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Campus on own land, sufficient reserved funds made mandatory Parliament on Sunday passed a bill to streamline the private-run universities. The House approved the bill on voice vote as the opposition BNP-led alliance lawmakers continued to abstain saying they were not allowed to speak. They said that they would return to parliament if proper atmosphere ... Read more

The Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) yesterday directed the concerned authorities to nail those making ‘nude’ cinema and selling pornographic CDs and other such audio-visual material which poses a threat to the society and its social mores. A letter to this effect has been sent to the secretaries of the ministries of the telecommunications. The PMO ... Read more

The Appellate Division on Sunday upheld the High Court’s verdict that had declared the cancellation of the first result of the 27th BCS examinations to be legal. The full court of all six Appellate Division judges, chaired by Chief Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, delivered the judgement, rejecting a petition filed, seeking permission to appeal against ... Read more

Harassment by street beggars in Dhaka City is going on unabated despite there being the law for the police to stop them. The car users at Gulshan and Dhanmondi are their special targets. At every important traffic light point professional beggars coming from slums to be found in the every residential area in the capital ... Read more

World Population Day today  Over 2 million new faces adding up every year to the total population in Bangladesh which is frustrating all development efforts, family welfare minister AFM Ruhal Haque has said. The population has doubled within 39 years of independence, which is alarming for the densely populated poor

Over six months after Bangladeshi-born conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna were separated through a marathon surgery, their mother has finally succeeded to have a long cherished reunion with her daughters in Australia. The father Kartik Mallick, who lives in Khulna, said yesterday that his wife Lovely Mallick reached Australia on July 7

The existing unplanned fish inbreeding may cause a genetic deterioration into the aquaculture production and open water fisheries resources in terms of hatchery stock breed seeds in floodplain and other open waters. “Unconscious negative selection of brood-stock, mating of female and male spawns from a finite population and

Environmentalists urge govt Environmentalists yesterday urged the government to implement the detailed area plan (DAP) of Dhaka city immediately and recover wetlands from land grabbers. Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan (BAPA), a platform of environmentalists, at a rally in front of the Jatiya Press Club

Custodial Deaths, Crossfire Home mum, HR commission vocal The National Human Rights Commission yesterday decided that dealing with extrajudicial killings and custodial deaths will be its top priority. The same day the parliamentary standing committee on the home ministry however glossed over the issue, which has

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the High Court verdict that had declared illegal the imposition of Value Added Tax on patients in hospital and clinics. The bench of five-member Appellate Division judges, chaired by chief justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim, dismissed the

The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) yesterday announced a Tk 2171.34 crore budget proposals for FY 2010-11 without raising the rate of holding tax. The outlay is around 54 per cent up from the FY 2009-10 original budget proposal. The country’s premier city corporation also approved the revised budget of Tk 970.56 crore for FY 2009-10

Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) in Scotland launched “Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health” in a ceremony attended by academics and the elite of Glasgow on July 5. The centre has been established by GCU to carry out action research to find solutions to social problems, including the critical issue of access to microcredit and ... Read more

800 passengers drowned in a single accident on July 8, 2003 Speakers at a discussion meeting demanded that July 8 be declared the Safe Waterway Day to commemorate the 800 passengers of MV Nasreen who drowned to death after it capsized in the confluence of Padma and Meghna on this day in 2003. Negligence, incompetence, ... Read more

The cabinet committee on purchase yesterday approved a proposal of the communication ministry to introduce online collection of vehicle taxes and fees with a view to checking corruption and increasing revenue by Tk 100 crore every year. The approval was given at a meeting of the committee held at the cabinet division with finance minister ... Read more

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) yesterday expressed deep concern over custodial deaths and missing of a few citizens in recent times. NHRC Chairman Prof Mizanur Rahman was talking to reporters after a meeting with law, justice and parliamentary affairs minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed at his secretariat

The government decided on Wednesday to tighten registration of cell phone Subscriber Identity Module and prohibit its sale to the youths under 18 to curb growing crimes using cell phones, home minister Sahara Khatun said. ‘We are framing a policy to curb the crimes and misuse of cell phones,’ she told reporters after an inter-ministerial

Preserving historic sites relating to Independence War  Exactly one year after the High Court issued directives to the Government to preserve and maintain historic sites relating to Bangladesh’s war of Independence, the court yesterday released a copy of the historic verdict. The judgement directs the preservation and maintenance of all important historical places, including killing ... Read more

Labour, Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minister Eng. Khandker Mosharraf Hossain said yesterday that the government might announce the revised minimum wage structure for the readymade garment (RMG) workers on July 28. The Labour Minister also hinted that the new wage structure would be implemented before Eid-ul-Fitre.  “The wage structure review committee, formed by the government, ... Read more

July 7: Chittagong has been experiencing an acute crisis of coins of the denomination of one and two taka of late. As a result of this, shop owners and bus conductors are giving chocolates instead of coins to the buyers as well as passengers. When asked about the problem, a number of shop owners admitted ... Read more

Ecnec okays Tk 1,852cr project for Dohazari-Gundhum rail line The government is going to construct a rail line from Dohazari in Chittagong to Gundhum in Myanmar via Cox’s Bazar to establish link with the proposed Trans-Asia Railway corridor. The Executive Committee of National Economic Council (Ecnec) meeting chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina