Category: What’s on

A two-day training for the election officials of 10th Parliamentary Polls has begun at Gaibandha Govt. Girls’ High School of the town here on Tuesday.

A discussion meeting to ensure safe town for women under the theme of “Stop violence against women” organised by District police, community policing and local NGO RACINE was held Monday afternoon at the police line auditorium. The discussion was presided…

Speakers at a workshop in Rajshahi Sunday emphasised the need for freeing the society from gender discriminations in the greater interest of establishing a non-discriminatory and equitable society for taking the nation forward successfully.

A daylong workshop on prevention and control of Nipah Virus disease organised by Disease Control branch of Health Directorate, Mahakhali, Dhaka was held yesterday at Bhanga Upazilla Health Complex.

All preparations are completed to hold the January 5 JatiyaSangsad polls in only one constituency out of four constituencies of this district.

Speakers in a function here on Monday stressed the need for conducting co-curricular activities to the youths side by side with their routine works to build a better and peaceful society.

Over 22.60 lakh under five (0-59 month) babies were administered with oral polio vaccine while observing first round of the 21st December 21, official sources said.

A discussion meeting on the occasion of International Migrants Day-2013 jointly was organised by District Administration and District Employment and Manpower office held at local Shilpakala Academy here on Wednesday.

Mayor Mosaddeque Hossain Bulbul has said the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is interested to build housing project for the Freedom Fighters for their permanent address in the city.

There is no alternative to engage comprehensive GO-NGO efforts in reducing disaster risks being triggered by adverse climate change impacts through proper managements and early preparedness, speakers said yesterday.

Around 600 ethnic populations have started enjoying arsenic-free safe drinking water in Kalna village for the first time as two hand-driven tube-wells were commissioned there around one month ago which are capable to provide water round the year.

Khulna district administration, educational institutions and different socio-cultural and political organisations including Awami League have chalked out elaborate programmes to observe the Martyred Intellectuals Day and celebrate the Victory Day-2013 here in a befitting manner.

The World Human Rights Day- 2013 was observed here on December 10 with a call for ensuring universal human rights of every citizen and paving way for normal growth of girl child eradicating child marriage from the society.

Speakers in a function here on Monday said Begum Rokeya had played a pioneering role in establishing rights of women and eradicating superstition from the society in Indian sub continent.

Village Pairaband, birthplace of the pioneer of women renaissance in the sub-continent under Mithapukur upazila here, is now set to observe the Begum Rokeya Day-2013 from Monday.

Police recovered a touchstone-made statue worth about Tk50 lakh from a house at Mulghar village in Fakirhat upazila on Thursday afternoon.

Authorities of Swashswata Bangla Muktijuddha Jadughar (SBMJ) at an emergency meeting here on Tuesday afternoon finalised and chalked out 9-day elaborate programmes in observance of the great Victory Day-2013.

An 11-member ‘District Employment Implementation Committee for Physically Challenged People’ was formed at a meeting held here at ‘Adhikar Chamber’ in the city on Sunday afternoon.

The school and college going female students have set up a glaring example in eradicating superstition and gender disparity bringing about a social renaissance in the sub-Himalayan Panchagarh villages.

Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Alhaj Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has said the physically challenged and autistic children need adequate facilities and congenial atmosphere for flourishing their enormous talents.

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) under its Community Development Initiative (CDI) programme distributed Taka 31 lakh as grants among 310 extremely poor families for livelihoods improvement here Friday.