The High Court on Sunday directed the Government's National Disability Welfare Committee to submit a report within 30 days on the steps it has taken to provide equal opportunities for disabled people. This order, given by Justice Md Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed and Justice Naima Haider followed two writ petitions claiming that people with disabilities were not being allowed to participate in examinations for the Bangladesh Civil Service (BCS) and the Judicial Service Commission (JSC)

Rickets is emerging as a 'threat to public health' in the country with 5.5 lakh children, aged between 1 and 15 years, suffering from the disease which is completely preventable, according to a survey.
The current trend of the disease caused by mainly due to deficiency of Vitamin D, produced when skin is exposed to sunlight, is rising and it can take an alarming turn if steps to combat the disease are not taken immediately, said the National Rickets Survey 2008

Around 5,00,000 children in Bangladesh have been affected with rickets, a childhood disease which causes pain, deformity and disability, heath experts said on Tuesday.

They said this while speaking at a meeting on ‘Dissemination of national rickets survey and the outcomes of programmes against rickets in Cox’s Bazar’ organised by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Diseases Research, Bangladesh and the Social Assistance and Rehabilitation for the

Rickets is emerging as a 'public health threat' in the country with 5.50 lakh children, aged between one and 15, suffering from the disease, which is completely preventable, reveals National Rickets Survey 2008 yesterday.

The findings of the study showed that the current trend of the disease mainly due to deficiency of vitamin D, produced when skin is exposed to sunlight, is rising and, if cannot be stopped, can take an alarming turn.

Though vitamin D deficiency...