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The Singapore flag ship that was forced to return to the Chittagong port because of high sea after being caught in a storm two days ago left for its destination on Saturday afternoon, port officials said. The MV Express Karnaphuli laden with more than 800 containers left the Chittagong port about 1:00pm for Singapore, they ... Read more

A Birangana of Chittagong, Roma Chowdhury called on the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, at the latter’s Ganobhaban residence in Dhaka Saturday morning. After seeing Roma Chowdhury in the meeting room of Ganobhaban, the prime minister embraced her and requested her to sit beside her.

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Saturday said that the gazette notification on the 8th wage board award for journalists and workers of the press would be issued soon. She also said that efforts were on to implement the new wage structures for newsmen and employees in the newspaper industry.

An apparel worker was stabbed to death at Bholail of Fatullah in Narayanganj on Friday. The deceased was Faridul Islam, 22, of Bagha Jalakandi at Dhunat in Bogra who lived at Deobhog Banglabazar and worked with Shaon Garments factory at Bholail. Sabuj, a cousin of the deceased, said that they had

If the government implements the proposed power plant project at Rampal near the Sundarban, it will violate Ecologically Critical Area (ECA) Act, Bangladesh Environment Conservation Rules, Forest Acts and the Convention on Biological Diversity, experts have warned. Rights organizations pointed out that if the power plant is set up at the proposed

The General Economic Division (GED) of the Planning Commission is about to finalise the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS) to turn Bangladesh into a middle income country by 2021. The GED has taken this initiative to identify the critical knowledge gaps that have to be addressed, to meet the fiscal challenge of a sustainable system ... Read more

Although about seven to eight million homebound people are expected to leave the capital to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr, a large number of passengers on different routes will face serious problems due to shortage of vehicles, locomotives and vessels, coupled with ticket mismanagement and safety issues. Black marketers are reported to have purchased the lion’s

Jahangirnagar University authorities have allegedly embezzled scholarship money for nearly 300 students, deprived students said and officials confirmed New Age on Thursday. The office of the registrar has collected nearly Tk 16 lakh from the exchequer against the 300 students but did not hand over it to the scholarship-winners during

After inauguration in last November, Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited so far affixed retro-reflective number plates only on 6.5 per cent vehicles all over the country while the factory is hoping to affix these plates on the remaining vehicles within next November. About 2.5 lakh vehicles are yet to get new number plates

Golam Sabur Tulu, an Awami League MP from Barguna-2 (Patharghata), was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Barisal Highway at Chumurdia in Bhanga upazila on Friday. Sources said the accident took place around 4:15pm when Tulu along with four others was heading towards Dhaka. They said Tulu’s vehicle veered off the road and rolled into ... Read more

A worker was shot dead and 50 were injured in a clash between the workers of two spinning mills at Nagarhaola village under Sripur upazila in Gazipur on early Friday. The deceased was identified as Spinning Mills iron headman Abdus Salam, 35, son of Mainuddin of the area. The police arrested three security guards

Complain about high price Shops and malls in the city were seen crowded with Eid shoppers on Friday buying new dresses and other essentials for celebration of the Eid-ul-Fitr culminating the holy month of Ramadan. Witnesses said shoppers including young men, women and children thronged different malls on the weekly holiday since morning braving drizzling ... Read more

Bangladesh ranks the highest among the countries Indians trust while Pakistan ranks the lowest, according to a recent survey conducted in India. CNN-IBN-The Hindu Election Tracker Survey, conducted by the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, reveals that while 37 percent of voters feel that relations with neighbours have become better

Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni on Friday morning called on the Prime Minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh in New Delhi, and underscored the need for the early resolution of the outstanding issues, a ministry press release on Friday night said. The Foreign Minister also apprised the Indian Prime Minister of the progress made in ... Read more

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL with Rangamati Correspondent Rangamati, July 26: A team of the Bangladesh Army, led by Maj. Tajul Islam, on Friday rescued five persons — four officials of B-Technology and a contractor of Teli-talk — who were kidnapped by armed cadres of tribal groups on July 8. The five were identified

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday alleged that prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has got advance ‘information’ about rigging in the next general elections. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a news briefing at the party central office said the comments made by Joy about the results of next elections

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, leaves Dhaka for Saudi Arabia today to perform umrah at the invitation of the Saudi government. She will stay in Madinah from July 28 to July 31 to say prayers at Masjid Al-Nabawi and say prayers at the grave side of the Prophet Muhammad (SM), the BNP chairperson’s

An online connectivity would be established between the Bangladesh Finance Intelligence Unit of Bangladesh Bank, the Anti-Corruption Commission, home ministry, finance division and National Board of Revenue to deal with money laundering and terror financing. A committee is working on the establishment of

A man suspected of being involved in snatching was beaten to death at Dattapara of Tongi in Gazipur on Friday. The identity of the deceased could not be immediately established. The police and local people said that a group of snatchers took away the bag about 11:00am from a woman who was carrying Tk 30,000. ... Read more

The prison authorities faced problems for Thursday when they had received 18 transsexuals arrested in an extortion case on Wednesday. A metropolitan magistrate’s court in Dhaka sent the transsexuals, mostly dressed in saris, to the Dhaka central jail on Thursday afternoon in the case the managing