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Each drowning death is preventable: WHO, UNICEF Industry Desk: Marking the World Drowning Prevention Day, WHO and UNICEF yesterday called on the governments, development partners, communities and individuals each to do their part to raise awareness and work to prevent the untimely deaths of thousands of children across the country.Each…

Khulna Bureau: The Government has earned Tk 2,921 crore throgh exporting 88.81 metric tonnes of frozen shrimp and white fish from Khulna district in 2021-2022 fiscal year.Khulna district has produced more 31,849 metric tonnes of fish against its demand,Joydev Pal, District Fisheries Officer (DFO), Khulna said this while delivering the…

Sheikh Didarul Alam: The Sundarbans, the world’s largest natural mangrove forest, braces for footfalls of greater number of visitors owing to the newly opened Padma Bridge that has brought the famed tourist destination in the south-western region closer to the rest of the country.Travel to the region will be smooth…

Case filed by BSTI Chattogram Bureau: A Chattogram court has issued an arrest warrant against City Group Chairman Fazlur Rahman in a case filed by BSTI.Chattogram’s Fourth Additional Metropolitan Sessions Judge Shariful Alam’s court issued the warrant yesterday.BSTI’s PP Adv Ashraf Khandaker confirmed the matter and said the BSTI had…

Diplomatic Correspondent: The Embassy of China in Bangladesh, on behalf of the Red Cross Society of China (RCSC), has donated US$ 200,000 to the Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) to assist those affected by recent floods.Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Li Jiming handed over the donation to BDRCS chairman Major General…

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh ranked third in producing freshwater fish, behind China and India. The South Asian nation is now also the third biggest aquaculture producer in the world.Apart from Bangladesh, India, Myanmar and Uganda are among the top four countries in the world where freshwater fish production increased.The Food and…

Eid-ul-Azha approaching fast Golam Mostafa Jibon: Like the previous years, this year the e-commerce entrepreneurs are expecting to carrying brisk business of sacrificial animal selling and purchasing through online or digital platform.Due to clutch of corona pandemic in the last years, bulk number of people across the country has already…

Special Correspondent: Pushing back all obstacles, the dream bridge built on the banks of the Padma was opened on June 25. The bridge will contribute 1.23 percent to the country’s GDP growth. And the GDP of the south-west will increase by 2.3 percent.With the launch of the Padma Bridge, 21…

Staff Correspondent: Bangladesh yesterday witnessed its dream coming true as Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina opened its longest bridge, overcoming three pronged challenges – financial, engineering and political.Sheikh Hasina inaugurated the bridge on one of world’s mightiest rivers connecting southwestern Bangladesh with the capital and other parts while both the streams…