Stockmarket Crash Govt actions draw doubts The policymakers demonstrated their lack of seriousness in identifying the real culprits behind the recent stockmarket debacle, by taking 15 days time for forming a probe committee to investigate market manipulation, said analysts yesterday. They however said the finance minister’s confession of making mistakes, and his meeting
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Over 100 illegal shops, shanties knocked down
Cox’s Bazar Beach Over 100 illegal shops, shanties knocked down In compliance with a recent High Court order, the district administration yesterday evicted more than 100 shanties and shops in a drive to free the world’s longest sea beach of illegal occupants. The structures, erected illegally at the beach’s Sugandha point and adjacent to Jhauban ... Read more
25 BDR men jailed
Mutiny at Naogaon 25 BDR men jailed Twenty-five jawans of 43 Rifles Battalion were yesterday sentenced to various jail terms–up to seven years–for their involvement in the BDR mutiny in Naogaon in 2009. The special court-12, headed by Rajshahi Sector Commander Col Ehia Azam Khan, also fined Tk 100 to each of the convicts. The ... Read more
Real estate firm fined for cutting hills
Department of Environment yesterday slapped a fine of Tk 7 lakh on RF Properties Ltd, a real estate firm, for destroying the natural balance of Prabartak Sangha hill. A team of DoE led by its Director (enforcement) Munir Chowdhury conducted the drive around 10:30am, in association with Chittagong Metropolitan Police
Expats in UAE can get MRP from now on
Bangladesh missions abroad have finally started issuing machine-readable passport (MRP), nearly 10 months after the modern passport was launched in the country. Missions in Dubai and Abu Dhabi received applications for the MRP on Sunday and Monday respectively, said sources in the foreign ministry
Probe ordered, trading resumes tomorrow
The government on Sunday asked the merchant banks to reinvest their profits made from the volatile share market in a bid to bring back normalcy to the capital market, trading on which had remained suspended for the past two days. Trading on the capital market is scheduled to resume on Tuesday after the government
One killed as police open fire on factory workers
At least one worker was killed and scores were injured as police opened fire on the agitating employees of ACI Pharmaceuticals in Godnail under Shiddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj on Sunday. Witnesses said temporary worker of the factory, Enamul, 25, from Rangpur, succumbed to bullet injuries in nearby Khanpur hospital
Crew members need water, food, medicine
Many of the crew in the hijacked Bangladeshi ship, MV Jahan Moni, are suffering from different diseases due to scarcity of water for drinking and other uses, food and medicine. Family members of at least 23 crewmen yesterday said this when they gathered at the office of SR Shipping Limited, the owning firm of the ... Read more
Four die of Nipah virus infection
Five people were infected with the Nipah virus in Faridpur and Rajbari districts and four of them died this month, said the director of the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research on Sunday. ‘A total of five people were infected with the virus of whom four died in January 2011,’ said Mahmudur Rahman
Body formed to prevent graft in SC
Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque on Sunday formed a five-judge committee to prevent corruption in the Supreme Court. Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, a judge of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, has been appointed head of the committee, said a release signed by the Supreme Court’s
Power scenario grim as summer ahead
2,500mw power shortage in the irrigation season The country is going to face a shortfall of at least 2,500 megawatts of electricity in peak hours in the coming Boro season, informed sources said on the basis of possible demand and generation scenario. The demand for electricity will exceed 6,500 mw by February due to irrigation, ... Read more
Steel will
Briton in wheelchair sets out for a 5,000-mile journey to raise fund for CRP Peter Donnelly, a spirited 24-year-old from St Helens in Liverpool, who is paralysed from the neck down, started rolling back towards his hometown in his wheelchair yesterday. Donnelly, a volunteer for the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralysed (CRP), will ... Read more
Upazila chairs, vice-chairs begin fast unto death
The upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen began a ‘fast unto deat’h at Muktangan Saturday morning to press home their 10-point demand, including making upazila parishads functional. Nearly 300 upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen under the banner of Bangladesh Upazila Chairmen and Vice-Chairmen Oikya Parishad are staging the hunger
Railway to offer 25 new services
Says communications boss, opens commuter train services on N’ganj route In an effort to ease traffic hold-ups, Bangladesh Railway yesterday launched two new commuter train services on the Dhaka-Narayanganj route. The services have been introduced to facilitate more people using the route, railway officials said adding, it would also provide over five thousand people a ... Read more
Private cars fill 70pc city roads
Call is for making rooms for public vehicles Public vehicles like bus; and cycling and walking must get priority over private vehicles to prevent perennial traffic congestion and air pollution in the capital, said environmentalists at a media briefing yesterday. The Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) along with Forum of Environmental Journalists of ... Read more
Akheri Munajat today
Second phase of Biswa Ijtema begins Jan 28 The first phase of Biswa Ijtema, one of the largest congregations of the Muslims, ends today with Akheri Munajat (concluding prayers) on the bank of Turag in Tongi. Eminent Islamic scholar Moulana Jobayerul Hasan of India will lead the concluding prayers starting around 11:00am
Stock loser kidnaps student
Police arrested a private tutor here yesterday for kidnapping a girl student, which he said was an attempt to recover his loss due to the recent stockmarket plunge. The arrestee, Abdul Mazid, 24, hails from Kutubdia upazila of Cox’s Bazar. Mazid kidnapped his student Naima Kaiser, 8, on Thursday on her way back home from ... Read more
Doctor accused of stalking
A doctor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) was suspended yesterday following an allegation of physically harassing a teenage female patient. Saiful Islam, junior consultant of Department of Ophthalmology, allegedly harassed the patient at the outdoor department of the hospital around
Rangamati gunfights kill 4
At least three were killed and a score others were injured in a gunfight between supporters of two hill political parties in remote forests of Jurachari in Rangamati early Friday. Another hill man went missing. Another was killed at Gabachhara of Kaptai by unnamed armed people and a schoolboy was injured with bullet in Khagrachari
Delay in cracks repair to cost additional Tk 120cr
Bangabandhu Bridge Delay in cracks repair to cost additional Tk 120cr The public exchequer will have to fork out around Tk 120 crore extra due to a delay in repairing cracks on Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge. Experts said the repair cost will increase due to development of many new cracks while the old ones became bigger