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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were prescribed by untrained ‘village doctors’ who are not legally permitted to prescribe them, according to an as yet unpublished report of a research undertaken by the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (ICDDR,B).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

Resisting Stalkers Schoolgirls get karate training Tangail district administration yesterday introduced karate training for girl students so that they can deal with stalkers. In the first such government move, the district administration opened a training camp for the students of Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib Women’s College in the

Eid ul-Azha, the second largest Muslim religious festival, will be celebrated on November 17. The declaration was made by the National Moon-sighting Committee following a meeting at the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Sunday. The state minister for religious affairs, Mohammad Shahjahan Mia, told bdnews24.com,

Social Business Yunus clarifies his views on govt’s role Nobel laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus has made a clarification regarding his views on the role of government in social business as appeared in a UNB report The Daily Star ran on Saturday under the headline, “Professor Yunus against govts in social business.” Prof Yunus said his ... Read more

Bangladesh will launch third-generation (3G) mobile phone network in three months, Telecommunication Minister Rajiuddin Ahmed Raju said yesterday. Teletalk, the state-owned mobile operator, will roll out the 3G services, followed by private operators. “This 3G networks will be developed with Chinese assistance and users will get services at

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined two more factories Tk 13.36 lakh for environment pollution in Rupganj of Narayanganj under ‘Operation Prevent Environment Crime’. A team of DoE led by Director (Enforcement) Munir Chowdhury penalised Bikrampur Steel Ltd Tk 5.68 lakh for not using fume extraction units and releasing toxic fumes, a

At least 50 people, including 17 policemen, were injured when apparel workers, rallying for an increase in production rate, clashed with the police at Nawjor and Kaliakair in Gazipur on Saturday. Witnesses said Diganta Garments workers had clashed with police about 9:00am at Nawjor in the district headquarters. They went out on demonstrations on a

Hajj agencies yet to take 11,000 confirmed tickets, last flights on Nov 12 Hajj agencies are yet to take the air tickets booked for around 11,000 pilgrims although hajj flights are scheduled to leave for Saudi Arabia on November 12, said officials. Civil aviation and tourism minister GM Quader on Saturday called upon all concerned ... Read more

Regional Water Sharing Solution lies in 2 factors Int’l seminar focuses on cooperation, understanding Regional cooperation and understanding are the two main ingredients for resolving water sharing and management issues in the region. And the impact of climate change in the region is yet to be wholly perceived. So, all the countries concerned must conduct ... Read more

Beximco Group has paired up with other investors to buy a 55 percent stake in home appliances giant Singer Bangladesh. The deal was signed on Thursday, Salman F Rahman, Beximco’s vice-chairman, told The Daily Star yesterday. Rahman has declined to give financial details on the deal,

The National Moon Sighting Committee will meet today at Islamic Foundation to fix the date of holy Eid-ul-Azha after reviewing the moon sighting news of Jilhaj month. The meeting will be held at the conference room of Islamic Foundation at 6:00pm, said a press release. State Minister for Religious Affairs and President of the committee ... Read more

A 30-year-old woman and her 8-year-old daughter were killed in a traffic accident on Dhaka-Dinajpur Highway at Dhaka More at Phulbari in Dinajpur on Saturday. They were identified as Sultana Banu, the wife of Saiful Islam of village Tetuldanga at Birampur in Dinajpur and her daughter,

A mob beat five suspected robbers to death and injured another at Habibnagar of Kadamtoli in the capital early yesterday. They also recovered 11 knives and eight pieces of equipment intended for breaking into houses. Two of the dead were identified as Firoz, 28, and Ameer, 30. The rest could not be