Frogs to be unleashed to kill mosquito
Reza Mahmud :Dhaka South City Corporation has chosen frogs to eliminate mosquitoes from the city’s water-bodies including drains.Before it DSCC had used guppy fish and...
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$500m WB loan for Covid vaccination
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh has secured $500 million in loan from the World Bank (WB) for the purchase of Covid-19 vaccines and to help vaccinate its...
Pakistan army chief to ‘bury the past’ with India
Al Jazeera :Pakistan’s powerful army chief has called on arch rivals India and Pakistan to “bury the past” and move towards cooperation, an overture towards...
EC’s law reform initiative makes little headway
Noman Mosharef :The Election Commission’s (EC) initiatives to reform laws of The Representation of the People Order (RPO), delimitation of constituencies, registration of political parties...
Bumper mango production likely in Rajshahi region
Our Correspondent :Fruit setting process of mango is going on smoothly amid favorable climatic conditions predicting bumper production of the most popular fruit in the...
Caches of illegal liquor seized
Staff Reporter :The authorities of the Customs Intelligence seized illegally imported liquor and unauthorised electronics devices, including walkie-talkies, from a Kadamtali restaurant in the capital.They...
Bangabandhu outstanding political figure: Russia
UNB, Dhaka :Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday said his country remembers Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as an “outstanding political...
Youth held for PM’s morphed pic
UNB, Thakurgaon :An 18-year-old youth has been arrested in Bangalipara of Thakurgaon’s Sadar upazila for posting a morphed photo of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina...
Councillors to lose posts for canal grabbing
Staff Reporter :Dhaka North City Corporation (DNCC) Mayor Md Atiqul Islam said if allegation of canal grabbing against any councillor is proved, he or she...
Police raid villages: 22 held
Our Correspondent :Police arrested 22 people in connection with launching attack, vandalizing and looting at least 75 Hindu houses in Sunamganj’s Noagaon village over a...