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Ronhingya influx takes toll on environment

Ronhingya influx takes toll on environment
Within a span of three weeks, over 400,000 Rohingyas have taken shelter in Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban district. The fresh arrivals are taking shelter on hill slopes by digging the earth to make the ground plain and cutting down tress. In the process, croplands are being damaged. Some are even taking shelter in the reserved forest area of Balukhali. Local people are worried. Some of them said if the Rohingyas do not settle down in a planned way, it will take its toll on the environment. The Rohingyas are also clearing the forest to make their settlement. “We have made our settlements by flattening hill slopes and clearing bush and cutting down tress. We do not take permission from anyone. We heard the government owns this land. As…

Govt plans big for Rohingyas

Govt plans big for Rohingyas

The government has taken a set of decisions, including one to set up 14,000 additional shelter centres on some 2,000 acres of land near Kutupalong in Cox's Bazar for accommodating Rohingya people who have fled to Bangladesh in the face of persecution by the Myanmar military forces in Rakhine State,…
EC takes preparation to hold RCC polls by Dec

EC takes preparation to hold RCC polls by Dec

The Election Commission has started taking preparation to complete the second election to Rangpur City Corporation by December next, reports UNB. Under the incumbent commission, headed by KM Nurul Huda, it would be the second major election after the Comilla City Corporation polls held in March last.…
OMS to cut rice price

OMS to cut rice price

It is good to know that the government is going to introduce OMS (open market sale) to bring the price of the staple grain of rice within the people’s reach. The price  of various varieties of rice has already gone beyond the purchasing capacity of common people and many are switching to…
North Korea’s H-bomb and global thermo-nuclear strategic balance

North Korea’s H-bomb and global thermo-nuclear strategic balance

Right from its establishment as a communist state under the leadership of Kim Ill- Sung with the direct military and political back-up of the then Soviet Union in 1948, North Korea or the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea all through has been a strictly reclusive one. Its relation with other…
E-copyright system to protect intellectual rights, say experts

E-copyright system to protect intellectual rights, say experts

E-copyright, a legal right to protect creator’s original work digitally, is expected to encourage more application for copyright and that the creative-minded citizens of Bangladesh will have a better chance at protecting the intellectual property rights of their creations. To protect intellectual…
US ‘seeking excuses’ to destroy nuclear deal, says Iran

US ‘seeking excuses’ to destroy nuclear deal, says Iran

The United States is “seeking excuses” to tear up the nuclear deal with Iran by demanding military site inspections, one of the Islamic republic’s top security officials said yesterday, reports AFP from Tehran. “Iran has no undisclosed nuclear activity in any geographical location…
Five-day design project exhibition begins at AFD today

Five-day design project exhibition begins at AFD today

A five-day design project exhibition titled ‘River Rhapsody: Museum of Rivers and Canals’ organised by Alliance Française de Dhaka and BRAC University will begin today at the La Galerie of AFD, Dhanmondi in the capital. Eminent architect Professor Shamsul Wares will  attend the…
Naeem, Dhiman tons propel Rangpur

Naeem, Dhiman tons propel Rangpur

Experienced campaigner Naeem Islam coupled with Dhiman Ghosh slammed centuries for Rangpur Division that guided them to a comprehensive total of 325-6 against defending champions Khulan Division at the close of the Day-1 of the Walton National Cricket League in Khulna yesterday. At Sheikh Kamal International…
More than half of Sundarbans now designated as ‘sanctuary’

More than half of Sundarbans now designated as ‘sanctuary’

Bagerhat: All the recent attention drawn by a coal-fired powerplant under construction just outside what is known as the ‘ecologically critical area’ of the Sundarbans, may lead one to think Bangladesh views its relationship with the world’s largest mangrove forest exploitatively,…
Humanitarian crisis deepens

Humanitarian crisis deepens

Owing to the shortage of food, water, and shelter for the Rohingyas who have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state, the humanitarian crisis is deepening at the bordering districts of Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban every day. There are hungry faces everywhere. Theacute crisis of sanitation facilities is…
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Published by the Editor on behalf of Independent Publications Limited at Media Printers, 446/H, Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1215.
Editorial, News & Commercial Offices : Beximco Media Complex, 149-150 Tejgaon I/A, Dhaka-1208, Bangladesh. GPO Box No. 934, Dhaka-1000.

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