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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

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

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

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

RTI among 44 picked to be made law; special JS body to review the rest Shakhawat Liton The special committee of the parliament yesterday okayed for ratification only 44 of the 122 ordinances promulgated just before and during the immediate past caretaker government’s regime. The committee will keep scrutinising the rest of the ordinances to ... Read more

Aminul Islam The average electricity generation during evening peak hours has decreased by around 200MW in the last one month resulting in increase in power outages because of ‘slack monitoring’ by the Power Division after the Awami League-led alliance formed the government, sources in the division said. Although the present government announced it would give ... Read more

Grassroots leaders gathered in headquarters for soul-searching UNB, Dhaka BNP on Tuesday kick-started a month-long reorganizing process of the former ruling party that went haywire after the 1/11 onslaught, gathering upazila, thana and pourshava-level leaders in the headquarters for a soul-searching. The bottom-up recasting process began through interviewing presidents, general secretaries and organizing secretaries or ... Read more

Govt sits idle as Shankharibazar houses get more vulnerable Pinaki Roy Monday night’s collapse of roof plaster at Shankharibazar is a chilling reminder that run-down buildings in this part of the city could cost lives any time and the government cannot afford delays in dealing with the looming

Staff correspondent Lawmakers of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition continued to remain absent in the parliamentary sessions for the fourth day because there has been no solution to the stalemate on the seating arrangement till Tuesday. They could not decide on Tuesday whether to return to parliament for the current session as the leader of ... Read more

Staff Reporter Commerce Minister Faruq Khan yesterday said that the government was actively considering providing transit to neighbouring India and the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) is in the final stage of processing. “Transit to India is under active consideration of the government. If we find it benefiting the people of the country, we ... Read more

Staff Reporter Commerce Minister Lt Col (retd) Faruk Khan yesterday said the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would visit Saudi Arabia shortly to sign an agreement aiming to enhance trade and investment between the two countries. Faruk Khan disclosed this while talking to the waiting reporters after a bilateral meeting with a Saudi business delegation at ... Read more

Grassroots also tell BNP to drop controversial leaders Rakib Hasnet Suman Grassroots level leaders of BNP yesterday proposed to party high-ups that it should not continue ties with Jamaat-e-Islami considering the new generation’s sentiment, and drop all controversial leaders from party committees at all levels. They also suggested that the party leadership reconstitute the committees ... Read more

UNB, Dhaka The publication of upazila election results is getting delayed due to omissions and commissions in the result sheets sent by returning officers, CEC Dr ATM Shamsul Huda said on Tuesday. “After scrutiny, it was found that the results announced by the returning officers at night had no similarity with the ones announced later ... Read more

Mamunur Rashid At least 200 top terrorists, who were enlarged on bail after the general elections, are now indulging in various sorts of criminal activities leading to deterioration of law and order across the country. Most of them are reportedly maintaining link with some influential leaders of the ruling party and law enforcing agencies, informed ... Read more

Staff Reporter BNP Secretary General Khandker Delwar Hossain yesterday demanded of the government to reinforce the special security for the party Chairperson Begum Khaldea Zia. He said the life of party chairperson is now ‘insecure’ following the withdrawal of security provided by the special security force (SSF) from the first day of this month. “We ... Read more

bdnews24.com, Dhaka Finance minister AMA Muhith has said that Bangladesh is still insulated from global economic downturn. “IMF has predicted that the GDP of all countries will come down alarmingly due to global recession, but in spite of this global gloom, our economy is still in good condition,” Muhith said on Tuesday after a meeting ... Read more

Ranglai tells The Daily Star how his community was made to suffer over decades Pinaki Roy He grew up chasing wild boars and working in the jhum filed. Walking for hours in the hilly paths was part of his usual but hard life. But that son of the hills, Ranglai Mro, is so weak now–his ... Read more

JS told Staff Correspondent The government is actively considering reintroduction of food rationing system for the low income group of the population, following its imposition of a ban on rice export till May 5 of this year. The moves were initiated in an effort to increase supply of the nation’s staple to the domestic market, ... Read more

Talha Bin Habib, Back from Comilla Though child marriage has been banned by the enactment of law but in real sense it is still rampant in most of the villages of the country. Early marriage remains the major cause for maternal mortality and hindrance to proper mental and physical growth of children. Illiteracy, ignorance and ... Read more

DCC fails to provide services to city dwellers Staff Correspondent Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) fails to provide services to city dwellers as most of its officials are corrupt and misappropriate money of various projects despite their excuse that proper services cannot be given due to manpower and resource shortage. Many projects are implemented under the ... Read more