SOCIAL SAFETY IN COMING BUDGET FF allowances to go up
The government is likely to increase the allowances for freedom fighters but keep the rates of other grants under the social safety programmes unchanged in the new fiscal year beginning July 1.
BSF kills Bangladeshi pouring kerosene into mouth
A 32-year-old Bangladesh national died in Satkhira border early Saturday after Indian Border Security Force had reportedly tortured him and poured kerosene into his mouth.
Heat wave to continue
The ongoing heat wave would continue for few more days while people in the capital and across the country continued suffering from blistering heat as the mercury remained above 36C and went up to 39.5C on Friday.
MOVE TO REGAIN JOB MARKET High-level visit to Malaysia begins today
The government is sending today a high-level team to Malaysia in an effort to regain access for Bangladeshi workers to the job market in that country, which has kept suspended recruitment of Bangladeshi workers since September last year.
Another PCJSS activist shot dead in Bandarban
Two days after an activist of Parbatya Chattogram Jana Samhati Samiti was shot dead, another activist of the regional political party was shot and murdered by unidentified assailants on Thursday evening.
No exam up to Class III from 2020
The government is going to abolish the examination-based assessment of student performances and to introduce the continuous assessment method up to Class III from next year, said officials.
19 injured as Bangladesh Biman plane skids off Yangon runway
Nineteen people, including an infant, were injured as a Biman Bangladesh Airlines plane skidded off a runway while landing at Yangon airport in Myanmar Wednesday evening amidst a freak storm.
RAPE, MURDER ON MOVING BUS Evidence found, 5 suspects taken on remand
The doctors of Kishoreganj General Hospital who conducted the post mortem examination of nurse Shahinur Akther Tania said Wednesday that the evidence they found shows that she was murdered after raping by more than one man.
PRESENCE OF ENTERIC VIRUSES IN CAPITAL’S SEWAGE WATER People at high risk of viral infections
‘Alarming presence’ of three enteric viruses in the capital’s sewage water created the risk of the viruses getting released in the environment putting public life in danger.
ADULTERATED COW MILK, CURD, CATTLE FEED HC asks govt to submit list of adulterers
The High Court Division in a rule on Wednesday directed Bangladesh Food Safety Authority to submit by May 15 the list of adulterers of cow milk, curd and cattle feed.
