Shamim Jahangir The government is going to prepare a law for compensation of the affected people at coalmine projects. “The Government is thinking to compensate the affected people at coalmine areas. For this, the government is going to prepare a law styled ‘Compensation Act’,” Adviser to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Energy, Power and Mineral ... Read more
Dhaka Mirror
Govt-Opposition talks inconclusive: Speaker opts for new seat plan
Staff Reporter Speaker Abdul Hamid has decided to make a new sitting arrangement for the Members in the House after his futile effort to resolve the row over the seating plan made by former speaker Muhammad Jamiruddin Sircar. The Speaker held a meeting with treasury and opposition benches over the rearrangement of the House’s seating ... Read more
Ctg mayor reiterates call for giving transit to neighbours
Staff Correspondent . Chittagong The mayor of Chittagong city corporation, ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, has made a fresh call for giving transit facility to the neighbouring countries through the Chittagong port for spearheading the nation towards economic prosperity. Mohiuddin made the call while addressing a reception as chief guest in the port city, which was hosted ... Read more
Tarique’s bail in bribery case extended for 5 months
Staff Correspondent The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday extended bail for five months to Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia’s eldest son, Tarique Rahman, in connection with the Tk 21 crore bribery case. The four-member Appellate Division bench, chaired by Chief Justice MM Ruhul Amin, passed the order after hearing a petition ... Read more
ACC doesn’t have anything against political bigwigs, says Hanif Iqbal
Staff Correspondent The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has nothing to do with the corruption charges against the top brasses of different political parties including incumbent Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and former Prime Minister Begum Khaleda Zia due to the stay order issued by respective courts on cases against them. “Many top leaders of different political parties ... Read more
Most passengers’ sheds in city grabbed by occupants
Staff Correspondent Most passengers’ sheds in the capital have been occupied by a section of hawkers, drug traders, shopkeepers, floating people and counter men of bus services in the absence of steps by the authorities concerned to evict them. As a result, passengers and pedestrians have to suffer a lot mainly during the rainy and ... Read more
Two held, 2250 Yaba tablets seized in city
Staff Correspondent The Rapid Action Battalion arrested two suspected drug traders at a flat in the city’s Shyamoli area early Tuesday and seized 2,250 Yaba tablets from their possession. The battalion said that a RAB-3 team raided the flat on Shyamoli Ring Road upon information about trading of the contraband drugs at about 1:30am and ... Read more
Slum dwellers passing inhuman life in city
“It is not a life” Staff Correspondent The rootless people now living in city’s at least 4200 slums have been passing days without food, pure drinking water, sanitation and treatment. “We don’t have any land in our village. We want to do work. We have lost everything due to various natural disasters like flood, storm ... Read more
5,500-years-old cave houses found in China
Indo-Asian News Service Xi’an: Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest man-made cave houses and privately-owned pottery workshops in China which date back 5,500 years. After four years of excavation, a row of 17 cave houses were found on a cliff along the Jinghe River in northwest China’s Shaanxi Province, said Wang Weilin, deputy director of the ... Read more
Hydraulic horns of 13 vehicles seized
Noise Pollution Hydraulic horns of 13 vehicles seized Staff Correspondent Department of Environment (DOE) yesterday filed cases against 24 vehicles in the city and realised Tk 19,000 in fines for violating sound pollution rules. The DOE team also seized hydraulic horns of 13
Three hill councils without woman members for 20 yrs
Monirul Islam Monu, Bandarban Ignoring constitutional provision to ensure representation and participation of women in every sector, three Hill District councils (HDC) have been running without female members since their inception in 1989. To ensure participation of each indigenous ethnic community, the then government in 1989 introduced three specialized local government organizations — Bandarban Hill ... Read more
BNP man killed in post-polls violence
Our Correspondents . Jessore and Bogra A BNP leader was killed in Jessore while Awami League activists looted leather goods worth Tk 2 lakh from a warehouse of a BNP-backed union parishad member in Bogra as post-polls violence continued on Monday. In Jessore, a BNP leader was killed allegedly by the Awami League activists at ... Read more
Angry locals call Bodi another ‘Hazari’
AL MP annoys all in Ukhia-Teknaf A Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar With allegations of torture and repression on opposition activists and violation of election rules in the recently concluded upazila election, Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi has made himself controversial in less than a month of his election from Cox’s Bazar-4 (Ukhia-Teknaf). Aggrieved with his ... Read more
Prospects of agro-processing industries in northern region bright
BSS, Rajshahi The prospect of agro-processing industries in the northwestern region of the country is bright as the region produces adequate crops including food-grains, fruits and vegetables. Business leaders, bankers, agronomists and researchers told BSS that the region has enormous potentials for making agro- processing enterprises sustainable and profitable as it has been producing varieties ... Read more
Proposed Padma bridge to be constructed at Mawa
Our Correspondent, Madaripur The proposed Padma Bridge over the river Padma at Mawa and the bridge over the river Arial Kha at Kajirtek point will be constructed by the grand alliance government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The Cmmunication Minister Syed Abul Hossain said this at a public meeting held at Kajirtek Ferryghat on ... Read more
‘Country can save Tk. 10,000cr using local small, medium industry goods’
BSS, Dhaka Leaders of Sub-contact Industrialist Association of Bangladesh (SIAB) on Monday said, the country could save Taka 10,000 crore by using local cost effective and better quality small and medium industry outputs instead of importing those from abroad. Around five lakh small and medium industries have long been meeting the increased demand for products ... Read more
Criminal acts alleged against RU BCL
RU Correspondent After Awami League-led grand alliance came to the power, the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) Rajshahi University unit have involved themselves in criminal activities like toll collection and kidnapping on the campus Many teachers and general students of the university expressed concern at such illegal activities of the BCL men. Some BCL ... Read more
Vegetable exports slip
Sliding pound, additional NTBs blamed Sohel Parvez Fresh vegetables exports dipped 25 percent in the July-November period of the current fiscal year against the same period last fiscal, thanks to a sliding pound sterling and additional non-tariff barriers (NTBs) imposed on some items to enter one of the key markets — United Kingdom. “We are ... Read more
Bangladesh becomes No 1 trousers exporter to US
Kazi Azizul Islam Bangladesh is becoming the ‘Trousers Island’, if not the Treasure Island, for global apparel importers as local manufacturers are sourcing jeans and other cotton trousers at the cheapest prices and maintaining admirable quality, industry people said. The industry’s strength has weighed up with Bangladeshi exporters occupying the number-one position in the US ... Read more
Editorial of ICCB News Bulletin Homegrown Development Agenda: Key challenge for new govt : ICCB
NATION BUSINESS REPORT ‘The positive side is that the government has started with a lower inflation rate in the domestic front and downward trend in international oil and commodity prices. ‘The government should utilise this advantage in a prudent manner,’ said the International Chamber of Commerce-Bangladesh (ICCB) in an editorial of its quarterly news bulletin ... Read more