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Colourful show concludes at Bangla Academy Durdana Ghias Wall magazines with stories, poems, cartoons, paintings, science fictions and other articles with beautiful illustrations adorned the walls of the Bangla Academy as a national competition on wall magazines has

Traffic police continue taking bribes Staff Correspondent Sufferings of the city dwellers have intensified as most of the CNG-run auto-rickshaws and taxicabs do not carry passengers for a short distance on metered fare. ‘Drivers of CNG-run three wheelers and taxicabs always charge a contractual fare for a destination instead of going on the meter,’ alleged ... Read more

One-way system not working well for lax monitoring City Correspondet Dhanmondi residents enjoyed a month-long run of virtually empty, traffic-free streets thanks to the back-to-back holidays of Eid-ul-Azha, national elections and year-end as most of the educational institutions were

Tania Sultana Renowned Schools and Colleges in the city are making brisk business in the name of readmission fee every year taking advantage of the absence of any proper monitoring by the government in this regard. Even the school authorities are increasing these fees every year in the name of session fee, development fee, examination ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two people yesterday from Barobagh area of Mirpur in the city on charge of preserving and selling blood illegally to different city clinics and hospitals. The arrestees are Mijanur Rahman Milon, owner of a blood bank and his brother-in-law and partner of his illegal business, Mohammad Sujan. Acting ... Read more

Kawsar Khan The newly constructed 60-foot wide road stretching from Bijoy Sarani to Tejgaon has increased the prices of land adjacent to the area. The acceleration in prices began with landowners and businessmen eyeing the property and hoping to develop the

Days and woes of Polytechnic girls suffering from acute seat crisis Durdana Ghias  Rima wakes up at five in the morning to start her day standing in a queue with 60 other girls in front of the washroom. The room

Shahnaz Parveen Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) is facing difficulty in implementing the decision to install ‘speed governor seal’ in all automobiles as the mechanism is only available in diesel-run vehicles. A separate mechanism has to be built for vehicles run with gas, octane and petrol engine, which has become a major obstacle in implementing ... Read more

Sufferings of patients continue Staff Correspondent Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), the biggest state run health care center set up for providing treatment to the poor and common people, is failing in many ways to accomplish the task as muscle power, indiscipline, and corruption have plagued it causing immense suffering to the patients. An organized ... Read more

Traffic control system in the city falls asleep after 10pm leaving motorists at liberty when duty hours of traffic policemen end Rizanuzzaman Laskar The city’s traffic control mechanism is virtually switched off after 10:00pm when the traffic department of the Dhaka Metropolitan police (DMP) pulls out its officials from their stations leaving

Rizanuzzaman Laskar Strange looking women in peculiar clothes have taken over most of the city’s roadside walls. Their grotesque and deformed postures annoy pedestrians. Onlookers say this kind of particular advertisements is a torture to their eyes. “They look like aliens from mars,” remarked Shah Alam, a pedestrian in Badda. The unpleasant looking wall advertisements ... Read more

Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) move to free the main thoroughfare in Gulshan from illegal car parking falls flat as vehicles are being parked right under the ‘no parking’ signs. The DCC recently leased out a number of lanes in the posh residential neighbourhood for commercial car parking on the plea that it

Tannery yet to be shifted to Savar Public life intolerable due to tannery Staff Correspondent “It is not a place for human habitation as foul odours of raw hide covers the area all the time. Specially after the Eid-ul-Azha, it is very difficult to stay here as thousands of raw hides from different places of ... Read more

BSS, Dhaka Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser in-charge of Ministry of Environment and Forests Raja Debashish Roy said, Bangladesh has recommended for reduction of emission of green house gas by 40 percent by the year 2020 and by 80 percent by 2050. In the 14th conference of the United Nations Convention on Climate Change ... Read more

BSS, Dhaka The 45 Convocation of Dhaka University (DU) will be held on January 29, 2009. Honorary ‘Doctor of Science’ degrees would be conferred on three persons on the occasion, said a DU press release here on Tuesday. The university will confer honorary Doctorate degree to Nobel laureate Emirates Prof. Yuan Tseh Lee of Taiwan. ... Read more

Raihan Sabuktagin The government declared the building ‘risky’ in 1995, but the police department is running an outpost at the dilapidated building ignoring the risk of fatal accident. The members of police are forced to work at the Posta police outpost risking their lives. “When I arrived at the outpost several months ago, I was ... Read more

Class III, IV employees continue strike Our Correspondent . Rajshahi The academic committee of Rajshahi University at an emergency meeting on Sunday suspended all the classes and scheduled examinations till December 31 due to agitation by controversially-appointed class III and IV employees. No class or scheduled examination was held at the university as controversially-appointed class ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Indiscriminate gunfire of unknown criminals last night killed two people and injured two others in the city’s Manikdi under Cantonment Police Station. Graphics analyst of a Banani firm Ariful Alam, 30, and an unidentified 25-year-old person died on the spot. Cantonment police said they found eight bullets with the unidentified dead person. Injured ... Read more

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka The chief adviser, Fakhruddin Ahmed, Tuesday said the road network in the capital must be expanded to make habitable the mega-city Dhaka where civic life is afflicted with growing traffic congestion, much of which is blamed on cumulative negligence over the years. The head of the caretaker government stressed ... Read more

BSS, Dhaka. Special Assistant to the Chief Adviser for Post and Telecommunications Brig Gen (retd) MA Malek said here yesterday the government will soon announce the “National Broadband Policy-08.” With the announcement of the policy, he said, the Internet service facilities will increase in the country and cost of using Internet will also be reduced. ... Read more