around Tk 5 crore as they could not sell the rawhide the...

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Noted writer Rizia Rahman dies

Eminent writer Rizia Rahman died of cancer and kidney related ailments at a city hospital on Friday. She was 80. The writer, also honorary recipient of the prestigious Ekushey Padak, breathed her last at the Intensive Care Unit of Apollo Hospital around 11.15 am.  Family sources said she was ho...

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Warning signs for global economy

Stock markets have taken fright over a number of warning signs from key economies, the latest this week being the inversion of the US bond yield curve and news of a contraction in the German economy. Here is a guide to the trouble spots in the global economy that are rattling investors.The USThe US ...

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Brunei stops accepting visa applications of BD workers

Since August 4, 2019 the High Commission of Brunei Darussalam in Dhaka temporarily stopped accepting visa applications of workers from Bangladesh.The high commission had notified that it temporarily stopped accepting the visa applications of Bangladeshi workers.Brunei took the decision after it foun...

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Nation celebrates Eid in festive mood

The Muslims across the country celebrated the holy Eid-ul-Adha on Monday with due solemnity, religious fervour and festivity. On the occasion of the Eid-ul-Adha, the second biggest religious festival, the Muslims of the country offered prayers in Eid congregations and sacrificed animals in the name ...

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Bangabandhu’s killers yet to be punished

August 15 is upon us again, a bleak reminder of that gruesome event in which the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and most members of his family lost their lives. On this day, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his family members were brutally murdered by a handful of felonious army off...

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Japan's prices for spot LNG cargoes fall

The price Japanese utilities paid for spot cargoes of liquefied natural gas (LNG) last month were at their lowest in more than three years, data from the trade ministry showed on Friday, report agencies. The price for spot LNG shipped to Japan in July fell to an average of $4.70 per million Bri...