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Tenants’ Council on Wednesday urged the house owners to stop increasing house and shop rent illogically on the eve of New Year. At a press conference, they demanded amendment to the House Rent Control Act 1991 and its proper implementation. Tenants Council organised the press conference at Comrade Nirmal Sen Auditorium in the capital. Its president

A group of land grabbers, led by a land department official, is constructing a kitchen market over a canal at Nathullabad in the Barisal city. Ali Ahmed, a local resident opposing the construction of the kitchen market, said operating kitchen market in the area would create health hazards,

The Chittagong Shah Amanat Airport customs’ officials seized 138 gold bars, weighing around 17kg, from a toilet of a Bangladesh Biman flight coming from Dubai on Wednesday. The Chittagong customs’ assistant commissioner, Parvej Al Jaman, said the gold was found in a drive on the flight BG-046 of Bangladesh Biman after

Women entrepreneurs in Barisal on Tuesday formed a human chain and burnt copies of their trade licences in protest at the ongoing political crisis and blockade. If this situation continued, they would not be able to pay workers’ wages, bank loan instalments and taxes of any type, they cautioned in the

Speakers at a human chain cum street-corner meeting in Rajshahi on Tuesday emphasised the need for collective efforts of both the public and private organisations concerned for ensuring fundamental rights of people with disabilities. Terming the disadvantaged people as the

At least three people received burn injury in a fire in an oil tanker of the state-owned Jamuna Oil Company at Chittagong port Tuesday morning. The injured — Md Kamal, Azmi and Emon — were on duty in the engine room of the oil tanker, the police said, adding that they were admitted to

Sustainable Development of Mountain Region Bangladesh to collaborate with neighbours Bangladesh has joined hands with other regional countries that cover a mountain region to share knowledge and experience about uses and abuses of mountains and ensure a sustainable development of the hilly region on the edge of the Himalayan range. As part of the efforts, ... Read more

Hossain Zillur Rahman tells consultation meeting in Bangkok The post millennium development goals should be centred on sustainable development, said Hossain Zillur Rahman, former adviser to a caretaker government, at a consultation meeting in Bangkok yesterday. International Union for Conservation of Nature organised the meeting titled “Sustainable Livelihood Options for Fisheries: Opportunities and Challenges”

The Chittagong University authorities on Tuesday postponed the viva tests of Biological Science Faculty (H-Unit) and Institute of Marine Sciences and Fisheries (G-Unit) of first-year honours courses under 2013-14 academic session. The admission test committee member secretary, SM Akbar Hossain, said the CU admission committee in a meeting decided to

The admission activities of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology were postponed due to unavoidable reason, a RUET press release said on Tuesday. The admission committee president, Professor Shahid Uz Zaman, said the scheduled admission date was on December 14 next on basis of merit list, but,

The Rajshahi Wild Life Management and Nature Preservation Department on Tuesday freed 48 birds of different types of native birds. The department, conducting a mobile court in the Rajshahi rail station area, seized the birds and sentenced the poacher to 15 days’ imprisonment. Convicted Shafikul Islam was identified

Tenants have already started getting rent hike notices from house owners saying the increased rent would be in effect from the first month of the New Year 2014. No government so far has addressed the issue of capricious house rent hike, leaving the tenants suffer immeasurably. The owners increase house

The Human Rights Day will be observed in Bangladesh, as elsewhere in the world, today when the nation is passing through a political crisis resulting into killing of people in arsons while torture in custody and extrajudicial killing go unabated and freedom of press and expression remain at stake. The theme of the day this year ... Read more

A businessman was hacked to death at Sagordi in the Barisal city early Monday for demanding dues. The victim was identified as Altaf Hossain Haoladar alias Sunu Haoladar, 35, a rice-mill owner and son of Kanchan Haoladar and cousin of ward 24 councillor Firoz Ahmed. Businessmen of Sagordi Bazaar on Monday

Rajshahi City Corporation has planned to conserve 53 natural water-bodies in the city in order to retain its surface water resources for protecting the environment from further degradation. The city corporation has adopted a Tk 206.24-crore uplift project titled ‘Natural Water Bodies Conservation and Development in Rajshahi

An LPG bottling plant is now under construction on 7.5 acres of land at the Mongla port in Khulna at a cost of Tk 96 crore. The Rupsha Tank Terminal and Refinery Ltd has undertaken this project of setting up the bottling plant which is expected to start their commercial operation in January of 2015, said ... Read more

The government and influential people do not care about media reports that expose their misdeeds and corruption, said panellists at a seminar on challenges of investigative journalism on Monday. Transparency International Bangladesh organised the seminar for distributing the Award on Investigative Reporting on Corruption 2013 marking the International

The date of the Barisal University admission tests has been rescheduled for December 21. This is the third time that the authorities have changed the date. The one-hour tests would be held under 3 shifts; from 10:00-11:00am for ‘Gha’ unit, 1:00-2:00 pm for ‘Ga’ unit and 4:00-5:00pm for ‘Ka’ and ‘Kha’

The authorities of the National University have suspended all the examination scheduled to be held today due to unavailable circumstance. New schedule for the examinations will be announced on the university web site (www.nu.edu.bd,www.nubd.info) soon.

The fire burnt a quilt and mattress manufacturing factory in Sylhet city Monday early morning. Witnesses said the fire started from the electric wire of the Surma Bedding House at Ambarkhana in the city at around 5:00am and it rapidly burnt the shop. A local businessman, Faruk Ahmed, said they called