The finance ministry has sought the Bangladesh Bank’s opinion on making it mandatory for non-banking financial institutions to increase their paid-up capital by 100 per cent in three years, said officials
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Honkers fined
Mobile court also penalises black-smoke emitters, vehicles with fake papers A mobile court yesterday penalised motor vehicle owners with fines in the city’s Agargaon area for using horns beyond permissible sound limit, emitting black smokes and possessing
Govt to go for pearl culture
Bangladesh Fisheries Research Institute (BFRI) has planned to begin a five-year project for pearl culture in the country, Fisheries and Livestock Minister Abdul Latif Biswas told parliament
$55m ADB help to face impact of climate change
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is extending a $55 million loan to support small scale water services in Bangladesh to help cut rural poverty, improve community involvement, and address the threat posed
Young giraffe dies
A female giraffe of Dhaka Zoo died yesterday. “The giraffe died at 2:00pm after suffering from absolute dehydration,” Dr Aminur Rahman, curator of the zoo,
Tenant-owner feud leads to murder of a baby
A one-year-old boy of a tenant was killed after the house owner’s son allegedly dipped him into mud at Majarbari in the city’s Uttarkhan area Sunday night as a sequel to a tenant-owner feud over
Independent MP wants Tipai visit report placed in parliament
The lone independent lawmaker of the 9th parliament Fazlul Azim on Monday demanded submission of a report by the parliamentary delegation which visited the controversial Tipaimukh dam site in north-eastern
BGMEA asks owners to pay wages, bonus on time
Bangladesh Garment Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BGMEA) yesterday urged its members to pay wages and festival bonus on time to avert any untoward incidents
Missing BNP leader found dead
Police on Monday morning retrieved the bullet-hit dead body of a BNP leader of Barisal who went missing in Dhaka. The deceased, Golam Mostafa Nanna, 48, was vice president of Babuganj upazila unit of the main opposition
British minister to make maiden Tibet trip this week
Foreign Office minister Ivan Lewis will visit Tibet this week as part of a fact-finding mission to China, the first such trip by a British minister, his office
Taiwan premier quits over handling of typhoon
Taiwan’s premier quit Monday over the government’s handling of last month’s deadly typhoon as the China-friendly administration struggled to end its worst crisis since
Call to dismiss Sahara, ban export of natural resources demanded
Intellectuals, teachers and students at a solidarity meeting on the Dhaka University campus on Monday demanded dismissal of Home Minister Sahera Khatun and a total ban on exporting national resources
Reconditioned vehicles import falls
The import of reconditioned vehicles has declined significantly due to imposition of import duties by the government and increase of prices in the international
Exclusive bus service for schools to ease traffic jam
The government is going to introduce exclusive bus services for school children by late October as part of its efforts to ease traffic jams in the
Court accepts charge against Khaleda
ORPHANAGE TRUST FUND CASE Court accepts charge against Khaleda A Dhaka court on Monday accepted the charge sheet against the Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, her eldest son Tarique Rahman and four others in the Zia Orphanage Trust fund embezzlement case. Dhaka metropolitan senior special judge ANM Bashir Ullah accepted the charge sheet rejecting ... Read more
Panicky people throng hospitals
90 pc Swine flu patients don’t need drug: 1242 receive treatment in DMCH People panicked by swine flu continue to throng different hospitals of the capital seeking remedy. About 1,242 patients were given treatment in Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) till Monday morning. Though the government has taken initiatives to make the anti-viral drug ‘Oseltamivir’ ... Read more
City traffic system turns for the worse
As the ongoing operation clean street has failed to produce any tangible result, not to speak of disciplining the chaotic traffic, nation’s capital Dhaka is increasingly feeling the pain of a traffic system gone awry. Traffic police, embedded Ansars and ‘community police’ are routinely out on the streets to ‘control traffic’, but what is noticeably ... Read more
Flu confusion over hajj
Saudi govt yet to clarify decision on barring elders, children, people with chronic illness from hajj Confusion mounts among the hajj pilgrims and agencies, as Saudi Arabia has not yet clarified Arab health ministers’ decision to restrict the elders and children to travel to the holy land in fear of a spread of H1N1 virus. ... Read more
Gas crisis lands industries in fresh setback
Country sees lowest factory output growth in 7 years The troubled industrial sector may run into further setback this year as the energy situation shows no sign of immediate improvement, keeping investment decisions on hold, industry and banking sector people say. Idle money has been on the rise in bank vaults due to low demand ... Read more
Present govt makes 434 officials OSDs in 8 months
Among them 42 secretaries, 89 addl secretaries 109 jt secretaries Since assuming power, the present government has so far mad 434 government officials as officers on special duty (OSDs), Parliament was told Monday. “Generally, government officials are made OSD for promotion and posting,” said LGRD and Cooperatives Minister Syed Ashraful Islam, in charge of Establishment ... Read more