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All preparations have been completed for the budget session of the ninth parliament beginning this (Wednesday) afternoon. Amid boycotting by the BNP-led opposition in the House proceedings, the first day of the session will start at 5pm, with the Jatiya Sangsad (JS) Speaker Advocate Abdul Hamid in the

The cabinet yesterday approved the National Education Policy 2010 which extended the level of free primary education from class V to class VIII. Thousands of poor students are likely to benefit from this. In another major move the level of secondary education has been raised from class IX to class XII. A terminal examination will ... Read more

Jatiya Sangsad will introduce digital technology on a limited scale to run its proceedings from the budget session beginning Wednesday, reports NewAge. Allocation of time for lawmakers will be displayed on giant television screens, to be set up inside the chamber; the microphone will go automatically switched off once their time is over for certain

Jamaat and eight other minor parties agreed to back out from the Chittagong City Corporation elections, scheduled to be held on June 17, in a bid to unitedly support the BNP-backed mayoral candidate, Monjurul Alam Monju. This was announced on Monday at a joint press briefing held at the Chittagong Press Club by the

Growing landlessness in Bangladesh is undermining its efforts for steady progress in poverty elimination, experts said after a public survey revealed that majority poor people cited landlessness as the main reason for their extreme poverty, NewAge Quoted. Some 60 per cent of the country’s 40 per cent poor people who are living down the poverty ... Read more

The ruling Awami League-backed mayoral candidate in the Chittagong City Corporation elections, ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury, and the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-backed candidate, M Manjur Alam Manju, formally began their electoral campaign from the Shah Amanat Shrine on Friday. Former mayor Mohiuddin began the campaign after saying jumma prayer at the shrine, and was

Driver escapes; angry students torch buses; barricades road for 4 hours A Buet student was killed by a callously driven bus at Azimpur of the capital, triggering violent student protests that halted traffic on city streets for hours yesterday. The victim’s head was crushed under a wheel of the bus. During the angry outburst against ... Read more

Construction of the much-hyped 27-kilometre underground metro rail project in Dhaka is likely to begin May 2011. And if the government accepts the Japanese donor agency’s proposals, the first phase of the rail project can be completed as early as 2013, according to a Bangladeshi

Despite various initiatives water-logging still causes immense sufferings to the residents of the port city in most of the areas especially during the rainy reason. The dwellers of low-lying Bakalia, Chaktai, Chawkbazar, Bahaddarhat and Khatoonganj areas are the worst sufferers of this problem. Even after  moderate  shower, rainwater inundates all the

China Tibet Mountaineering Assoc hands Musa certificate for conquering Everest Musa Ibrahim is now officially listed as the first ever Everest conqueror from Bangladesh. “This is to certify that on 23 May, 6:50 am, Md Musa Ibrahim climbed the peak of Everest, Chomolungma of Mount Everest” is written on Musa’s certificate. China Tibet Mountaineering Association ... Read more

The city development authorities, the Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha, will invite applications from the public in August to allot some 1,000 residential plots under the Jhilmil housing project in Keraniganj on the outskirts of Dhaka. ‘We will invite applications in July or August from the people who want to purchase plots at the

Wasa finally initiates pilot project to up falling water level in Dhaka After over two decades of groundwater level decline, Dhaka Wasa will at last start recharging the aquifers of the capital this monsoon, to save the city from a looming scarcity of supply water, and subsidence of the ground surface, reports The Daily Star. ... Read more

The High Court on Sunday ordered law enforcers not to requisition private vehicles except in the public interest. Issuing a 5-point interim directive to the government, the bench of Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Md Delwar Hossain asked the former to explain in two weeks why Section 103A of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police Ordinance ... Read more

CCC POLLS Move to tame rebels in BNP, AL The high commands of both the ruling Awami League and major opposition BNP have taken moves to tame the rebels of the splinter factions in Chittagong to patch up the long standing intra-party feuds ahead of the June 17 election of Chittagong City Corporation, political insiders

Anxious wait for official confirmation on first-ever feat of a Bangladeshi Musa Ibrahim has scaled Mount Everest as the first Bangladeshi, said friends and family of the mountaineer. He reached the summit at 6:00am Bangladesh time yesterday, Musa’s wife Sorabon Tahura Rimi told The Daily Star. She was citing an e-mail sent by the manager ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday formally inaugurated Shaheed Ahsanullah Master Flyover on the southern side of Tongi Rail Station. The three-lane flyover, constructed at a cost of Tk 23.75 crore, was named after former lawmaker Ahsanullah Master who was killed by terrorists in

Bangladesh witnessed a sizzling growth of its tele-density by 146 percent in the past four months with addition of nearly four million mobile phone subscribers since January this year, officials and operators said here today. Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) officials said 3.93 million new

30 hurt; cops fire shots to tame fans of Brazil, Argentina A clash between football fans of Brazil and Argentina at two villages in Bera upazila of Pabna left 30 people, including five policemen, injured yesterday morning. Police and locals said the clash between the residents of Sheikhpara and Dakshinpara started

At least five lakh mobile sets out of about 45 lakh are entering the country every month in an illegal way due to imposition of more tax on import of mobile phone sets. Mobile Phone Importers Association leaked out the information at a pre-budget discussion at the spectra convention centre in the city on

Dhaka, Moscow sign agreement Bangladesh and Russia signed yesterday a five-year “Framework Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of the Use of Nuclear Energy for Peaceful Purposes” having the way for the establishment of nuclear power plants to meet the growing power needs of the country. In a press release, the foreign ministry said that ... Read more