Production capacity to rise by 300m cubic feet per day US oil major Chevron announced, on Monday, that it would invest $500 million in the expansion project of Bibiyana gas field, in the north-west of the country. The new project would include expansion of the gas plant, to process increased natural gas volumes from Bibiyana, ... Read more
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Crime goes unchecked
The Pallabi-bound human hauler came to a sudden stop just before the Sheorapara bus terminal. Nearby, five youths were waiting, ominously. They were armed with steel pipes, bamboos and bricks. There were ten to twelve passengers, including three women, in the human hauler city shuttle plying from Gulshan to Pallabi via Mahakhali
Quirkiness the charm of Olympic football
“He is a lizard,” spits the beefy gentleman sitting a few rows over from the press tribunes. It’s a cold, wet summer afternoon at an almost full Wembley, and the atmosphere is surprisingly raucous at the home of football. Mexican waves do the business and boos ring out every time a wiry player in a ... Read more
Indian train fire kills 32
Thirty-two passengers were burnt to death and 25 injured as a fire tore through a coach of a train in southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh yesterday. The accident, on a long-distance service from New Delhi, occurred in the early hours of the morning near the town of Nellore with an electrical short-circuit seen as ... Read more
Guidelines for safe disposal of CFLs not yet framed
The government is yet to frame any guidelines for safe disposal and recycling of Compact Fluorescent Lamps which contain environmentally hazardous mercury though millions of CFLs have been marketed, said concerned officials. Experts said that each CFL contains at least 5 milligrams of mercury, a toxic
DCC official draws flak from locals
Jatrabari Road DCC official draws flak from locals The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) administrator was severely rebuked by transport workers and local people at Jatrabari in the capital yesterday while he was accompanying the communications minister to check the condition of roads. Such a situation ensued after a Chittagong-bound luxury bus of Saudia Paribahan
Comedy at city kitchen market
Guided and controlled by business and shop owners’ associations, a parliamentary body yesterday expressed “deep satisfaction” over price of essentials following visits to two major kitchen markets in the capital. Consumers and even sellers at these wholesale markets termed the Jatiya Sangsad body’s visit “farcical”. They said such visits in motorcade accompanied by police force, market
Bus operators worried about highway traffic management
Long-distance bus operators expressed concern about the current state management of highways and urged the government to improve it to make Eid time journeys comfortable for millions of passengers during the country’s biggest religious festival. They said that millions passengers would face problems reaching home unless
Fresh edn ministry meeting fails to end BUET stalemate
Another meeting of the education ministry, held on Monday on the crisis bedevilling the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, ended without making any major headway to end the stalemate. The BUET teachers, agitating for removal of vice-chancellor Professor SM Nazrul Islam and pro-vice-chancellor Habibur Rahman, decided to continue their sit-in programmes until their
HC overturns Mamun, wife sentences
The High Court on Monday overturned a special court verdict that had sentenced businessman Giasuddin Al Mamun to 10 years and his wife Shahina Yesmin to three years in 2008 for amassing property of Tk 111.3 crore illegally. The bench of Justice AKM Asaduzzaman and Justice Abu Taher Md Saifur Rahman
400 workers cheated by manpower agent
Job Regularisation in Malaysia 400 workers cheated by manpower agent Around 400 Bangladeshi workers in Malaysia were allegedly defrauded by an employment agent in the job regularisation process. The victims said as per an agreement, they paid Malaysian Ringgit (RM) 3,000 (Tk 90,000) each to an agent earlier this year and were supposed to pay ... Read more
HC questions Operation Clean Heart indemnity
The High Court on Sunday asked the government and the army to explain the legality of the indemnity given to the army-led joint forces involved in Operation Clean Heart conducted between October 16, 2002 and January 9, 2003. The bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Kazi Md Ejarul Haque Akondo also asked the authorities to ... Read more
Remit more to help build Padma bridge
PM urges expatriates Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said it will not be difficult for her government to construct Padma bridge if Bangladeshi expatriates living in various countries remit more spontaneously. “We don’t need to collect toll or go for subscriptions … if you remit more and more, it won’t be a tough job for ... Read more
Launch owners assure: no fare hike during Eid
Launch owners on Sunday said that they would provide better service to Eid time passengers without increasing fares and requested the government to stop extortions at ferry terminals. They gave the assurance at a meeting with shipping minister Shajahan Khan. Later, the minister told reporters that the deputy commissioners and the
Sunken oil tanker threatens disaster in Meghna
The 900-tonne oil tanker that sank in the River Meghna on Wednesday might cause an environmental disaster in a vast area unless the salvage operation could be expedited, officials said. They expressed concern about a number of constraints such as fishing nets, inclement weather and lack of logistics that were hindering the salvage operation
Bus operators to begin selling tickets Aug 3
Most of the long-distance bus operators will start selling advance tickets from August 3 ahead of Eid while booking of tickets at the airlines have neared end. Some other bus operators said they would soon announce when they would begin to sell advance tickets with Eid-ul-Fitr likely to fall on August 20.
Public varsities in acute accommodation crisis
Want of dorms affects education An acute accommodation crisis persists at all the public universities of the country for want of requisite number of halls of residence, hampering education at these highest seats of studies. Majority students studying at the public universities find it hard to obtain proper education as they are compelled to reside ... Read more
Cops let mob beat Mamun to death
Home Ministry Probe Report Cops let mob beat Mamun to death A home ministry probe body has found that detainee Mamun Bhuiyan had not been snatched by his rivals who killed him in front of police. On the contrary, police intentionally handed him over to them on May 29 in Kaliganj of Gazipur. It has ... Read more
Businessman found stabbed to death in Gulshan house
A businessman was found stabbed to death in his house in the Gulshan Circle 2 area in the capital on Sunday morning. The victim Fazlul Haque, 72, was owner of Haque Paints. He lived in his duplex, Haque Palace, on Road 51 in the area
VoIP licences set to fetch Tk 1,200cr
The government is expected to earn at least Tk. 1,200 crore revenue, each year, with the issuance of legal licences for voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) services, an official of Bangladesh Telecommuni-cation Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said. To stop illegal use of VoIP, the telecom regulator has already invited applications for VoIP service provider (VSP)