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CapriSun Pouches

CapriSun has teamed up with TerraCycle to reuse the drink pouches into usable products. You can also generate money for your school by establishing a Drink Pouch Brigade. You can visit/sign-up at their website to start the brigade. According to the CapriSun box (as shown below), you can earn $0.02 per donated pouch.

Terracycle reuses the drink pouches to make them into pencil cases, bags, folders, etc. Below are the photos of what the drink pouches can be turned into.

GP breaks thru’ IPO hurdle

Grameenphone, the leading mobile phone operator of the country, yesterday received a go ahead from the stock market regulator to raise Tk 486.08 crore through an initial public offering (IPO), the largest of its kind in the history of Bangladesh capital market.

Chief of JMB’s new offshoot captured

Abdur Rahim

Special Branch (SB) of Police in Gazipur arrested Abdur Rahim alias Shahadat, the chief organiser of “Islam and Muslim”, a new offshoot of banned Islamist militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB).

Rehabilitation of Aila-hit farmers starts today

Rehabilitation of the cyclone Aila-hit farmers starts today in the southern districts through distribution of free seeds and fertilisers for the Aman season.

The government will distribute this agricultural aid among around 1.76 lakh farmers from 75 upazilas in 12 Aila-affected districts.

3-6 new faces to get ministerial job

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina may bring in a few more ministers and state ministers in her cabinet and redistribute portfolios of those of some important ministries for their unsatisfactory performance.

“She [Hasina] will induct three to six ministers and state ministers in her cabinet anytime soon,” a highly placed source in the cabinet told The Daily Star yesterday.

Burnt oil, dyeing chemicals dumped into Buriganga

A boat carrying used lubricants of motor launches dump the toxic waste straight into the Buriganga with little regard for the environment and the lifeline of Dhaka. The photo was taken at the Sadarghat in the capital. Photo: Shawkat Jamil

Snapped Desa wires cost 3 more lives

Shamsul Huda Rayat

Eight-year-old Rayat understands that her mother has died. But he would not let them bury her.

It is when people talk of burying his mother that Shamsul Huda Rayat actually understands the meaning of death. And he starts sobbing–his lips twist in pains of losing someone so dear, his eyes restless.

Money-whitening scope to benefit the same people

The group of businessmen who comprised 73 percent of the beneficiaries of money whitening scope given by the last caretaker government will again get the larger slice of the cake as the government has decided to continue the provision for one year.

JS body for strong missions abroad

A parliamentary standing committee has made a set of recommendations including formulation of new guidelines for Bangladesh missions abroad, and salary hike for mission officials to bring dynamism and pace in their (missions) activities.

HC terms Huda, Kamaruzzaman wrong-headed, worthless

The High Court (HC) yesterday termed former communications minister Nazmul Huda and Jamaat-e-Islami leader Muhammad Kamaruzzaman ‘wrong-headed’ and ‘worthless’ for making ‘derogatory’ remarks on the June 21 HC judgement on proclamation of the country’s independence.