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A reckless bus knocked down and killed an unidentified woman in the city’s Karwanbazar area on Tuesday afternoon. The police quoting witnesses said the Gulistan-bound mini-bus hit the woman aged about 40 in front of La Vinci Hotel when she was crossing the road at around 12:30pm, leaving her critically

Gas production from offshore Sangu field was suspended on Tuesday evening after faults were detected in its platform in the Bay of Bengal, dealing the country’s gas production another blow after the suspension of gas extraction from Bangura field on June 7. Petrobangla chairman Hossain Mansur told New Age on Tuesday evening that gas supply ... Read more

Ctg city polls campaign ends tonight; army deployed Army personnel were deployed in Chittagong City Corporation area yesterday alongside other law enforcement agencies to improve law and order and ensure enforcement of the electoral code of conduct. Contestants of the CCC polls continued vigorous campaigns as time for electioneering ends at

There are 80 countries with blood donation rates that are too low, and 79 of them are in developing countries, the World Health Organization says. On Friday, World Blood Donor Day, the UN health agency said people worldwide make 93 million

Disconnection drives hindered The Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority has failed to realize outstanding bills amounting to more than Tk 200 crore as most of the defaulters are influential people or backed by influential politicians, sources said. The commercial manager of Dhaka WASA, Uttam Kumar Roy, said of the long accumulated

Millions of viewers across the country could not watch the inauguration of the FIFA World Cup and the first match between hosts South Africa and Mexico on Friday because of frequent power outages. People at Hatiya in Noakhali vandalised a small power plant of the Power Development Board on Friday night after they had failed ... Read more

Reckless Driving Govt mulls speed monitoring device Finds controlling device difficult to install in vehicles within June 30 deadline of HC The government is finally moving to install speed monitoring devices in all motor vehicles in the country, instead of speed governor seals, with the High Court’s permission, reports The Daily Star. The HC on ... Read more

At least 13 people, including six schoolgirls, drowned and three others went missing after a trawler capsized in a Shailpara haor at Dharmapasha in Sunamganj Tuesday morning. Paikurati union council chairman Rehanuddin said rescuers in the evening were still searching three schoolgirls who had been

Country’s maiden liver transplantation performed A team of Bangladeshi surgeons led by Prof Mohammad Ali has conducted the first successful liver transplantation in the country at Birdem Hospital Thursday. Prof Ali is the department head of Hepato Biliary and Pancreatic Surgery of Birdem Hospital. A group of Indian surgeons also assisted the team during the

The Bangladesh Observer, the oldest English daily in the country, has officially been shut down from yesterday following the decision of the daily’s owners. Earlier, before announcing the closure of the newspaper, the owners of the daily handed over a cheque for Tk 10 crore to the employees as per an agreement signed

Factories, chemical stores housed in cramped residential buildings More than 60 per cent of nearly two lakh small factories operating without permission caused 219 fire incidents in the Old Town of Dhaka in the last couple of years killing 220 people, an official of the Fire Service and Civil Defence said on

Nimtoli tragedy transforms burn unit of DMCH into delectably different Whereas Dhaka Medical College Hospital earned a bad name for mismanagement and malpractice on its service delivery, the Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit of the hospital concentrated its effort on providing dependable medicare to

Bangladesh has vast opportunity to earn huge foreign currency from tourism sector like today’s garments sector by using its geographical location and natural beauties. But the governments of the country so far did not give full concentration to flourish the sector. Tourism expert and managing director of Tour Guide Ltd, a leading tour operating company ... Read more

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