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Staple foods such as rice and wheat remain expensive in many developing countries despite a fall in international prices, making life tough for millions of people, a UN agency warned Thursday. Cereal prices in many African, Asian and Latin American countries are 25 per cent higher than before the start of the food crisis

Bikash Kumar Biswas, one of the most wanted criminals by the police, was sent to jail again on Friday after being arrested at the jail gate soon after he was freed on bail on Thursday after 12 years in jail. The Joydevpur police produced

Internal rivalry grips JCD The recently formed committee of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), students’ wing of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has failed to form a full-fledged committee even two weeks after BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia

A father filed a case with Gomostapur Police Station yesterday accusing some unidentified people of brutal torture on his son allegedly for shallow machine theft in the locality. The victim was Tobarak, 33, a mechanic and son of Taimur Rahman of Boalia village under Gomostapur

Around 47,000 children were born last year in addition to the general population increase in the country due to unexpected pregnancies caused by an acute shortage of contraceptives, according to a study. The study said that the total loss caused to sufferers due to a shortage of oral pills, injections and condoms during the period ... Read more

Sixty-four government and non-government secondary schools are running without headmasters and assistant headmasters in the district amid serious difficulties in academic and administrative activities. Sources say none of the three government schools and 61 of the 281 non-government institutions have headmasters in six upazilas

Rice traders, food officials manipulate procurement, relief to make a mint Massive irregularities have gripped the public food distribution and procurement system in Kushtia as a section of food officials in connivance with dishonest rice traders are pocketing huge money through a ‘buyback’

Two members of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party are likely to be included in the parliamentary delegation which will visit the site of India’s controversial Tipaimukh project in the upstream of trans-boundary Barak river. ‘We want the delegation to be all-party, and we don’t want to keep any confusion in public mind,’ the head ... Read more

Cops clash with protesters amid tension between ethnic Muslims and Han majority Tensions between ethnic Muslims and China’s Han majority in the far western Xinjiang region erupted in riots that killed 140 people and injured 828, an official said yesterday, marking the deadliest unrest to hit the volatile area in decades.A peaceful protest Sunday of ... Read more

The internet service providers doing business on the Dhaka University campus are going to wrap up their business in the face of growing extortion reportedly by Chhatra League activists.  The activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League, the student of the ruling Awami League, were learned to have either been demanding extortion from the ISPs or free ... Read more

A new agri-loan policy is going to be introduced from next week aiming to help country’s poor farmers through providing them soft-term loan from a huge fund worth around Tk 11,000 crore. Bangladesh Bank Governor Dr Atiur Rahman unveiled the plan in reply to reporters after discussion with President Zillur Rahman in a meeting at ... Read more

Imports of two major commodities-edible oil and onion-are likely to be increased substantially ahead of the holy month of Ramzan, according to the Bangladesh Bank (BB). According to BB’s data released here yesterday, the total number of the Letters of Credit (LCs) opened for importing edible oil increased by 215.73 per cent in the past ... Read more

CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION Dhaka hesitant to campaign for global fund Dhaka seems to be hesitant in launching an international campaign to claim compensation for climate change effects the country is exposed to, despite earmarking a significant amount of domestic resources for funding relevant

The Bangladesh Bank (BB) has decided to increase the lending limit for the exporters under the Export Development Fund (EDF). According to a central bank circular issued on June 30, the lending limit for individual exporter has been increased to 2 million US

Advertisement professionals yesterday expressed concern over the raid, and seizure of equipment, computers and valuable documents of advertising firm Adcom and its associate organisations. They demanded that the authorities return the seized things, and resolve the problem, says a press

The High Court (HC) yesterday directed 14 labour leaders and workers to surrender before the trial court within eight weeks in connection with a case filed against them following the recent vandalism in garment factories in Ashulia. The HC bench of Justice MA Wahhab Miah and Justice Abdur Razzak asked the law enforcers not to ... Read more

A woman stabbed her husband to death in Kadamtoli area yesterday while police recovered body of an unidentified man from the city’s Kuril area. Sub-Inspector Liakat Hossain of Kadamtali Police Station said Mollika Begum locked into a quarrel with her husband Sumon Mahmud, 30, in his video shop at Muradpur around 2:30 pm over loan ... Read more

Karwan Bazar killers got only Tk 1.45 lakh A gang of thirty criminals launched the gun attack in broad daylight at Karwan Bazar on June 26 that left three persons killed for taking a revenge for the killing of their cohort Mamun and establishing supremacy over toll collection

Hossain Zillur for fair probe Demanding a transparent and neutral probe into the allegations of plotting to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, when she was confined by the military-backed caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed, BNP secretary general Khandker Delwar Hossain yesterday apprehended that the attempt was also taken to kill

Former adviser to the caretaker government (CTG) Barrister Mainul Hosein yesterday said if there is any credible evidence of the allegation of serving poison mixed food to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina when she was imprisoned in the sub-jail, then a high level probe committee comprising neutral experts should be