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Govt apparently knows nothing about 21 absconding criminals The home affairs minister, Sahara Khatun, revealed in the Parliament an updated list of the country’s 42 top criminals who are believed to have fled abroad. Sahara, answering a question from Hafiz Uddin Ahmed of the Jatiya Party, said that there is a list of 42 top

Illegal VoIP business A Dhaka court yesterday sent five top officials, including chairman of a private land phone operator Dhaka Phone, to jail, hours after their arrest on a charge of running illegal Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business. Police produced company chairman ATM Hayatuzzaman, director general (engineering) Harun-al-Atahar, director KM Shahidullah, senior

NEW DELHI, Mar 15: The visiting Bangladesh Chief of Army Staff General Mohammad Abdul Mubeen began his official engagements here Monday by placing a wreath at the Aamar Jawan Jyoti (AJJ) at the India Gate, in memory of the members of the soldiers who laid down their lives during India’s

A Brahmanbaria court yesterday granted bail to the managing director of Rid Pharmaceuticals Ltd in a case filed for manufacturing adulterated paracetamol syrup that caused the deaths of 28 children last year. District and Sessions Judge AFM Mustafa passed the order after the counsel for the Rid Pharma

Unplanned and unauthorised construction of hotels and motels in Cox’s Bazar town and adjoining areas have blurred the beauty of the world’s largest sea beach. Mayor and local administration, two main custodians of the 105-km long natural beach, said the beach town has 400 hotels, motels, resorts and guest houses, but only

The 16th summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) will be held in Bhutan on April 28-29 this year. Leaders of the eight-nation group will focus on climate issues at the summit, an apparent regional follow-up of the United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference in

Fire at different places of Madhupur forests in Tangail district is wreaking havoc on forest resources including its biodiversity for the last five days. Local said the fire has already damaged about 300 acres of the forest. The forest department sources, however, could not say anything specific about the damage

Gas and water are leaping up to 150 feet above the ground following explosion of a deep tube-well at Barabakail village under Majlishpur upazila of the district early Friday. As the tube-well at Shahjahan Mia’s home near Location 3 of Titas Gas Field suddenly exploded early Friday, gas and water started coming out with

BTRC and Rab personnel early today picked up five high-ups of Dhaka Phone, a private land-line phone company, on charge of running illegal VoIP business in the capital’s Banani. The joint drive, led by BTRC Senior Assistant Director Zian Shah Kabir, was conducted at the

The government will distribute corrugated iron sheets for housing 48,000 ‘Aila’-hit homeless families in the 11 southern coastal districts. A tender has been floated for the purpose and an amount of Tk. 96 crore will be provided from the current budget, food and disaster management ministry

The government has decided to issue ”emergency passports” as an interim measure till machine readable passports and visas -MRP and MRV respectively-are introduced fully, reports bdnews24.com. “Since it is taking a long time provisional, we will issue passports for urgent cases in the meantime,” said Md Abdul Mabud, director general of the

Mar 12: Work for the installation of 333-km pipeline in Rajshahi for the supply of gas is expected to be completed by 2011. But there has been an uncertainty about the availability of gas through the pipeline in view of shortage of production of gas in the country. The four-party alliance government with the financial ... Read more

Goes for survey, plans rehabilitation in 5 years The government has initiated a programme to make the country beggar free within five years, by rehabilitating beggars through employment and other incentives, reports The daily Star. A core committee for the Beggar Rehabilitation Programme under the social welfare ministry was formed early this month with Gazi ... Read more

Foreign Minister Dipu Moni yesterday said Qatar would soon recruit more skilled and semi-skilled manpower from Bangladesh. “We have discussed recruitment of human resources from Bangladesh. Qatar assured us of employing more semi-skilled and skilled manpower,” Dipu Moni told reporters after her meeting with visiting Qatar

The government allocated Tk 267 crore for implementing 20 approved projects meant for tackling impacts the global climate change on life and livelihood and the ecology of the country. A meeting of the high-profile Trusty Board on Climate Change Thursday made the allocation for the government-approved climate

Tender for the $2.4 billion Padma Multi-purpose Bridge are likely to be invited late this month or in early April, sources in the Economic Relations Division said. The communications ministry in cooperation with a donor group led by the World Bank almost completed chalking out bidders’ pre-qualification criteria for building the

11 illegal structures demolished Narayanganj district administration along with Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority yesterday demolished illegal structures on river Shitalakhya under Sonargaon upazila. They knocked down a total of 11 structures including two one-storey buildings, one semi-concrete structure, a jetty, two pier stairs and four

Around 80,000 unfit cars are plying the streets of Dhaka city in violation of the set laws and have been causing severe traffic congestion and environmental hazards, reports BSS. The BRTA [Bangladesh Road Transport Authority] are running only two mobile courts led by two executive magistrates to take actions against the huge unfit transports,

Bangladesh is going to host a regional conference on climate change in May or June in Dhaka as part of the road to the next Conference of Parties (COP16). The European Union has proposed to sponsor the conference, State Minister for Environment and Forests Hasan Mahmud said this yesterday while talking to the

Bangladesh, one of the few countries on the planet where both the ruling and main opposition parties are headed by women, surpasses its neighbour India when it comes to participation of the fair sex in politics. Bangladesh is ranked 67th with 18.3 per cent female participation in national politics, according to the data revealed by ... Read more