Awareness meeting held in Gafargaon

    DOT Desk A mass awareness meeting was held in Gafargaon Railway Station on Wednesday against throwing stones at the moving train, and to prevent touring on train roof, reports the Daily Observer BD. The community policing discussion was organised by Railway Police at Gofargaon Railway Station at noon. Gafargaon Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abdul Ahad Khan…

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      Guava growers profit, tourists frustrated

      Desk Report: The guava growers in Jhalakathi and Pirojpur are doing better profit, but the tourists who come to visit the floating guava market at Vimrul in Jhalakathi Sadar upazila expressed frustration due to lack of facilities, reports Daily Star. The growers in the districts are doing good business due to developed road communication and…

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        New HIV infections rising dramatically in Philippines

        Xinhua At least 31 Filipinos are infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) each day in the Philippines, government data showed with the Department of Health (DOH) voicing alarm over the spread in the Philippines of HIV that causes acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). Health Secretary Francisco Duque said the number of Filipinos affected by HIV…

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          Why Rahul Gandhi cannot peg the 1984 anti-Sikh riots on Hindus, RSS or the BJP

          Peter Appsis, Reuters global affairs columnist/BDnews24 As the West obsesses over Donald Trump’s legal and political challenges, Brexit and a host of other domestic crises, Chinese troops will join their Russian counterparts for Moscow’s largest military exercises in more than three decades. Coming six months after Beijing’s biggest ever offshore naval drills, the joint war…

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            Children vulnerable in Measles increases

            Reported by: Riku Amir Written by: Raj Abrar To eradicate Measles from a country 95% children should be vaccinated, said by World Health Organization (WHO) even though according to the EPI Evaluation Report 2015 done by WHO and UNICEF says only 87% children gets vaccinated in the country. According to the information from the EPI…

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              More green cruise ships

              Tech Explorist: Putting in half a month cruising the oceans on an extravagance liner is a thought that interests to a developing number of individuals, especially in Asian nations. Be that as it may, cruise ships don’t simply sail from port to port: as veritable drifting lodgings pleasing a few hundred travelers, they utilize a…

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                Street food poses health risk to students

                DOT Desk Street food mostly sold in front of educational institutions in the capital and elsewhere in the country poses health risk to students as food sellers often do not maintain proper hygiene, reports The Daily Sun. The mouth-watering street food, which contains various types of bacteria, is mainly consumed by students of schools and…

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                  Election and reporting on local government

                  Md. Habibul Alam Most probably, like me, the word ‘capitation grant’ remained a dark horse to many of us. Even, to many journalists it has been quite new. It came to my vocabulary while digging out investigative report plan for local and national level journalist, as one of my official assignments. It was a successful…

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