Friday, July 11, 2025

No hilsa fishing for 11 days

The government has imposed a countrywide ban on catching, transporting, marketing and selling hilsa fish for 11 days, starting from today, to facilitate its egg laying and boost hilsa production. Uzzal Bikash Datta, secretary of the fisheries and livestock ministry, announced the ban yesterday at a press conference at the Department of Fisheries in the

IDCOL to install 1,500 solar-powered irrigation pumps by 2016

The Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (IDCOL) plans to install 1,500 solar-powered irrigation pumps across Bangladesh by 2016, in a bid to promote alternative energy and limit reliance on fossil fuels. The new pumps will run on a combined 12 megawatts (MW) of power to be generated by solar panels, projected to save the government nearly ... Read more

Registration deadline for RU convocation extended

The Rajshahi University authorities have fixed October 18 as the deadline of registration for the 8th convocation of the university in spite of October 6, says a press release on Monday. Earlier, the registration began on September 7. The convocation was scheduled to be held on December 2. The authorities in a press release said ... Read more

Science education on the wane

Number of science students declining alarmingly, no govt initiative to encourage them, The Daily Star- Freedom Foundation roundtable told Science education in the country has suffered an alarming decline over the last two decades as it is no longer considered lucrative and the government remains indifferent to the situation, eminent scientists told a discussion yesterday. ... Read more

Tourism fair calls for linkage among Asian countries

The 2nd Asian Tourism Fair 2012 began on Friday in the capital, aiming at improving tourism linkage among the Asian countries. Tour operators, travel agents, airlines, hotels and resorts of 10 Asian countries including the host, Bangladesh, are taking part in the three-day fair at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre. The fair is a collaboration of ... Read more

Entertaining draw for Bangladesh

The Bangladesh national football team had to be satisfied with a tense 1-1 draw in their first international friendly match in a year against hosts Nepal at the Dasharath Stadium in Kathmandu yesterday. After the cancellation of the first of the two international friendly matches due to heavy rain on Tuesday, there was also concern of ... Read more

Int’l conference on Bangladesh to be held at Harvard

An international conference on “Achieving Edge for Bangladesh” will be organised at Harvard University in the United States on October 13. The conference will discuss “Sustainability of Good Governance” and “Management of Strategic Resources” in reference to Padma Bridge and

Full judgment vs short order

Caretaker Govt System Full judgment vs short order 2 judges dissent from suggestions for polls time govt with MPs, small cabinet Former chief justice ABM Khairul Haque’s suggestions for a caretaker government comprising lawmakers and a small polls-time cabinet do not conform to the short order delivered in May last year. Appellate Division Judge Abdul ... Read more

Fakhruddin’s govt unconstitutional

Caretaker System Verdict Fakhruddin’s govt unconstitutional SC condones it for people’s sake The nearly two-year rule of the past caretaker government led by Fakhruddin Ahmed was “absolutely unconstitutional”, observed the Supreme Court in its verdict in the constitution’s 13th amendment case. It also said keeping the state of emergency for about two years without the ... Read more

Govt blocks access to YouTube

Bangladesh authorities blocked the access to YouTube on early Tuesday as the video-sharing website failed to remove the contentious movie that sparked violent protests across the Muslim world. An official of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission said that they had decided to block You Tube in consultation with the

48 Bangladeshi workers sent back from UAE

Authorities decline to let them work on existing visa Forty-eight Bangladeshi workers yesterday returned to the country from the United Arab Emirates as the authorities had rejected their new employer’s plea to let them work on their existing visas. Mainuddin Hossain, a Dubai returned diploma engineer, said among the repatriated workers, 35 used to work ... Read more

Down with the hills!

Probir Kumar Sarker Though Bangladesh is prominently a plain land, its Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar, Rangamati, Khagrachhari, Bandarban and Sylhet have hilly areas with forests and rich biodiversity. These areas are full of natural resources fulfilling needs of the people and other living species. But at present, the destruction of hills in every area has become ... Read more

CG may be in place in new form for next two polls

SC releases full text of 13th amendment verdict The Supreme Court on Sunday released the full text of its judgment that declared unconstitutional and illegal the Constitution (Thirteenth Amendment) Act, 1996 with prospective effect from May 10, 2011. The full text of the verdict was released by former Chief Justice ABM Khairul Haque and six ... Read more

Govt moves to lay down rules

MLM Swindle Govt moves to lay down rules Draft bill goes to cabinet today The government will enact a law to clamp down on multi-level marketing (MLM) companies, such as the Destiny Group, which are blamed for swindling people out of their money with their controversial marketing system. The law will ban the so-called pyramid schemes ... Read more