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
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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
BNP candidate wins Noakhali-1 election
Staff Reporter BNP candidate Barrister Mahbub Uddin Khokan was unofficially declared elected to parliament from Noakhal-1 constituency in the polls held yesterday. The results showed Mahbub with ’sheaf of paddy’ with 1,04,726 votes with grand alliance candidate HM Ibrahim of
Secondary students affected by text book crisis
200 teams formed for curbing syndicated offenders Staff Correspondent Secondary level students across the country are hard hit as they are not getting text books at the outset of the academic year due to an artificial crisis created by syndicates of textbook publishers and sellers. Expressing grave concern, guardians, teachers and students said “We all ... Read more
BNP prefers Hafizur Rahman as dy speaker
Shahidul Islam Chowdhury The Bangladesh Nationalist Party is likely to nominate AKM Hafizur Rahman, lawmaker-elect for the Bogra 2 constituency, for the position of the deputy speaker of the parliament, according to an aide to the party’s chairperson Khaleda Zia. Khaleda also blasted some party leaders for their proposal to nominate her eldest son, Tarique ... Read more
Reform going on without ‘reformists’
Changes in Awami League Reform going on without ‘reformists’ Sahidul Islam Rana The much-talked reform in the political parties – especially in ruling Awami League and BNP – is going on keeping out the so called ‘reformists’ leaders aside. The heavyweight political leaders of the two arch-rival political parties, who raised their strong voices against ... Read more
Pirojpur road off limits to women
Self-claimed ‘Pir’ imposes the ban; administration yet to act Rafiqul Islam, back from Pirojpur Schoolteacher Jahanara Begum was rushing her sick son to a doctor around noon but she was halted by an elderly man when she was on Mathbaria Bara Masjid Road. She was told the road was off limits to women. As time
Govt plans to ‘depoliticise’ police, says minister
Nazrul Islam The Awami League-led alliance government is considering ways to restore professionalism in the police department which it thinks was politicised by the past government. ‘The government will do everything necessary to infuse professionalism into the police force. Their performances will be taken into consideration, nothing else’, the state minister for home affairs, Tanjim ... Read more
BNP’s move to revamp organisational strength
Talha Bin Habib The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has taken move to revamp its organisational capacities aimed at creating a new leaderships to be picked up from the grass roots levels. To this effect the party would soon hold council meetings of all committees from upper to grass roots levels. Party sources said the high ... Read more