Dhaka Mirror

Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina Thursday said experts will scrutinize the data and information provided by India about Tipaimukh Dam to assess its environmental and socioeconomic impacts on Bangladesh, and assured that her government would not support anything that might harm the country’s interests. She made the remarks when the parliamentary delegation that went recently to ... Read more

Rid Pharma brand still available on market One more child died in Rangpur on Friday reportedly after being administered the toxic paracetamol syrup produced by Rid Pharmaceuticals as the brand is still available on the market because of inaction of the government. Ten-month-old Rani died at home Friday morning from renal failure that had persisted ... Read more

2 camps withdrawn; one brigade, 33 more camps to go The government yesterday formally started pulling out temporary army camps from Chittagong Hill Tracts with two camps in Khagrachhari and Rangamati as per its recent decision to implement the CHT Peace Accord 1997. The camps were located at Manikchhari of Mahalchhari upazila in Khagrachhari and ... Read more

Rapid commercialisation to take service costs out of people’s rich, say experts Private health care business is booming in the country on the back of people’s growing confidence in the services of private hospitals though they charge much higher than public hospitals. A New Age investigation shows that treatment costs for heart related diseases are ... Read more

He calls for making public the data, info Former Water Resources Minister and BNP vice President Major Hafiz Uddin Ahmed (Retd) on Friday said the government should disclose all sorts of data and information about Tipaimukh Dam before the nation immediately if the Indian government has given those to Bangladesh parliamentary delegation during their recent ... Read more

Bangladesh Bank (BB) has approved a Tk 500 crore fund for the country’s cash-strapped sharecroppers. The central bank’s board approved the fund at a meeting on Thursday, said a BB source. The board also decided to disburse the fund through a leading non-government organization (NGO), having enough experiences in small lending in the country. “The ... Read more

Passengers and small traders at the city’s long-route bus terminals are subject to untold harassment and become victims of different kinds of extortions due to lax enforcement of law by the authorities concerned. Terminal labourers having a nexus with local influential ruling party men and associations of transport owners and workers charge the passengers high ... Read more

Khalashpir Coal Mine Project Hosaf’s sketchy study raises questions Govt spends $95,000 for review of study by ex-consultant of Hosaf The techno-economic feasibility study for Khalashpir coal mine project by Hosaf Consortium has finally been trashed by a foreign consultant questioning the study’s scientific basis, methodology and raising a host of other questions, sources said. ... Read more

Decision yet to get govt approval The Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities have introduced ticket system against money for the visitors’ entry from August 1, much to the sufferings of the poor patients and those attending to them. Tk 20 has been fixed for visiting a free-bed patient, Tk 30 for a paying-bed patient and ... Read more

There is a strong likelihood that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife and bodyguards in a missile attack two days ago, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Reuters. “We suspect he was killed in the missile strike,” Malik said on Friday. “We have some information, but we don’t have material ... Read more