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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

UP polls  The number of voters at present in the country is 8 crore 47 lakh 47 thousand 698, which is 36 lakh 89 thousand more than the last year’s total number of voters. The number of voters in the country was 8 crore 10 lakh 58 thousand 698 during the 9th parliamentary election held ... Read more

Machine readable passports (MRPs) are set for launch on March 31 in a move to speed border clearance and improve security for travellers. “We will issue the three categories of MRPs – red for diplomats, navy blue for government officials and green for the general people starting the last day of March from the Dhaka ... Read more

The government has taken up a nine-point plan to check population boom in the country. Health and family welfare minister AFM Ruhal Haque informed the Jatiya Sangsad yesterday. The minister was replying to a scripted question of Awami League legislator Sukumar Ranjan Ghosh from the Munshiganj-2 constituency during the

For the first time, the forest department has started bird ringing and strapping satellite transmitter to migratory birds to carry out a study on them. The study will be conducted to determine if migratory birds spread avian influenza virus from one country to another. It will also be able to locate their migration

There is no natural food crisis for animals living in the Sundarbans but there are symptoms of dying up sweet water sources gradually. Besides, the trees are suffering from diseases called top dying which has been recorded officially two decades back, according to officials. The UNESCO declared the Sundarbans — 6,017 square kilometers including three ... Read more

Country would observe daylight saving time again from midnight 31 as per the decision of the cabinet by moving the clocks one hour forward. ‘The clock will again be put forward by one hour from March 31, and it will remain so until October 31, 2010. The decision was made in light of factors such ... Read more

The Bangladesh Railway (BR) has initiated an innovative service to allow its commuters to reserve train tickets 10 days in advance over their mobile phone through Grameenphone’s ‘Mobitaka’ service. ‘Mobitaka’ ticketing service was formally announced Thursday by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the ‘Digital Innovation Fair 2010’ when