The Forest Department has started taking legal action against those who have been operating pet bird farms and shops without licenses.
As per the directives of Adviser for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Syeda Rizwana Hasan, the Offices of the Divisional Forest Officer (Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Wing, Dhaka) has already issued a notification on August 20 to pet bird shop owners to obtain licenses on an urgent basis for setting up and operating pet bird shops, reports BSS.
According to the notification, no farmer can produce, rear, set up farms; buy, sell, import and export any pet-birds; or no one can operate pet-birds shops without obtaining license as per Rule 4 of Pet-Birds Management Rules, 2020, said a press release of the ministry.
Setting up and ...
Home Affairs Adviser to the interim government Lieutenant General (retd) Jahangir Alam Chowdhury on Wednesday said people who were injured during the anti-discrimination student movement are receiving world-class care under the supervision of a number of renowned doctors at the BGB Hospital here.
He made the remarks while replying to the queries of the newsmen present at Pilkhana Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) hospital premises this morning, shortly after visiting the injured BGB members and students, reports BSS.
He said: "The patients at the BGB hospital are in good hands. They have been doing better than before. The hospital authorities are working sincerely to provide them with necessary treatment and care."
"The Director General (DG) of the BGB has said some more patients w...
France President Emmanuel Macron has congratulated Chief Adviser Professor Muhammad Yunus on his assumption as the chief adviser to the interim government of Bangladesh.
"Allow me to extend my sincere congratulations to you on your appointment as Chief Adviser to the Interim Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh," he wrote in a letter to Prof Yunus.
The letter was received here today.
Macron said as Bangladesh now enters a period of transition, the interim government Yunus leads will have the important task of preparing the ...
The Dhaka metro rail is set to resume operations as workers who had been on strike have now returned to their duties. The metro rail was initially scheduled to resume operations on Sunday after a month-long closure. However, the workers' strike caused a delay in the reopening.
The workers resumed work on Tuesday, and the Dhaka Mass Transit Company Limited (DMTCL), which operates the metro rail, plans to relaunch services within the next four to five days.
However, due to recent student protests that turned violen...
The Bangladesh Financial Intelligence Unit (BFIU) on Monday asked banks to freeze the accounts of Zahid Maleque, former health minister, and Mohammad Ali Sikdar, chairman of Computer World BD, along with their family members.
Other persons are Zahid Maleque's son Ahad Maleque, daughter Sinthia Maleque, and Liakat Ali Sikder's wife Mahmuda Ali Sikdar.
Besides, the BFIU also asked to freeze the bank accounts of Computer World BD. Mahmuda Ali Sikdar is also the company's chief executive officer.
According to a circular from the agency, the BFIU has asked to freeze the bank accounts for the next 30 days in the initial phase.
Sources said that the instruction came after the BFIU received reports of suspicious transactions in accounts under their names.
The Local Government Division has removed mayors of the 12 city corporations and appointed administrators for those corporations.
The Administrators were appointed in the vacated positions, said a gazette notification issued by the local government division today.
The notification said, the mayors were removed from their offices as per the section 13(Ka) of the Local Government (City Corporation) (Amendment) Ordinance, 2024.
The 12 city corporations are: Dhaka South, Dhaka North, Chattogram, Khulna, Rajsha...
