Dulal Kanti Bhowmik, a former professor of the Department of Sanskrit at the University of Dhaka, has gone missing in Dhaka's Mohammadpur after leaving his home saying he was going to buy medicine.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Sardar Md. Sakhawat Hossain has informed that an initiative will soon be taken to post adequate specialist doctors or haematologists in various regions of the country to strengthen the treatment service of blood diseases. Research will have to be increased along with making young doctors skilled so that the patients infected with blood diseases can get treatment of international standard in the country itself.
The Local Government Division has directed to keep all tenders and procurement processes related to works, services and goods supply of the institutions under it suspended. This directive will remain effective until the rules are formulated and the new rate schedule is published under the amended ordinance related to government procurement.
Water, the source of life and a symbol of purity and creation, will take centre stage at this year’s Durga Puja celebrations organised by the Gulshan-Banani Sarbojanin Puja Foundation. The foundation has chosen ‘Jalaj’, meaning ‘born of water’, as its theme for Sharodotsav 1433, placing the importance of water and its connection to life, spirituality and nature at the heart of its pandal design.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today called on people from all walks of life to take initiatives to protect the environment and forests, urging government officials to go beyond their routine duties to build a liveable Bangladesh for future generations.
China is keen to advance bilateral relations by further expanding economic and trade cooperation with Bangladesh. Bangladesh, for its part, has expressed the hope of taking the existing friendly relations to a new height by increasing practical cooperation with China.