ANTIBIOTICS, BACTERIA, DETERGENT IN PASTEURISED MILK HC orders retest in 4 labs as BSTI lacks capacity
The High Court on Sunday directed the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution to arrange a fresh test on 14 brands of pasteurised milk at four government laboratories in seven days to detect whether the packaged milk contained harmful substances like bacteria including coliform and
No protective gear for suspects raises question
Law enforcers produce crime suspects in protective gear before the press and in courts but do not do so when they take out the suspects in night-time operations for cohort arrests and arms or drugs recovery.
Retest finds antibiotics in milk again
Multiple antibiotic residues have again been detected in all the 10 samples of both pasteurised and non-pasteurised cow milk tested at a Dhaka University laboratory.
Won’t tolerate corruption, warns PM
Reaffirming that corruption would not be tolerated, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday asked the top government officials to keep more vigil against corruption so that this menace did not affect the country’s development in any way.
Floods affect 13 districts
Hard times lie ahead of the disaster responders as hundreds of thousands of people have been cut off from road communications on Saturday and could be reached out only by boat.
Textbooks don’t reflect curriculum objectives
The objectives set in the national curriculums for the school children have no reflection in the textbooks and the classroom activities for which the pupils fail to achieve the competencies and skills they are expected to attain at the end of the academic years.
Flood victims look for shelters
Thousands of people in low-lying areas have left their homes seeking shelters in higher grounds as major Bangladesh rivers keep swelling for the six consecutive days amid heavy rains.
Imran, Fazilatun Nessa to take oath today
President Abdul Hamid has appointed Awami League MP from Sylhet 4 constituency Imran Ahmed as a minister and MP from reserved seats for women Begum Fazilatun Nessa as a state minister.
Left leaders slam PM for gas price hike comment
Leaders of the left-leaning political parties differed from the prime minster Sheikh Hasina’s Thursday’s claim on gas price hike in the parliament and alleged that that wrong policies and corruptions in the gas sector were responsible for gas price hike.
Railway, Waterway 77m cubic metres of septage dumped
Seventy-seven million cubic metres of liquid waste and 20.64 million tonnes of solid waste generated in river vessels and trains in a year are dumped on the railway and waterway, polluting the environment and exposing public health to a serious threat, a government study says.
