22-point action plan drawn as parties, institutions, student bodies agree RU Correspondent Leaders of different political parties, heads of educational institutions and student organisation of Rajshahi at a meeting yesterday agreed to abide by a 22-point action policy to keep educational institutions in Rajshahi city free from student unrest and criminal activities. Rajshahi City Corporation ... Read more
Month: January 2009
Subsidy not enough unless it reaches farmers
Protect sharecroppers, marginal farmers A.T. M. Nurun Nabi The newly elected Awami League Government has reduced the non-urea fertiliser price almost by 50 percents in order to reduce the production cost in the greater interest of the majority people. As per decision, Triple Super Phosphate (TSP) will be available at taka 40 per kilo instead ... Read more
Task force a must to offset impact of global financial crisis: experts
Say Bangladesh economy really vulnerable to external shocks Staff Correspondent Economists and trade experts on Saturday called for formation of a task force, as pledged by the government, soon to effectively to ward off the impact of the ongoing global meltdown on Bangladesh economy. Exports, foreign direct investment and remittances are the areas that may ... Read more
ECR introduced at Barisal city
Our Correspondent, Barisal Some medium and large size shops in the Barisal City Corporation areas have introduced Electronic Cash Registration (ECR) system of late. Md. Abdul Mannan Sardar, Assistant Commissioner, Anwar Hossain, Superintendent of Barisal Divisional Customs, Excise and VAT Office said that in Barisal city already twenty five business institutions have been selected for ... Read more
Dealers stop selling non-urea fertilisers as govt halves rates
Our Correspondent, Rangpur Most of the dealers under Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) in the district have stopped selling non-urea fertilizers following agriculture ministry’s declaration about subsidy on them. Farmers at different places in the districts said they are not getting Triple Super Phosphate, Di-amonia and Mutate of Potash, which are most essential during preparation ... Read more
Ministers, MPs to work together for development of Chittagong
BSS, Chittagong Ministers and lawmakers at a roundtable here today pledged to work together to revive the past glory OF Chittagong through executing a time-befitting development programme and exploiting maximum economic potentials for turning the port city into a regional trade and investment hub. They said the government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is quite ... Read more
Chaity wins Lux-Channel i Super Star crown
Sheikh Arif Bulbon Chaity won the crown of the Lux Channel I Super Star 2008 yesterday. Tajzi became first runner-up, while Deepa stood the second runner-up position. This was announced at the grand finale of beauty pageant and talent hunt contest ‘Lux-Channel i Super Star,’ at Bangladesh-China Friendship Convention Centre in the city yesterday night. ... Read more
AL plans top-down approach,BNP for bottom-up
PARTY REORGANISATION AL plans top-down approach,BNP for bottom-up Shahidul Islam Chowdhury and Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee Major political parties, including the ruling Awami League and the opposition in parliament Bangladesh Nationalist Party, are planning to democratically revitalise respective parties and hold national council sessions after the January 22 upazila elections. The Awami League is planning to ... Read more
UN-run school struck in Gaza
Israel shells 50 targets ahead of truce vote Afp, Ap, Gaza City Israel pummelled Gaza with new strikes yesterday destroying 50 targets, including a UN-run school sheltering hundreds of refuges in the north, hours before an expected unilateral halt to a 22-day war on Hamas. The Israeli security
Violence in two more univs
VC confined in CU, 40 hurt in Jagannath Univ Staff Correspondent Violence on Saturday spilled over to two more public universities after Jahangirnagar University centring on political enmity and in-fighting of the Chhatra League over stranglehold on campuses. At least 40 students were injured in the clashes in Jagannath University. Students in Chittagong University had ... Read more
AL asks BCL leaders to rein in errant activists
Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee The ruling Awami League has asked top leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League, its associate body, to go tough on activists involved in recent campus violence that forced closure of a few educational institutions, a leader of BCL told New Age. The government has also asked the law enforcers to take action against ... Read more
Industrial pollution chokes people, crops alike
Mirza Shakil and Pinaki Roy Ammonia mixed toxic gas and urea dust emitted from Jamuna Fertiliser Factory (JFF) in Jamalpur have allegedly been wreaking havoc on the local environment and causing debilitating illnesses among the locals. The toxic gas of the largest urea producing factory, at Tarandani of Sarishabari upazila in Tangail, has also been ... Read more
Deputy speaker from opposition, no chance for war criminals
Says Abdus Shahid Staff Correspondent Abdus Shahid, who was picked to be chief whip by prime minister, said the nation would not accept any war criminal as the deputy speaker of the parliament if the opposition party proposes such name. “The nation will not accept any war criminal as the deputy speaker as the nation ... Read more
Int’l bodies seek explanation: Bangladeshis among hundreds perish in Andaman Sea
Agency Thailand will investigate reports that the Thai navy abandoned migrants from Bangladesh and Myanmar on a barge in the ocean where hundreds of them may have drowned, according to an AP report. Quoting the Thai Foreign Ministry, the AP report from Bangkok also said it will reassess the overall situation of
Hasina to talk to South Asian countries
JOINT TASK FORCE AGAINST TERRORISM Hasina to talk to South Asian countries United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, said she would talk to South Asian countries to form an anti-terrorism task force as her government wants to build Bangladesh as a peaceful country. ‘I will talk to other countries to ... Read more
Countrywide committees to be revamped after UZ polls: Delwar
BNP to convene national council soon Countrywide committees to be revamped after UZ polls: Delwar Staff Correspondent BNP, the main opposition political party in the parliament, will revamp its all committees and associate bodies after January 22 upazila election in order to strengthen the party’s organizational activities BNP Secretary General Khandaker Delwar Hossain and Vice-Chairman ... Read more
Dealers warned against selling fertiliser at higher prices
Staff Correspondent The government will confiscate dealership licences and forfeit security money if any dealer is found selling fertiliser at a higher price than the government-fixed rate. “Nobody can charge extra money for fertiliser. If anybody is found doing it, then the government will take stern punitive measure against the person concerned,” said Agriculture Secretary ... Read more
Cheaper, low-quality Indian yarns flood market
Syful Islam Yarns worth Tk 25,000 crore were lying in the country’s textile factories, as local products can’t compete with Indian ones due to price difference, posing threat to the growing industry, stakeholders say. They said neighbouring India is dumping its low quality yarn, facilitated by recent depreciation of rupee against US dollar and government ... Read more
New VC Arefin pledges to hold Ducsu polls
Staff Correspondent The newly appointed Dhaka University (DU) Vice-Chancellor (VC) Prof AAMS Arefin Siddque yesterday formally took charge of the office from former DU VC Prof SMA Faiz at around 10:30am. He said he would take necessary steps for holding the Dhaka University Central Students’ Union (Ducsu) elections after talking with the students’ organisations. “Personally ... Read more
Guards revolt in Rajshahi prison
Assault by senior official alleged Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi Several hundred prison guards staged angry protests both in and outside Rajshahi Central Jail last evening after a prison guard was allegedly assaulted by a senior prison official. The demonstrators were demanding immediate removal of senior jail superintendent Harun-ur Rashid till filing of this report around 9:30pm. ... Read more