The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) has fixed up the rate of electricity for “Q” categories (for industry) at Taka 13.88 to TK 14.99 per unit on Monday. The ‘Q’ category consumers will get uninterrupted electricity for 24 hours and initially the distributing agencies will provide connection only to the industries. “We create the new ... Read more
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Malaysia submits concept proposal
Padma Bridge Project Malaysia submits concept proposal The government intends to sign the final agreement with Malaysia within a couple of months on the proposed Padma bridge project, said the communications minister yesterday after his meeting with a visiting delegation. A 26-member delegation, led by Malaysian Prime Minister’s Special Envoy Dato Seri S Samy Vellu, placed ... Read more
Unipay2u director held for swindling
Police yesterday arrested a director of Unipay2u Bangladesh, a controversial multi-level marketing (MLM) company, from Uttara in the capital on charges of swindling people. Maj (retd) Khondoker Mukit Al Mahmud, a director of the MLM company, was arrested at about 1:00 am after some aggrieved investors of Unipay2u
Cyber crimes take their toll
Destroy young lives, break families Cyber crime is on the rise across the country, destroying young lives, breaking families and increasing the number of incidents of fraud, under the very nose of the ministry concerned. Although, the government has enacted the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act 2009 that stipulated “a maximum punishment of up ... Read more
Heat wave may continue past first week of June
The ongoing moderate heat wave may continue past the first week of June when it starts raining, meteorologists said on Sunday. They said that at least six heat waves swept over the country’s north, the north-west and the capital in two months. Heat now feels severe as the humidity level is high and there is almost ... Read more
Pay tax online
Anybody with a debit or credit card and internet access can pay tax from home, instead of queuing for hours at a bank. The National Board of Revenue (NBR) yesterday introduced an online tax payment system at a function at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina first paid her advance income tax ... Read more
Risky living at hill slopes
Authorities yet to take any effective action to remove houses from Ctg hills despite fatal landslides every monsoon Though monsoon is knocking on the door, the authorities concerned have yet to take any effective step to evacuate thousands of people living on the slopes of hills in Chittagong city with the risk of being victims ... Read more
MLM firm swindles 500 customers
Agent flees after collecting Tk 5cr About 500 customers of a multi-level marketing (MLM) company laid seize to the house of its Aditmari upazila representative at Vadai village yesterday after he went into hiding a week ago collecting around Tk 5 crore from them. Jamiur Rahman, agent of online MLM company click2earn2you.com, persuaded
Top exporters get HSBC awards
HSBC Bangladesh yesterday awarded six exporters for their contribution to promoting Bangladeshi products on the international market. Finance Minister AMA Muhith handed out the prestigious “HSBC Export Excellence Awards, 2011” to the winners at Radisson Hotel in the
Minister, Baira at loggerheads
KL Recruitment Right Minister, Baira at loggerheads Expatriates’ Welfare Minister Khandker Mosharraf Hossain yesterday turned down the private recruiting agencies’ demand for allowing them to recruit workers for jobs in Malaysia. “I told Baira leaders that we shall initially send workers to Malaysia at government level. Gradually, when the system is streamlined, we will leave ... Read more
US slates killings, torture by lawmen
HR Report on Bangladesh US slates killings, torture by lawmen The US government yesterday denounced the Bangladesh government over the latter’s “most significant” human rights problems, including killing and torture by security forces and their abuses that are responsible for disappearances and custodial deaths. “An increasingly politicised judiciary exacerbated problems in an already overwhelmed
Catching up with time
Ctg’s giant commodity hub Khatunganj tune itself to tech Chittagong city’s bustling commodity hub Khatunganj, which has given birth to a number of well-known local conglomerates such as Partex Group, Abul Khair Group, PHP Group and TK Group, is changing. Large and medium commodity market leaders are hiring trained executives in top and mid level ... Read more
Bandwidth poses problem of plenty
The country will get an additional 96 gigabytes (GBs) of Internet bandwidth from the international submarine cable consortium (ISCC) in the middle of June this year, sources in Bangladesh Submarine Cable Company (BSCCL) say. At present, the country gets 44.6 GBs of bandwidth from the ISCC through the lone submarine
I ducked death several times
Everest conqueror Nishat tells from base camp; Wasfia waits for final push for the summit “I was close to losing my life several times. One time I was swept around 30 metres away from my tracks and almost into a crevasse.” Nishat Majumder–the first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mount Everest–described her brush with death during ... Read more
HC declares legal SEC order on mandatory shareholding
The High Court on Monday declared legal the Securities and Exchange Commission’s notification issued in November 2011 asking sponsors-directors of listed companies to individually hold minimum two per cent shares of the paid-up capital of their respective companies. As per the verdict, all sponsor-directors jointly holding less than 30 per cent and
16 wholesale shops fined
Chemicals in Fruits 16 wholesale shops fined Three mobile courts yesterday fined 16 wholesale fruit shops Tk 58,000 for selling adulterated fruits. The courts also destroyed 18,000kg of chemical-soaked mangoes and several thousand bananas from those shops. Dhaka district administration and Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) jointly conducted the drives at fruit markets in Jatrabari, Mirpur ... Read more
Bapex finds oil in abandoned fields
The state-run energy exploration company, Bapex, has found extractable and economically viable oil in two oilfields abandoned two decades ago. The oilfields in Sylhet are able to produce at least 55 million barrels of oil, which could meet the country’s total demand for petroleum for more than two years, officials
1,000 multimedia classrooms start journey
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the country had made good progress in its efforts towards building ‘Digital Bangladesh’ during the last three years as pledged in the ruling party’s election manifesto. “We’ve achieved many successes to this end,” she said, while inaugurating through videoconferencing from her office the multimedia classrooms and digital academic contents ... Read more
387 colleges get 4 lakh online applications so far
Introduction of online college admission process have got huge response from the candidates this year as 387 colleges under eight general education boards have received nearly 4 lakh applications till today, according to government sources. Of the total 387 colleges, 153 are under the Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education,
Tourism in a shambles
Beautiful Patenga beach blighted by jungle of makeshift stalls, horde of aggressive vendors Although Patenga beach has been attracting thousands of tourists everyday for decades, it does not yet have the suitable infrastructure to help flourish tourism. The beautiful beach, located at the confluence of Karnaphuli River, is only 14 kilometres from the port city ... Read more