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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

A Dhaka court on Tuesday acquitted all three accused of the charges brought against them for molesting Shawan Akhter Badhan on the Dhaka University campus on the night of December 31, 1999. Metropolitan magistrate Mahedi Hasan Talukder pronounced the verdict in presence of the three accused—Khan Mohammad Mezbahul Haq Tutul, Chandan Kumar Ghosh alias Bhola, ... Read more

The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined a ship-breaking yard at Madambibir Hat under Sitakunda upazila of the port city Tk 15 lakh for ignoring workers’ safety and polluting environment. A team led by DoE Director (Enforcement) Munir Chowdhury fined Messrs Rahim Steel Co under Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act,

The sales of advance tickets for different railway routes started Tuesday morning at four different stations in Dhaka and Sylhet on the occasion of Eid, with people standing in long queues to collect the tickets, the Bangladesh Railway officials said. Homebound passengers rushed to the Kamalapur rail station in the early hours of

The body of an Eden College student was found at Gopalganj town on Tuesday. The deceased, Sadia Noor Mita, 22, a third year student of chemistry department, was the daughter of Liakat Hossain Mollah of Mianpara in Gopalganj. Sadar police chief Borhanuddin told journalists that several wounds were found in

About 60pc cases suffer as witnesses unwilling to testify for intimidation, hassle; govt talks of a protection act Zafrun Nahar had spent five years trying to have her son’s killers punished. But no witness showed up to testify at the trial. Frustrated that all her hard work brought nothing, she now sees no point in ... Read more

Two top state-run entities of Bangladesh and India have signed a deal in New Delhi that would immediately pave the way for joint venture for a 1320 MW thermal power project in Khulna, with scopes open for another with equal capacity in Chittagong. The Memorandum of Understanding, signed on Monday between Bangladesh

HR commission chief blames cops over criminal offence probes Police fail to get convictions in a mind-boggling 90 percent cases, the Human Rights Commission chief revealed yesterday. HRC Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman also said police exercise excess power, abuse laws and make indiscriminate arrests but they ultimately fail to prove charges they bring against the