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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

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

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

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

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

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 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

One of Australia’s top Catholic clerics on Thursday said people all over the world should take inspiration from the separation of conjoined Bangladeshi twins Trishna and Krishna. Adelaide city Archbishop Philip Wilson said the twins’ astonishing recovery from marathon surgery five weeks ago to separate their fused heads had touched people across the world, bringing ... Read more

Not only natural calamities, global warming is imposing precarious effects on human health by increasing various diseases. Experts said with the increase in the temperature vector and water borne diseases are escalating in the country. Besides, more areas are going to become submerged due to frequent flooding which will contaminate drinking water. The water would ... Read more

The Dhaka City Corporation has taken up a plan to construct tunnels at four important intersections in the capital to facilitate smooth movement of vehicles, said official sources on Sunday. The tunnels will be constructed at Shahbagh, Sheraton, Banglamotor and Sonargaon intersections which are plagued by heavy traffic, according to the decision taken at the ... Read more

There is great news for diabetics. A revolutionary technology is on its way to help them measure blood sugar levels without drawing blood daily. The diabetes patients may soon be able to wear contact lenses that will continuously alert them to changes in their blood sugar level by changing their colours. Developed by biochemical engineering ... Read more

Equipment seized Rab personnel arrested two people including an executive of Dhaka Phone Thursday night in connection with running illegal Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) business. They also seized some equipment from an office and a BTS room of Dhaka Phone in the city. Golam Mostofa and Dhaka Phone executive Russell Mahmud were placed on ... Read more

Probe body also blames inefficiency of staff; similar report on Kishoreganj tragedy The two inquiry committees, formed to investigate the recent ferry disasters in Bhola and Kishoreganj, made public their reports yesterday. The probe body on Bhola launch capsize blamed overloading and carelessness of MV Coco-4 staff for the incident. While the committee on Kishoreganj ... Read more

The first-ever survey on the Buriganga, Sitalakhya, Turag and Balu rivers flowing through Dhaka, Narayanganj, Gazipur and Munshiganj were submitted to the Supreme Court registrar on Tuesday. Over 8,000 land grabbers have occupied areas of the Buriganga, Shitalakkhya, Turag and Balu rivers around the capital, building various structures, say survey reports of four district administrations ... Read more

Justice Md Tafazzul Islam, a senior justice of the Supreme Court (SC), was appoin-ted chief justice yesterday. President Zillur Rahman gave the appointment as per article 95(1) of the Constitution, an official handout said. But he superseded senior judge of the Appellate Division Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim. Justice Tafazzul will replace the present Chief Justice ... Read more

The cabinet on Monday approved a draft bill to amend Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898 to drop the provision for court to issue warrant of arrest in defamation cases against journalists, editors, writers and publishers. According to the draft, they could only be summoned or they could be issued court notices. Chaired by Prime Minister ... Read more

Only 200 trees are left on the green forest belt developed on some 125 acres of land along the Sonaichhari coast under Sitakunda upazila in Chittagong. Massive plundering of trees in two phases within a

The government plans to stage road shows in London, New York and Singapore in early December to attract investors for several of its large power projects including 2,000-megawatt coal-fired power plants. The Power

The national committee to protect oil, gas, mineral resources, power and ports at its national convention in Dhaka on Saturday vowed to save the country’s national wealth. Politicians and academics at the