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“Soil-less grass is free from pesticides and insects which ensures safe food for the cattle of my farm. The production of milk improved, when I started to use this modified technology,” said Mahbub Uddin Ahmed, a farmer from Dhaka’s Kalyanpur, at a seminar yesterday.

Eminent personalities yesterday issued a statement expressing outrage and concern at the rise in incidents of rape and other gender-based violence across the country during the coronavirus pandemic.

Police’s Detective Branch (DB) yesterday arrested nine persons who were involved in stealing money from bKash accounts, pretending to be representatives of the company.

Awami League yesterday nominated Mohammad Habib Hasan and Tanvir Shakil Joy as the party candidates for by-polls to Dhaka-18 and Sirajganj-1, as the Election Commission set the date for the by-polls on November 12.

About 164 Bangladeshis were repatriated yesterday in a charter flight from war-torn Libya.

Bangladesh and USA have formally signed an air transport agreement yesterday. From now on, this agreement will act as the primary basis to resume flight operation between the two countries.

Bishop Bejoy D’Cruze OMI has been appointed the new Archbishop of Dhaka, as Cardinal Patrick D Rozario, Archbishop of Dhaka Catholic Archdiocese, has retired from the post.

Keeping the coronavirus pandemic situation in mind, DNCC is going to run “Vitamin A-plus” campaign at 1,905 centres for 14 days in all its wards, targeting 8,71,019 children.

A team of Criminal Investigation Department today said they arrested a man who has amassed up to Tk 3 crore by defrauding job seekers through fake outsourcing companies.

A man allegedly stabbed his two children, killing his daughter, before he tried to kill himself at their house in Hazaribagh area of the capital this afternoon.

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazler Noor Taposh today said they will reinstate the heritage of Dhaka city.

A youth has died while in custody at Paltan Model Police Station after he was picked up from Gulistan area.

Rapid Action Battalion members arrested a priest from Rajshahi Catholic Diocese in Umorpur area of the city last night on charges of confining a 15-year-old in a church for three days and raping her.

A cigarette-seller was killed by some miscreants in Rajshahi city’s Bheripara area yesterday for his refusal to sell them cigarette on credit, said police.

The Supreme Court yesterday stayed for eight weeks a High Court order that granted bail to Abul Asad, editor of Bangla daily Sangram, in a case filed under Digital Security Act on charges of “circulating provocative report and sedition”.

In order to reduce corruption and ensure good governance, effective implementation of the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2009 is needed. Proper implementation of the law will help ensure transparency and accountability of the government, speakers said at a virtual discussion yesterday.

The High Court will deliver its verdict today over compensating Jaha Alam, who suffered in jail for three years instead of the real accused in several corruption cases.

With a ray of hope, Bangladesh’s solar energy industry’s 5.8 million decentralised solar home systems have created around 137,400 jobs, said the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA).

Sixty-nine percent of girls in rural Bangladesh have no access to distance education through television, as only 31 percent of their families have a television with cable network.