SSF PROTECTION FOR KHALEDA BNP wants speaker to intervene Staff correspondent Lawmakers of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday urged Jatiya Sangsad speaker Abdul Hamid to use his good offices to restore protection of Special Security Force for the leader of the opposition, Khaleda Zia. ‘We have requested the speaker to use his ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Illegal VoIP trade back
Captures 40pc of int’l call Staff Correspondent The illegal business of voice over internet protocol (VoIP) based call termination made a rather robust comeback since the assumption of state power by the newly elected Awami League-led alliance government. The reinvigoration of the illegal telecom business based on the illegal technology has been eroding the market ... Read more
Free drugs from public hospital stores available on market
Alpha Arzu A section of employees of the drug stores of public hospitals are selling medicines in the market, thus depriving the poor patients of free medicines provided by the government for their treatment. In January the Drug Administration in association with law enforcing agencies conducted a drive in various drug markets in the city ... Read more
Let world know what Bangladesh needs
Danish minister tells The Daily Star to get a truly global deal to fight climate change Pinaki Roy Visiting Danish Minister for Climate and Energy Connie Hedegaard yesterday said climate change is not a “distant future” and Bangladesh should speak up clearly and loudly to get a truly global deal in Copenhagen in December this ... Read more
Something stinky in Wasa water supply
Excessive use of chemicals, river pollution blamed Helemul Alam For the past one week, residents in different parts of the capital are struggling to deal with a rather unpleasant whiff in the water supply. The areas affected by the stinky water supplied by Wasa include Kamalapur, Gopibagh, Mugdapara, Maniknagar, Jatrabari, Khilgaon, Chowdhuripara, Basabo, Nayatola, Shantinagar, ... Read more
ACC Chief’s call to join ongoing anti-corruption drive
UNB, Rangpur Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Chairman Lt Gen (retd) Hasan Mashhud Chowdhury has called upon all to join the ongoing anti-corruption drive for turning it into a social movement. “People who think the movement does not have its appeal like previous are wrong and the drive will not be halted for them,” he said while ... Read more
BNP, allies continue to abstain from JS session
Staff correspondent The lawmakers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition on Wednesday continued abstaining from the parliamentary sessions. ‘We have kept the decision whether to return to the house pending till 4:00pm on February 9,’ senior opposition lawmaker and BNP’s vice-chairman, MK Anwar, told reporters after a meeting with the speaker, Abdul Hamid, on Wednesday ... Read more
100 heritage sites listed
Gazette notification soon Tawfique Ali The government is all set to publish a gazette notification within next week to urgently conserve around one hundred buildings and sites that are parts of the country’s national heritage in the capital. Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk), to this effect, sent the gazette notification on Tuesday to the government press ... Read more
Transit not political but economic issue: Mahmud
UNB, Dhaka Apparently in a subtle deviation from the country’s past foreign policy on the sensitive issue of giving transit to India, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Hasan Mahmud Wednesday said transit is not a political but an economic issue that should be considered from the perspective of mutual benefit. “Some quarters want to ... Read more
Dipu Moni in Geneva: No to extra judicial killings
Staff Reporter Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr. Dipu Moni yesterday said that the grand alliance Government would show “zero tolerance” to extra-judicial killing or torture and death in custody. “We do not condone any such incident and will bring the responsible official to justice,” the Minister made the comment while replying to a question at ... Read more
New industrial policy in the offing to flourish SMEs: Dilip Barua
UNB, Dhaka Industries Minister Dilip Barua on Wednesday invited entrep-reneurs from both home and abroad as well as the expatriate Bangladeshis to invest in the country to help create massive employment opportunities. “The government will provide necessary support to facilitate investment,” he said, calling upon investors to tap the advantage of an investment-friendly environment prevailing ... Read more
BAPEX gets Tk 340 cr
bdnews24.com, Dhaka The government will spend Tk 340 crore to strengthen the state-owned petroleum exploration company BAPEX and ensure supply to the gas-starved port city of Chittagong. “We all know we are facing a gas supply crisis. The project is primarily meant to address the crisis,” the planning minister said on Tuesday after an ECNEC ... Read more
2 killed in Munshiganj AL-BNP clash
United News of Bangladesh . Munshiganj Two people, including a BNP leader, were killed and 15 others injured in a fierce clash between the activists of ruling Awami League and opposition BNP at Jazira village under Munshiganj sadar upazila Wednesday. The police said the clash ensued at about 5:00am as AL activists of Gazi group ... Read more
Leopard beaten to death
Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon Villagers beat a leopard to death at Bangaon village under Ranishankoil upazila in Thakurgaon yesterday afternoon. Police and local people said the animal, coming out of its hiding from a wheat field, suddenly attacked and injured five people at
Cruel father kills 2 kids
Staff Correspondent A father drowned his two children in a pond at Purbo Mudaka village in Tongi on Tuesday night. Police arrested Abdul Huq, 32, a farmer, who admitted to killing his two-year-old son Ratul and four-year-old daughter Chhobi. Hearing the news, their mother Fahima Begum went unconscious. The villagers said Abdul Huq drowned his ... Read more
Rare palm tree embraces death after flowering: Baldah Garden loses one of its centenarian plants
Shamim Jahangir Nearly 100-year old palm tree of rare species still stands at the centenarian Baldha Garden weathering many onslaughts since the British rule is now on way to its slow death. The 107-feet in height palm tree flowered for the first time only last month and bore fruits. The caretaker, who is also forest ... Read more
Country has a lot to achieve in ICT: Faruk Khan
Zoom Laptop Fair kicks off Country has a lot to achieve in ICT: Faruk Khan Staff Correspondent To create awareness among selective groups of target customers like corporate personnel, business people, university students and to provide different brands of laptop to potential buyers under one shed, a three day “Zoom Laptop Fair” began at Ban-gladesh-China ... Read more
Few buyers, more browsers
EKUSHEY BOOK FAIR Few buyers, more browsers Staff correspondent Sales of books are yet to get momentum at Amar Ekushey Granthamela 2009, with a few visitors buying books and a good number merely browsing through the titles before they decide which one to buy later on in the month-long
Coffee shop of freedom for trafficking victims
Shahnaz Parveen Kafé Mukti, a coffee shop of freedom was opened recently for the victims of human trafficking in the country to help them become self-reliant in life by providing them with jobs. Four cafes managed by women victims of human trafficking were launched by International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Dhaka as a pilot ... Read more
Exploding mobile phone kills man in China
A man has died after his mobile phone exploded, bursting an artery in his neck, it has been reported. The shop worker from Guangzhiu, China, died moments after he put a new battery in his phone, it has been claimed. It was believed that he may have just finished charging the battery and had put ... Read more