• Deals with India need to be mutually beneficial
  • Farmers’ loans must go to farmers
  • Public sector union: how goes it?
  • Plutonomy and the precariat
  • Maisha’s day out, our exuberant police and the ‘Men in Black’
  • Asia-Pacific cultural forms displayed
  • Venture in ceramic artworks showcased
  • Banks, NBFIs lower loan disbursement target by 29.75pc
  • Prices of red lentil, broiler, salt continue to rise
  • Pybus gives green signal to BCB
  • Paul nets four goals again
  • Syrian protesters defy regime gunfire
  • Egypt rivals trade barbs in debate
  • Awareness stressed to address environment pollution
  • Empowerment stressed to stop violence against women
  • School health programme only does ‘paper work’
  • Call for regional co-op for sustainable human dev
  • Number of diarrhoea patients increases
  • Reckless driving kills two journalists
  • Long outages strain people’s lives
  • No respite from hot weather
  • BRTC bus service needed
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Awareness stressed to address environment pollution

Minister for environment and forest Hasan Mahmud on Friday said only law was not sufficient to stop environment pollution. He emphasised awareness building among common people to protect environment... Full story

Empowerment stressed to stop violence against women

Speakers at a daylong training session in Rajshahi on Friday underscored women empowerment to stop violence against them and to ensure their human rights. They said some vital issues like ensuring political empowerment of... Full story

Concern vented over disappearances

Left-leaning political party Jatiya Mukti Council on Friday called on the people to organise resistance against state organised extra judicial killings and forced disappearances. The central executive committee of the party at a meeting at... Full story

Seminar on climate change impacts held

Environment and forests minister Hasan Mahmud on Friday said Bangladesh was a ‘victim of crossfire’ in the negotiation between developed and developing countries to cope with adverse impacts of climate change. Full story

CUET serves show-cause notice on 26 students

The Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology authorities on Thursday served show-cause notice on 26 second year students for ragging the first year students. All the accused are 2010-11 session students and... Full story

Best uses of ICT stressed for national uplift

Speakers at a seminar called for attaining updated knowledge of information and communication technology along with its best uses for overall development. They also emphasised the need for acquiring adequate knowledge and... Full story

2 RU BCL men stabbed

Miscreants on Thursday night stabbed two leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League Rajshahi University unit, leaving them critically injured, at Talaymari Bazaar, an adjoining area of the campus. Full story

Call for not turning blood donation into business venture

Blood donation programmes have now become a kind of business and this must be checked to save thousands of people who need blood in emergencies, said participants in programme to honour blood donors in the capital on Friday. Full story

No change in temperature likely

Rain or thundershowers accompanied by temporary gusty or squally wind is likely at one or two places over ajshahi, Rangpur, Dhaka and Sylhet divisions and the regions of Kushtia, Comilla and Noakhali till 6:00pm today. Full story


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