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Structures on Shitalakkhya HC rejects City Group’s petition The High Court yesterday summarily rejected a writ petition challenging a government notice that asked the authorities of the City Group of Industries to remove their structures, including three jetties, from the river Shitalakkhya. Following the HC order, now there remains no bar in demolishing jetties and ... Read more

The ban imposed by the UK on student visa application will be lifted “as soon as possible””, a British council director said Tuesday, after announcing the schedule of annual UK exhibition in Bangladesh. “This suspension will come to an end as soon as possible. The door would be wide open and we

BDR Mutiny Around 800 to be charged with BDR carnage CID to submit charge sheet soon; first mutiny trial in Pilkhana starts today Criminal Investigation Department is all set to submit a charge sheet in the BDR carnage case, accusing around 800 border guards of murder, looting, arson and hiding bodies in

Non-functioning of the CHT Land Commission, designed to settle longstanding disputes over land ownership in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, is mainly responsible for the recurrence of ethnic violence in the once conflict-ridden south-eastern hills, said ethnic leaders and

The cabinet on Monday approved the draft of ‘Climate Change Trust Fund Act, 2010’ to create a permanent fund for ‘protecting lives and property of the people from adverse effects of climate change’. The environment and forests ministry placed the draft in the weekly meeting of the cabinet at

The Supreme Court authorities have taken administrative reforms programme to bring back discipline and improve the overall environment of court activities, and infuse dynamism in dispensing justice. Along with the administrative reforms, the authorities are also carrying out cleanliness

Union Parishad Polls EC against redrawing of ward boundaries Decides to ask govt for amendment to act, avoid delay in holding polls in May-July The Election Commission has decided to ask the government to amend the union parishad act to avert possible ‘social disorder’ due to redemarcation of the parishad wards maintaining no more than10 ... Read more

Peak summer is still far away, but load shedding has already crossed 1000 MW in the country, an ominous sign that more sufferings are in store for the electricity consumers in the coming days. The consumers in and outside the capital city are experiencing frequent power cuts, no

Beacon Pharmaceuticals Limited yesterday launched a few anti-cancer drugs, first of its kind in Bangladesh. Beacon Managing Director Mohammad Ebadul Karim said, “Beacon Pharmaceuticals is the first to produce anti-cancer drugs in the country. The drugs with

BSS, New Delhi: South Asian nations including India will not be able to eradicate poverty and ensure minimum education for all by 2015, according to a new poverty index released here today. The Basic Capabilities Index (BCI), 2009 has found that South Asia will get 80 points on the index by 2015, 10 points higher ... Read more

2 ethnic people die in army firing, Bangalee settlers torch 200 houses At least two indigenous persons were claimed by the authorities to have been killed as the army opened fire on agitated indigenous people feuding with settlers in remote Gangaram Mukh area of Baghaichhari upazila in the

The government plans to outsource lower-grade jobs and make the position of assistant officers, who should have a minimum graduation and computer literacy, the lowest rank in civil service. The draft of the civil service act 2010 proposes that general services should be outsourced to

Around 240 children die every day in the country because of malnutrition while around 110 babies die for not giving breast milk within one hour of birth, paediatric specialists and nutritionists said. Khurshid Talukder, paediatrician and research coordinator of Centre for Women and Child

Shaheed Minar, the memorial of the historic Language Movement of 1952, has been incorporated into the UN website for the first time on the occasion of International Mother Language Day. The website was launched in New York on Friday. The International Mother Language Day website

Hands over Ekushey Padak 2010 Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday urged people of all strata to help build Bangladesh as a knowledge-based, liberal and non-communal country free from prejudices being imbued with the spirit of the great language movement. She also called upon the country’s artists, poets, writers and other intellectuals to

Fake licences claiming lives on streets How much does it cost to buy a license to kill in Bangladesh? Apparently about Tk seven thousand – the amount needed to obtain a driving license in a country where people are rarely punished for killing on the roads. “I had never been in the drivers’ seat of ... Read more

The open market sales (OMS) of rice have not yet contributed in lowering rice prices due to inadequate supply of rice in the areas where mostly the low-income people live. In the wake of rising rice prices, the Department of Food on January 20 started selling rice at Tk 22 a kilogram under the OMS ... Read more

A European Union Food and Veterinary Office (EU FVO) team that visited the country’s fish and animal feed and hatchery projects last month, expressed its dissatisfaction over compliance of rules relating to quality control and reliability of laboratory test

In a bid to reduce the acute accommodation crisis of low and middle income groups of people in the capital city the government will construct 1,020 flats at Block-F at Mohammadpur. Some 17 buildings, each of them 16-storied, will be constructed on 5.51 acres of land for

The government yesterday signed a MoU (memorandum of understanding) with the Indian government with a provision of unlimited import of power from the Indian private sector. According to MoU, Bangladesh will import 250 megawatt (MW) of power at government level while