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Tilted city buildings Rajuk starts demolition as Dhaka lives in fear Amid building collapse fears gripping the city residents, the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on Monday began pulling down an unauthorised seven-storey residential complex at Begunbari, four days after it started to

The birth registration without ‘fee’ for fewer than 18 will close by the end of this month and the registrations of birth in the urban areas are lower than rural areas, sources said. The ongoing birth registration for aged people with Tk 50 as fee will also end on June 30 this year. After the ... Read more

Discussants from different quarters at a seminar yesterday demanded “absolute identity” for country’s ethnic minority groups as “Adibashi” and urged the government to avoid the term “Tribal”. They said the Adibashi people are fighting for constitutional recognition of their rights. “Otherwise, their (Indigenous people) existence will face challenges in the future,” said

Geologists warn against building high-rises on reclaimed marshy lands, say Dhaka’s declining groundwater threatens land subsidence High-rises on once marshy lands in the capital are at risk of falling over, as the groundwater level is dropping faster than ever, reports The Daily Star. It may not even need an earthquake for these multi-storey buildings to ... Read more

A parliamentary body yesterday asked the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) to take necessary steps to look into the problems of five landline operators, whose licences were scrapped last month. The parliamentary committee will sit with the telecom operators in a day or two to discuss the

Facebook reopened in Bangladesh on Saturday night after being closed for one week. The government last night lifted the weeklong ban on Facebook, a social networking website. Masud Kabir, managing director of Mango Telecom Services, one of the Internet gateways handlers, said, “We opened Facebook to the users at 11:40pm following a

Editors of 27 national dailies, weeklies, news agencies and periodicals in a joint statement on Saturday demanded immediate withdrawal of the order cancelling the declaration of the daily Amar Desh and release of its acting editor Mahmudur Rahman. ‘Cancellation of the declaration of the daily Amar Desh and arrest of its acting editor Mahmudur Rahman

117 bodies recovered, families to be given compensation The nation mourns the dead today as the death toll from Thursday’s fire in eight buildings in Old Town of Dhaka increased to 117 till Friday evening, casting a pall of gloom everywhere. The air had weighed heavy over Old Town, a closely woven society, since the ... Read more

Encroachers and polluters are damaging the country’s ecosystems, from forests and freshwater sources to mangroves and wetlands, by exploiting lack of political will, flaws in the environmental laws and lack of enforcement of legal provisions, said experts, reports NewAge. They stressed the need to forge an all-out movement to compel the government to revise the ... Read more

National flag will fly at half-mast today as Bangladesh continued mourning those who died in the devastating fire in the Old Town of Dhaka on Thursday night. The government announced National Mourning Day today for the victims of the Nimtali blaze and Begunbari building collapse. Special prayers will be offered at mosques and other places ... Read more

The natural surrounding of the port city is under threat due to industrial pollution, rampant hill cutting, tree felling, discharge of clinical, industrial and household wastes and absence of drainage and sewerage system here, reports The Independent.  Oil and poisonous chemicals are freely discharged into Karnaphuli river, thus polluting the water of the

The government has taken an initiative to make a safari park in the Gazipur Sal forest aiming to save it from encroachment. Around 4000 acres of land of the forest have been designated for the safari park named after Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, said State Minister for Environment and Forest Hasan Mahmud

Access to social networking site Facebook will be unblocked ‘as early as possible’ for users in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Telecommuni-cations Regulatory Commission officials said on Thursday. The authorities, however, could not confirm the date when the site would be unblocked. ‘The networking site will be unblocked as early as possible after the taking offensive and sensitive

The Public Service Commission on Thursday published results of the 28th Bangladesh Civil Service examinations in which 2,190 candidates have been recommended for various cadres, commission officials said. The results, posted on the PSC web site (www.bpsc.gov.bd), will not be available with the PSC or

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday launched the much-desired Machine Readable Passport (MRP) and Machine Readable Visa (MRV) taking the country a step forward towards Digital Bangladesh. “From today we have entered into the digital era and the country’s passport and visa system has been raised to international standard with the introduction of MRP and MRV,” ... Read more

The students passed this year’s SSC or equivalent examinations will be admitted to the colleges based on their results. No admission test will be held this year but GPA-5 achievers will get priority. The government yesterday published a policy for admission in 2010-2011 academic session. The policy has fixed the price of admission forms at ... Read more

Campaigns for Chittagong City Corporation election, scheduled on June 17, got a full swing momentum with allocation of electoral symbols among candidates for the mayor and ward councilor posts by the election office on Wednesday. The district election office sources said they allocated the symbol of ‘ship’ to the Citizen

The High Court on Tuesday warned the government saying that it would show zero tolerance towards death in custody. The bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Md Delwar Hossain asked former law minister Abdul Matin Khasru, also a ruling Awami League lawmaker, and additional attorney

“Many of Bangladeshis desire to conquer the Everest. Amid them I could make it. It is a matter of happiness and pride for me as well as for the country” is how Ibrahim Musa, the first Bangladeshi to scale the Mount Everest, sought to share his pleasure with the reporters after landing at Hazrat Shahzalal ... Read more

A total of eight candidates have been vying for the mayoral post of Chittagong City Corporation, 249 for ward councilor and 59 for councilor posts reserved for women in the election scheduled on June 17. Sources at the district election office said five candidates for the post of mayor, 54 for ward councilor and seven ... Read more