Metropolitan

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 […]

Dhaka: Renowned Ayurvedic physician, Dr. Amrita Kumar Sarkar, has been awarded Ph. D Degree for research on Ayurvedic medicine by Jahangirnagar University (JU), Savar. The decision to award him the Ph.D was taken at a Syndicate meeting of JU recently. His compiled his thesis titled “Scientific evaluation of the ayurvedic preparation Amritarista in increasing hemoglobin […]

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 […]

Production suspended Special Correspondent The Department of Environment on Wednesday suspend production of Picking power plant in Hathazari upazila and fined it Tk 20 lakh on charge of polluting Halda river by dumping wastes. The power plant was also asked to stop production until completion of Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP). The DOE gave the order […]

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 […]

Special Correspondent An estimated 11 women, and girl child suffer some form of violence every day, on an average, in the first six months of the current year, according to a women’s rights body. Approximately 2083 women, and girl child were subjected to sexual violence during the period. Bangladesh Mahila Parishad (BMP), a women-led organization […]

The Muktijuddho Moncho protested and criticised the inclusion of former senior BNP leader Enam Ahmed Chowdhury in the Awami League (AL) advisory council. “The making of Enam Ahmed Chowdhury a member of the AL advisory council is a warning of devastating disaster in the field of Bangladesh Politics,” the platform claimed. Prof AKM Jamal Uddin, […]

Muhammad Quamrul Islam In Bangladesh, new gas price hike by 32.80 percent as per announcement of the Government came into effect from July 1 on the very first day of new national budget for fiscal year 2019-20 evoked criticisms as usual by NGO civil societies,political parties that led to half day hartal by left alliance […]

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. […]

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 […]