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Poor's access to microcredit a must to combat Monga
Research recommends
The ultra poor people, who consume food around 1600 kilo calorie per day and are left out of the poverty alleviation net, need special government and non-government attention with access to microcredit
 
UAE introduces new rule to check trafficking in underage camel jockeys
Children from Bangladesh will need separate passports from September for travelling to the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
 
Improve standard of edn to cut poverty
Speakers tell seminar
Speakers at a seminar yesterday called on the government to take effective measures to improve the standard of education and increase the enrolment of students in order to eliminate poverty.
 
'Restore original Women's Dev Policy'
Women's rights activists yesterday demanded immediate cancellation of the amended National Women's Development Policy and restoration of the original policy framed in 1997.
 
Decision to send VDP women as housemaid protested
Speakers at a discussion yesterday protested the government decision to send women members of Ansar-Village Defence Party (VDP) as housemaid to Saudi Arabia.
 
4-hour strike in newspapers, news agencies July 17
Journalists, press workers and employees will observe a four-hour token strike from 11.00am in all newspapers and news agencies on July 17 to press home their demand for formation of the 6th wage board.
 
Attack on CPA Eviction Team
Nine arrested
Nine people were arrested in connection with the attack on an eviction team of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) and damaging government properties and vehicles at Laldiarchar under Patenga Police Station
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Bangladeshi dies in Canada road accident
Engineer Promod Deb Nath, a Bangladeshi expatriate in the United States, was killed and his wife and two children were injured in a road accident at Kingston in Canada on July 10, says a press release.
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Dr Rita, engr Mita lead secluded life due to mental disorder
Doctors tell journalists
Two sisters found to have been leading an abnormal and secluded life in their house at Mirpur in the city since 1996 have been suffering from serious mental and behavioural disorders, doctors said yesterday.
 
Dhaka-Thimpu direct air service soon
Direct air service between Dhaka and Bhutanese capital Thimpu will resume soon, civil aviation ministry sources said yesterday.
 
Unesco Clubs confce in Paris
The world conference of the Unesco Clubs Movement will be held from July 18 to 20 in Paris.
 

 
   
 
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