30kg venison recovered from Sundarbans

    UNB: Officials of Forest Department recovered 30 kilograms of venison from a boat in Pashur River at Chila in Mongla upazila on Monday night. Being tipped-off, a team of Forest Department conducted a drive in the area at night and challenged a boat, said Md Mahmudul Hasan, divisional forest officer (DFO) of Sundarbans East Zone….

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      4 killed in C’nawabagnj, Chattogram road crashes

      UNB: Four people were killed in separate road crashes in Chapainawabganj and Chattogram districts on Tuesday. In Chapainawabganj, two motorcyclists, Mizanur Rahman, son of Jalal Uddin, and Moshiur Rahman, son of Salauddin, of Kolail Diyar area of Gomostapur upazila, were killed when a truck rammed their vehicle in Kolyanpur area of the district town at…

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        Crisis roadmap overlooks gender

        Eurek Alert: Women’s Health Research at Yale (WHRY) is calling on a government committee to revise its report on a coordinated response to the opioid epidemic so that it reflects the unique needs of women.In a commentary published in the peer-reviewed journal Biology of Sex Differences, WHRY Director Carolyn M. Mazure, Ph.D., and Jill Becker,…

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          Rat invasion worries Haor farmers

          DOT Desk: Thousands of farmers in Sunamganj are worried as rats are eating up their paddy at Jahangirnagar union under Sadar upazila in Sunamganj Haor area, reports The Daily Star. Mizanur Rahman, a resident of Islampur village, said paddy on his five kiar (one kiar = 30 decimals) of land has been destroyed. , adding…

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            New banks’ approval, monetary policy delayed as BB halts board meet for quorum-crisis

            Monirul Alam of DOT The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has postponed its pre-scheduled meeting of Board of Directors yesterday over quorum-crisis, delaying again the approval of new banks and the half-yearly monetary policy for the January-June period. “It has happened unexpectedly at the last moment due to quorum-crisis,” said Sirajul Islam, executive director and spokesperson for…

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              BSTI fines Tk 56,500 in Rajshahi, Rangpur

              BSS: Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) has penalised 18 shops Taka 56,500 in Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions in December last year for selling and manufacturing adulterated food items. Eight mobile courts of the BSTI Rajshahi regional office in association with local administration conducted drives in different parts of the two divisions. and found the…

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                UP Chairman is now minister, Shahab Uddin of Baralekha

                Mansur Iqbal, Maulvibazar Corespondent Maulvibazar-1 (Barlekha-Juri) constituency MP four times. Shahab Uddin got the responsibility of forest and environment minister. From cabinet to mobile phone This information has been confirmed to Shahab Uddin. He took oath on 7 January at Bangabhaban. On Sunday, the media confirmed the information to the media at two. Shahab Uddin…

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