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Dengue patients cram Dhaka hospitals

Special Correspondent The number of dengue patients, including children, is exceeding the number of seats at the city’s government hospitals, which is going to be a difficult situation to manage, sources at different hospitals said yesterday. With the number of dengue patients rising rapidly, the hospitals are failing to meet the shortage of necessary colloids […]

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ENSURE SAFE MILK: HC

Food adulteration not an issue of politics Special Correspondent The High Court last week expressed its frustrations over the authorities’ failure to ensure safe food, including milk, and ordered the BFSA and BSTI to report back to the court on their actions against adulteration of milk, curd and cattle feed by July 28. The court […]

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M Jahangir Khan Awarded PhD in “Matters for Peace and Diplomacy International

M Jahangir Khan, Chairman of “Tricontinental Solidaridad Campaign’’ has been awarded PhD in “Matters for Peace and Diplomacy International “ from Bolivarian School of Human Rights, Venezuela . He is working many years in campaign for solidarity activities. Basically Solidarity Campaign for Bolivar Venezuela , He started campaign from 2011 and organized International solidarity conferences […]

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TIB: Climate change project actions fail to address climate resilience

Special Correspondent Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) has found that most climate change countermeasures are failing to serve their purpose, due to an imbalance between climate change and development focused activities. The rights and anti-corruption watchdog made the observation unveiling the “Assessing Synergy between Climate and Development Projects” study at its headquarters in Dhaka on Wednesday. […]

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Muhammad Jahangir passes away

Holiday Desk Muhammad Jahangir, a noted media personality and executive director of Centre for Development Communication, died at a hospital in the city early Wednesday. He was 68. Jahangir, younger brother of Nobel laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus, had been suffering from myelofibrosis (a form of cancer). He was admitted to the hospital on Sunday and […]