Month: September 2009

5 burnt at ship-breaking yard; HC order stuck in legal tangle Five workers sustained severe burns at a ship-breaking yard in Sitakunda upazila yesterday. The victims–Hossain, 35, Ashek, 20, Md Kuddus, 32, Jahangir, 28 and Khokon, 22– were rushed to the burn unit of Chittagong Medical College Hospital. Fire broke out at Kabir Steel Yard ... Read more

A construction worker died of swine flu at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) early yesterday, raising the number of fatalities to two. Doctors clinically diagnosed 20-year-old Abdus Sobhan Sagar a swine flu victim, four days after the country’s first death at a city hospital. “Sagar turned up to the swine flu ward with high fever ... Read more

Weak monitoring by the law enforcing agencies and lack of maintenance by road authorities leave the highways free for deadly race of long route vehicles, causing fatal accidents almost every day. A few weigh machines and speed detectors, set at different points on highways, remain either out of order or useless, and the highway police ... Read more

Health screening at land ports has been sloth against the widespread occurrence of swine flu infection in the country. Every day thousands of people are checking in and out through the country’s 16 land ports for business and other purposes. But the heedless health screening at the ports is making people more vulnerable and exposed ... Read more

Speakers stress at Roundtable discussion in city Underlining the importance of conducting a joint impact assessment on the proposed Tipaimukh Dam by the two neighbouring countries, speakers at a roundtable here Saturday said a national consensus is needed to resist India from constructing the dam. “Let’s get united… the matter should be discussed in parliament,” ... Read more

The big business houses though they are investing in our newspaper industry but their stories mostly are of disasters than of successes. In the 90s, the Beximco, the premier business conglomerate, launched six news organisations with a big bang but only two the Independent, an English daily, and an entertainment weekly Ananda Bhuban still survive. ... Read more

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Saturday said former Finance Minister M. Saifur Rahman had undertaken many economic reform measures, some of which are memorable and some others could be followed. “Some of his (Saifur) reform measures are still being pursued,” he told UNB in a telephonic interview hours after his predecessor died in a fatal ... Read more

Politicisation, anomalies rule rice distribution for poor Politicisation, mismanagement and the practice of graft marred the very purpose of providing the poor with free food under the government’s special vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme devised for the month of Ramadan. The special Ramadan VGF that kicked off on September 1 with a target of reaching ... Read more

Around 1.42 lakh buildings in the port city are under the threat of earthquake. Of them, 5,000 are at severe risk. Some 50,000 people are feared to die from the destruction of these buildings, which is likely to happen in tremors of 6 to 6.5 magnitude in Richter scale, according to a recent research conducted ... Read more