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Reza Mahmud :Dengue fatalities and cases are on surge alarmingly making all efforts of the government fail while the experts alleged that the authorities failed to contain the mosquito borne disease due to its wrong measures in this regards. Public health experts said, the city corporations have not worked yearlong to contain mosquitoes as a result they have grasped to curb the menace when it starts spreading alarmingly. Their efforts of containing dengue spreading also not in scientific ways, the...

Staff Reporter :The main opposition party-BNP-could not stage its Monday’s scheduled rally at Aminbazar in the capital as the dais already built for the programme was allegedly the vandalised by members of the law enforcement agencies in the early hours of the day. And as a result, the party was compelled to postpone the rally. Dhaka district unit BNP convener Abu Ashfaque told journalists that law enforcers dismantled the stage though they gave verbal permission earlier to hold the rally...

Staff Reporter  :The US visa policy will not affect the image of police force, said Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chowdhury Abdullah Al-Mamun. The IGP came up with the remark while responding to a question of a journalist at a programme at Tourist Police Headquarters in the capital city on Monday noon. The IGP said the police always try their best to recover the weapons. “We firmly believe that police can perform their duties properly during the next general election...

UNB  :The Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Monday sought innovative suggestions from economists and sector experts to identify the reasons why inward remittance flow is not growing to the expected level, despite huge manpower export and students who stay back and work abroad. He said that the government will accept suggestions and advice to reform policy and increase desired remittance into the country. Kamal said this while speaking as the chief guest in the inaugural session of ‘Bangladesh’s Public...

DU Correspondent :The Dhaka University (DU) unit Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the student wing of the BNP, held a protest programme on the campus on Monday demanding the release of BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia and an alleged attack on the group at Shahbag in the capital recently. The JCD demonstrated on the DU campus after a long interval. The JCD brought out the protest rally from Shahbag intersection. The programme led by DU unit joint secretary Tarek Hasan Mamun, Aman Ullah...

Staff Reporter :Speakers at a workshop on Monday suggested revising the standard of the Core Humanitarian Quality and Accountability Standard (CHS) developed by and for the humanitarian sector to improve the quality and accountability of aid. Since its launch in December 2014, the CHS has been used by hundreds of organizations to improve their aid work. Now the revision of the standard is ongoing across the globe. As a part of the initiative, the CHS Alliance Secretariat based in Switzerland...

UNB  :Rights body Odhikar’s top officials Adilur Rahman Khan and Nasiruddin Elan have filed an appeal with the High Court challenging the lower court order that sentenced them to two-year jail terms in a case filed under the now defunct Information and Communication Technology Act. They also filed a petition seeking bail in the case, said their lawyer Md Ruhul Amin Bhuiya. On September 14, a Dhaka court sentenced them to two years’ of imprisonment in a case filed over...

Staff Reporter :Bangladesh Bank has introduced new rules for banks to determinethe forward selling and buying rate (Future rate) of the dollar with a fixed maximum rate set. As per the new regulations, banks can fix the rate of forward dollar by adding the maximum six months moving average rate of treasury bill (SMART) + 5 per cent per year to the current dollar rate. Bangladesh Bank discloses this Six Months Moving Average Rate of Treasury Bill at the beginning...