Month: September 2013

FBCCI urges govt to make TCB the sole importer and seller of formalin Traders of the city’s nine kitchen markets, which were declared formalin-free by the Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI), have urged the government to authorise only the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) for importing and selling formalin. Distinguished personalities, ... Read more

Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said, the per capita income of the country has crossed US$ 1,000 mark. “The country’s annual per capita income in fiscal 2012-13 rose to $ 1,044 from $923” the minister said addressing a meeting at the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) auditorium. According to the minister due to the improvement in ... Read more

Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday defended her government’s move to amend the Constitution and said it was done after consultations with all, including the Opposition BNP. Addressing a meeting with unit leaders of seven districts at her official residence Ganobhaban, the Prime Minister pointed out that her government wanted

BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Wednesday urged his party’s rank and file to continue the movement against the government’s “trap” ahead of the next general election. “The government has set up a trap by planning to hold the polls under a partisan management. But we have to be careful against this. ... Read more

Activists of Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir, locked into clashes with police, blasted cocktails and injured at least 10 people including police personnel and pedestrians at Bata Signal of Elephant Road area in the city on Wednesday morning. Witnesses said around 50 Jamaat-Shibir men brought out a procession

A new study has revealed that 41 per cent children below five years of age in Bangladesh are stunted due to malnutrition and about 70 per cent infants are anemic. The study was presented by Centre for Nutrition and Food Security (CNFS) director Dr Tahmeed Ahmed at a meeting on “Scaling up nutrition: An urgent ... Read more

These are run by extremists or militia groups  The government will urge the Myanmar government to shut down the 37 Yaba factories located there, which are run by some of the country’s extremists or militia groups. The government wants to hold bilateral meeting with Yangon officials for this purpose. This was decided at a meeting ... Read more

Eviction Drive on Buriganga 47 illegal structures knocked down The authorities in a joint drive yesterday demolished around 47 illegal structures to free the second channel of the Buriganga from encroachment. The Dhaka district administration, Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) and Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) conducted

The government has finally revoked the deal with the Summit Group, as it failed to mobilise funds to implement the Bibiyana-I and II power projects. The government signed three power project deals with Summit in May 2011. As per the agreement, the Summit, one of the leading private sector conglomerates of Bangladesh, comprising a chain ... Read more

Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad, on Wednesday, made it clear that his party would not forge alliances with any party, and that it would contest the next general election alone. “The countrymen want a change. To fulfil their demand, the Jatiya Party will contest the next general election alone, with plough as its symbol.

The ferry service on Paturia-Daulatdia route resumed with three small ferries at around 2:00 pm on Wednesday after 40 hours of disruption due to low navigability, strong current and hidden shoals in the river Padma. Deputy general manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) Shahadat Hossain said K-type ferry Kumari started for

The Detective Branch (DB) of police, which investigated the Odhikar claim of 61 deaths in police crackdown on a Hefazat rally in Dhaka on early May 6, on Wednesday pressed charge sheet against two officials of human rights watchdog Odhikar. Detective Branch Inspector Ashraful Islam, also the investigation officer of the case submitted the charge ... Read more

Armed robbers committed robbery in three jewellery shops after shooting dead a guard of the market at Jindabazar in Sylhet city on Wednesday night. Two others sustained bullet wounds in the firing and bomb explosion by the robbers. The deceased was identified as Badsha Mia, 48,

At least three farmers were killed and six others injured as lightning hit them in four villages of Lalmonirhat on Wednesday. All of them were working at their paddy field during the incident. The deceased were identified as Sahidar Rahman, 44, of village Kalmati in Lalmonirhat sadar, Rahmat Ali, 52, and Moksed Ali, 48, of village ... Read more

Malaysia will deal with applications for visitor visas for Bangladeshis through a one-stop centre in Dhaka from October 1. The country’s Immigration director general Alias Ahmad said the move aimed to curb rampant cases of fake visas involving Bangladeshis seeking employment in that country, according to the Star, a Malaysian newspaper.