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Govt opts for OMS to cut rice prices

Apparently unable to control the hike in rice price despite taking various measures including import of the food grain, the government has now decided to introduce OMS (open market sale) from Sunday and a food-friendly programme from September 20 to bring the prices within the people’s reach. Claiming political motive behind the rice price hike, Food Minister Qamrul Islam yesterday said that certain quarters are manipulating prices of rice, even though the total stock held by millers, wholesalers and farmers is estimated to be around one crore tonnes. Qamrul Islam said this while talking to reporters during a press briefing at the Secretariat yesterday. The minister wondered how rice is being sold at Tk. 70–80 per kg even when there…

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Rohingya influx may reach 10 lakh: UN

The UN agencies yesterday expressed their grave concern over the growing influx of Rohingya people to…

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News

Sudden rise in Surma-Kushiyara

Two north-eastern rivers, the Surma and the Kushiyara, have risen suddenly and were flowing above their respective danger levels (DL). This followed overnight rain upstream in the Barak valley, swelling their source, the Barak river, in Manipur state of north-east India. The two rivers yesterday…

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Metro

PM opens 22 projects in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday inaugurated six development projects and laid the foundation stones of 16 other schemes involving Taka 700 crore, reports BSS. The premier inaugurated and laid the foundation stones of the 22 projects by unveiling their plaques from Harian Sugar Mills…

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Editorial

Improving quality of textbooks

Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Tuesday said the quality of all textbooks from class six to eight would be improved gradually. This statement is more than welcome. According to a report of this newspaper on Wednesday, the corrected textbooks of class nine and ten will be more interesting and…

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Op-ed

Smoking and insecurity of public health: Paradoxes of protection

Smoking in public places is a punishable felony, don’t we know it? Nevertheless, general public to police, teen to adult, doctors to dizzy rickshaw pullers, graduate to guardians all class of people are burning cigarette to boom fume at public places as like thief knew no laws. Banally Bangladesh…

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Miscellaneous

Summer beans farming gains ground

RAJSHAHI: Summer beans farming has been gaining ground in different areas of the region including its vast Barind tract for the last couple of years as the farmers are getting extra benefit from the farming, reports BSS. The plants were covered with massive green leaves predicting a bumper production.…

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Business

BTRC to fix guidelines on ‘active sharing’ to ensure quality of service

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to prepare a set of guidelines on ‘active sharing’ in the telecommunications sector to ensure quality of service (QoS). After reviewing the report of the regulatory agency that was constituted on February 15, the decision…

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Worldwide

Singapore swears in first female president

SINGAPORE: Singapore on Thursday inaugurated its first female president amid stinging criticism that she is taking office without a vote, reports AFP. Halimah Yacob, a former speaker of parliament from the Malay Muslim minority, won the presidency in a walkover after authorities decided her rivals did…

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Dhakalive

Group painting exhibition begins at AFD today

A two-week long group painting exhibition titled ‘Diversity of the Nature’ by the students of Painting for Children will begin today at the Galerie Zoom of Alliance Française de Dhaka (AFD) in the capital’s Dhanmondi area. Eminent artist Samarjit Roy Chowdhury will…

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Sports

Nannu looks for spirited performance in SA

Even though a player like Shakib Al Hasan will always be irreplaceable, Bangladesh team management pondered his temporary absence from the Test cricket will act as a motivation for the players to prop up their game. As he always excels in both batting and bowling, selectors had to consider two players…

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Nationwide

Farmers hit by Aman seedling crisis

With crops on 36,379 hectares of land damaged by floods, farmers in 12 upazilas of Bogra district are in a dire need of Aman seedlings to recoup their losses by producing the food grain. The farmers were unable to plant Aman seedlings as the floodwaters had washed away most of the seedbeds. Till the…

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PM seeks vote for ‘boat’ for continued development

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday sought votes for her party symbol ‘Boat’ in the next general election for maintaining the pace of development, reports UNB. “I seek your blessings and votes for our party symbol ‘Boat’ in the next election so that we can serve the…

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Panorama

The last surviving sea silk seamstress

Each spring, under the cover of darkness and guarded by members of the Italian Coast Guard, 62-year-old Chiara Vigo slips on a white tunic, recites a prayer and plunges headfirst into the crystalline sea off the tiny Sardinian island of Sant’Antioco. Using the moonlight to guide her, Vigo descends…

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