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Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) has taken a project to renovate major roads, islands and dividers in the capital as a part of beautification on the eve of the World Cup Cricket-2011 scheduled to be kicked off on February 17. A total of Tk 54 crore has been allocated to implement the project that includes repair ... Read more

Chaos, demonstrations and stray clashes marked the opening day sales of tickets for World Cup Cricket matches to be held in Bangladesh as people, who had waited in front of bank branches since Saturday afternoon, failed to buy tickets on Sunday. People disheartened at not being able to buy tickets went out on violent demonstrations ... Read more

Hill Cutting at Cox’s Bazar Fine slapped on realtor A housing company has been fined about Tk 3 crore for wiping out hills and forests on an area of 100 acres to develop a housing project at Jhilongja in Cox’s Bazar. The Department of Environment in a drive yesterday slapped the fine on Uttaran Grihayan ... Read more

Internet Service Providers Association of Bangladesh yesterday called an hour’s strike from 11:00am Tuesday to protest the removal of overhead cables on utility poles on Dhaka’s thoroughfares. Demanding that the government ensure them all facilities to install the cables underground, the ISPAB also threatened an indefinite strike from next week if the government did not ... Read more

Pushes victim from hilltop A teenage girl was allegedly raped and pushed from hilltop by a gang of youths in the port city late night Saturday. The victim, a 15-year-old garment worker, was under treatment in Chittagong Medical College Hospital yesterday

Nature Conservation Committee (NCC) began a month-long Waterfowl Census yesterday at Dighirpar char in Tongibari upazila in the district. The month-long census will be conducted in 30 wetlands across the country. President of NCC, ornithologist Shahjahan Sarder said, around 25,000 birds live in the lower basin of River Padma

Dhaka: People welcomed the New Year 2011 with jubilations and fresh hopes amid heightened security. As the clock struck 12 midnight past Friday, hundreds of people especially the young people came out to their homes and welcomed the English new year dancing and singing on the city streets amid tightened security.As soon as the clock ... Read more

Educationists fear many of five lakh unsuccessful or absentee examinees may stop study for poverty Many of some five lakh students who either failed in or were absent from the Junior School Certificate (JSC) and Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations will give up their studies due to poverty, educationists say. Of over 15 lakh students ... Read more

Bangladesh has edged past Mexico and Indonesia taking the third position in exporting apparels to the US market. Until August 2010, the country was ranked fifth, trailing behind China, Vietnam, Indonesia and Mexico. In September, the country exported apparel products worth $358 million, overtaking Mexico

The people in northern districts of the country have been experiencing biting cold with foggy down putting the poor, destitute and homeless in deep anxiety. Besides, with the winter setting in, people in the region have started to suffer from seasonal diseases like cold fever, runny nose and cough, alongside breathing problem and various

Over 1.30 crore women in Bangladesh — more than men — consume different types of smokeless tobacco that causes various diseases, particularly oral cancer. Smokeless tobaccos include ‘gul’, ‘jarda’ and ‘sada pata’ (powdered or dried tobacco leafs). Around 1.40 crore women in Bangladesh consume tobacco through smoking or in smokeles

Detectives on Thursday night arrested a youth in the capital on charges of using other people’s bank account through fake debit and credit cards. The arrestee was identified as Nur-e-Alam alias Babu, 26, of Thakurgaon district. Law enforcers also recovered 15 debit and credit cards of different private banks — none of

In the first-ever Junior School Certificate and Junior Dakhil Certificate examinations, 73.04 per cent of the examinees have came out successful. The pass rate in the school exams is 71.34 and the pass rate in the madrassah exams is 81.03. The results were published on Thursday. The exams were held during

The Cabinet on Thursday approved a proposal for preserving 30 percent job quota for the children and grandchildren of freedom fighters in government, semi-government and autonomous institutions. The establishment ministry placed the proposal at the weekly cabinet meeting at the secretariat with the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, in the

The authorities have taken extensive security measures for the capital city to ensure peaceful celebrations of New Year tonight. A contingent of 7,000 additional policemen will be deployed in and around the city to fend off any untoward incidents, Dhaka Metropolitan Police commissioner Benazir Ahmed

A special Border Guard Bangladesh court on Thursday sentenced 59 soldiers of 38 Border Guards Battalion to different terms and fined them Tk 100 each on charge of mutiny at the battalion headquarters in Sylhet in February 2009. The Special Court-14 set up at the Sylhet sector headquarters in the city’s Akhalia, acquitted

The Somali pirates, who have hijacked Bangladeshi ship MV Jahan Moni, remained out of contact for five days until yesterday amidst concern that the stock of drinking water and fuel in the ship might be exhausted. Officials of the ship’s operating firm Brave Royal Ship Management Limited said this yesterday at a view-exchange meeting with ... Read more

The department of environment (DoE) yesterday fined an illegal brick kiln Tk 4 lakh at Bhaluka of Mymensingh for destroying agricultural lands and environment. A special team of DoE led by Md Munir Chowdhury, director of monitoring and enforcement wing, also dismantled the 32 feet chimney of the kiln during the

The future of Dhaka’s Detailed Area Plan, gazetted six months ago, hangs in the balance as Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha refuses to take any steps to implement it until it receives recommendations from an inter-ministerial committee set up to review it. The committee has however only met once in six

The Transparency International, Bangladesh on Wednesday sent its household survey on corruption index in the service sectors to the office of the Supreme Court’s registrar. The TIB also sent a letter, along with its report, welcoming the authorities’ move to appraise the survey which found the judiciary to be the most corrupt sector in the ... Read more