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Kazi Azizul Islam The cost of living in the past year went up by 9.42 per cent with the increase in prices of essential commodities by 12.54 per cent, said a release of the Consumers’ Association of Bangladesh on Thursday. While conducting a study, the CAB took into consideration the annual cost of living basing ... Read more

Our Correspondent The people of Barisal Division want development of Barisal Div under newly elected government and they made such expression while observing the 16th founding anniversary of the division on January 1. The people hope that the regional development programs in the region will be rightly taken by the newly elected government as soon ... Read more

A.T.M.Nurun Nabi The fixing of rice price depends upon many factors. Among them, the easy availability of agricultural inputs including fertilisers, their cost, fair distribution, and borrowing of loans by the marginal and sharecroppers from NGOs, money lenders and banks are to be accounted for as well. It has been observed that the price of ... Read more

Staff Reporter Bangladesh Government has decided to expand mobile network in three hill districts of Khagrachari, Bandarban and Rangamati. Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Maj Gen (Retd) Manzurul Alam said that the people of hill districts were deprived of mobile phone benefit though people of other parts of the country got the opportunity. “The ... Read more

Siddiqur Rahman Khan The education ministry has put into the final form the draft of an ordinance on the management committees of non-government educational institutions to replace the existing election system to choose guardians and teachers’ representatives. ‘Guardians of the students who become first in the final exams will be nominated representatives of guardians to ... Read more

Admission in six subjects from current session, Named Shahid Ziaur Rahman University Our Correspondent, Barisal The implementation of the project for a general public university in Barisal division had been approved in the recent meeting of the Executive Committee of Economic Council (ECNEC). According to the related sources, a project with a budget of Tk. ... Read more

Many rebel candidates retire from poll campaign Yet BNP, AL in trouble in Barisal Our Correspondent, Barisal Both the two major political alliances are still facing problems from eight rebel candidates (five in BNP and three in Mahajote) even after withdrawal by others. In one constituency, both ‘boat’ (AL) and ‘plough(JP)’, and in another constituency, ... Read more

BSS, Chittagong The hustling for next week’s parliamentary polls has gained momentum in the five constituencies of south Chittagong. The candidates, their active supporters and even relatives have virtually no time for rest and sleep as they have been putting in maximum efforts by utilizing properly the time left for campaigning. Nominees of major parties ... Read more

Rangpur Correspondent Party chairman HM Ershad blamed the AL for violation of seat sharing treaty with JP in the election. He called the Awami League candidates in Rangpur-4 and Rangpur-5 to stop campaign for them in the greater interest of grand alliance. “There is no alternative of election symbol ‘plough’ in Rangpur,” said Ershad asking ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The government on Tuesday appointed 286 judicial magistrates on election duties to deal with electoral offences and conduct summary trial in the 299 parliamentary constituencies going to polls on December 29. The law and parliamentary affairs ministry assigned the judicial magistrates and sent a list of 286 such magistrates to the commission six ... Read more

Staff correspondent Bangladesh Non-Govern-ment Primary Schoolteachers’ Association leaders on Tues-day expressed disappointment about the absence of any pledge for the nationalisation of their jobs in the election manifestos of major political parties. ‘In the manifestos for the 2001 elections, both the Bangladesh Nationalist Party and the Awami League pledged to nationalise all non-government primary schools. ... Read more

Staff Correspondent Owners of long-distance buses have decided not to reduce fare despite the government’s directive to cut fare by Tk 0.02 per kilometre following the reduction in fuel prices. ‘We will not reduce fare until a new government takes office after the elections,’ the Bangladesh Bus Truck Owners’ Association chairman, Golam Md Siraj, told ... Read more

Uttara, Purbachal Rajuk extends time for plot application Staff Correspondent Due to huge rush of applicants, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday extended the time limit both for collecting and submitting application forms for plots at Purbachal New Town project and Uttara Model Town (Third phase). Rajuk officials said the last date for procuring forms is ... Read more

M Abul Kalam Azad Jatiya Party (JP) Chairman HM Ershad has more ornaments than his wife has and fewer assets than she owns, reveals his wealth statement submitted to the Election Commission along with nomination papers. According to his affidavits attached to nomination papers for Dhaka-17, Rangpur-3 and Kurigram-2 constituencies, Ershad possesses gold and ornaments ... Read more

Our Correspondent, Barisal The forty-six candidates out of 60 stated that they had 1211 tolas of gold ornaments, and quoted the value of gold as Tk.100 to 1200 per tola. Musfiq Ahmed Shamim, Deputy Commissioner and Returning Officer of Barisal, said that according to the income tax rule and religious law, valuation of gold must ... Read more

4-party has edge over 14-party in popularity Our Correspondent All 28 candidates of six constituencies in Rajshahi district are now spending extremely busy time in campaigning for the upcoming parliamentary election. All of them are now sparing all their available time to communicate with the voters. The quiet city Rajshahi has now turned into a ... Read more

DU Correspondent. The candidates, who had qualified in the 27th BCS examinations as per the results published on January 21, 2007, continued their fast unto death programme for the third consecutive day at the Central Shaheed Miner on Tuesday. They said they would not end their programme unless the government met their demand. Seven of ... Read more