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Nat'l Health Rights Convention Begins
Poor deprived of health rights
Though people's health is related to human rights, medical service in the country is so divided and captured by a group of people that the poor are often deprived of getting proper treatment, said former

No disaggregated data on gender in budget
Gender experts tell seminar
There is no disaggregated data on gender in this year's budget, though the planning and finance adviser claimed it to be gender sensitive, speakers at a seminar said yesterday.

Stop hill cutting, renovate Chaktai canal
Matin gives directives
Communications Adviser Major General (retd) MA Matin yesterday directed the authorities concerned to stop all sorts of hill cutting, and take measures to renovate the Chaktai canal to avert landslides

Rita, Mita taken to BSMMU for treatment
Dr Ainun Nahar Rita, a physician, and Nurunnahar Mita, an engineer, two sisters who had been keeping themselves locked up for more than a month with the symptoms of relapse of their mental illness, were

Nine more fake students found at DU IR dept
A Dhaka University committee on admission forgery detected nine more cases at the Department of International Relations.

'Take action plan to solve waterlogging problem in city '
Environmentalists at a press conference yesterday urged the government to take a pragmatic action plan to solve the waterlogging problem in the capital.

Joint forces arrest two criminals in Khagrachhari
Joint forces arrested two criminals in Khagrachhari yesterday. The arrestees were identified as Bolash Tripura alias Biplob Tripura, 22 and Yakub Ali alias Huzur Yakub, 45.

Declaration of 9 Chuadanga newspapers cancelled
The declaration of nine local newspapers in Chuadanga was cancelled by the deputy commissioner yesterday under the relevant provisions of the press and publication Act 1973.

Rajshahi BNP leader Altaf arrested
Police arrested Rajshahi BNP Vice President Altaf Hossain, a close associate of detained Mayor Mizanur Rahman Minu, from Shaheb Bazar Zero Point in the city yesterday.

Establishing Human Rights
MJF, embassy of Norway sign agreement
The Embassy of Norway in Bangladesh and Manusher Jonno Foundation (MJF) signed a three-year agreement to help establish human rights and good governance in Bangladesh on Wednesday, says a press release.

Concern aid for mudslide victims
Concern Worldwide, an international humanitarian NGO, will provide relief amounting to Tk 28 lakh for the people affected by the mudslide and waterlogging in Chittagong.

Dr Ashraful Islam resigns from PSC
Dr Ashraful Islam Chowdhury, a member of the Public Service Commission (PSC), resigned on 'personal grounds' yesterday.

Gulf Oil distributors confce today
The annual distributors' conference of Gulf Oil Bangladesh Limited will be held at Parjatan Holiday Complex, Hotel Shoibal, in Cox's Bazar at 10:00am today, says a press release.