Month: July 2013

The government in a draft guideline allowing the operation of foreign universities, their branches and joint ventures with local universities said that they could have the approval if they had floor space of 15,000sq ft. The Private University Act 2010, however, requires local private universities to have floor space of 25,000sq ft and six departments ... Read more

The Cabinet Committee on Purchase approved, on Sunday, the power division’s proposal to import 250-megawatts of electricity from India’s open market, to meet the increasing demand of electricity in the country. As per the proposal, Bangladesh wanted to buy electricity at a rate of Tk. 6.35 per unit. However, it has also to pay the ... Read more

Low in the Bay causes heavy rains across country Ceaseless shower overnight caused by a low in the Bay on Sunday took the lives of a mother and her daughter in landslide in Chittagong, marooned coastal villagers and caused water logging in the capital. Automobiles in Dhaka and Chittagong were stuck in knee-deep to waist-deep ... Read more

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday said that no elections of blueprint would be allowed in the country. Addressing a gathering, the acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir iterated that general elections could not be held without a non-party government being in place. He said that people would not allow any ‘ill attempt’ ... Read more

Incessant rainfall, since the early hours on Sunday, threw life out of gear, submerging many parts of the capital, and other places in the country. The rainfall and the resulting water-logging caused utmost suffering to city residents, particularly those in the low income groups. The met office recorded the highest rain of 214 mm in ... Read more

Tazreen Victims HC asks police to submit DNA reports by Sept 17 Taka 7 lakh was paid as compensation to each successor of 99 identified workers who died in Tazreen Fashions fire, said Bangladesh Garments and Manufacturers and Exporters Association in the compliance report it submitted to the High Court on Sunday. BGMEA president Atiqul ... Read more

41 tigers killed, 11 die in 17 years World Tiger Day would be observed today in the country as elsewhere in the world underlining the need for protecting the endangered tiger species against total extinction. Some 41 tigers were killed and 11 died normally in last 17 years in the Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove ... Read more

War Crimes Trial Prosecution begins closing arguments against SQC The war crimes prosecution on Sunday began its closing arguments against Bangladesh Nationalist Party lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury. Prosecutor Zead-Al Malum opened the arguments in the International Crimes Tribunal 1 saying that Salauddin, also BNP standing committee

Three Bangladeshi were nabbed by Border Security Force of India in separate incidents on Saturday and Sunday.  They arrested Bangladeshi national Ullumia, 36, from the Benipur Kushumpur frontier in Jhenaidah. Border Guard Bangladesh sources said Ullumia was arrested while returning

The BNP chairperson and opposition leader, Khaleda Zia, reached Saudi Arabia early Sunday to perform Umrah during her a 10-day visit at the invitation of the Saudi government. Sources at the Saudi unit of BNP said the opposition leader and her entourage arrived at the Prince Mohammad Bin Abdulaziz Airport in Medina around

More than one lakh foreigners are now working in Bangladesh illegally and the number is on the rise with the government taking no initiative to check the illegal practice causing serious concern about the national security and aggravating unemployment, experts said. Most of these foreigners enter Bangladesh on tourist

People wishing to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with families in their country homes find it tough to get advance bus and train tickets as most of the tickets are sold out in a few hours after the counters open every day. The Bangladesh Railway, which began selling advance

FELANI MURDER Bottleneck delays deposition of father, uncle Bureaucratic bottleneck has delayed the deposition in a special court in India of the father and the uncle of Felani Khatun, a 25-year-old girl who was shot dead by India’s Border Security Force when she was crossing the border in Bangladesh on the Phulbari frontiers in Dinajpur ... Read more

The European Union would attach the improvement of human rights in Bangladesh with its aid programme from the next year, officials said. The EU a leading trade partner and source of development aid for the country would also attach importance to the food security of households led by

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said that the country would have no elections in the next 10 years if an unconstitutional intervention interrupted the continuation of the current democratic journey. She warned all concerned that no one should play

The foreign minister, Dipu Moni, is apparently returning home ‘empty-handed’ from Delhi ahead of the crucial Bangladesh election, revealed the Kolkata-based Bangla daily Anandabazar Patrika. Worried over her futile Delhi tour, the foreign minister

Security forces clashed with supporters of Egypt’s ousted president Mohammed Morsi early Saturday, killing at least 65 protesters, the Health Ministry said, in an outburst of violence that put the possibility of political reconciliation in the deeply divided nation ever further out of reach. Mursi’s Muslim Brotherhood said 66 were killed

Lobbyists pose security problems Visitors, known as “lobbyists”, are thronging the Secretariat, the country’s administrative nerve-centre, before Eid-ul-Fitr to ensure that their pending jobs are completed. But this is making it difficult for the officials to park their cars properly and, at times, to even perform their duties. The lobbyists are swarming the corridors and ... Read more

Speakers at a roundtable discussion on Saturday underscored the need for girls’ education, dissemination of information regarding reproductive health, enforcement of laws to prevent early marriage and commitment to action for combating adolescent pregnancy as such girls are the most vulnerable group in society.

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Saturday left Dhaka for Saudi Arabia to perform umrah at the invitation of the Saudi government. She along with her entourage flew by a flight of Emirates Airlines from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport about 7:10pm.