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People of Keraniganj upazila of Dhaka district are not getting gas for last one week as one Sirajul Islam Patwary allegedly caused the gas pipeline to burst while doing the piling works of his building. As a result, two lakh subscribers are suffering, but the Titas Gas authorities have not taken any action against him. ... Read more

Thousands of Grameen Bank (GB) staffs on Sunday demanded of the government the cancellation of the final report of the GB commission to split the bank into 19 pieces. “We would not allow the government to split GB into 19 entities in the name of nationalization till our death or change its share system. It ... Read more

Land grabbers are filling up the channel through which the Turag flows into Buriganga at a section under Lalbagh thana to prepare small plots and ultimately sell to real estate developers. It is a very simple method. First they start dumping rubbish and garbage to fill the land. Then they raise semi-pucca temporary houses (In ... Read more

Mirajul Alam, a Class VII student of Kalidah SC High School in Feni, is now lying in a bed in Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University after being tortured by his teacher over an altercation with his classmate. Mirajul, 14, has been in the psychiatric department

About 95 per cent of more than 11,000 buildings constructed in Rajuk areas between 2009 and 2012 without fire service approval, an Anti-Corruption Commission probe official said. Fire Service and Civil Defence Act requires the construction of any building of six storeys or above a fire service approval.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has endorsed Petrobangla’s proposal to award two international oil companies (IOCs) rights to explore hydrocarbons in three shallow offshore blocks in the Bay of Bengal. “Last week, she (the Prime Minister) approved the proposal as the line minister. However, the proposal would be placed at the next cabinet meeting, for final

When Foreign Minister Dr Dipu Moni ends her tenure as foreign minister, within the next few months, she will leave behind a record of having undertaken the most’ number of overseas visits as a Bangladeshi minister, in a single term. With 187 foreign visits in over four-and-a-half years,

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday blamed Tarique Rahman for attempting to kill her through grenade attack on August 21, 2004. Hasina sharply criticised the BNP-led four-party alliance government for making Bangladesh a haven of terrorism, militancy and corruption tarnishing the country’s image abroad. She was addressing a civic gathering at Ashuganj

Ringing an alarm bell, green activists on Saturday demanded that the government should relocate all power plants including Rampal Thermal Power Plant close by the Sundarban, a world heritage site, to protect the mangrove forest from its adverse impact. The ecology of the Sundarban, the world’s largest mangrove forest,

Ruling party lawmaker Golam Mawla Roni along with his associates allegedly beat up two journalists of private satellite TV channel Independent Television mercilessly when they went to his office located on the ninth floor of Meherba Plaza at Topkhana Road in the city to perform their official duty. In this connection a case has been ... Read more

The main opposition BNP on Saturday condemned the attack on two journalists of Independent Television by a ruling party MP and said it has proved that Awami League government does not believe in freedom of expression. In a statement, BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said the history of Awami League rule is ... Read more

BNP chairperson and leader of the opposition Khaleda Zia has warned the government that a tough movement would be waged nationwide if the next general election is not held under a non-party caretaker government (CG) system. “Holding of a peaceful and impartial next general election under Hasina administration is impossible. Restoration of the non-party

President of Bangladesh Workers Party Rashed Khan Menon on Saturday expressed his apprehension that an unconstitutional government could intervene in national politics again. “If the election time government is not settled or compromised, apprehension would not be removed from the minds of the people. The nation will march on into

The prosecution will submit formal charges in the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) against the Jamaat-e-Islami within a month. The organisation committed atrocities against humanity during the 1971 Liberation War. The prosecution has acquired documents and

The education ministry has failed to implement the annual performance evaluation, focused on rewards and punishment, for non-government schoolteachers even five years after the ministry had issued an order in this regard. The officials concerned said that callousness of some education officers and opposition by some leaders of

Twenty eminent citizens of the country on Saturday demanded the government start the process to ban Jamaat-e-Islami considering the greater national interest. “As in other countries, there should be no right for the political party that opposed the country’s independence and committed was crimes to do politics,” they said in a statement. The statement,

An alleged miscreant was killed in a ‘shootout’ with police in Beribadh area under Rupnagar police station in the capital on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Mahdi, 40. According to Sub-inspector of the police station Aminul Islam, terrorist Mahdi received bullet in the forehead during a ‘shootout’ with police in the Beribadh area ... Read more

Officials and employees of Nobel-winning micro-finance institution Grameen Bank will wear black badges on Sunday protesting the government’s reported plan to break up the bank into 19 entities and taking control over it. As part of the programme, the Grameen Bank employees of the head office will observe a sit-in in front of Mirpur central ... Read more

Communications minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday said that people of the country want to see how much the government has had implemented so far; which it  had promised in its election manifesto. “People don’t want to see any colourful promises. They would assess the previous promises. There is no point of making any new promise. ... Read more

Bangladesh has raised objections to the discharging of untreated sewage and contaminated water from Agartala through Kathakhal and Kalipinya rivulets, which served as waterways before Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971. The objection was raised during a meeting of deputy commissioners in Agartala on Thursday. The meeting between Brahamanbaria (Bangladesh)