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Industry leaders said increase in gas prices was unjustified at this moment as most industrial units were facing disruption in gas supply. The government on Saturday increased gas prices 11.22 per cent on an average. For industries the increase was 12 per cent as the

Says Prof Muzaffer Unplanned urbanisation and lack of coordination between the authorities in the government are turning Dhaka into an uninhabitable city, Prof Muzaffer Ahmed said at a press conference yesterday. “It seems Dhaka has no guardian,” he

US president Barack Obama has named Bangladesh’s Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, British physicist Stephen Hawking and South African anti-apartheid veteran Desmond Tutu among the 16 recipients of the 2009 Presidential

Communications Minister Syed Abul Hossain said on Saturday old and junk vehicles plying in the city for more than 20 years would be removed from the roads. “To implement the plan, a tender is

In the wake of massive landslides that killed 10 people early on Friday in Lama upazila, the local administration Saturday started shifting people from vulnerable foothills and slopes to safer places. The government has asked

Sylhet district election officer filed a case against Saifur Rahman, former finance minister and Bangladesh Nationalist Party candidate in the last parliamentary election, and eight others for not submitting their account of

More than one hundred female employees at Proshika’s head office yesterday passed the day in a state of constant panic as a group of people reportedly led by its recently sacked chief Qazi Faruque Ahmed swooped on them during their

About 300 workers of a garment factory at Palashbari of Ashulia in Dhaka fell ill after drinking water on Saturday, two days after more than 400 workers of the same factory fell ill taking lunch. The authorities collected a

Saudi Arabia on Friday rebuffed Obama administration appeals for immediate Arab gestures toward normalising ties with Israel the kingdom urged the Jewish state to show it was serious about peace. Seated next to US Secretary of State

7,000MW within 4yrs, 3,000MW more to come The government has raised its power generation target to 10,000 megawatts (mw) to meet a growing demand stoked by the country’s economic

PM asks authorities Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina asked the authorities concerned to ensure preservation of all types of water bodies in case of construction of buildings and setting up of industries for protecting natural breeding places of

The government has forced Dhaka District and Sessions Judge Abdul Gafur and Gazipur Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal judge Shahjahan, who led an agitation in secretariat earlier this week, into

Executive Magistrates Minister rules out demand for judicial powers Executive magistrates will not be given any judicial powers, said Law Minister Shafique Ahmed even though deputy commissioners, during the final day of their conference at Bangladesh Secretariat, asked the government for some

Political thinkers and academics have said the selection procedure of the Awami League’s new presidium with the party chief enjoying absolute authority reflects lack of democratic practice within the

The three-day annual conference of deputy commissioners concluded on Thursday with a call for ensuring smooth service to the public by working in a coordinated manner with local representatives. The government has rejected

Damages caused by Monday night’s torrential rains to goods stored in the city’s submerged warehouses could be a billion taka, affected businessmen estimate. Rice, leather footwear and paper were among the major items damaged by rainwater that submerged ground floor and basement shops

Criminals in broad daylight brutally murdered a teenager at Boubazar in the city’s Kadamtoli yesterday. The victim, Mohammad Rony, 18, son of Javed of Darogabari road at Jurain, was a hawker selling toys and handicrafts in front of schools in

President Sheikh Hasina Presidium Members Syeda Zohara Tajuddin, Syeda Sajeda Chowdhury MP, Ataur Rahman Khan Kaiser, Yusuf Hossain Humayun, Matia Chowdhury MP, Sheikh Fazlul Karim Selim MP, Dr Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir, Kazi Zafarullah, Razi Uddin Ahmed Razu,

A rural Indian witch doctor beheaded a five-year-old girl as part of a bizarre ritual to help a villager produce healthy male heirs, the police said

Suggest experts as water bodies being lost due to unplanned urbanisation Mindless destruction of natural water bodies in and around Dhaka coupled with flagrant disregard for urban planning of successive governments have brought the capital to its knees, said noted urban