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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

Withdrawal of 200 volunteers worsens situation Suffering of service-seekers at Mirpur BRTA has multiplied after the recent withdrawal of around 200 yellow-jersey volunteers, who used to assist 30 officials and staff at the understaffed office. Officials at the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) said work is now piling up

The Daily Star yesterday celebrated its 19th founding anniversary through a programme attended by country’s leading personalities, including ministers, politicians, academics, celebrities, businesspersons, and members of the diplomatic corps, the media and the civil

Bangla, which is the state language of Bangladesh, is still neglected in courts even 58 years after the language movement of 1952 as only one of the High Court benches conducts its procedures, including the delivery of verdicts and orders, in Bangla and English continued to be used in proceedings in

Branches of six Palash trees on the Central Shaheed Minar premises in the city have been chopped off for ensuring easy telecast of the Language Movement Day programme in the early hours of February 21. Visiting the spot yesterday afternoon, this correspondent found the six trees standing without any

Italy has donated a prime piece of land in the heart of Rome to construct a Shaheed Minar, a foreign ministry official said. ‘After a lot of effort the Italians have given us a site near our embassy to construct a permanent Shaheed Minar,’ the official in

Garments workers beat up a traffic policeman on duty at Banani Chairman Bari in Dhaka on Friday afternoon. Witnesses said the workers of Shika Garments, located at Banani, beat up constable Rafiqul Islam who allowed a car to go allegedly in exchange for bribe from the vehicle owner after the car had dashed one of ... Read more

The deprived candidates of the 27th BCS in a press conference yesterday demanded implementation of the High Court verdict over their appointment. They said in the press conference at the National Press Club that the High Court had earlier on November 11 passed an order directing to appoint the

Estimated cost Tk 13,121cr; tender for Dhaka elevated expressway next month The government is going to construct a second bridge over the Padma River in Paturia at an estimated cost of Tk 13,121 crore or $1.9 billion with private initiative and without foreign assistance. The cabinet committee on economic affairs at a meeting approved in ... Read more

CID completes probe, ready to file chargesheet The trial of the February 25-26 massacre culprits of the Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) is set to be started next week with police saying they were now ready to submit the chargesheet ahead of the first anniversary of the carnage that killed 57 army officers serving the paramilitary

Seminar told River management failure has put the capital Dhaka “on the verge of extinction” just like other ancient capitals in the area that also went extinct for similar failures. The warning was voiced by a paper presented at a seminar yesterday in celebration of 400 years of

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed the launching of a new innovative Magic Scheme in WFP supported schools with a view to promoting its feeding programme and helping students to develop positive health behaviour. The launching of the magic scheme has been made possible with the support extended by the

Princess Sirindhorn returns to Dhaka hrs earlier Thai Minister Counsellor Pannee Lickanajule, also the deputy chief of Thai Embassy in Dhaka, was killed in a road accident at Mirzapur in Tangail yesterday. As an entourage of Thai Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, Pannee was returning to Dhaka from Gaibandha. She was in a microbus of the

Machine-readable Passport, Visa Stopgap measures to meet April 1 deadline The government is desperately looking for a temporary measure to start producing machine-readable passports and machine-readable visas from April 1, deadline set by the International Civil Aviation Organisation. However, the temporary measure, whatever it may be, would deal with urgently-needed

Prime minister tells parliament Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina forewarned that earthquake could strike the capital city as the groundwater table here is going down 2-3 meters gradually due to massive withdrawal of the water. In reply to a question from Nasimul Alam Chowdhury (Comilla-8), she said the subsiding of the underground water level is causing ... Read more