A total of twenty-six girls trafficked to India were brought back to the country on Monday morning. Most of the returnees are residents of bordering areas and aged between 12 and 16 years. Most of them had to wait for 6 months to 5 years in Mumbai jail before they were rescued by Rescue Foundation ... Read more
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Primary school final exam results today
The results of primary and Ebtedai (madrasa) terminal examinations 2011, the largest public examinations for class-V students of general and madrasa education in the country, will be published simultaneously today. After handing over a copy of the results to the prime minister around 10:00am, it will be published in all districts and upazilas/thanas, says an ... Read more
Last respects paid to Razzak
Burial today Tens of thousands of people flocked to the Central Shaheed Minar yesterday to bid farewell to Abdur Razzak, one of the organisers of the Liberation War, hours after his body was flown back home from London. The veteran Awami League leader breathed his last in a London hospital on Friday, drawing to a ... Read more
Biman’s Boeing hits GMG’s plane at airport
A large aircraft of Biman struck a parked jet of GMG airlines before its take-off run at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport and damaged a section of the jet’s tail late Friday night. A section of the left wing of the Biman’s Boeing 747 jumbo jet was damaged in the accident, but none of the 430 ... Read more
Xmas today
The Christian community in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world will today celebrate Christmas commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ. The biggest religious festival of the Christians, Christmas is also a celebration of rebirth, new beginning, forgiveness and peace, and renewing relationship with the God and
Abdur Razzak passes away
Veteran Awami League leader Abdur Razzak, one of the key organisers of Bangladesh’s Liberation War in 1971, breathed his last at a London hospital yesterday, thus bringing a 50-year illustrious career in politics to a close. He was 69. Razzak, who was considered a “living history” of the birth of Bangladesh, was suffering
Increased living, production costs feared
Manjurul Ahsan The series of increase in prices of fuel oils and power has kept inflation going up, putting fixed and lower- to middle-income people into misery and adding to industrial production cost After the government has increased fuel oil prices on several occasions in a year, the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday increased ... Read more
Silts clog 36 river routes
Lack of funds, dredgers delay cleaning Without ensuring necessary funding, the government seems to be going ahead with its decision to approve a number of dredging projects of the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) under the shipping ministry, said sources. “The project work is stalled due to lack of dredgers and paucity of funds,” ... Read more
Checking dropouts in a unique way
Children’s parks set up in primary schools in Patuakhali Baufal upazila parishad has taken an innovative approach to help bring down dropouts in government primary schools. It is setting up children’s parks in schools and constructing roads to give students easy access to schools. Encouraged by cent percent pass rate in last year’s class-V terminal ... Read more
Cold wave to continue
People in northern region worst sufferers The mild cold wave that is sweeping over Rajshahi and Rangpur divisions and the regions of Jessore and Kushtia may continue for a few more days, Met Office said. The bone-chilling cold spell with dense fog and biting wind has paralysed normal life mainly in the northern part of ... Read more
Death of worker sparks vandalism
Road Crash in Gazipur Death of worker sparks vandalism Death of a garment worker in a road accident at Shalna in Gazipur yesterday sparked a violent protest from fellow workers, disrupting vehicular movement on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway for over two hours. Meanwhile, traffic halted on the Dhaka-Mawa highway as well for around an hour after ... Read more
Power tariff hiked again
Retail level users to pay 13pc higher effective from Dec 1, another 7pc hike from Feb 1; rise draws flak Electricity price has gone up by Tk 0.55 per unit from December 1 for all retail customers across the country, dealing a blow to general users who consume less. The price of per kilowatt hour ... Read more
Three lakh cases now pending with SC, HC
More than three lakh cases — civil, writ, original and criminal — are pending with the High Court (HC) division and the Appellate Division is yet to dispose of more than 11,000 cases, official sources said. The sources also said the cases were piling up every year due to the poor logistics of the judiciary. ... Read more
Cold-related diseases spread across country
More people succumbed to cold-related ailments yesterday as a severe cold wave with dense fog is sweeping through length and breadth of the country for more than a week. In the last four days, at least 27 people died of cold-related afflictions in Thakurgaon, Jamalpur, Jessore, Rangpur and Satkhira, report our district
A third of South Asians made to pay bribes
Finds Transparency Int’l survey More than one in three South Asians say they were forced to bribe officials in the last year, mainly for services they were legally entitled to, an international anti-graft watchdog said yesterday. A survey released by Berlin-based Transparency International in the Nepalese capital Kathmandu showed bribery has become so endemic that ... Read more
Realtor fined Tk 27 lakh
The Department of Environment (DoE) yesterday fined Rupayan Housing Estate Ltd Tk 27.13 lakh for setting up an unauthorised project in Narayanganj Sadar upazila and violating the environment law. A DoE team led by Muhammad Munir Chowdhury, director (enforcement), conducted the drive in Bhuingargh area of Fatullah. Munir Chowdhury said that in 2009, the company ... Read more
Power price goes up from today
The government is going to increase power price at subscriber’s level today. “The announcement in this regard will be made on Thursday,” Chairman of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commissions Yusuf Hossain told The Independent on Wednesday. “But I cannot say anything more than this right now” he
Student abducted, killed for ransom
A first year student of Jhenidah Technical School and College was found dead yesterday night, nine days after he was abducted for ransom. The dead, Hamidur Rahman Shahed, 18, was the son of former municipality secretary Sheikh Abdul Kader in the town. Family sources said Shahed had been missing since December 13 when he went ... Read more
Night ferry disruptions on Paturia route : a daily nightmare for travellers
The communication between the south-western region of the country and the capital is being hampered seriously as disruption of ferry services has become almost a daily affair in recent days. Fog-hit ferry services on major Paturia-Daulatdia route again remained suspended for twelve hours and resumed at 10:00am today
Making money thru’ stealing credit cards
Postal staff involved with the gang If you have been waiting for a credit card in your mail, you cannot be sure that it will reach you. It is because several gangs, operating for more than two decades, in league with postmen and post office employees in the capital, are active in stealing credit cards ... Read more