Nation

BSS, Rajshahi The candidates for the post of chairman, vice-chairman and vice-chairman (female) have geared up their election campaign in all 16 northern districts under Rajshahi division for the upcoming January 22 upazila parishad polls. With only 10 days remaining for the local body election, the candidates and their supporters have been making efforts to ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Construction of the proposed Padma Bridge will start in 2011 and be completed in three years to connect the southwest region with Dhaka, Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said yesterday. He said the process to appoint a consultant to finalise the design of the bridge will be completed by this month and then ... Read more

Tushar Hayat . Chittagong The candidates aspiring to be chairmen and vice chairmen in the 14 upazilas of Chittagong district have been conducting, in full swing, their campaigns for the elections scheduled on January 22. Sources in the election office said there are a total of 304 candidates, including 115 for the post of chairman, ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Sunday visited Banglabazar book market in Dhaka and found a powerful syndicate behind the artificial crisis of secondary textbooks. As soon the minister entered the market in the afternoon, a number of retailers who went to the market

Quazi Amanullah, Khulna She died showing a rare courage of braving bullets and bombs of miscreants to save her neighbour. Parvez Howlader, 30, an activist of Awami League, died on the spot on the night of January 4 at Pabla Palpara under Daulatpur Police Station in Khulna city as miscreants sprayed bullets and threw bomb ... Read more

BSS, Chittagong Ministers, Lawmakers and Leaders of the Mohajote in greater Chittagong region at a public meeting here on Saturday said they would work together for bringing back the past glory of the port city as the country’s economic and industrial hub. In this respect, they sought wholehearted cooperation of the people to free Bangladesh ... Read more

Staff Correspondent More than 400 students of the Government Titumir College were sued for vandalising vehicles at Mohakhali and its surrounding areas in Dhaka on Saturday. The police sub-inspector, Nur-e-Azam, filed the case with Gulshan police against over 400 unidentified students of Titumir College. None was, however, arrested till Sunday evening in connection with the ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Around 1000 ex-Biman officials, who lost their jobs under a voluntary retirement scheme in 2007, staged demonstration at the national airlines’ headquarters, Balaka, in Dhaka Saturday for getting

Poor navigability in Jamuna keeps vessels away Golam Mostafa Jibon, back from Nagorbarighat Baghabari port has been virtually lying idle for weeks as cargo vessels and barges with huge quantity of fertiliser, rice and fuel are not arriving there due to problem of navigability and dispute between

Staff Correspondent In a bid to permit the private sector to develop, build, operate and maintain nationwide optical fiber telecommunication transmission network, Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) handed over the first Nationwide Tele-communication Transmi-ssion Network (NTTN) license to Fiber @ Home Limited. The BTRC chairman Maj Gen Manzurul Alam (retd) handed over the license to ... Read more

Staff Correspondent For quick and easy delivery of money across the country, the Bangladesh Post Office (BPO) is going to introduce Electronic Money Transfer System (EMTS) very soon, a high official said. “We hope to start the service by the end of January,” Mobassher ur Rahman, Director General of the BPO said adding that “Initially, ... Read more

Civil servants too excited by state of transition to do much work Staff Correspondent Officials and employees at the Bangladesh Secretariat have started bidding farewell to the outgoing advisers to the interim government as the new Cabinet, to be led by Awami League chief Sheikh Hasina, takes oath tomorrow. Ministry officials hardly did any office ... Read more

BSS, Rangpur The bird flu situation remains under full control everywhere in northern Bangladesh following adequate preventive measures taken by the government to check spreading of avian influenza, officials told BSS here on Sunday. Following spread of the bird flu disease at some places and parts of India, concerned authorities of the district and upazila ... Read more

BSS, Chittagong After a week-long pause since the high-geared campaign of December 29 parliamentary polls, the rural areas of the district again become vibrating with the starting of electioneering centering January 22 upazila elections. Candidates belonging to different political parties and individual backgrounds have already begun work to manage the support of respective parties and ... Read more

BSS, Rangpur Farmers are continuing plantation of Boro seedlings with huge enthusiasm and full efforts for achieving a record production target as fixed by the government for 16 northern districts this season. Preparation of all variety Boro seedbeds has already been completed and the farmers are planting Boro seedlings in full swing everywhere to achieve ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Former chief election commissioner Abu Hena on Saturday said elections observers should also monitor post-polls violence. Inaugurating a workshop on ‘Election related capacity building training programme to promote democratic values and media engagement,’ he said the observers should monitor the situation before,

Anisur Rahman Swapan . Barisal Navigation on almost all the river and coastal routes in the southern region has become risky as most of the marking signs on the routes remain inoperative. Almost all the beacon lights and buoys on 40 routes in the region have gone out of order, threatening safe movement of vessels, ... Read more

Two dies in two days Staff Correspondent A mild cold wave coupled with dense fog, sweeping over the country since Friday, almost paralysed life and disrupted road and river communications across the country. Two elderly people have died due to biting cold in separate places of the northern district of Nilphamari in the last two ... Read more

A.T.M.Nurun Nabi The bus fare in the city of Dhaka has remained unchanged despite cut of fuel price twice by the government in view of massive fall in the international market, so far assessed from talking with the city commuters. Some of them view the latest price cut as a measure to help the bus ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Twenty-two million children under five will be administered polio vaccines as the second round of 17th National Immunisation Day will be held today. Field workers from the health and family planning ministry along with six lakh volunteers will administer oral polio vaccines to 22 million children aged 0-59 months and Vitamin A capsule ... Read more