In Bangladesh, one in five schools (19 percent) lack safe drinking water, impacting 8.5 million schoolchildren, the UN agencies said Thursday.More than four in ten schools lack basic sanitation facilities composed of gender-segregated toilets with priv…
The MCQ test results of ‘Cha’ unit under Fine Arts faculty of Dhaka University have been published on Thursday.The results are available on university website admission.eis.du.ac.bd or can be collected through short message service (SMS).For SMS notifi…
A Dhaka court Thursday rejected a complaint of Tk132.4 crore embezzlement filed against Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Managing Director Taqsem A Khan and eight others after hearing it.Md Shahab Uddin Sarkar, secretary of Dhaka WASA K…
A 24-year-old student of a private university allegedly committed suicide in his rented accommodation in the Sonadanga area of Khulna city on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Promise Nager, a student of the journalism and mass communication dep…
No specific information has been found so far about any kind of attack or sabotage centring the inauguration of the Padma Bridge after analysing intelligence and cyber monitoring, said Director General of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) Chowdhury Abdullah…
A 42-year-old Rohingya refugee was shot dead allegedly by assailants at Balukhali camp in Ukhiya of Cox’s Bazar on Wednesday evening.The deceased was identified as Mohammad Shah, a resident of Modhur Chhora camp-17 in Balukhali.Deceased’s wife Sazeda B…
The government of Japan has conferred the “Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette” award to Bangladeshi businessman Abdul Haque.Abdul, one of the founding members of the Japan-Bangladesh Chamber of Commerce and Industry (JBCCI), received the a…
Russia has offered to export two lakh metric tons of wheat to Bangladesh, Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder said told the Parliament on Thursday.In reply to a tabled question from Awami League MP from Dhaka Shafiul Islam, the minister said that for…
International Farakka Committee (IFC) in a statement on Thursday said that unplanned development activities both in Meghalaya and Assam in India and the Sylhet region in Bangladesh are the main factors that have turned the floods into a cataclysmic dis…
Huawei Technologies Bangladesh will recruit 60 fresh university graduates from all over the country.The company will hire business development executives, solutions architects, and service engineers through a third-party resource.Huang Baoxiong, direct…
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday said that no one can stop Bangladesh’s march towards development if the country is run in accordance with the plans formulated by the ruling Awami League.“If the country goes with these plans no one will be able…
Kristine Blokhus has assumed her role as the new United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) country representative in Bangladesh, replacing Dr Asa Torkelsson.Kristine, who is a national of Norway, brings over 20 years of experience in international develop…
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