City Desk : Syeda Rizwana Hasan, Adviser for Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the Ministry of Water Resources on Saturday stressed the importance of protecting the country’s rivers and recovering those from encroachers.“Laws would be enforced strictly in protecting the country’s rivers,” she said adding that cooperation from public is critical to this end, reports BSS. The water resources adviser made the remarks while speaking at a special event at Bangladesh Tourism Corporation here marking the World Rivers Day-2024...
City Desk : The Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) Court here on Saturday granted two days remand to two police constables for their alleged involvement in creating anarchy in the police department through their Facebook (FB) posts. A team of the Detective Branch (DB), after two terms remand, on Saturday produced constable Shohaibur Rahman of Jashore Police Lines and constable Sajib Sarkar of Rajarbagh Police Lines before the court of Metropolitan Magistrate (MM) Arfatul Rakib with a prayer for five more...
City Desk : Information and Broadcasting Advisor of the Interim government M Nahid Islam here on Friday said the government has a plan to bring more sectors, including education and mass media, under reform programme. “As part of the ‘state reform programme’, six committees have been formed and meeting of those committees have already been held. The reform committees will begin their work from October”, he said, reports BSS. Nahid said this while distributing food assistance among the flood affected...
City Desk : The Center for Governance Studies (CGS) will host a dialogue titled “The Lone Wolves of Freedom: Their Dreams and Reality” in Dhaka on Saturday which will highlight the voices that have spoken against systematic repression in the past 15 years. The dialogue will begin at the Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies (BIISS) auditorium at 9:30am, reports UNB. The dialogue will feature guests who have been vocal about the oppression of the past regime and faced...
Waste management is a top priority for the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) as it continues to pursue sustainable growth in...
City Desk : Law Adviser Dr Asif Nazrul on Thursday said the six reform commissions will place their reports to...