Slum dwellers asked to shift shanties from hill-pockets

SK Sur Chowdhury, deputy governor of BB, Prof Dr Zafar Iqbal, writer, Ali Reza Iftekhar, vice chairman of Association of Bankers' Bangladesh (ABB) and SM Moniruzzaman, convener, School Banking Conference-2013. Mentionable, the total number of School ...

State Minister for Housing and Public Works Advocate Abdul Mannan was elected unanimously as the vice-president of the 58-member governing council of UN Habitat, a subsidiary body of the General Assembly (GA). He was elected to the post at the 24th ...

SHERPUR, March 20 (BSS)-Jamirun Nesa, mother of senior journalist Abdul Mannan of Daily Jugantor, died of old age complications this morning at her Bishnupur village home under Jhenaigati upazila of the district. She was 85. Jamirun Nesa left behind ...

Staff Correspondent . Chittagong Chittagong district administration on Saturday started setting up tents to relocate nearly 2,500 people from vulnerable hillsides in different areas of the port city to avert any casualties in possible landslides ...

CHITTAGONG, May 18 (BSS) - Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) for the first time is going to rehabilitate permanently the people living in different risky hill slopes in the city. CCC sources said the CCC has approved of constructing a seven-storey ...

DHAKA—As Aleya Begum sewed pants for 11 hours each day, vibrations from a power generator shuddered across the roof of her Dhaka garment factory. The machine cranking out electricity became her biggest fear after another Bangladeshi industrial ...

Around 60 per cent buildings in rural areas are highly vulnerable due to weak construction work with sub-standard materials and for construction on wetlands. "Around 60 per cent of the buildings in rural areas, even in upazila and district levels, ...

The stream of suicides in the wake of the Saradha chit fund scam - the biggest financial racket to hit West Bengal - continued Thursday with a 'ponzi' firm agent found hanging in Jalpaiguri district.Bubai Ghosh, an agent of a deposit seeking company ...

(BSS)- Harvest of Irri-Boro paddy is progressing fast in ten districts of Khulna division during the current season with much enthusiasm to the farmers. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said,farmers of the 10 south-western districts ...