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Swimming lessons made law to stop drownings

The government has made swimming lessons compulsory in schools, to reduce the number of children who drown in the country’s many waterways. According to UN figures, about 18,000 children between five and 17 die each year because they cannot swim. The education ministry says rural ponds and lakes will be made suitable for lessons and university pools opened up. swimmingBut some say the directive will be hard to implement because of a lack of pools in urban areas. Drowning has been described as a hidden epidemic in Bangladesh, one of th...

Hundreds in Manipur at World Youth Summit

The five-day long, World Youth Summit-2015’ is successfully concluded at City Convention Centre in Imphal, Manipur, India. The conference was ranged, from March 29 to April 2, 2015 under the theme of ‘Youth for Global Empowerment’. Image (12)Club25 International Manipur and International Youth Committee (IYC) organized the consequtive summit , followed by Global Youth Meet-2014. More than 500 delegates, from both India and International areana joined the mega event this year. Chief Guest of the function, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Manipur, ...

Women cops 2nd batch to join UN mission

A second batch of women police will be dispatched from Dhaka tonight to join the United Nations peacekeeping mission. women policeThe 125-member unit will fly an UN-chartered flight from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport late tonight for Congo, a press release from Bangladesh Police said. Atia Hosna, an additional superintendent of police, has been chosen to be in-charge of the unit. Another female unit, the first dispatched for the programme, has been serving in Haiti under the UN peacekeeping mission with skill and prestige...

Concerns over BD migrant worker attacks in Maldives

Bangladesh has raised concerns over the recent wave of threats faced by Bangladeshi expatriates working in Maldives after a recent spike in violence saw two Bangladeshi nationals murdered and three stabbed in capital Male, a statement from the high commission said m workerson Thursday. The statement said that the high commission had held meetings with President Abdulla Yameen, Home Minister Umar Naseer and Police Commissioner Hussein Waheed to maintain safety of their citizens in Maldives. The high commission said they were keeping a clos...

Biman negotiating Dubai authorities to deter gold smuggling

At a press briefing at Biman headquarters, the newly appointed managing director and CEO Kyle Haywood said that they are negotiating with Dubai authorities to increase security at their airports in order to deter people from smuggling gold. biman“We’re doing whatever we can,” said Haywood, who has been in the airline industry for the last 25 years, serving with different international airlines like British Airways, Etihad Airways, and low-cost carrier Air Arabia. Gold smuggling in Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport has been rising for the past couple o...

Govt mulls new agencies for MRPs

After the disappointing performance of the Malaysian outsourcing company to issue machine-readable passport (MRP) for nearly 30 lakh expatriates, the government is now thinking about outsourcing new agencies. Expatriates Welfare and Overseas Employment Minister Mosharraf Hossain said, following a meeting with the official of home and foreign ministry at the Probashi Kalyan Bhaban this morning. passport BdThe minister came up with the remark when the expatriates are anxiously waiting for news about getting the MRP as they could lose th...
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