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HC orders extensive insecticide spray, three more die Special Correspondent Dengue continue killing and hospitalising more people every day as measures taken by the government to control aedes mosquitoes, the vector of the viral fever, went ineffective. On Wednesday, three more people died of dengue in Dhaka, Khulna and Mymensingh as the mosquito-borne viral disease […]

RAJSHAHI, Aug 28, 2019 (BSS)- A battalion commander level flag meeting between Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Border Security Force (BSF) of India today reached a consensus on peaceful coexistence along border through stopping all sorts of crimes. The border forces of the two neighbouring countries discussed and devised ways and means on how to […]

Special Correspondent Urging all the friendly countries of Bangladesh to come forward to help it have a permanent solution to the Rohingya crisis, BNP on Wednesday placed a 10-point recommendation, including forging the national unity, to solve the protracted problem. The recommendations were placed at a roundtable conference on Rohingya issue titled ‘The Plight of […]

Special Correspondent Bangladesh’s apparel exporters have been concerned with the allegation that Indian business house was importihttps://www.weeklyholiday.net/files/index_php/category/ng readymade garments from bangladesh by availing of the south asian free trade area (safta) benefit. on july 13, india’s directorate of revenue intelligence arrested dinesh maheshwari, executive director and chief financial officer of future enterprises ltd, for flouting […]

Holiday Report Actor Khalilur Rahman Babar, popular for reprising negative roles in films during the 70s and 80s, died at at city’s Square Hospital at 9.10 am on Monday . He was 68. Babar had long been suffering from a combination of diabetes, blood pressure and lung ailments, family sources said. He was admitted to […]

A brilliant mind falls silent Mahbubar Rahman Dr. Mizanur Rahman Shelley “Kullu Nafsin Jaikatul Mowt” (All living being has to embrace death.) — Al Quran. Despite humans know the meaning and spirit of the above verse of Holy Quran and inevitability of death, they never welcome death and instead yearn, if not for attaining immortality, […]

Reesha Ahmed As my parents’ first child, I was showered with all the love and affection in the world. I could not have had a happier childhood. My parents bought me DVD’s of Meena, a children’s television show created by UNICEF. Meena, although a fictional character, won my heart and became my role model. She […]

Holiday Desk The UN children’s agency has issued a new report calling for urgent investment in education and skills development opportunities in and around the vast camps of Cox’s Bazar where the majority of Rohingyas live in. Unicef on Friday said frustration and despair are overwhelming young Rohingyas living in Cox’s Bazar. The report, ‘Beyond […]

Holiday Desk The initial response of Bangladesh to the Rohingya crisis was “rather weak and disoriented”, former chairman of the National Human Rights Commission Bangladesh Mizanur Rahman has said. Foreign Secretary Md Shahidul Haque, who was present at the event where Mizanur spoke, however, refuted the claim and termed it ‘misinformation’. Both of them were […]

Holiday Desk Dr Mizanur Rahman Shelley, a former Minister, brilliant civil servant and writer passed away on August 12 while undergoing treatment at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) hospital in Dhaka. He was 76. Shelley was born on 2 January 1943 in Munshiganj District’s Kusumpur Village. After completing study from University of Dhaka he […]