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UN Resident Coordinator pays courtesy call on Home Minister

United Nations (UN) Resident Coordinator, Hanna Singer-Hamdy has paid a courtesy call on Home Minster Ramesh Lekhak today.

At a bilateral meeting held at the Home Ministry in Singha Durbar, Home Minister Lekhak lauded the role of the United Nations….

Students vow to build beautiful Bangladesh

Coordinators of Anti-discrimination Student Movement, district unit, vowed to build a beautiful Bangladesh as the country achieved independence for the second time through falling of Sheikh Hasina’s government.

They made the comments while addressin…

Bangladesh sets goal to eradicate HIV by 2030

Thirty-five-year-old Ramiza (not real name) was a sex worker. Her parents died in a fatal road accident while she was only nine and a half years old. She took shelter to her maternal uncle house after the incident. Her grandmother took the responsibi…

UN chief calls for banning nuclear testing “for good”

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Thursday called for banning nuclear testing “for good” in an observance message for the International Day against Nuclear Tests, observed annually on Aug. 29.

In the message, Guterres said that across nearly …

Chair Jha vows reform in RSS services

Executive Chairman of the Rastriya Samachar Samiti (RSS), Dharmendra Jha, vowed reform in RSS services based on the suggestions furnished by its subscribers.

During an interaction organized with its subscribers at the central office on Friday, RSS C…

Woman killed in Brahmanbaria road accident

A woman was killed and 15 others were injured in a road accident on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Baishamura area of ??Shahbazpur union under Sarail upazila of the district today.

The deceased was identified as Hajera Khatun, 45, wife of Abdul Quddus …

17 injured in Doti bus accident

As many as 17 people were injured after a passenger-carrying bus (Na 5 Kha 4451) met an accident at Samuhagadh of Silgadhi Municipality-4 in Dipayal district this morning. The bus fell some 35 metres off the road. The Information Officer of the Distr…