BCL expels 7; one held Sporadic clashes between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League in Surya Sen Hall of Dhaka University Thursday left at least 15 activists of the factions injured. Police in a raid of the dormitory afterwards arrested Chhatra League leader Rajib, third year student of International Relations, in connection
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EC in dilemma over action on SQ Chowdhury
The Election Commission is in a quandary over its next course of action on MP Shalahuddin Quader Chowdhury imbroglio over his statement on academic qualification. The EC can strip his membership for submitting “false information” before the December 29 election. The Commission is in confusion
Bangladesh sees $6.05 b remittance in 7 months
Bangladeshi expatriates living in different countries remitted 6.05 billion US dollars in the last seven months despite the ongoing global recession. Overseas Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain disclosed this yesterday when a nine-member
Zimbabwe A humble Tigers
Zimbabwe A humbled touring Bangladesh by seven wickets in a one-day warm-up match in Bulawayo on Friday, according to Bangladesh Cricket Board sources. Bangladesh talking the strike first were all out for 180 all out in 49.3 overs. Middle-order batsman Roquibul Hasan with 55 was the
Tipaimukh Long March begins today
In protest against the construction of Tipaimukh dam across the river Borak in Monipur state of India, a 3-day Long March towards the dam will start today at 10.00 am from the Central Shaheed Minar in the
$ 160m addl WB help for Padma Bridge
The World Bank (WB) will contribute additional 160 million US dollar for constructing the 6.15 kilometre double-decker Padma Bridge. Visiting vice president of the WB, Isabel Guerrero stated this after a meeting with Communication Minister Syed Abul Hossain at his
Death penalty for Mumbai bombers
An Indian court on Thursday sentenced to death three people, including a married couple, for planting bombs that killed 52 in the city of Mumbai in 2003. Judge MR Puranik, sitting at a special anti-terrorism court, ordered that Haneef Sayyed, his wife Fahmeeda Sayyed, and Ashrat Ansari “should be
21st anniv of ‘8888 democracy uprising’ today
Several dozen of supporters of Myanmar’s democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi staged demonstration in front of the city’s National Eidgah on Friday morning demanding that the Myanmar government should release her and other political
All data, info over Tipaimukh Dam will be scrutinized by experts: PM
Prime Minister Shiekh Hasina Thursday said experts will scrutinize the data and information provided by India about Tipaimukh Dam to assess its environmental and socioeconomic impacts on Bangladesh, and assured that her government would not support anything that might harm the country’s interests. She made the remarks when the parliamentary delegation that went recently to ... Read more
Another reported dead from paracetamol effects
Rid Pharma brand still available on market One more child died in Rangpur on Friday reportedly after being administered the toxic paracetamol syrup produced by Rid Pharmaceuticals as the brand is still available on the market because of inaction of the government. Ten-month-old Rani died at home Friday morning from renal failure that had persisted ... Read more
Army pullout from CHT kicks off
2 camps withdrawn; one brigade, 33 more camps to go The government yesterday formally started pulling out temporary army camps from Chittagong Hill Tracts with two camps in Khagrachhari and Rangamati as per its recent decision to implement the CHT Peace Accord 1997. The camps were located at Manikchhari of Mahalchhari upazila in Khagrachhari and ... Read more
Pvt healthcare business booms
Rapid commercialisation to take service costs out of people’s rich, say experts Private health care business is booming in the country on the back of people’s growing confidence in the services of private hospitals though they charge much higher than public hospitals. A New Age investigation shows that treatment costs for heart related diseases are ... Read more
Hafiz for forming expert team on Tipai Dam with reputed ones
He calls for making public the data, info Former Water Resources Minister and BNP vice President Major Hafiz Uddin Ahmed (Retd) on Friday said the government should disclose all sorts of data and information about Tipaimukh Dam before the nation immediately if the Indian government has given those to Bangladesh parliamentary delegation during their recent ... Read more
BB approves Tk 500 cr fund for sharecroppers
Bangladesh Bank (BB) has approved a Tk 500 crore fund for the country’s cash-strapped sharecroppers. The central bank’s board approved the fund at a meeting on Thursday, said a BB source. The board also decided to disburse the fund through a leading non-government organization (NGO), having enough experiences in small lending in the country. “The ... Read more
Workers, porters rule the roost at bus terminals
Passengers and small traders at the city’s long-route bus terminals are subject to untold harassment and become victims of different kinds of extortions due to lax enforcement of law by the authorities concerned. Terminal labourers having a nexus with local influential ruling party men and associations of transport owners and workers charge the passengers high ... Read more
Hosaf’s sketchy study raises questions
Khalashpir Coal Mine Project Hosaf’s sketchy study raises questions Govt spends $95,000 for review of study by ex-consultant of Hosaf The techno-economic feasibility study for Khalashpir coal mine project by Hosaf Consortium has finally been trashed by a foreign consultant questioning the study’s scientific basis, methodology and raising a host of other questions, sources said. ... Read more
Poor suffer as DMCH slaps fee on visitors
Decision yet to get govt approval The Dhaka Medical College Hospital authorities have introduced ticket system against money for the visitors’ entry from August 1, much to the sufferings of the poor patients and those attending to them. Tk 20 has been fixed for visiting a free-bed patient, Tk 30 for a paying-bed patient and ... Read more
Pak Taliban chief Mehsud killed
There is a strong likelihood that Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud was killed along with his wife and bodyguards in a missile attack two days ago, Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Reuters. “We suspect he was killed in the missile strike,” Malik said on Friday. “We have some information, but we don’t have material ... Read more
Petrobangla ignores a host of questions
Awarding $53m Gas Station to Chevron Petrobangla ignores a host of questions Petrobangla continues to hammer hurriedly awarding US oil company Chevron the contract for an over-priced gas compressor station project in the Gas Transmission Company Ltd (GTCL) system through a questionable process by totally sidelining a host of technical and financial questions raised by ... Read more
Industry leaders say increase unjustified
Industry leaders said increase in gas prices was unjustified at this moment as most industrial units were facing disruption in gas supply. The government on Saturday increased gas prices 11.22 per cent on an average. For industries the increase was 12 per cent as the