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BISAP is conducting a training on “Livelihood and Employment Generation Skill Development” to equip vulnerable women with stable work opportunities, especially in the context of current and future pandemics. Held at BISAP’s Skill Development Training Centre, the program focuses on enhancing technical skills such as Machine Operation, Sewing, and Cutting, with a strong emphasis on entrepreneurship development. This training empowers participants to create their own businesses and secure employment opportunities. As a result, many trainees have successfully started their own ventures and generated sustainable employment for themselves, said a press release.
PV Desk Four dengue patients died and 1,121 were admitted to different hospitals in the country during the last 24 hours till this morning. “During the period, 449 dengue patients were hospitalised in Dhaka city, while 672 were admitted to different hospitals outside the capital,” said a press release issued by the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS). This year, the total number of cases rose to 48,582 while 241 deaths from dengue disease were reported during the period, the statement added. Last year, the country recorded 1,705 dengue-related deaths and a total of 3,21,179 dengue cases.
PV Desk Chief Adviser’s Special Assistant Mahfuj Alam on Saturday said the government will form a search committee following the existing law to constitute a new Election Commission(EC) for taking forward the relevant activities to hold the next national election. “The interim government’s ‘non-partisan and neutral’ approach will continue in this process without any political influence,” Mahfuj said during a briefing at the Foreign Service Academy in the evening. CA’s Press Secretary Shafiqul Alam and Deputy Press Secretaries Apurba Jahangir and Abul Kalam Azad Majumder were present. Earlier, Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus held dialogue with political parties, including Liberal…
PV Desk Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman has vowed to serve the people of the country rather than assuming a position of authority if his party is entrusted with the responsibility of leading the country in the future. “If given the responsibility to lead the country, we will not be the master of the people but the servants of this nation,” he said during a member conference in Naogaon on Saturday. The Naogaon unit of Jamaat-e-Islami organised the conference at the Nowjoan Eidgah grounds. The Jamaat Ameer emphasised the party’s intent to earn public trust through direct engagement, stating…
PV Desk Extending wholehearted support to the interim government for a free and fair election, Gono Forum(GF) on Saturday called for a national unity to address the challenges and proceed towards a credible election through a strong and competent Election Commission. “We want free, fair and neutral elections. Today’s government is the people’s government. We will extend support to the government wholeheartedly for the sake of fair elections in the future,” chairman of the coordinating team of Gono Forum Mostafa Mohsin Montu told reporters after their dialogue with Chief Adviser Prof Muhammad Yunus. “We had a detailed discussion. He (CA)…
PV Desk Lions Club of Chittagong Parijat, Lions Club of Chittagong Parijat Elite and Lions Club of Chittagong Baklia, a wing of Lions district, distributed toys, fruits and cash to families of child cancer patients in Chittagong Medical College Hospital(CMCH) on Thursday last. Lions District Governor Lion Kohinoor Kamal MJF attended the event on October Service Month as chief guest while 2nd District Vice Governor Lion Kamruzzaman Liton MJF, Chairman of Children Leukemia Assistance and Support Service(CLASS) and veteran journalist Osman Gani Mansur, GL, District coordinator Lion Jahanara Begum, L,C, IF, District Coordinator Lion Md. Humayun Kabir, Region Chairperson HQ…
At least 22 people, including women and children, have been killed in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza as Israeli forces press on with their ground assault in the area. As the death toll mounted on Saturday, the Israeli military issued evacuation orders for northern Gaza with instructions for residents near Jabalia to evacuate to the south of the enclave. The Israel military launched a deadly offensive in the Jabalia area a week ago which it claims is aimed at stopping Palestinian group Hamas from regrouping. The attacks have trapped thousands of Palestinian civilians, international…
Dashash wamedh Ghat in Kashi, one of the holiest of places for Hindus, came alive on Thursday with the chanting of ‘Achyutam Keshavam’, lighting of 51 diyas or traditional lamps, and prayers of hundreds of people. All for a man who did not even belong to Sanatana Dharma. But Ratan Naval Tata belonged to this ancient land as intrinsically as the rivers that flow here. The land so vilified by the Left and Islamists as ‘majoritarian’ poured its heart to bid goodbye to its distinguished son, a person from the tiniest of minorities: Parsis. Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh: A tribute to…
Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying a local security official in Russia’s Ingushetia region in the North Caucasus, killing three people, including a police officer, TASS news agency reported early on Saturday, quoting investigators. TASS quoted a local branch of Russia’s Investigative Committee as saying a car assigned to the deputy head of Ingushetia’s Centre for Countering Extremism had come under fire on Friday evening. The local branch said a criminal investigation had been opened into the incident and those behind the attack were being sought. The TASS report said the gunmen had fled the scene and headed off…