DENGUE MENACE None knows when new larvicide will arrive
The government agencies concerned are still unaware about when the new effective insecticide to control aedes mosquitoes responsible for the spread of dengue will arrive in the country.
Bangladesh heads towards failed state: discussion
Terming Bangladesh’s report to the United Nations on convention against torture as ‘unrealistic’, rights activists on Saturday said that the country was on the verge of becoming a failed state due to the prevalence of torture, secret detention and extrajudicial killing.
RANGPUR 3 BY-POLL Ershad’s son, brother, nephew on aspirant list
Six aspirants, including Jatiya Party founder HM Ershad’s son, youngest brother and nephew, are on the list to be the JP candidate in the by-poll for Rangpur 3 constituency.
Three Rohingyas among 4 killed in Teknaf ‘gunfights’
Three suspected robbers and one drug peddler were killed in reported gunfights with police at Noorullah hill and Dogharchara point on Cox’s Bazar-Teknaf Marine Drive in Teknaf of Cox’s Bazar early Saturday.
‘Robbers’, ‘drug peddler’ killed in Teknaf ‘gunfights’
Three suspected ‘robbers’ and a ‘drug peddler’ were killed in ‘gunfights’ at Nurullaghona hill and Dorgapara of Marine Drive road in Teknafupazila early Saturday.
Floods lay bare emergency disaster response lapses
On an average, half a dozen people, mostly children, drowned or died of snake bites every day in the first 18 days of flood across the country before it reached its peak engulfing a third of the country after July 10.
DENGUE MENACE Hospitals overflow with patients
With the dengue menace rapidly growing in the capital for quite some time and across the country now, the number of patients with the disease hospitalised so far this year has already doubled the last year’s figure, hitting 21,235 as of Friday.
POWDERED MILK CONTAMINATION Govt sits idle on evidence
It was in January 2018 the Bangladesh Food Safety Authority announced that it had detected lead residues 10 to 16 times the permissible limit in powdered milk of six imported brands.
Hajj to begin on August 9
The Supreme Court of the Saudi Arabia confirmed Thursday that the moon of the Hijri month of Zil-Hajj had been sighted, reports Arab News.
AGARTALA AIRPORT India wants Bangladesh land for expansion
India has proposed to expand its Agartala airport into the Bangladesh territory in Brahmanbaria for an upgrade to international standards, Bangladesh officials said.
