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A housewife was strangled allegedly by her husband over dowry at Rasulpur of Kamrangirchar in Dhaka early Saturday. The deceased was Brishti alias Laila, wife of Delwar Hossain. She was found dead in her room of a ground-floor flat in a three-storey building about 11:00

Trip time almost doubles on heavily congested Dhaka-Ctg highway It took less than six hours to Chittagong from Dhaka by bus a few years ago but in recent times it is around 10 hours and sometimes more due to worsening congestion. Azadul Haque left for Dhaka from Chittagong around 10:30pm on a bus but the ... Read more

Number of affected rises to 270 in 4 districts Local doctors suspect 16 people were infected with anthrax in Bilgathua, a village in Kushtia on Friday raising the number of patients in four districts to 270, since it was first reported from a village in Sirajganj on august 19. Bilgathua is in Pragpur union in ... Read more

Govt taskforce decides 5pc incentive for penetrating new markets The government will provide development incentive to the garment industry for three years for exporting clothes to new markets. The incentive would be five percent on export earning in the first year, four percent in the second year and two percent in the third

Cabins reserved for VIPs, deck tickets costlier ahead of Eid As the demand for launch tickets shoots up on the eve of Eid-ul-Fitr, passengers fall prey to the trickery of launch operators and staff and are compelled to pay much higher fare to reach their destination. About a million people leave the capital by passenger ... Read more

Despite the high sounding commitments made by the government, the TCB and the apex business body FBCCI, the prices of essential commodities continued to remain high during the month of Ramzan. Meanwhile as the Holy Eid-ul-Fitr approaches the prices of spices, edible oil and other commodities recorded a higher price as surveyed in the city’s ... Read more

An overwhelming 86.7 percent of the farmers use medium to high chemical fertilizers like urea, triple super phosphate (TSP), Muriate of Potash (MP), Zinc and Sulpur for cultivation of vegetables, according to a recent study. The study revealed that farmers in the study areas mainly used urea, TSP, MP, Zinc and

Faceless criminals use cell phones, internet to harass women of all ages; law hugely inadequate to tackle the silent epidemic While conventional stalking has received much attention lately, harassment through mobile phone and the internet has grown to be a silent epidemic in the last few years, experts and victims said. The Daily Star has ... Read more

No advance bus tickets for journey outside the capital from September 6 onwards were available on Wednesday, forcing people willing to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with their family to buy tickets on the black markets. City dwellers continue crowding bus and launch terminals and the Kamlapur railway station for advance tickets and a large number of them ... Read more

Tannery shifting Govt extends deadline further The planning commission has extended by two more years the project implementation time for shifting the hazardous tannery industries outside the capital city as the second deadline set by the High Court ended on August 28. And the government failed to meet the deadline to shift the tanneries from ... Read more

The Atir Khal, once a brimming canal serving thousands on its course in the western fringe of the capital, looks doomed, as a real state developer has totally filled it up at Waaspur end. The total area filled up of the 10-kilometre-long canal measures at least two acres. The Waaspur Garden City Cooperative Society with ... Read more

Students, teacher demand continuation of govt subsidy Jagannath University will have to run by its own income from October if the Jagannath University Act is not amended. In that case, it will be the first self-funded public university in the country. However, the students and teachers of the university demand continuation of government subsidy.

In spite of the government’s claim that the ‘anthrax’ is under its control, the disease has been spreading from one district to another. At least 30 persons have been detected with anthrax virus in Tangail and Kustia districts during the last two days, weeks after the diseases affected Sirajganj and Pabna

A man, who was talking on the mobile and walking along the railway, was killed as a train hit him in the Gazipur district headquarters on Tuesday night. Another man, a garment worker, was killed in the same manner at Kaliakair in the district 18 days ago. Local people said Shahidul, a worker of the ... Read more

311 factories still without waste treatment plant; 371 have installed it but hardly use Despite making repeated commitments many of the industries, especially fabrics, dyeing and tannery processing ones, continue heinous acts of polluting rivers, canals and other wetland in the city just to boost their profit, say Department of Environment officials. There are still ... Read more

To restore 10,000 hectares coastland at Urir Char in 2 years The government will be constructing a rubber dam at Urir Char near Noakhali to reclaim around 600square kilometres of land from the Bay. The board of trustees of Climate Change Trust Fund approved the two-year-long project of Tk 37.40 crore at a meeting at ... Read more

Though it was the government’s utmost priority to ensure smooth supply of power to households and offices during the holy month of Ramzan, and the city dwellers are yet to be relieved of the power outages. The power outages were almost common during the last 20 days of Ramzan in the city and elsewhere in ... Read more

A parliamentary panel has found that a local supplier provided low-quality chairs for stadiums in Bangladesh as part of venue decoration for the 10th ICC World Cup, scheduled for February–March 2011. ‘We have compared the samples and found a portion of the products are below standard,’ the head of a two-member subcommittee of the parliamentary ... Read more

Removal of risky overhead cables by the extended yearend deadline has become uncertain as cable television operators and internet service providers in the capital find it an impossible task. Cable television operators and internet service providers called on the Dhaka City Corporation to lay out a common duct in the city to take underground such ... Read more

Three rare black-nape rabbits have been released into Bhaowal National Park, three days after they were caught by fishermen in Rajshahi. Tapan Kumar Dey, forest conservator (Wildlife and Nature Conservation Circle) of the Forest Directorate, freed them on