Day: October 21, 2024
Chattogram Bureau : Adviser to the Ministry of Youth and Sports Asif Mahmud visited Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Cricket Stadium and MA Aziz Stadium on Saturday. Sports adviser came to Chittagong in the morning. He went directly to Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium from the airport. He visited the Zahoor Ahmed Chowdhury International Cricket Stadium in Sagarika at 9 am, visited the stadium ground, gallery and spoke to the concerned officials. At this time, he directed the officials of Jatiya Krira Parishad...
Sr. Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj : The Consumers Association of Bangladesh (CAB) formed a five-member citizen’s committee to settle the dispute between Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB) and Rural Electricity Association (REA) ( Palli Vidyut Samity). CAB arranged a virtual meeting with central committee members and districts on Saturday noon. This citizens committee was formed on Saturday. According to CAB, the electricity system is at risk due to the ongoing dispute between the Rural Electrification Board and the Rural Electricity Societies....
Sylhet Bureau : A month-long national human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccination campaign will be held in Sylhet district from October 24 to prevent cervical cancer. Excluding Fridays and public holidays, every day for 18 days from 8:00 am to 3:30 pm, students/teenagers (10-14 years) studying in classes 5th to 9th in various educational institutions and adolescent girls aged 10-14 years in non-educational institutions are completely free of cost HPV. Vaccination will be provided. 2 ,l4, 200 girls of Sylhet will...
BAU Correspondent : A workshop on “Crop Modeling” was held at Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) under the project titled “Improving Crop Productivity in Bangladesh’s char areas by examining the impact of climate change on crop production and adapting climate-resilient crop systems.” The three-day training workshop was attended by PhD and postgraduate students of the Department of Agronomy at the university. The closing ceremony of the training took place on in the conference room of the Department of Agronomy on Saturday....
City Desk : National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) Chairman Dr Kamal Uddin Ahmed on Sunday said there is no way to tolerate and show flexibility to violence against housemaids. He said this while visiting a 13-year-old housemaid, who was recently abused physically in the city’s Basundhara area and now undergoing treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), reports BSS. The NHRC chief inquired about the wellbeing of the victim and talked to the hospital authorities over her proper treatment, said...