The pollution level in certain areas of Barishal city has crossed the safety limit for humans, according to officials of the department of environment (DoE). The DoE undertook a Clean Air and Sustainable Environment (CASE) project to regularly measure the air quality in the northern and southern parts…

Election to Chattogram District Bar Association (CDBA) will be held today. Four panels are contesting this year’s poll. Election commission sources said all preparations including printing of ballot papers have been completed and candidates have been urged to obey the election rules strictly.…

Some 222 graduate level students of different departments and institute of Rajshahi University (RU) will get ‘National Science and Technology Fellowship’. They are getting such fellowship under the research cooperation project of the Ministry of Science and Technology. This information was…

Speakers at a discussion stressed upholding social and political harmony for the sake of institutionalisation of democracy with ensuring good governance everywhere in the society. Responsive and positive roles by all quarters, including the social and political leaders, had become indispensable for…

Academics and researchers observed that there is a need of more research on the working fields of planning, architecture and civil engineering for ensuring quality in infrastructural development. They mentioned that quality assurance in the field of infrastructure development is very much important…

The national Vitamin 'A' plus campaign (Second round)-2019 was held in the city yesterday, aiming to feed vitamin A plus capsules to all children aged between six and 59 months. Chief executive officer of BCC Md Khairul Hasan inaugurated the programme at Jamir Uddinn Primary School centre of…

Nineteen shops were destroyed in a fire that broke out at a market in Kanaighat of the district on Friday afternoon. Locals said the fire originated from a tin-shed shop at Purbabazar market around 2:30pm and soon it engulfed 18 adjoining shops. An electric short-circuit is suspected to have sparked…

National science fest ends at JU Correspondent, JU The two-day '3rd JUSC National Science Fest-2019' concluded on Jahangirnagar University (JU) campus yesterday. With the slogan, ‘Think scientifically, expose your ability', Jahangirnagar University Science Club (JUSC), a science-based…