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Old town chemical warehouses Govt extends relocation deadline amid pressure The government has stepped back from its rigid stand on not extending the deadline for the relocation of warehouses of inflammable and risky chemicals from Old Town of Dhaka in amid pressure from chemical traders and business groups

HC asks cops A High Court bench yesterday directed the police to immediately provide security to the daughters of Sadequr Rahman and Romana Nargis who were killed by miscreants in March at Gulshan in the capital. It asked the Officers-in-charge (OC) of Gulshan and Badda police stations to give security to Sumaiya Yasmin Bithi and ... Read more

The government is going to purchase 17 dredgers at a cost of Tk 1,949 crore for the development of the country’s river routes. Some 21,600 cubic kilometre river routes will be dredged a year under this river dredging project. A high-powered committee headed by the Prime Minister has been formed earlier to implement the

Sufferings mount for 6-hr closure Four hours had gone by and Rahman Bepari was still waiting for his turn to refill his CNG-run auto-rickshaw. Rahman, a three-wheeler driver, had been waiting at Jamuna CNG filling station at Moghbazar since 4:30pm for the resumption of operation of the station. “My total day is ruined. I won’t ... Read more

Over-speeding, faulty design and lack of maintenance of roads, weak enforcement of traffic rules are the major causes of the increasing number of fatal accidents on highways that claim scores of lives every month. Experts, the highway police chief, campaigners for road safety, victims and drivers

Production suspended for a day in 350 factories; 150 business establishments vandalised At least 350 garment factories in Savar, Ashulia and Fatulla suspended production yesterday after RMG workers clashed with police injuring over 100 people. The angry labourers damaged nearly 150 business establishments and vandalised more

A section of apparel workers’ leaders on Sunday accepted the new seven-slab wage structure with Tk 3,000 as the entry point wage, the government earlier announced for implementation from November and asked all to shun violence and join their work from

Crashes kill around 500 in 6 months The highways across the country have virtually become death traps as there are apparently no authorities to control reckless driving. The country witnessed deaths of around 500 people and injuries to many others in road accidents on the stretch of about 12,000-kilometre highways in the first half of

More than 200 injured as workers, cops clash; rubber bullets, tear gas used; factories, shops vandalised again More than 200 RMG workers and 20 policemen were injured in clashes between the two sides in Ashulia after the labourers protested a new wage hike, which they say is still too low. Meanwhile, garment workers and activists ... Read more

Three people, including Acting Secretary of Women and Children Affairs Ministry Razia Begum and BSCIC Chairman Siddiqur Rahman, were killed and one police constable was injured in a tragic road accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway this (Saturday)

Fake New Zealand Visa 8 cheated job seekers return The eight Bangladeshi jobseekers, whom an organised gang deserted in Malaysia with fake visas of New Zealand, returned home yesterday. The victims are Ruhul Amin, Abu Al-Razin, Santo Ghosh, Nesar Uddin, Abul Kashem,

The cost of telephone calls to most overseas destinations will be reduced from (today) Sunday, according to the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited. These lower call rates fixed by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission

Rampaging workers vandalise over 200 business establishments, several factories in city a day after announcement of new pay structure Several thousand garment workers yesterday rampaged through different parts of the capital and Gazipur rejecting new wage structure and demanding Tk 5,000 minimum wage

UTTARA MODEL TOWN Rajuk betrays affected people Landowners, whose land was acquired for the third phase of Uttara Model Town, accused Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha of going back on its promise of providing compensatory plots all without discriminating between the holding

BBC documentary told Although Sena Kalyan Sangstha (SKS) is a philanthropic organisation whose only duty is to ensure welfare, former army officers and their family members rarely receive any advantages from SKS, reported the BBC radio documentary “Probaho”

Lending agencies are pressing for raising the toll rates for the users of the Bangabandhu Bridge as a condition for lending $2.2 billion for the construction of a multipurpose bridge across the river Padma, communication ministry officials

BCS PRELIM TEST Mistakes in question paper confuse examinees The question paper of the 30th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary examination, held throughout the country on Friday, contained eight mistakes in one of the sets which created a lot of confusion among the examinees. After the preliminary test, examinees who obtained the B set of English

Immigration personnel at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday detained a Nigerian national with six kilograms of white powder which, they think, is heroin. He was caught around 7:00pm at gate-3 of the airport with five luggage and identified

The roads of the city’s Zigatola area were dug by Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) in December last for development of sewerage system to free the area from perennial waterlogging. Since then, people of the area have been facing serious problem in their movement

About 65% households in haor areas in the north-eastern region have no agricultural land, according a recent study. Aggregating all kinds of land, about 71% households were found effectively landless of which about 55% were absolutely landless, about 17% households were of marginal category (between 51 and