South Korea is expected to recruit 4,000 Bangladeshi workers, as economy of the giant Asian country is coming out of recession, said Ambassador Suk Bum Park while talking to some journalists in the city on Thursday, reports The News Today According to the Korea Development Institute (KDI), the growth of outlook for 2010 topped a ... Read more
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Malaysian firm gets MRP job
Purchase body okays bid; project to be delayed by 2 months The cabinet committee on government purchase yesterday gave final approval to awarding the machine-readable passport and visa project to Malaysia-based IRIS Corporation Berhad with just two and a half months’ time to meet an international deadline for introduction of
More chiller on way as mercury dips to 3yr low
As another cold wave grips most parts of the country, the lowest winter temperature in three years was recorded yesterday in Srimangal. The Met Office recorded a low of five degrees, which was just one degree higher than the previous record set in 2007, also in Srimangal. Assistant Meteorologist at the Met Office Md Shahidul ... Read more
Oust land grabbers
Minister asks developers’ association, questions their sources of money, slates filling up of water bodies State Minister for Housing Abdul Mannan Khan yesterday came down hard on land developers and realtors, and asked them to rid their associations of the land grabbers. “You say you have invested over Tk 70,000 crore in the housing sector. ... Read more
Big blaze at BRDB Bhaban in city
The Bangladesh Rural Development Board Bhaban went up in flames yesterday burning into ashes the storeroom in its basement in capital’s Karwan Bazar. Seven fire fighting units rushed to the spot and managed to douse the fire two hours after the incident around 4:00pm. The firemen also rescued three people who were trapped on the ... Read more
Buriganga still a garbage dump
Whither river cleaning drive? Though the government has initiated a drive to clean the Buriganga river, people living on its banks opine that the drive would be futile unless the practice of dumping waste materials into the river is stopped. The local people told The Independent yesterday that the government should take strong steps against ... Read more
Work hard to save people in distress
Centenarian Binod Bihari calls upon youths Binod Bihari Chowdhury, the anti-British movement veteran who stepped on the 100th year of his life yesterday, called upon the young generation to become brave hearted and work for the distressed countrymen overcoming cowardice, weakness and selfishness. “Courage is divine while cowardice and weakness are nothing but sin,” he ... Read more
Unapproved plots, flats sold in REHAB Fair
Many land development projects having no approval of Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha and even some projects earlier cancelled by the city development authorities were up for sales in the REHAB Fair in defiance of the Private Housing Project Land Development Rules 2004. The state minister for housing and public works, Abdul Mannan Khan, on Tuesday inaugurated ... Read more
Bangladeshi worker to be hanged for murdering girlfriend
SINGAPORE: Singapore’s High Court sentenced to death on Friday a Bangladeshi construction worker involved in a love triangle with an Indonesian maid for murdering the woman more than two years ago. Kamrul Hasan Abdul Quddus, 35, was found guilty of strangling his girlfriend, Indonesian maid Yulia Afriyanti, 25, on December 16, 2007. “The prosecution has ... Read more
Smart card of expat workers within a month
A parliamentary watchdog Tuesday said that the ‘smart card’ containing computer chip with upgraded database network of all expatriate Bangladeshi workers would be provided within next one month, reports UNB. The parliamentary standing committee on Expatriate Welfare and Overseas Employment Ministry at a meeting at Sangsad Bhaban said that card would be given for reducing ... Read more
Malaysian firm grabs passport project
The government will issue work order to the IRIS Corporation Berhad of Malaysia, the lowest bidder, for supplying machine-readable passports (MRP) and machine-readable visas (MRV) in the country. A total of 30 lakh MRPs and 1 lakh MRV will be collected from the Malaysian company during the next five years. The authorities concerned will issue ... Read more
KPM faces fund crunch as Tk 2cr papers lie unsold
Uncertainty looms over payment of salaries, debts Authority of the Karnaphuli Paper Mills, an industrial unit of the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation, is suffering an acute fund constraint as papers worth around Tk 2 crore lies unsold, said sources in the KPM. Uncertainty looms over payment of salaries and allowances to its workers and employees ... Read more
RAJUK stops approving designs above 10 floors
Construction cos fear big losses, worried over investment From The Financial Express The authorities have stopped approving designs of buildings with more than 10 floors in Dhaka, triggering outcry from the real estate developers and virtually halting vertical rise of the city. The capital development authority, better known as Rajuk, has not explained its position, ... Read more
Govt allots 3,116 Purbachal-Uttara plots
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) on Wednesday announced the names of 3,116 plot winners of the fourth phase lotteries for Purbachal New Town Project and Uttara Model Town Project. The plots were allotted among the winners in six categories — minister-deputy minister-state minister-MP and people enjoying same status, government job holders, people serving at different autonomous ... Read more
Nearly 25 Mln People in Bangladesh Have Access to Internet
An estimated 25 million people in Bangladesh have now access to the internet on sharing basis, country’s Science and Information and Communication Ministry said Thursday. Speaking at a press conference Thursday, Secretary of Bangladesh ‘s Science and Information and Communication Technology Ministry AKM Abdul Awal Mojumder said the country’s six mobile operators and Internet Service ... Read more
Hybrid fishes a threat to local species in Tangail
The indigenous fish species in Tangail are under a big threat due to their indiscriminate catching and rapid increase in farming and marketing of the hybrid ones. Besides, all varieties of local fish are also on the decline in all the twelve upazilas of the district because of drastic fall in waters of the rivers, ... Read more
Hybrid fishes a threat to local species in Tangail
The indigenous fish species in Tangail are under a big threat due to their indiscriminate catching and rapid increase in farming and marketing of the hybrid ones. Besides, all varieties of local fish are also on the decline in all the twelve upazilas of the district because of drastic fall in waters of the rivers, ... Read more
Country gets back to standard time Dec 31
Clocks will be adjusted backward by an hour at 11:59pm on December 31, the cabinet decided on Thursday. The prime minister’s press secretary Abul Kalam Azad told reporters after the cabinet meeting that the government had also decided to introduce daylight saving time on an annual basis. The cabinet decided that clocks would be adjusted ... Read more
Govt Schools Admission tests start in city
Admission tests in the city’s government schools began yesterday. The tests in schools under Group-A were held in two shifts, from 11:00am to 1:00pm and from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. Exams for class I to class IV were taken in the first shift and class V to class IX in the second shift. The schools under ... Read more
Christmas today
Christmas Day, the greatest religious festival of the Christian community, will be celebrated in the country today as elsewhere in the world with due solemnity and traditional enthusiasm in commemoration of the birth of Jesus Christ. To mark the day, the Christian community will offer special prayers in different churches throughout the country. The day ... Read more