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All govts, DCC turn a blind eye to basic amenities Successive governments and Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) have always deprived pedestrians of their basic amenities even though they constitute half the commuters in the capital. DCC entrusted with providing facilities to pedestrians has made it a norm to let Dhaka footpaths remain occupied with illegal ... Read more

PROTEST AGAINST OFFSHORE BLOCK DEAL 50 injured as police charge into demo Countrywide protests today, march towards PMO Sept 10 More than 50 people, including the member-secretary of the National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports, Anu Muhammad, were injured when police charged into marchers heading for Petrobangla headquarters in the ... Read more

With the detection of 14 new cases on Wednesday, the total number of Swine Flu inflicted persons in the country rose to 261, of them one has died. “Fourteen more cases have been detected today as we have tested few samples of suspected swine flu cases collecting from different hospitals in the city”, IEDCR Senior ... Read more

New education policy to be implemented by Dec : Madrasha education to be modernized Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid yesterday said the government will implement the new national education policy by December. “We do not want that the national education policy remains unimplemented after formulation like in the past,” he told journalists after receiving the ... Read more

JS body also asks to free rivers in 2 months A parliamentary committee yesterday gave one more month to the Department of Land Record and Survey to come up with an accurate elaborate list of individuals and organisations who encroached upon 43 canals in the capital. It also asked the land ministry to complete within ... Read more

Special traffic drive in capital costs Tk 1,00,000 a day The communications ministry has sought Tk 19,00,000 from the finance ministry to pay the expenses to be incurred during the first 20 days of the ongoing special drive for improvement of the city’s traffic situation. Nearly Tk 7,50,000 as rent for 25 micro-buses hired each ... Read more

Three amici curiae Dr Kamal Hossain, former advocate general Mahmudul Islam and Barrister Azmalul Hossain QC yesterday told the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court that the offences committed during the BDR mutiny cannot be tried under the Army Act while another amicus curiae Barrister Rokanuddin Mahmud opined that the Supreme Court should refrain from ... Read more

Moriarty says his country recovered from the mistake to recognise Bangladesh early US Ambassador James F Moriarty yesterday in an oblique criticism said the role of his country during the Liberation War of Bangladesh was a ‘tragic mistake’. Speaking at a memorial meeting on Edward Kennedy at the Liberation War Museum in the city, Moriarty ... Read more

Prices will range from Tk 1,500 to Tk 10,000 Though late, Bangladesh will make mobile-phone sets of common and exclusive standards by next February to enter the market of this fastest-growing sector. Telephone Shilpa San-gstha (Teshis), a state-owned company under the Telecom-munications Ministry, is going to manufacture and market the mobile-phone sets at prices ranging ... Read more

At least 33 people died and 305 were injured in the earthquake that hit Java on Wednesday, but authorities expected the figure to increase as 40 people were still missing . Tens of thousands of people rushed from their homes and workplaces, with an estimated 1,300 houses damaged. Rustam Pakaya, head of the Ministry of ... Read more

Country’s sovereignty victim of conspiracy: Delwar The 31st founding anniversary of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) was celebrated across the country on Tuesday. On this occasion BNP Chairperson and Leader of the Opposition Begum Khaleda Zia alongwith central leaders of the party visited the mazar of Shaheed President Ziaur Rahman. She placed wreaths at the mazar, ... Read more

Information commission given only a camp office without logistics The government has neither framed any rules nor set up information delivery units in all government offices for the enforcement of the Right to Information Act 2009. The Information Commission, which has only been given a ‘camp office’, on the other hand, can hardly function for ... Read more

Discloses detained Indian terrorist; safe homes also built for fugitives Militants fighting in Kashmir have regularly used Bangladesh as a transit point to travel to Pakistan and have built safe havens here to shelter and train militants for terrorist operations in the region. Detained Indian terrorist Mufti Obaidullah, a top leader of the India-based Asif ... Read more

A lawsuit was filed yesterday against former adviser of the immediate past caretaker government Maj Gen MA Matin (retd) and ex-shipping secretary and incumbent member of Privatisation Commission, Sheikh AK Motahar Hossain and Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) claiming Tk 25 crore in compensation. Proprietor of the Everest Enterprise, Shahadat Hossain Selim, filed the lawsuit with ... Read more

The country on Tuesday confirmed a record 34 swine flu cases overnight, while government apprehends the A (H1N1) virus would touch the peak in a week. “We recorded the highest number of 34 swine flu cases today. And this number would grow at least for next one week with more cases detected in laboratory tests,”

Hearing on President’s reference As hearing on presidential reference on trial of BDR mutineers resumed yesterday, jurist Dr Kamal Hossain yesterday told the Supreme Court that the BDR mutineers can not be tried under section 5 of the Army Act by issuing a gazette notification with retrospective effect. He gave his views as amicus curie ... Read more

Traffic congestions continued causing havoc for commuters in the capital yesterday, as vehicles slowed to a crawl on the city streets narrowed by illegally parked vehicles. Things did not improve despite the prime minister’s instructions for the police to act against illegal parking the day before. Cars and microbuses were seen parked on either side ... Read more

I saw this rare crab-eating frog in Nalian Bazar in the Sundarbans recently. It is rare in both India and Bangladesh mainly because it is restricted to the mangrove forests only. Biologically as it sits in the open, unlike other frogs, it is being preyed upon by the daytime predators as well as nocturnal ones ... Read more

The National Education Policy Formulation Committee will submit Wednesday the much-awaited draft report prescribing extension of the primary education level up to class VIII and secondary to class XII, among other basic changes in the country’s outworn education system. Headed by National Professor Kabir Chowdhury, the team of experts will submit its report to the ... Read more

Failure to submit poll expenditure return Over 1,000 UZ candidates might have been sued More than 1,000 candidates of last upazila polls might have been sued for not submitting their respective election expenditure returns. The last date for filing cases against the defaulter candidates of the January 22 upazila polls ended on Monday (August 31), ... Read more