Price monitoring teams on Saturday fined 28 businessmen Tk 2.04 lakh for making extra profit by selling essential commodities at prices higher than those fixed by the government and for preparing food in unhygienic condition. Two teams of the National Consumer Right
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Rangpur city lacks civic amenities
CIVIC amenities have not improved as expected in the Rangpur city even four years after it was made a divisional city in 2009. The city dwellers have been facing manifold problems for long. Rangpur became the seventh administrative division
Nahid terms Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s autobiography an asset
The autobiography of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman contains a number of basic concepts about the country and also its history, said education minister Nurul Islam Nahid on Saturday, terming it as ‘an asset to the future generation’. He made the comment while unveiling a book
‘Idris Alam a brave, honest columnist’
Speakers at a programme on Saturday said eminent poet and columnist of Chittagong freedom fighter Idris Alam was a brave and honest personality in the real sense of the term. They said this while speaking at a ceremony marking the unveiling of the cover of a book of memoirs on the country’s war of liberation ... Read more
Private autos continue to run commercially
Many privately-owned CNG-run auto-rickshaws are continuing to operate commercially in the Dhaka city in defiance of a High Court order and without permission from the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority. Some drivers of such vehicles told New Age that
Increased taxes on chewing tobacco demanded
Anti-tobacco campaigners on Friday demanded that the government should impose 70 per cent tax on chewing tobacco products to discourage tobacco consumption. They expressed their dissatisfaction as they said the finance minister, Abul Maal Abdul Muhith, was silent over imposing tax on the smokeless tobacco in the
National tree fair draws huge crowd on weekend
Several hundred visitors on Friday thronged the premises of the National Tree Fair 2013 showcasing tree saplings of different species. Simi Mehnaz, a banker who came to the fair from Uttara of the capital, bought saplings of rose, china rose, marigold, hasnahena, mango and chilli from the fair.
RU students suffer for transport crisis
ABOUT a half of the total number of student buses at Rajshahi University have worn out for lack of repairs for years. The students are suffering for transport crisis as there has been no addition of new buses to the transport sector of the university in the last few years.
Dhaka University teachers demand Mahmudur’s release
Pro-Bangladesh Nationalist Party ‘White Panel’ teachers of Dhaka University on Friday demanded unconditional release of the daily Amardesh acting editor, Mahmudur Rahman. The opposition-backed teachers’ panel convener Sadrul Amin in a written statement on the day made the demand
Regional assocs to play important role in SCC polls
Votes of members belonging to different regional associations in Sylhet will play an important role in defining the fate of the candidates in the upcoming mayoral polls of the city corporation. A good number of citizens observed that the aspirant, who would be able to get the votes of such region-based associations, would be ahead ... Read more
Crack develops in private univ building
The authorities of a private university in Sylhet declared the institution closed for one month from Thursday after a crack developed in the university housed at a six-story commercial building in the city. Students of Leading University said a big crack appeared
44 shops burnt in city fire
At least 44 shops were brunt in a fire at a market in the capital’s Modhya Badda early Thursday. Police and shop owners said the fire originated from a short circuit in a cosmetic shop of Haji Super Market (40/Ga, Moddho Badda) and soon engulfed 43 other
CCC files GD for obstructing its mobile court
The Chittagong City Corporation on Thursday filed a general diary with the Khulshi police station in connection with Wednesday’s attack on its mobile court team at the city’s GEC crossing, police and corporation officials said. Police said the CCC inspector, Abul Monsur, filed the
Illegal structures on Buriganga pulled down
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority on Wednesday conducted a drive to demolish illegal establishments in three kilometre areas along the River Buriganga. The seven-hour drive started from Zinjira ferry terminal opposite the Sadarghat launch terminal and ended to Buriganga Telghat.
Five jailed for selling formalin-treated mangoes
93.75pc of mangoes formalin-mixed A day after a survey revealed that most summer fruits are treated with formalin, a mobile court in the capital on Wednesday sentenced the owners of five mango depots at Karwan Bazar to 15 days in jail and fined them Tk 2 lakh each for treating mangoes with the deadly chemical. ... Read more
20 intellectuals demand trial of Twaki killers
Twenty eminent citizens sent a joint statement to the prime minister demanding trial of the murderer of Tanvir Mohammad Twaki of Narayanganj. The signatories to the statement urged the prime minister to take step regarding the arrest of the killers of Twaki who was murdered three months ago.
National Poetry Council DU unit formed
The National Poetry Council’s Dhaka University unit was formed with the English department professor Kajal Bandyopadhyay as its president and poet Aleem Haider Dhrubo as general secretary, a press release said. The central unit approved the newly formed 19-member committee
Sarak Bhaban to move to new location
The communications ministry on Wednesday started the groundwork for shifting Sarak Bhaban from the Supreme Court premises to the capital’s Tejgaon following a High Court order. The communications minister, Obaidul Quader, on the day visited the Roads and Highways Department workshop, which has been selected for Sarak Bhaban at Tejgaon.
94pc mangoes of capital formalin-treated: report
Formalin is used in 93.75 per cent of mangoes selling in the capital, said a report of Save the Environment Movement on Tuesday. Among 96 collected samples the presence of formalin was detected in 90 samples, 93.75 per cent of the mangoes selling in the capital, said the report launched in
Implementation of law stressed for controlling tobacco use
Anti-tobacco law which parliament passed recently could ‘stumble’ if proper implementation and monitoring were not ensured, anti-tobacco activists said on Tuesday in Rajshahi. Parliament recently passed an amendment to the anti-tobacco law with strict provisions about tobacco promotion.