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A nine-year-old domestic help died after she fell from the roof of a 7-storey building at Arjotpara in city’s Tejgaon yesterday. Jharna, who hailed from Mymensingh, was working in the house of Lutfor Rahman, owner of a poultry farm in Gazipur

Stalkers critically wounded a schoolteacher in Cox’s Bazar on Monday and two madrassah managing committee members in Noakhali on Tuesday as they protested at the harassment of girls. The police had arrested two persons — a relative of the people who attacked the schoolteacher in Cox’s Bazar and one of the people who attacked the ... Read more

Festival allowance in RMG units Owners refuse to pay in new wage structure Apparel factory owners have decided to pay Eid festival allowance to workers in line with the old wage structure amid workers’ demand for festival allowance according to the new wage structure. The workers are supposed to get paid for November in line ... Read more

A joint team of Dhaka Wasa and district administration yesterday resumed their eviction drive to recover Kalyanpur Ka Khal (canal) from encroachers. Local lawmaker Aslamul Haq, who opposed a scheduled eviction drive of the authority in the area on October 31, assisted the team in conducting the drive and spent over one hour with

The government on Tuesday amended the Mobile Court Act 2009 empowering the mobile courts to try offenders of stalking girls or women summarily. The home affairs ministry issued an official gazette notification incorporating Section 509 of the Penal Code into the list of laws under the purview of the act in the wake of rising ... Read more

Eid a week away As the anthrax scare faded away over the last few weeks and the Eid-ul-Azha just days away, cattle traders are pinning their hopes to make up for losses during the peak trading season. Though the number of sacrificial animals, as well as the customers, remains very thin at Gabtali cattle market ... Read more

Tilted Building Rajuk lacks dismantling equipment Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha has yet to start demolishing the leaning seven-storey building in Kathalbagan though two days have gone since the building tilted onto a high-rise next to it. Rajuk officials said they would need at least two more days to begin the work. As they do not have ... Read more

Six junior school certificate examinees were killed in a road traffic accident on their way to an examination centre in Shibganj upazila of Bogra district on Monday. The accident took place on Bogra-Rangpur highway near Kashipur around 12:45pm when a Rangpur-bound bus coming from Bogra rammed a human hauler carrying JSC

After a break of more than seven months, power distribution agencies are going to give new electricity connections to consumers on some specific conditions, including installation of solar panels. A power division notice on Monday said 50 per cent of the applicants would be

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on Monday sued the developer and land owner of an eight-storey building at Kathalbagan in the city that tilted toward a bordering building after two of its floors subsided on Sunday night. The city development authorities on Monday filed the case accusing real estate company A Asian Comtech BD Ltd managing director ... Read more

The government has decided to reward 10 top taxpayers with the status of Commercially Important Person every year to encourage people to pay direct tax. The decision came at a weekly cabinet meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair. The cabinet also approved a policy subject to

Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS) will start manufacturing and assembling laptop and notebook computers in the country within six months in collaboration with a Bangladeshi IT company and a Malaysian equipment manufacturer. Under the joint venture initiative, the highest price of a laptop or notebook will be

Petrobangla shuns BERC confce The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission in a technical conference on Monday failed to finalise a draft policy for spending the Gas Development Fund due to the absence of any authorised official of Petrobangla, the designated keeper and spender of the fund. The BERC chairman, representatives of the Consumers’ Association of

Workers of three garment factories in Savar and Gazipur went on the rampage on Monday, demanding wages under new wage scales and payment of festival allowance and protesting at reduction in overtime allowance. Workers also blocked the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gazipur for about an hour. At least 16 workers were injured as the police charged ... Read more

Nearly 90 per cent of all antibiotics in one rural upazila in Cox’s Bazar were prescribed by untrained ‘village doctors’ who are not legally permitted to prescribe them, according to an as yet unpublished report of a research undertaken by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B). Moreover, on the basis of an examination ... Read more

An eight-storey under-construction building at Kanthalbagan in Dhaka tilted towards a bordering building after two of its floors had subsided on Sunday night. Spot accounts said the building, Haider Cottage, on the Free School Street, started subsiding about 10:00pm with a big noise and it tilted towards the bordering 20-storey Nasir Tower about 11:00

Development partners have suggested the government should give more emphasis to enhancing implementation capacity, civil service reforms, health, sanitation and education to successfully achieve the Agreed Action Points adopted at the last Bangladesh Development Forum meeting in February. They also highlighted issues like export diversification, expansion of trade, human rights

Rubber dams to create new land in Bay The Sandwip and Urir Char islands are likely to become part of mainland Noakhali in the near future thanks to the Meghna estuary development project. Sandwip is currently facing severe erosion problems. Several dams would be built at different strategic points in the estuary and they would ... Read more

Reckless driving caused the death of two persons, one of them a student, and injured another in two separate road accidents at Jatrabari and on Bijoy Sarani early Sunday. One of the deceased was identified as Rajib Khor, 21, a third-year student of the Bangladesh College of Leather Technology in

JS body asks communications ministry A parliamentary body yesterday set July 2011 as deadline for the communications ministry to recover around 20,000 acres of Bangladesh Railway land occupied by different influential individuals and organisations. The standing committee on communications ministry also asked eviction of slums erected