Meghna water for Dhaka
The government yesterday approved a project to increase the supply of purified water to the city dwellers at a cost of Tk 5,248 crore. The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec)...
View ArticleJony arrested as ‘instigator’
Oishee Rahman’s fugitive friend, who allegedly instigated her to kill her parents Special Branch of police inspector Mahfuzur Rahman and Swapna Begum, was arrested in the capital’s Badda area on...
View ArticleForeign office unaware of visa denial
The foreign ministry has expressed ignorance about the denial of visas to two Indian rights activists by the deputy high commission of Bangladesh in Kolkata. The two wanted to visit Bangladesh to...
View ArticleAbul Hasan’s name is there as suspect
The latest developments on the Canadian side regarding the Padma bridge graft allegation will help the investigation being conducted by the Anti-Corruption Commission in Bangladesh, its chairman said...
View ArticleMaiden case filed against teachers
In the first-ever case filed with the Cyber Crimes Tribunal, 37 teachers of a leading Bangla-medium private school in the capital have been accused of maligning the school’s assistant headmistress. The...
View ArticleAmended ICT bill placed
Despite drawing huge criticism from different quarters, the government yesterday placed the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) (amendment) Bill-2013 in parliament. The amendment seeks to...
View ArticleWeekend traffic to go haywire
Traffic congestion and road accidents might hit a new level, making city life perilous, if the government goes ahead with the plan to allow trucks in the capital during daytime on weekends, fear...
View ArticleIt’s not worth taking the risk
The consultant was drawing a perfect picture. One could easily get swamped by the plan of how big vessels would offload coal at Akram Point off the Sundarbans, how dust would be controlled and how the...
View ArticleTwo killed, 3 drivers burnt
Pro-hartal pickets beat an auto-rickshaw passenger to death and inflicted serious burns on three transport workers, while a Jamaat man was killed in clashes between pickets and law enforcers yesterday,...
View ArticleAfterlife? It’s there
Most scientists would probably say that the concept of an afterlife is either nonsense, or at the very least unprovable. Yet one expert claims he has evidence to confirm an existence beyond the grave –...
View ArticleArsenal-free Syria by middle of next year
The world’s chemical watchdog on Friday adopted a final roadmap for ridding Syria of its arsenal by mid-2014, reaching agreement hours before a deadline expired. “The plan is adopted,” Christian...
View ArticleUS for free, credible polls
The US wants to see the continuation of democratic process and a free, fair and credible election in Bangladesh, Nisha Desai Biswal, US assistant secretary of state, said yesterday. She was talking to...
View ArticleCountry sees sharp rise in seven years
The country’s total women labour force rose to 17.2 million from 10.3 million in seven years, said a workshop hosted by the Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics (BBS) yesterday. A BBS survey shows that...
View ArticleGovt’s money gobbled up
Two local firms working at the Bangabandhu Bridge have gobbled up Tk 1.16 crore between November 2010 and March this year, according to an official investigation. Shamim Enterprise Ltd and UDC’s job is...
View ArticleErshad not trusted
Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad has said he will soon announce a new alliance, but Bikalpa Dhara Bangladesh and Bangladesh Krishak Sramik Janata League, with whom he wants to build political...
View ArticleVerdict today
The judgment in a money-laundering case against BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman and his friend Giasuddin Al Mamun will be delivered today. Judge Md Motahar Hossain of the Special Judge Court-3...
View ArticleMayhem in Sitakunda
At least four people were bullet-hit and several others injured as BNP-Jamaat activists clashed with police in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong yesterday. The unruly activists of BNP and...
View ArticleA refreshing festival ends
Three days of escape into a world of words, languages, thoughts and imagination came to an end at the Bangla Academy yesterday, with hopes that the Hay Festival Dhaka 2013 will help the Bangla...
View ArticleMalaysian PM arrives today
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak arrives in Dhaka today on a three-day official visit at the invitation of his Bangladesh counterpart Sheikh Hasina to inaugurate a hospital with her. Foreign...
View ArticleNeither hartal nor repression to help
Twenty-four eminent citizens of the country yesterday expressed grave concern over the confrontational politics on formation of a polls-time government and its outcome. The crisis can be solved through...
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