Woman “kills two sons”, attempts suicide

    Tahmeed Taha On Tuesday afternoon a woman supposedly killed her two little sons by drowning them in two big-sized buckets and tried to end her own life in Biswanath upazila of Sylhet, UNB reported. The dead were identified as three-year-old Nahidul Islam and 18-month-old Wahidul Islam They are the sons of Kabir Ali and Beauty…

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      Norway to set up 800MW solar power plant in Chandpur

      Tahmeed Taha A Norwegian power producing company ‘I Scatec Solar’ will set up an 800MW solar power plant in Chandpur at $1.0 nillion, for which a total of 3,002 acres of land will be required, said the Norwegian firm. According to a Beza press release, I Scatec Solar and Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) signed…

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        CMP imposes restriction on traffic

        Tahmeed Taha: Yesterday, Chittagong Metropolitan Police imposed a restriction on vehicular movement and carrying sharp weapons, explosives, flammable materials in the port city on Thursday, UNB reports. A CMP press release said on Tuesday night that security measures have been beefed up in three state-owned oil establishments in Chittagong. Vehicular movement stretching from Cement Crossing…

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          National Health Library and Documentation Centre (NHL&DC), Mohakhali, Dhaka, under the Directorate General of Health Services, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of Bangladesh, organized a workshop on the “Importance of Library in Health and Education Services” on 05 February 2018 on the occasion of the National Library Day, which takes place for the…

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            TV channel owners’ asked to project peace, non-communalism

            Tahmeed Taha Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu invited the owners of television channels of the country to project peace, development and non-communalism before the people. In a meeting of Association of Television Channel Owners’ (ATCO) held in the conference room of the information ministry, he said “Don’t promote linguistic distortion or bad culture”. At the meeting,…

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              Ex-Mp Hasan Uddin among 13 held in Gazipur

              Tahmeed Taha Police arrested at least 13 leaders and activists of BNP-Jamaat, including Hasan Uddin Sarkar, who is a former member of parliament (MP) from Gazipur-2 constituency in seperate drives on Tuesday night, UNB reported.Firoz Talukdar, officer-in-charge of Tongi Police station said that Hasan Uddin Sarkar, who is also a member of BNP central executive…

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                Plan for increasing forests coverage to 20%

                Abrar Hussain Environment and Forests Minister Anisul Islam Mahmood yesterday outlined that the government has planned for increasing forest coverage to 20 percent with 64,000 hectare land new forestation in the country.“The government has targeted to plant new trees on 64,000 hectare land aimed at increasing the forests coverage to 20 percent in the country…

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                  Export of Bangladeshi computer this month: Jabbar

                  Sofian Khan State minister for Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Mustafa Jabbar yesterday said Bangladesh made computer will be exported to Nepal and Nigeria within the running month.The minister said this while addressing at a inaugural ceremony of a five-day “Digital ICT Fair – 2018” as the chief guest at the Computer City Centre in the…

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                    TIB for forming independent commission to monitor private health service

                    Sofian Khan Transparency International Bangladesh (TIB) today suggested to build an independent commission to ensure proper health care services at private hospitals terminating all kinds of irregularities.Executive Director of TIB Dr Iftekharuzzaman came up with the recommendation during a press conference titled ‘Private Health Service: Challenge for Good Governance and Way Out’ at its Dhanmondi…

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