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Speakers have called for the immediate passage of the draft amendment to the tobacco control law to protect public health and reduce tobacco-related deaths, along with the implementation of Article 5.3 of the World Health Organization’s Framework Convention on...

The Institution of Diploma Engineers, Bangladesh (IDEB), a national organization of more than 800,000 diploma engineers in the country, is observing with deep concern and anxiety that despite the professional status, appointment, and promotion of diploma engineers being determined...

Unilever Bangladesh Limited has contributed BDT 81,777,100 and Unilever Consumer Care Limited has contributed BDT 4,498,200 to the Bangladesh Workers Welfare Foundation Fund(BLWF) under the Ministry of Labour and Employment, as part of their statutory commitment to the Workers’...

DHAKA : Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Limited has conducted two separate drives in Munshiganj and Rupganj to disconnect illegal gas connections. According to a press release, illegal gas connections at six locations were cut off during the operations,...

DHAKA : The Election Commission (EC) is holding the final round of hearings today on objections raised regarding the re-demarcation of parliamentary seats in key regions ahead of the 13th Jatiya Sangsad (JS) elections. The hearing began this morning at...

DHAKA : A Dhaka court today showed five people, including former ministers Anisul Huq and Qamrul Islam, and former adviser to the ousted prime minister Sheikh Hasina, Salman F Rahman, arrested in three separate cases filed over murders committed...

DHAKA : Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today said national poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is an eternal symbol of rebellion. "National poet Kazi Nazrul Islam is an eternal emblem of rebellion," he said in a...

DHAKA : A total of 1,035 candidates set to contest 13 posts across 18 residential halls as the final list of candidates for the Dhaka University (DU) hall union elections has been published. A total of 1,109 candidates had submitted...

The Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) has expressed deep concern, strong condemnation, and protest over an incident in which an Assistant Engineer of Northern Electricity Supply PLC (NESCO), Md. Rokonuzzaman, was assaulted and threatened with death at his workplace,...

HSBC, in collaboration with CARE Bangladesh, is expanding its climate-resilient agriculture initiative in Southwest Coastal Bangladesh through the “Sunflower Radiance Journey towards Adaptation in a Market-oriented and Nature-based Initiative” (SURJAMONI) project. This initiative aims to foster the sunflower value...