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Lebanon launches hotline for female domestic workers
Lebanon has launched a 24-hour hotline, 1740, for female domestic workers to allow them to report abuse or mistreatment and receive
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Taqi's father gets 1 year jail for bounced cheques
A Narayanganj court yesterday jailed Rafiur Rabbi, father of slain schoolboy Tanwir Muhammed Taqi, for one year in a case filed over dishonoured cheques.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Benajir Ahmed new Endowment Committee chairman of NSF
Benajir Ahmed, immediate past chairman of North South University Trust and founding life member of the North South Foundation (NSF),
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Japan to give $23m for advanced meteorological radar systems
In a bid to improve weather forecasting system in Bangladesh, Japan will provide US $23 million to build next-generation meteorological radar systems in Dhaka and Rangpur.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Milan appointed as ULAB Treasurer
Milan Kumar Bhattacharjee has been appointed the Treasurer of ULAB for a four-year term.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
ACC favours AL people
The BNP yesterday termed the Anti-Corruption Commission a "graft-protection commission", and claimed it has been following a biased policy to save the ruling party.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Milan appointed as ULAB Treasurer
Milan Kumar Bhattacharjee has been appointed the Treasurer of ULAB for a four-year term.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
NHRC plans to meet new army chief to discuss CHT
National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) will hold a dialogue with the newly appointed army chief to establish trust among the stakeholders in Chittagong Hill Tracts, said its
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Illegal drinking water plant sealed in port city
In separate drives, two mobile courts of the Chittagong district administration fined four factories and three shops Tk 94,000 and sealed off a factory for various irregularities in
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Hill slope dwellers in Ctg asked to go to safer places
The Chittagong district administration yesterday asked the people dwelling on the risky hill slopes in the city to move to safer places due
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Menon campaigns among iftar sellers for hygiene
Rashed Khan Menon, civil aviation and tourism minister, yesterday inaugurated a training based public awareness campaign for the
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Death anniversary
Today is the ninth death anniversary of freedom-fighter Col (retd) Akbar Hossain, former minister and BNP leader, said a press release.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Khaleda Khanom
Today is the fourth death anniversary of Khaleda Khanom, the founder principal of Shahid Lt Selim Shikshalaya and former professor of Bangla department of Abujar Gifferi
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Govt orders to build toilets in schools for female students
The education ministry has ordered school management committees to build separate toilets for female students at their educational institutions keeping all the toilets always clean to prevent diseases.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Another implicates Taher, Nani in Netrakona-6 killing
An octogenarian woman yesterday corroborated that Obaidul Haque Taher and Ataur Rahman Nani killed her brother and five others in Netrakona during the Liberation War.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
JU teachers against 63 in Senate
Some Jahangirnagar University teachers yesterday protested possible selection of 63 teachers and officials, whose tenure expired two years ago, for the Senate at its annual meeting on Saturday.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Good news for recruitment agencies!
After a lull of nearly six years, there is talk about resumption of private recruiting agencies supplying expatriate labourers to the Malaysian market.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
EU for national aquaculture platform in Bangladesh
The European Union yesterday called for establishing a national aquaculture platform in the country to further develop the sector as well
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
A neglected community
It is disquieting to note that members of the 'Rishi' community living in Shalikha upazila of Magura have been facing social discrimination due to their so called 'low caste' identity.
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM
Bangladesh-Thailand foreign office consultation in Dhaka today
Connectivity, trade, investment and duty-, quota-free market access of Bangladeshi products to Thai market will dominate the first-ever
24 June 2015, 18:00 PM