Staff Correspondent Treasury bench lawmakers in parliament yesterday opposed ratification of Local Government (upazila parishad) (amendment) Ordinance 2008, and supported a proposal for block allocation of development fund to lawmakers. The ordinance was promulgated by the immediate past caretaker government scrapping parliament members’ (MP) authority to control upazila parishads’ development activities. The ruling coalition lawmakers ... Read more
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HC de-lists Hasina Niko case
Staff Correspondent Prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s petition for quashing the Niko graft case was on Sunday dropped from the list of cases for hearing in the High Court. The petition was on the list since August 2008. The High Court bench of Justice Sheikh Rezowan Ali and Justice Md Rais Uddin de-listed the petition, after ... Read more
Special body okays 54 ordns for enacting into laws
UNB, Dhaka A special parliamentary committee has okayed 54 ordinances out of 122 promulgated by the President during the immediate-past caretaker government for enactment as laws during the ongoing first session of parliament. The special committee, headed by Advocate Rahmat Ali MP of the ruling Awami League, will submit its scrutiny report on the ordinances ... Read more
Chhatra Dal will be formed with regular students
BNP will strengthen Mohila Dal at grassroots Staff Correspondent BNP Joint Secretary General Abdullah Al Noman on Sunday said that among the reasons of defeat on Dec-ember 29, 2008 national election, is that BNP did not get sufficient votes of women though more than 50 per cent of total voters were women. “Like other front ... Read more
By-polls in 7 seats on March 30
Staff Correspondent By-elections to seven parliamentary constituencies vacated by four top leaders will be held on March 30, the Election Commission (EC) announced yesterday. The constituencies are Kishoreganj-6, Bagerhat-1, Rangpur-3 and 6, Bogra-6 and 7, and Kurigram-2. According to the polls schedule, the deadline for filing nomination papers is March 2 while the scrutiny of ... Read more
China to help install nuclear power plant
bdnews24.com, Dhaka China will fully cooperate with Bangladesh in its bid to set up a nuclear power plant, the Chinese ambassador said on Sunday. “We welcome the Bangla-deshi side to communicate on this issue,” Zheng Qingdian said at a press conference at the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity auditorium in the city. Bangladesh and China had signed ... Read more
Osmani’s 25th death anniv today
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha . Dhaka The 25th death anniversary of Bangabir General Mohammad Ataul Gani Osmani will be observed today with due respect. General Osmani, the commander-in-chief of the liberation forces in 1971, died on February 16, 1984 at a London hospital. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, and the leader of the opposition in parliament, ... Read more
BNP to boycott JS special body too
Staff Reporter The opposition BNP has decided not only to abstain from attending the parliament sessions but also to avoid the special committee meetings from now on. The decision was taken at BNP Parliamentary Party [BNPPP] meeting held at its chamber in the House yesterday to protest against inclusion of two BNP MPs bypassing one ... Read more
Boy got stepmother, then his death
Staff Correspondent Five-year-old boy Shuvo, who suffered fatal burns at the hands of his stepmother, died of his wounds yesterday morning after fighting for his life for almost a month. The woman Shuvo’s father married to take care of the motherless boy, killed the child instead. The chilling incident occurred at city’s Kachukhet Puranbazar area. ... Read more
Plastic Goods Exporters demand plastic industrial city
Staff Correspondent Bangladesh Plastic Goods Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BPGMEA) has placed 5-point demand including withdrawing the bank guarantee, fixing up 3 per cent tax on local industry instead of 7 per cent and building up a plastic industrial city. The demands came when a delegation of BPGMEA, lead by its president Md Jashim Uddin ... Read more
RDA’s water use model gets global recognition
WB invites RDA to present the model at its HQ on Feb 19 Hasibur Rahman Bilu, Bogra Rural Development Academy (RDA), Bogra, is to present RDA-Model of Water Management at the World Bank headquarters in Washington, DC on February 19 for its adaptation across the globe. The water management model uses underground pipes to irrigate ... Read more
Youngsters swarm Ekushey book fair
Staff Correspondent Thousands of people, mostly university and college students, thronged the Ekushey Book Fair at Bangla Academy on Valentine’s Day on Saturday. Young boys and girls carrying flowers in large numbers entered the
Website launched to promote Dhaka to tourists abroad
Staff Correspondent In celebration of 400 years of Dhaka city, The Bangladesh Monitor, a travel magazine, has launched a new website to promote Dhaka to tourists worldwide. The website www.dhakacity.com.bd will feature information on how to arrive in Dhaka from various international destinations, places to visit, brief histories of the places, links to airlines, information ... Read more
Water crisis hits Rajshahi city
Shoumitra Mazumdar . Rajshahi Residents in the Rajshahi city are suffering acute water crisis as all the four water treatment plants have remained inoperative for the last five days. Official sources at the Rajshahi City Corporation said water crisis emerged in the city as they cannot operate the water treatment plants due to power outages. ... Read more
Ekushey book fair sees huge crowd at weekend
Staff correspondent Thousands of people particularly young boys and girls, attired in yellow dresses, were in long queues at the Ekushey book fair entrances at
42pc SSC-level students drop out this year
Over 10 lakh to appear as exams start tomorrow Suranjith Deabnath Over 42 percent registered candidates for SSC and equivalent certificates dropped out this year even before the examinations begin tomorrow, due to a plethora of social and financial obstacles. About 5.34 lakh of a total 12.67 lakh high school students who had registered in ... Read more
DMP to conduct special anti-crime drive from Friday midnight
UNB, Dhaka The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) will conduct a special drive from Friday midnight to hunt down criminals in the capital. The decision of launching the special drive came within five days of another drive that continued from February 3-7. The special drive against the criminals comes in the wake of success of the ... Read more
Hatirjheel project to go ahead without affecting BGMEA Bhaban
Mustafizur Rahman The Awami League-led government is likely to go ahead with the much-talked about Hatirjheel development project without affecting the BGMEA Bhaban, constructed ‘illegally’ on the wetland in the city. ‘We must go ahead with the project which includes construction of lakes, waterways and walkways to ease traffic congestion and remove water-logging – major ... Read more
MK Anwar wants inquiry into graft since independence
United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka BNP vice-chairman MK Anwar has said if the prime minister is sincere to combat corruption, a powerful anti-corruption commission should be established to inquire into corruption since the independence of Bangladesh. The BNP leader said this to reporters on Friday at his residence responding to prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s ... Read more
Unified education, upgradation of teachers needed: DU VC
Staff Correspondent Dhaka University Vice Chancellor AAMS Arefin Siddique on Friday underscored the need for introducing a unified education system in the primary and secondary levels in line with the recommendations of the Kudrat-e-Khoda Commission to generate productive manpower. As the chief guest at a seminar titled “Quality of Higher Secondary Education & Social Position ... Read more