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The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has decided to restore lines of about half a million subscribers of four private PSTN operators whose operations were shut down for alleged links to VoIP trade. The telecom regulator formed a committee, headed by its commissioner, Aliwardy Khandakar, to

The cabinet on Monday cancelled its earlier decision to introduce Daylight Saving Time System on a permanent basis in Bangladesh considering sufferings and difficulties of different sections of professionals and people. A meeting of the cabinet with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair took the decision in

The High Court on Monday asked the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) to immediately start demolition of unauthorised billboards in the capital. The court also directed the inspector general of police (IGP) and Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) commissioner to provide police forces during removal of

The hapless victims of cyclone Aila, with the monsoon setting in shortly, say that they want to return their homesteads in Dacope and Koyra upazilas, and are badly in need of assistance for reconstruction of their houses along with employment, reports NewAgebd. ‘We don’t know how we will fare in the coming days, especially during ... Read more

4 lakh subscribers of three companies left in the lurch The BTRC will continue its investigation of illegal VoIP activities by any telephone operator or Internet service provider and shut them down, if found guilty, as it did in cases of three private landline companies and 18 ISPs recently, reports The Daily Star. Bangladesh Telecommunication ... Read more

Some 20 out of 64 district web portals of Bangladesh were hacked on Saturday. “Mission is now complete .Who will be next,” says the hacked sites’ messages. The messages read, if you need help contact me: emilindianhacker@hotmail.com. The hackers claimed that they are from India. The text on the hacked sites also reads: “Secure

The Election Commission has asked three political parties to notify the commission about the affiliation with their respective student organisations. The EC Thursday issued letters to the political parties in this regard mentioning some press reports and speech of the leaders of the Awami League, the BNP and the

The Bangladesh Telecommunications Regulatory Commission on Friday shut down all operations of the Ranks Telecom Ltd, brand-named RanksTel, for its alleged involvement in illegal voice over internet protocol business and arrested three of its top executives. The arrested officials of RanksTel, a public-switched telephone network operator, are general manager

Thirty-one Bangladeshi students secured the highest marks worldwide in 14 subjects in GCE O-level examinations and another 21 in six subjects in A-level exams in 2008-2009 academic session. Two students obtained A grade in 11 subjects in the 2009 O-level exams and three others in six subjects in the

More than 1.27 lakh out of about 7 lakh students enrolled in Class XI in the 2008–2009 academic session to take the HSC and equivalent exams of 2010 have dropped out, reports NewAgebd. Of the total 1,27,844 lakh students who dropped out, 61,796 are female, according to statistics available with the

National vitamin A plus campaign-2010 will be observed on May 29 with feeding over two crore under 5 children vitamin A capsules and de-worming tablets with a view to preventing childhood blindness, reducing child mortality and strengthening immunity. Children aged 1-5 years will be fed a high powered

The government has nominated 10 distinguished persons and an organisation for Swadhinata Puroshkar (Independence Award) 2010 in recognition of their glorious contributions to the nation. The nominated persons and organisation are AKM Samsul Haque Khan (posthumously), Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury and Belal Mohammad in the

The finance minister, AMA Muhith, on Wednesday said that the contract for the much talked about Elevated Expressway might be given by this fiscal year (2009-10). ‘One big project is ready under the Public-Private Partnership and there are also some 2-4 projects. The contract for elevated expressway may be

Everything was okay on Tuesday morning at the gate of Registrar Building of Dhaka University. Result of 4th semester examination of the Department of Islamic History was published. All students were gazing on the board to find their much awaited results. But gazing sight on the result sheet, everybody was geting quiet No celebration, no

Two men were found dead, one with the throat slit and another strangled, in the waiting room of a bus company at Arambagh in Dhaka early Tuesday. On of the deceased was Ilias Hossain alias Kanchan, 25, an employee of the bus operator Saudia S Alam, located in the Eden Complex at Arambagh. The other ... Read more

Offenders cash in on HC order that stays dismantling of rooftop hoardings Four out of every five hoardings in the capital are unauthorised, posing threat to public safety in inclement weather, says the Dhaka City Corporation, reports The Daily Star. DCC Estate Officer Khalil Ahmed told The Daily Star Tuesday that almost 80 percent of ... Read more

Elevated Expressway 9 foreign firms show interest Nine foreign investors have shown interest in the government’s plan to construct an elevated expressway in the capital, Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said yesterday. Replying to queries in parliament, he also said the government will build railways to connect Mongla and

HC asks govt also to obtain WHO report on purity The High Court yesterday directed the government to get water supplied in eight areas of the capital tested by Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution and Bangladesh Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, and submit the test reports to it within two weeks. The areas include Azimpur, ... Read more

Election commissioner M Sohul Hussain said yesterday that the election commission (EC) would announce schedule for the Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) election at mid-April and the schedule for the by-poll to Bhola-3 constituency will be announced within a day or two. “The local government ministry started the works of delimitation of DCC wards last week. ... Read more

Despite the government’s hectic diplomatic efforts, the country’s manpower export witnessed a drastic fall by 58.80 per cent in the first eight months (July-February) of the current fiscal, official sources said. Some 285,242 Bangladeshis secured overseas jobs during July-February period of the