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Ecnec okays project The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) in its meeting yesterday approved Tk 2,169 crore in seven projects including one for setting up 3,500 kilometres new electric lines in Khulna division. Ecnec meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair okayed rural Electrification

A regional Counter-Terrorism Centre will be set up in Dhaka with financial and technological assistance from European Union to train people across South Asia to combat terrorism. The international standard centre will start functioning early next year, said Dr Stefan Frowein, ambassador of EU Delegation to

The home affairs ministry on Tuesday directed the agencies concerned to take legal action against any irregularities in mobile subscriber identity module card registration to curb crimes such as extortion, harassment of girls and women and intimidation of people over mobile. The home minister, Sahara Khatun, at a meeting on containing mobile phone crimes

The government is planning to formulate a law restricting wholesale felling of trees as part of its policy to mitigate climate change, Law Minister Shafique Ahmed has said. “There could be a provision that two trees have to be planted if one fells one tree,” he said, emphasising that the environment must be protected to ... Read more

The government has published results of the 30th Bangladesh Civil Service’s preliminary examinations, reports bdnews24.com. Public Service Commission (PSC) exam controller (cadre) A E M Nesar Uddin told bdnews24.com that 14,470 candidates passed the

Leaders of the national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports on Tuesday called on all the progressive forces to take part in its week-long Dhaka–Phulbari long march during October 24–30. The committee will hold the long march to push for its seven-point demands including end to export of national resources, cancellation ... Read more

Cousin among 7 teen kidnappers arrested by Rab The Rapid Action Battalion yesterday rescued a three-year-old girl and arrested seven amateur kidnappers, six of whom are teenagers, at Chasara, Narayanganj. Neha Akhter was kidnapped from Baro Moghbazar Friday afternoon by some teenagers, of whom one is her cousin Shaon. Neha is the only child of ... Read more

At least six persons received severe injuries when an explosion with big bang blown off roof of a tin-shed mess at Masdair in Fatulla early yesterday. Members of different agencies started investigation just after the incident. Police recovered some religious books, ID cards and some evidences from the

Encroachers march against eviction The Dhaka District Admin-istration postponed for two days their drive in Ramchandrapur canal yesterday, as agitating encroachers brought out a procession against the drive. Dhaka Water Supply Authority (Wasa) officials who are in charge of maintaining the canal once the deputy collector’s office completed the eviction were present on the site. ... Read more

A trader was shot dead at his shop in the city’s Jatrabari last night. Deceased Pronab Mondol, 32, used to run a signboard and banner shop, “Sign Maker” behind the Elish Paribahan counter in the area. Witnesses said a gang of three armed men came at the shop on a motorbike around 10:00

Durga Puja, the greatest religious festival of the Hindus, ended yesterday with the immersion of the idols of goddess Durga and her children on the fifth day of celebration of it across the country. Bijoya Dashami processions were brought out on the day. Devotees with tearful eyes joined the processions carrying the idols to bid ... Read more

Thousands of people affected by cyclone ‘Aila’ in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira have been forced to migrate to upper cities after the cyclone last year made them both homeless and workless. Their lives are now under severe threat and face uncertainity and at the same time population density in other cities being higher, a field ... Read more

Proposed Elevated Expressway Cost estimate too high Local experts critical of consultant’s projection; propose to cut it down to one-third Local experts are working to scale down the construction cost of the proposed Dhaka Elevated Expressway to $25 million (Tk 175 crore) for each kilometre from $75 million estimated by a foreign consultant. AECOM Australia ... Read more

Protests husband’s refusal to register marriage A teenage girl got severely injured after she torched herself yesterday at city’s Zia Sarani in Kadamtoli as her ‘husband’ refused to register their marriage. Eighteen year old Ratna Akhter was rushed to the Burn Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) after she doused herself in kerosene and ... Read more

5 held; rectified spirit seized from homeopathy drug factory A team of Rapid Action Battalion yesterday busted a fake homeopathy medicine factory and arrested five people in this connection from Old Dhaka’s Babu Bazar area. They also seized around 1,200 litres of rectified spirit from the spot. The arrestees are factory manager Mohammad Jasim Uddin, ... Read more

A 55-year-old woman and her 32-year-old son died in Dhaka Medical College Hospital on Saturday hours after being burnt in their house at Goran in the capital, hospital sources said. The mother, Aleya Begum, who worked as principal officer at the Motijheel branch of the Janata Bank, was wounded on Friday night when she went ... Read more

Bangladesh Cricket team led by its prolific skipper Shakib Al Hasan will meet New Zealand Cricket team led by experienced captain Daniel Vettori today in the fifth and last One Day International (ODI) match of the Micromax Cup at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur. The game begins at 9.00 AM BST (Bangladesh Standard ... Read more

A garment worker who divorced her husband to relieve herself from his torture is now crying in pain at Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s Burn unit with her face fully burnt by acid her former husband threw. Yar Mahmud, her former husband, threw acid on her face on Friday night, as she rejected his proposal to ... Read more

Climate change badly affecting harvest, making it difficult to feed rising population A rising population amid declining agricultural land has put the country’s future food security at risk, especially when salinity in the coastal belt, and droughts and depleting underground water level in the north have become constant realities. According to a projection of the ... Read more

Traffic control DMP sits on digital cameras, display boards The Dhaka Metropolitan Police is yet to start using its digital cameras and traffic display boards, an initiative taken four years back to streamline traffic and ease congestion on the city roads. The telecom division of the DMP initiated the project in 1997 to improve the ... Read more