Food Adulteration Special drives in Ramadan Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) will conduct special drives across the country to prevent sale of adulterated food during Ramadan, Industries Minister Dilip Barua said yesterday. The drive will also fine those responsible for food adulteration. “The BSTI will work with mobile courts at district and upazila levels ... Read more
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Students go on holidays from Aug 4
Secondary schools, colleges and madrasas across the country will enjoy holidays during the Ramadan, announced the education ministry yesterday after a meeting at the Bangladesh Secretariat. Secondary schools will remain closed from August 4 to September 7 while the colleges and technical institutions from August 16 to September 7 and madrasas from August 2 to ... Read more
Tougher punishment in proposed traffic act
Reckless Driving Tougher punishment in proposed traffic act The government will amend the Motor Vehicles Act 1983 this year with a provision for tough punishment to the drivers responsible for road accidents, communications ministry officials said. The proposed act renamed ‘Road Transport and Traffic Act 2011’ is at the final stage and it will be ... Read more
Their last trip together
Crossing river gets increasingly risky for freestyle plying of vessels Monika and Ripon were lucky to be employed in the same institution. Returning home together from work became the daily routine of the newly married couple. On Saturday, as his shift ended at 2:00pm, much earlier than his wife’s, Ripon was hanging around for six ... Read more
Tk 40 lakh snatched
Muggers snatched away Tk 40 lakh from a businessman after stabbing two of his associates at Bhulta Saotaghat auto-rickshaw stand of Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj yesterday. The victim Shah Alam Bhuiyan was going to a bank at Bhulta from his business establishments at Kalibari bazaar in Araihazar upazila to deposit the money along with his ... Read more
India police ‘arrest Singapore firm’s officials’
Indian police have arrested two top officials of Singapore-based online survey company Speak Asia in Mumbai for allegedly duping investors of US$294 million (S$354 million), reports said on Saturday. Police identified those arrested as Tarak Bajpai, Speak Asia’s chief operating officer in India, and financial manager Ravi Khanna, according to the Press Trust of India ... Read more
Ramadan starts on Monday in UAE
Saudi Arabia will start Ramadan on Monday along with most other Gulf states Dubai: The Moon Sighting Committee has announced that Sunday will be the 30th of Sha’aban. Dr Hadef Bin Jua’an Al Daheri, Minister of Justice, said in a statement after the committee’s meeting Saturday night that Monday will be the first day of ... Read more
BSF told to hold fire
Chidambaram speaks of Delhi’s firm instruction to border guards; deal signed to fight cross-border crimes together India yesterday said it has ordered its Border Security Force not to shoot anyone crossing Indo-Bangla border no matter what the circumstances are. Visiting Indian Home Minister P Chidambaram said this at a joint press conference with his Bangladesh ... Read more
Students to depend more on pvt institutions for higher edn
Students who have passed Higher Secondary Certificate and equivalent exams this year will depend more on private educational institutions as the students far outnumber the seats in public universities and students are unwilling to pursue higher education under the National University in colleges. According to the latest University Grants Commission report that was placed in ... Read more
Make border deal public: Alamgir
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has demanded publication of Joint Border Management Agreement signed in Dhaka on Saturday. Acting secretary general of the party Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir made the demand. “The agreement must be made public before the nation, “ he said at a roundtable in Dhaka on Saturday. He alleged the government has done nothing ... Read more
OC Helal suspended
Student ‘Victimised’ by Cops OC Helal suspended Police form probe body; law ministry waits on copy of HC order Helal Uddin, officer-in-charge of Khilgaon Police Station, was suspended yesterday over torture of Dhaka University student Abdul Kadar. DMP’s Additional Deputy Commissioner Masudur Rahman confirmed The Daily Star about the suspension of Helal who allegedly chopped ... Read more
Messy affair in Malaysia
Uncertainty grips Bangladeshis as brokers meddle in KL’s amnesty to illegal workers The much-awaited amnesty programme for the irregular foreign workers in Malaysia starts tomorrow amid confusion in many Bangladeshi expatriates about their status. Around 5 lakh Bangladeshis work in the Southeast Asian nation. Of them, over 3 lakh are irregular and are facing threats ... Read more
Nurses left to conduct delivery; patient dies
A new mother died at a private hospital in Sirajganj yesterday as the result of alleged negligence of her doctor who let two nurses perform the delivery. Soma Saha, 32, died around 5:00am of excessive bleeding after giving birth to a baby girl around 12:30am yesterday
Delhi pledges to help nab 2 fugitives
Bangabandhu Killers Delhi pledges to help nab 2 fugitives Two condemned killers of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — Moslehuddin Khan and Abdul Mazed — might be hiding in India, and Delhi has assured Dhaka of making all efforts to apprehend and hand them over to it. “Of the six absconding (killers of Bangabandhu) it is ... Read more
80 missing in Buriganga trawler capsize
A trawler with at least 100 passengers sank in the River Buriganga after colliding with a barge on Saturday night. About 80 passengers were missing till 10:30pm, while rescue operation was continuing. None was found dead yet. Fire brigade sources said their divers had traced the trawler about 65 feet under water, but it could ... Read more
Bulk electricity tariff goes up 6.66pc Monday
Bulk electricity tariff will rise by 6.66 percent, effective from Monday. Tariff of each unit of electricity at the bulk level will go up to Tk 2.80 from the existing Tk 2.63 now, according to an earlier decision of the Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC). On February 8, BERC raised the bulk electricity tariff in ... Read more
3 national minority people killed trying to save woman from rape
Three villagers were killed as they tried to save a young woman from getting raped by some young people in Rupashipara at Naikhyangchari in Bandarban on Saturday. The miscreants killed Aung Sha Marma, 62, Hamu Sing, 35, and his minor son Maungnuching, 5. The Rupashipara union council chairman, Maching Marma, said that five young people ... Read more
Six unnatural deaths in capital
A business executive was electrocuted at Badda, a woman was killed in a road accident at Ramna, three women committed suicide at Dakkhin Khan, Adabar and Badda and a factory worker died, reported to be from snake bite, at Mirpur on Saturday and Friday night, the police and hospital sources said. Babu Ahmed, 25, manager ... Read more
Stalkers throw acid at schoolgirl
A schoolgirl suffered burns on her face after stalkers threw acid at her on the campus in Rajshahi city on Saturday morning. She was admitted to Rajshahi Medical College Hospital. Her family said that at around 11:30am, two unidentified stalkers stopped the girl, a student of class
Central bank under political pressure
Intense lobbying for approval to 15 new banks Bangladesh Bank has been under pressure from politicians to give approval for at least 15 new banks, finance ministry officials say. Some ministers, Awami League lawmakers and business groups close to the ruling alliance are lobbying government high-ups for permission to set up new