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Illegal Chemical Storage Old Dhaka hub left out of first day’s drive Day one of the drive against warehouses of combustible chemicals in the city’s residential areas yesterday ended without visiting its nerve centre in Old Dhaka amid lack of coordination between the mobile court and fire service officials. Starting around 12:45pm, the court managed ... Read more

The High Court on Sunday issued a rule suo moto asking the government to explain in two weeks why it would not be directed to demolish the 16-story BGMEA building constructed on Hatirjheel lake in Dhaka. The housing and public works ministry and Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha were also asked to explain why punitive action would ... Read more

The government is contemplating to formulate separate guidelines for journalists in the print and electronic media, information minister Abul Kalam Azad told parliament on Sunday. Responding to a question from Awami League lawmaker Israfil Alam, he said that the information ministry had discussions with the representatives of

The industrial police, a specialised unit of law enforcers, formally started its journey yesterday, aiming to maintain order in the country’s four industrial zones. Initially, 1,580 personnel deputed from the police department will make up the force. They will later be joined by 1,410 more cops to patrol Dhaka, Gazipur, Narayanganj and Chittagong industria

Drive at CEPZ 2 factories fined for pollution The Department of Environment (DoE) in a drive at Chittagong Export Processing Zone (CEPZ) yesterday fined two industries around Tk 33 lakh for water pollution. A team of the DoE, led by its Director (enforcement) Munir Chowdhury, made the drive titled “Operation Prevent Environmental Crime” at Sector ... Read more

The World Bank (WB) approved $75 million to support Bangladesh in its project for recovery from the damage caused by Cyclone Sidr and Cyclone Aila. The WB yesterday in a press release said, the credit is an additional financing for the ongoing Emergency 2007 Cyclone Recovery & Restoration Project

A number of schools and colleges in the capital continue to take coaching classes flouting government directives for ‘extra’ classes for students. The education ministry at a meeting on August 10 decided that educational institutions in the capital should not take coaching classes and left options for ‘extra’ classes so that students, especially

Swadhin Bangla Betar Kendra artiste Bipul Bhattacharya is fighting for his life in a local hospital. Bipul, also one of the premier folk singers of the nation, has been suffering from lung cancer for the last few months. As his condition worsened on last Saturday he was shifted to intensive care unit of the capital’s ... Read more

Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) yesterday in a drive demolished illegal structures in car-parking spaces of five buildings at the city’s Rokeya Sarani. Rokon-ud-Doula, executive magistrate of Rajuk, yesterday morning conducted the drive with around 30 day labourers, a bulldozer, two platoons of police and some officials of Rajuk. The

Allegation of acid attack HC judge’s son granted bail A Dhaka court on Sunday granted bail to Safayet Ahmed Chowdhury, son of High Court Judge Salma Masud Chowdhury, in connection with an acid throwing case. Additional chief metropolitan magistrate AHM Habibur Rahman Bhuiyan passed the order after hearing a petition seeking bail for

The government is planning to evict hawkers from footpaths in the busy and crowded areas of the capital to ease traffic congestion. ‘The drive to free the footpaths of makeshift shops and other types of illegal occupation would begin from November in the capital. The Dhaka Metropolitan Police has been instructed to make

Upazila chairmen and vice-chairmen on Saturday gave the government until November 30 to make the upazila parishads functional, or they threatened to take to the streets. Leaders of the Bangladesh Upazila Parishad Association, Bangladesh Chairman-Vice-Chairman Oikya Parishad, Bangladesh Vice-Chairman Samanway Parishad and

After fighting for life for five days, a teenage girl yesterday died of burn injuries inflicted on her by three youths for refusing to accept love proposal of one of the youths. Aneza Akhter, 17, succumbed to her injuries at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s burn unit around 3:00pm. Seventy ... Read more

The CNG filling station owners’ association on Saturday announced to shut all filling stations and conversion workshops across the country for an indefinite period from November 1 if the government did not change its decision to keep the stations closed for six hours a day. ‘We cannot afford to continue with the six-hour suspension of ... Read more

At least 600 vehicles stranded at terminal as half of ferries go out of order Thousands of passengers remained stranded at Mawa and Kawrakandi ferry terminals for the last few days as six out of twelve ferries went out of order. At least 600 vehicles of different kinds were stuck at the terminals yesterday, said ... Read more

Police yet to find reason Three young girls of the same family suffered burns in their sleep, as miscreants poured acid on them at city’s Joynagar early yesterday. The victims Muntahar Tarin, 20, her sister Salsarin Tasnim, 16, and their cousin Sharmin Farzana, 18, sustained burn injuries to their faces and other parts of their

Extra-judicial Killing 1 every 3 days in last 9 months Says Odhikar Law enforces killed one person extra-judicially on an average in every three days during the last nine months, revealed Odhikar, a human rights organisation. A report of the body published on Friday said at least 90 people allegedly faced extra-judicial deaths across the ... Read more

Farmers these days need to use more fertiliser to produce crops as the land is losing fertilely because of deficiency in organic elements. About 40 per cent of the country’s land area has become deficient in organic elements and other soil nutrients over a decade, according to experts at the Soil Research and Development Institute

Plans to resume flight despite fear of losses Biman is likely to resume its New York flight apparently to meet the government pledge despite fears of losses again due to tough competition on the transatlantic routes, insiders say. Though the airliner carried a relatively good number of passengers last time, it counted between Tk 35-40 ... Read more

Neither Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha nor Dhaka City Corporation could make any headway in identifying or pulling down the risky structures in capital city, as the two organisations had promised to do after a number of residential and other buildings collapsed in June claiming many lives. Officials attributed the failures to absence of needed expertise and ... Read more