As water engineers are yet to dig up the reasons for collapses in the Jamuna embankment’s hard point, Bangladesh Navy divers detected more scouring holes that could cause harms to the dyke like the last two Fridays. An 11-member team of navy divers joined BWDB divers Saturday and started underwater search adjacent to damaged sites ... Read more
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AL goes to council, ignores constitution
The ruling Awami League is violating its own constitution by keeping General Secretary Abdul Jalil aloof from the process of holding its July 24 national council, which has sparked strong criticism among many party leaders. The AL constitution empowers its general secretary to convene the party’s national council upon orders or approval of the party ... Read more
Only 1 student on DU JCD committee
Nineteen of the twenty on the Dhaka University unit convening committee of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal, the opposition BNP’s associate body of students, announced late Friday night, are no longer university students. Four of them are married, one is father of a daughter, two are businessmen, and at least half a dozen have criminal records related ... Read more
Separate commission will identify persons involved: MK Alamgir
Torture of political leaders The government will form a separate Commission to identify those who were involved in torture and oppression of political leaders, businessmen, religious minority populace and innocent people in the past, especially during 2001-2008 and bring them to justice. “We have recommended to the government to formulate a separate Commission which will ... Read more
Recruiters’ see change of situation by end of 2009: Manpower export plummets by 50 pc
Manpower export plummeted by 50 per cent in the recent months as many of the countries have stopped recruiting Bangladeshi labourers and sending back a huge number of them. In the latest Mauritius, an Indian Ocean island state, has decided to send back 6,000 Bangladeshi workers by the end of this year, citing the effect ... Read more
Extremism blooms on backing in Rajshahi
4 top leaders of JMB splinter outfit claim of friends in administration of 3 districts The four top leaders of the new JMB splinter Islam O Muslim claim they along with the mainline outfit have “supporters and well-wishers” in the administration in three districts in Rajshahi Division. Senior police officials who interrogated the four till ... Read more
Tender soon for machine readable passport, visa
The government is likely to invite international tender for making Machine Readable Passport (MRP) and Machine Readable Visa (MRV) within a month for introducing them by April 30 of 2010 as per instruction of the international civil aviation organisation (ICAO). Newly appointed project director of ‘Introduction of Machine Readable Passport (MRP) and Machine Readable Visa ... Read more
Sound pollution ups health risks in city
Millions of people in Dhaka city, especially the children and the elderly and also expectant mothers are exposed to a number of health risks, mental as well as physical – from deafness to heart attack-due to sound pollution, which
Outsourcing of top jobs in govt banks may go
Extension of EGBM project unlikely The government is less likely to continue recruiting top executives for the state-owned commercial banks from outside the banks after the tenures of the present managing directors of Sonali and Janata banks end in
Dhaka should press for joint impact assessment
Experts on Tipaimukh Project Dhaka should press for joint impact assessment As a few reports on the impact of Tipaimukh project on Indian territories were published in India, Bangladesh should negotiate for a joint impact-assessment on both countries with experts of Bangladesh and India,
Green chillies make people see red
Prices of most essentials record rise Prices of most of the essential commodities, particularly green chillies and all kinds of vegetables, marked a sharp rise in the city’s kitchen markets this week compared with their prices in the previous week. The prices of most
Old city fire highlights risks to thousands
Hundreds of thousands of residents of old Dhaka, the most densely populated area in the city, live daily amid deadly fire risks from the teeming factories and workshops that line the streets of Lalbagh, Armanitola and
Malaysia to continue its freeze on Bangladesh workers
Malaysia decided to continue the freeze on hiring workers from Bangladesh although it allowed electronics and textile sectors again to recruit foreign workers, reported Malaysian newspaper The Star Online
Basic foods still expensive in many developing countries: FAO
Staple foods such as rice and wheat remain expensive in many developing countries despite a fall in international prices, making life tough for millions of people, a UN agency warned Thursday. Cereal prices in many African, Asian and Latin American countries are 25 per cent higher than before the start of the food crisis
Top criminal Bikash sent to jail
Bikash Kumar Biswas, one of the most wanted criminals by the police, was sent to jail again on Friday after being arrested at the jail gate soon after he was freed on bail on Thursday after 12 years in jail. The Joydevpur police produced
JCD fails to name full committee yet for internal rivalry
Internal rivalry grips JCD The recently formed committee of the Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), students’ wing of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), has failed to form a full-fledged committee even two weeks after BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia
Father sues villagers for torture on son
A father filed a case with Gomostapur Police Station yesterday accusing some unidentified people of brutal torture on his son allegedly for shallow machine theft in the locality. The victim was Tobarak, 33, a mechanic and son of Taimur Rahman of Boalia village under Gomostapur
Jamuna embankment caves in again
Another 500-ft stretch breached in Sirajganj The hard point of the town protection embankment suffered the second collapse in a week Friday, exposing the fragility of the huge wall built by Korea’s Hyundai only 12 years ago and intensifying threat to Jamuna Bridge structures. While engineers are still probing the reasons behind last Friday’s breach ... Read more
Bombs rip through Indonesia hotels, killing 9
July 17: Bomb blasts ripped through luxury hotels in the heart of Indonesia’s capital on Friday, killing nine people and wounding dozens in attacks which the president said badly hurt confidence in the country. The bombs targeted the JW Marriott hotel, scene of a car bomb attack in 2003, and the Ritz-Carlton, both popular with ... Read more
Laskar-e-Taiyeba active in Bangladesh for 14 years
Arrested top Indian militant also tells police that he is linked to Huji, Daud Ibrahim Pakistan based Islamist terrorist organisation Laskar-e-Taiyeba has been active in Bangladesh for the last 14 years, intelligence sources said quoting one of the most wanted Indian terrorists recently captured here. Local leaders of the organisation have links to the network ... Read more