Nation

Staff Reporter The dread disease cancer claims the lives nearly one lakh and fifty thousand people every year in Bangladesh. This was stated at different programmes organised by different organisations in the capital yesterday to mark the World Cancer Day-2009. There are around ten lakh cancer patients across the country and every year 2 lakh ... Read more

RAMNA BATAMUL BOMB EXPLOSION Court issues warrant for arrest of 8 fugitive accused United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s court Wednesday ordered arrest warrant against eight fugitive accused in the Ramna Batamul bomb explosion in which 10 people were killed at Bengali New Year day function in 2001. Two cases are before ... Read more

Rakib Ahammed Holding his mother’s hand, tiny Hridoy was hurrying her from one corner of the fair to another to look for a book he could buy. His mother Mita Islam wasn’t happy at all about the stall layout at the Ekushey Boi Mela this

Staff Correspondent Workers’ leaders at a discussion said that the trade union movement is waning day by day and leaders like Saifuddin Ahmed Manik are needed to establish the rights of the workers in the country. Addressing a meeting organised on the occasion of the first death anniversary of the veteran trade union leader, the ... Read more

Asif Showkat The finance ministry has asked the ministries and divisions to gather and send detailed information on seven items of expenditure including their consumption of fuel and the latest status of the implementation of their macro–credit programmes before the upcoming budget meetings, said official sources. ‘The government will not provide a single penny to ... Read more

10,000 boys under forced labour in coastal belts Staff Correspondent, Khulna Victims of forced child labour, a large number of minor boys are passing days amid horrendous conditions in the fishermen’s colonies along the coastal belt of Dublarchar from where law enforcers rescued over a thousand of minor boys in last four years. Scanty information ... Read more

BSS, Rangpur Farmers of the northern region of the country are expecting a bumper production of wheat this season as the blooming plants are growing well everywhere due to favourable climatic conditions predicting excellent production. Farmers and officials concerned on Sunday told BSS that the fixed target would be achieved for the second consecutive time ... Read more

Agri officials say situation under control Our Correspondent, Thakurgaon Spread of ‘leaf blight’ disease, locally known as patamora rog, has put potato farmers in five upazilas of Thakurgaon district in a difficult siatuation. As the affected farmers are reaping potato before its attaining maturity, production target in

Delay in raw material import from India Iqbal Siddiquee, back from Chhatak, Sunamganj Production in the country’s lone concrete sleeper plant under Bangladesh Railway (BR) has remained suspended for more than eight months due to unusual delay in importing raw materials from India. Now there are only 8,000 pieces of concrete slippers in stock at ... Read more

Staff correspondent The government must come out of the system where ‘winners take all’ and take the opposition political parties in confidence in the greater interest of the country, said jurists, retired bureaucrats and former advisers at a discussion on Saturday. ‘The newly elected government, which has come [to power] with an overwhelming mandate, has ... Read more

Adibasi Mela in Cox’s Bazar Call to preserve cultural heritage of indigenous people Staff Correspondent With a view to flourishing the country’s tourism industry and encouraging people to cast vote for Cox’s Bazar and the Sundarbans in the competition of “The New7Wonders foundation” a daylong Adibasi Mela (Indigenous People Fair) was held in the tourist ... Read more

BSS, Saint Martins The hotels and restaurants that sprang up in the recent past on Saint Martin’s Island , one of the ecologically critical areas (ECA) in the country, have been operating without any official approval. According to the law, building of any structure and carrying out any activity that might pollute the environment or ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Friday said a high-powered committee, which will monitor global recession and work out remedies for its adverse effects on Bangladesh’s economy, would be formed soon. ‘It’ll be there anytime. It’s awaiting the Cabinet’s approval,’ he told reporters at the 3-day Bangladesh Chemical Congress which began on Friday. On ... Read more

Our Correspondent, Barisal Sixty percent construction work of two bridges named the Kirtankhola (Dapdapia) and the Khairabad Bridges over the Kirtankhola and Khairabad rivers in Barisal has been completed. Construction of these bridges would influence the development of socio-economic infrastructures of the region connecting it with Chittagong and Mongla sea ports and Kuakata tourist zone. ... Read more

Mamun Islam, BSS, Rangpur Agri-scientists have completed necessary research, experiments and validation of new flood- tolerant varieties of Aman paddy to pave the way for producing 40 lakh tonnes of additional paddy every year by large-scale farming in Bangladesh alone. Repeated success of the scientists and farmers in getting expected production of flood-tolerant paddy in ... Read more

Shahidul Islam Chowdhury When nature calls, most of the time Liza, 6, falls in trouble as her family does not own a latrine. ‘At times, I have to defecate in open spaces, no matter whether it is day or night, even knowing that it is bad,’ she said on Tuesday in the yard of their ... Read more

Dr Aynal Haque, BSS, Rajshahi Environmental scientists and researchers underscored the need for taking a comprehensive approach to conserve the beneficial insects in the greater interest of maintaining a sound biodiversity and ecological balance. They also said, the farmers destroy various species of the insects during the time of eliminating the destructive ones due to ... Read more

Monirul Islam Monu, Bandarban Ignoring constitutional provision to ensure representation and participation of women in every sector, three Hill District councils (HDC) have been running without female members since their inception in 1989. To ensure participation of each indigenous ethnic community, the then government in 1989 introduced three specialized local government organizations — Bandarban Hill ... Read more

Our Correspondents . Jessore and Bogra A BNP leader was killed in Jessore while Awami League activists looted leather goods worth Tk 2 lakh from a warehouse of a BNP-backed union parishad member in Bogra as post-polls violence continued on Monday. In Jessore, a BNP leader was killed allegedly by the Awami League activists at ... Read more

AL MP annoys all in Ukhia-Teknaf  A Correspondent, Cox’s Bazar With allegations of torture and repression on opposition activists and violation of election rules in the recently concluded upazila election, Awami League lawmaker Abdur Rahman Bodi has made himself controversial in less than a month of his election from Cox’s Bazar-4 (Ukhia-Teknaf). Aggrieved with his ... Read more