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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 But he superseded senior judge of the Appellate Division Justice Mohammad Fazlul Karim.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

Environmentalist groups held different programmes yesterday demanding to free Buriganga river and other canals from grabbers and pollution and to cut green house gases and to ensure compensation to the people

BAPEX, the country’s lone gas and oil exploration company, found five more highly prospective areas in onshore. To add fresh reserve by 2010, Bapex is now set to start long awaiting exploration work in onshore areas

Pakistan said yesterday it had captured Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsud’s hometown as the US demonstrated its support for the war on the Islamists with an air strike that killed 14 people. “Security forces took

UN inspectors will enter Iran’s controversial second uranium enrichment plant today, two days after Tehran postponed its response to a UN deal on supplying the Islamic republic with nuclear fuel. Media said the team

A section of businessmen backed by some powerful ruling party men have mounted severe pressure on the Power Development Board (PDB) to award them various power contracts by “all means”, which the authorities

Myanmar is disappointed as Bangladesh decided to take the maritime boundary delimitation issue to arbitration at the United Nations instead of finding a negotiated settlement, but ruled out any military move over

Nobel-laureate Prof Muhammad Yunus suggested that world leaders now get down to redesigning the global financial system as it crumbled in 2008 amid economic recession. “The global financial crisis offers world

Owners of CNG-run auto-rickshaws in the capital are putting pressure on the government to double the current fare structure, which, if implemented, ultimately will spell disaster for commuters. People, especially in the

Seven-year-old girl Moni Akter of Badda had to meet her tragic doom only for a pair of gold earring. Moni, a student of class I and daughter of tea vendor Sonu Miah of Nayanagar under Badda Police Station, was

The self-confessed serial killer Roshu Kha’s bid to commit suicide in his toilet was foiled on Thursday night, said police sources. Sub Inspector of Sadar Model Thana and IO of victim Kohinoor, Abdur Rahim told this

HE’S young. He’s handsome. His face is on billboards and buses all over town. He earns a fortune. Teenagers worship him. He is . . . a math teacher. Anyone who thinks there are hardly any differences left between

Rail-based mass rapid transit (MRT) or bus rapid transit (BRT) has become crucial for the capital to find a way out of perennial gridlock, experts said at a workshop yesterday. “It has to be resolved first whether it