February 2018

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Abrar Hussain In an open letter to António Guterres, the UN’s secretary general, the campaign group Code Blue claims that a UN agency has “grossly mishandled” an investigation into claims of sexual harassment and assault by a high-ranking official.Last week, UNAids concluded that allegations against Luiz Loures, an assistant secretary general of the UN, and…

Abrar Hussain Business leaders have warned Theresa May that their “patience is wearing thin” with the government’s indecision regarding Brexit. The British Chambers of Commerce released a strongly-worded statement saying that “businesses need those elected to govern our country to make choices”. In an open letter to the prime minister, the BCC’s president, Francis Martin,…

Abrar Hussain The Israeli military has claimed that a Palestinian assailant was shot dead yesterday after stabbing a security guard at the entrance to a Jewish settlement in the West Bank. The civilian guard, stationed at the Karmei Tzur settlement north of Hebron, was slightly wounded. Another security guard shot and killed the attacker, the…

Abrar Hussain Over 10,000 Beduin citizens living on and near land assigned to become a phosphate mine will be forced to relocate by Israel, with most of them being concentrated in a new town nearby, a senior government policy-maker for Beduin affairs has told The Jerusalem Post. Yair Maayan, the head of the Authority for…