The cabinet on Monday approved the Anti-Terrorism (Amendment) Bill 2011, proposing capital punishment for financing terrorist activities. The home affairs ministry placed the bill at the weekly meeting of the cabinet seeking amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Act 2009 to widen its scope for preventing terror
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25 trafficked girls return from India
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
Bleak weather for realtors
Looking Back Bleak weather for realtors Muzzamel Haque booked an apartment two and a half years ago, with hopes of taking delivery in May 2012. It would end his stay for two decades in a rented home with his family. His aspirations now hang in the balance. The stockmarket debacle that began in January this ... Read more
15 new securities enter stockmarket
Fifteen new securities found their way into the stockmarket this year, up from 13 last year, although the market showed clear signs of volatility in 2011 with twin price debacles. Eight equity securities, six mutual funds or investment securities and a convertible bond came to the stockmarket, according to data from Dhaka Stock Exchange. The ... Read more
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
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
Mobile operators’ infrastructure sharing at stake
A regulatory move is holding back mobile operators’ infrastructure sharing business with other service providers. According to a decision of the regulator, the mobile companies will now have to share their network through a common network. Also, the mobile operators will not be allowed to do such business in the areas where
Third Bangla Blog Day observed
The word Blog is one of the most spoken words of the year 2011 in the field of social media and communication. Blog has gained increased notice and exposure for their role in breaking, shaping, and spinning news around the world. It is being considered as one of the most alternative powerful tools of the ... Read more
Qubee gets 100,000 likes on FB
Qubee, a WiMax internet service provider, has crossed 100,000 fan base of Qubeezone, its Facebook page. The feat said to be the first for any corporate house in the country. Officials said in addition to traditional ways of promoting (press, radio and billboards), they chose Facebook as it is the perfect way to reach the ... Read more
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
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
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
Recovery of Barisal waterbodies demanded
Recovery, re-excavating and preservation of rapidly disappearing major waterbodies in the city and its outskirts were demanded by local elites in Barisal on Thursday. The demands were placed in a meet the press progamme, jointly organised by non-government organisations Parjatan Trust, Campaign for Sustainable Rural Livelihood (CSRL) and Uttarayan, at Barisal Reporters Unity on Thursday. ... Read more