Taib Ahmed Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha on Tuesday extended the deadline by three months and a half more for applications of plots in Uttara and Purbachal projects. ‘The authorities have decided to extend the deadline for form collection and submission up to April 30,’ said Rajuk’s member (estate) Sukumer Chandra Saha. He, however, did not cite ... Read more
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What the US FBI team looked for?
Staff Reporter Newly appointed Attorney General Mahbubey Alam yesterday said that he would take necessary steps to bring back the public money laundered by the bigwigs during the immediate-past BNP-led alliance government and keep special vigilance to prevent domestic wealth from being smuggled out. The Attorney Office will assist the Government in bringing back money, ... Read more
Mahbubey Alam new attorney gen
Vows to resolve judges’ appointment problems Staff Correspondent After being appointed attorney general yesterday, advocate Mahbubey Alam stressed the need to work out solutions to the problems regarding appointment of judges to the High Court. “A former chief justice had earlier commented that a storm swept the appointments of judges in the highest judiciary and ... Read more
Cheated workers forced to return from S’pore
Porimol Palma Several thousand Bangladeshi workers who went to Singapore with valid documents are being forced to return home in small groups as the Singaporean labour supplying companies allegedly cheated them by not arranging jobs for months. Strong syndicates of manpower businesses in both Bangladesh and Singapore have been using sophisticated ways to swindle the ... Read more
Ministers, MPs to give wealth reports in Feb
Staff Correspondent Finance Minister AMA Muhith yesterday said as per their election pledges the ministers and lawmakers of Awami League (AL) will make public their wealth statements next month. Wrapping up his first meeting with officials of National Board of Revenue (NBR), Muhith told reporters, “Of course it will be announced publicly. I consider this ... Read more
Polls to seats reserved for women after parliamentary session
Staff Correspondent Election Commissioner Muhammed Sohul Hussain on Tuesday said that there was no mandatory rule that the inaugural parliamentary session would haveto be held with all its members, including the ladies who will be elected to the seats reserved for women. ‘The parliament will be formed with 345 Members of Parliament but there is ... Read more
Upazila polls electioneering in Ctg gains momentum
Tushar Hayat . Chittagong The candidates aspiring to be chairmen and vice chairmen in the 14 upazilas of Chittagong district have been conducting, in full swing, their campaigns for the elections scheduled on January 22. Sources in the election office said there are a total of 304 candidates, including 115 for the post of chairman, ... Read more
Petrobangla allows Chevron to over-extract gas from Bibiyana
Staff Correspondent Petrobangla has continued to allow the US company, Chevron to extract more than 450 million cubic feet of gas per day from the Bibiyana gas field ignoring the warning of its expert committee that the gas reservoir will be damaged if production exceeds 450mmcfd. Sources in Petrobangla said that the officials of the ... Read more
World political freedom declined in 2008: report
Reuters/Bdnews24.com . Taipei Political freedoms declined around the world for a third straight year in 2008, with Russia and Greece down over political incidents and Iraq and Malaysia up on increased pluralism, a US rights organisation said on Tuesday. Russia, docked for elections that were ‘neither free nor fair,’ and neighbouring Russian-influenced countries that had ... Read more
Two rounds of fuel price reduction have no impact on fares
Suffering of passengers continue Two rounds of fuel price reduction have no impact on fares Staff Correspondent Latest round of reduction of fuel price especially diesel, did not have any impact on diesel run modes of vehicles including passenger buses in the city as well as across the country as bus owners were charging high ... Read more
DU students condemn Israeli massacre in Gaza
DU Correspondent The Dhaka University students demonstrated on the campus yesterday in protest against Israeli massacre in Gaza. ‘Anti-Aggression Forum’, a platform of DU students, arranged a photo exhibition featuring Gaza tragedy at the DU ‘battala’ yesterday. The two-day exhibition titled ‘the blood thirsty face of Zionist wolves’ is open for all between 10am and ... Read more
Ershad flip-flops again on presidency
bdnews24.com, Kurigram Changing stance yet again, in an ongoing drama, Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said that he wants to be president “once more”. “Sheikh Hasina has pledged that I will be president again, even if it’s only for six months,” said the former president at a JP workers rally in Kurigram on Tuesday. ... Read more
Graffiti on woman ban erased
Pirojpur Road Graffiti on woman ban erased Staff Correspondent After The Daily Star ran a report yesterday on a self-proclaimed Pir who put graffiti on a wall by a Pirojpur road, prohibiting movement of women on that road, Mathbaria police removed the writings and are hunting for the Pir. Officer-in-charge of the Mathbaria Police Station ... Read more
Grameenphone Tri-series Tigers must win today Sports Reporter Rubel Hossain will make his international debut when Bangladesh play the last league match of the Grameenphone tri-nation tournament against Sri Lanka at the Mirpur Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium in Mirpur today. The young paceman has been included in the side in place of Nazmul Hossain as the ... Read more
Bijoy Sarani-Tejgaon link road drives land prices
Kawsar Khan The newly constructed 60-foot wide road stretching from Bijoy Sarani to Tejgaon has increased the prices of land adjacent to the area. The acceleration in prices began with landowners and businessmen eyeing the property and hoping to develop the
Market lukewarm to price pledges
Star Business Report Despite high expectations over essentials’ price-drop after power handover to the new government, market responses remain lukewarm. The prices of some basic commodities like rice and edible oil fell in the local market recently. The onset of this year’s Aman harvest and the fall in the price of soybean oil on the ... Read more
Dhaka stocks continue slide
Staff Correspondent Dhaka stocks dropped on Monday for the second consecutive day in a volatile trading as investors, downcast by the fresh downtrend in the market, sold off their holdings, market operators said. The general index of Dhaka Stock Exchange lost 10.45 points, or 0.38 per cent, to close at 2716.53, while its blue chips ... Read more
Apparel exporters seek cash incentives
Global financial meltdown Apparel exporters seek cash incentives Staff Correspondent The country’s apparel exporters have voiced concern over the slowdown of export orders on deepening global economic downturn and sought immediate government steps to stave off its adverse impact on the local export-oriented industries. “The government should introduce financial incentives for the export-oriented industries and ... Read more
Fertiliser to be made cheaper soon: Diesel, kerosene prices reduced
Staff Reporter The new government has further reduced the prices of kerosene and diesel by Tk 2 per litre before the onset of Boro season as a part of its election pledge. The price of diesel and kerosene has been reduced to
Israel takes battle to urban Gaza
Calls in reservists; 19 more Palestinians killed as Egyptian truce talks plod on Ap, Afp, Gaza City Israeli warplanes pounded the homes of Hamas leaders and ground troops edged closer to the Gaza Strip’s densely-populated urban centre yesterday, as Israel stepped up the pressure ahead of deciding whether to