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Upazila chairmen ask govt, give time till Nov 30 Chairmen and vice-chairmen of upazila parishad yesterday “warned” of waging tough movement against the government if it fails to outline their specific duties by November 30. As many as 200 chairmen and vice-chairmen under the banner of Bangladesh Upazila Chairman and vice-Chairman Oikya Parishad gave the ... Read more

Chemical Death Trap 15,000 units found risky in Old Dhaka The fire, coming in contact with a petrol container, flared up abruptly in a Lalbagh metal factory on Friday noon all of a sudden. The flame dumfounded the 12-year-old boy working by it, and he looked around for help. The fire was swelling by the ... Read more

Elections to about 4,500 union parishads (UP) are likely to start simultaneously across the country in February-March next year. Earlier, the Election Commission (EC) will hold Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) and pourasabha (municipality) polls in December this year, according to EC sources. The EC will send a letter to the Ministry of Local Government, Rural ... Read more

High tidal surges inundate coastal areas At least nine were killed on Friday in wall collapses, lightning strike, tidal surges and trawler capsize during downpour began on Thursday and continued till Friday afternoon. Tidal surges whipped up about seven feet high by squally weather influenced by a depression in the Bay of Bengal also inundated ... Read more

People, still struggling to recover from the traumatic experience of the cyclone Aila, are leaving their homes for safer places or cyclone shelters fearing another disaster as depression driven rains and tidal surge flooded vast areas in Dacope and Koyra upazilas of the district over last few days. ‘Tidal surge has submerged vast tracts of ... Read more

Outages start to ease in Dec; govt eyes 11,000MW power during its tenure A quarter of the persisting electricity crisis is likely to go by December with five new rental power projects coming into operation. The government expects that by the end of next year, bulk of the load shedding will be averted and by ... Read more

To start on Dhaka-Ctg highway, then other highways to check accidents The government will introduce a monitoring system by next April to control vehicle speed on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in a bid to curb road accidents. Other highways across the country will be brought under the system in phases, said a Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA)

The sound pollution due to use of hydraulic horns is now a days creating public nuisance, posing a serious health hazards to the dwellers of the country’s metropolitan cities, particularly the capital, medical experts said. Most of the pollution comes from the use of hydraulic horns, used in various vehicles, particularly buses and trucks. There are ... Read more

Faruk to lead business delegation to India Oct 20 A business delegation led by Commerce Minister Faruk Khan will leave for New Delhi on October 20 aiming to ink a number of deals related to investment, border haat (market) and removal of trade barriers. During the four-day visit, a number of issues including duty-free access ... Read more

The Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods (CSRL), Oxfam International’s local alliance of 200 local- national civil society and grass-root level organizations yesterday expressed grave concern regarding the media reports of the 7th October reporting that following rough sea conditions 140 fishermen are missing in the Bay of Bengal

World Post Office Day today More than 24,000 extra-departmental workers of the postal departmental announced to hold work abstention for 12 days beginning Sunday demanding allowance increase while the country observes0 World Post Office Day today. The Bangladesh Postal Department will hold a discussion and cultural events at the

BERC to decide further power tariff increase Power distribution agencies will on November 1 start giving new connections ending a suspension of new connections, enforced on April 1, which was extended twice in six months, officials said on Thursday. ‘We will start giving new connections on November 1. But it will not be possible to ... Read more

Heavy rainfall and tidal surge influenced by the low in the Bay of Bengal have inundated many districts and chars in the coastal belt. Heavy to very heavy rainfall from Tuesday lashed the coastal region and some other parts of the country, Dhaka Met office reported

The government is planning to put in place a strong population and households database for development planning and implementation through the 5th national census of population and households beginning from March 15. The minister for planning, AK Khandaker, at an exchange of views with the chiefs of

The government lifted on Thursday the ‘red alert’ on anthrax it had issued a month back in the backdrop of an outbreak infecting cattle and human beings. The government withdrew the alert to remove ‘unnecessary fear’ of the disease among the people, the minister for fisheries and livestock, Abdul Latif Biswas, told a news briefing

Hajj flights of Biman Bangladesh Airlines begin tonight with a Boeing-747 carrying 477 pilgrims to Saudi Arabia. The flight is scheduled to leave Dhaka for Jeddah at 10:40pm. About 94,000 pilgrims from Bangladesh are likely to perform hajj this year, Biman officials said. Around 55,000 Bangladeshis performed hajj last

Storing Chemicals 5 warehouses fined, asked to shift Two mobile courts yesterday fined five warehouses Tk 9.4 lakh for storing inflammable chemicals at Tipu Sultan Road, Lalbagh and Bangabandhu Avenue in the city without obtaining licence from the fire brigade. The courts realised the fine instantly and ordered the owners to shift their warehouses from ... Read more

The Wednesday’s chemical factory fire in Dakkhin (South) Jatrabari claimed two more lives. Rimu Begum, 26, and Sheuli, 21, succumbed to their injuries at the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of Dhaka Medical College Hospital early yesterday. With this the death toll in the fire incident rose to nine. Injured Aminur Begum, 25, and Bishu ... Read more

Row Over Power Plant Tender Chinese firm now denies complaint A Chinese company that lodged a formal compliant against another Chinese company in a power plant tender, dramatically in a letter to the government on Tuesday denied filing of any such allegation. Shandong Electric Power last month filed a complaint with the Central Procurement Technical ... Read more

Output to decline by 8-32pc in 40 years Feeding the people of Bangladesh will be a major problem the next 40 years since production of rice will decrease by at least eight percent and wheat 32 percent by 2050 due to climate change while the population will go up by 50-75 million over the existing ... Read more