power consumption by industries had the lowest growth in four years since January 2009 while domestic consumption grew significantly over the period. The government in its first four years, provided power connections to 24,96,333 households, 1,84,298 commercial spaces and 29,664 industries, according to a government publication titled Towards Revamping Power and Energy Sector: Progress Trend supplied with the budget document. […]
The foreign minister, Dipu Moni, told the parliament that she was expecting dynamism in the process of Rhingya refugees’ repatriation during the forthcoming secretary level meeting. The 7th annual review meeting of Bangladesh and Myanmar at the secretary-level scheduled for June 13-14 next will hold a fruitful bilateral discussion on Rohingya refugee expatriation issue, she said replying to a tabled […]
Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Moudud Ahmad on Monday said in parliament that the ruling Awami League wanted democracy without opposition parties. `The government wants to impose a one-party rule,’ he told the house while taking part in the discussion on the supplementary budget for the outgoing fiscal. Moudud accused the government of politicising the judiciary and the administration, and said, […]
A dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami on Monday passed off without any major incidents in the capital Dhaka and elsewhere. A few incidents of clashes were reported from outlying districts that left at least 24 people, including several policemen, injured. Activists of Jamaat and Islami Chhatra Shibir, its student wing, clashed with police, exploded crude bombs, vandalised and torched a […]
A judicial magistrate’s court in Dhaka on Monday put three chairmen and one managing director of the factories housed in the collapsed Rana Plaza on two days’ fresh remand in police custody in connection with a criminal case. The senior judicial magistrate, Toyebul Hasan, passed the order after the Criminal Investigation Department investigators produced the business executives on completion their […]
At least 25 garment workers were injured in clashes with the police at Baipail of Ashulia on Monday. Witnesses and police said the clashes broke out after the workers of Fountain Garment Ltd staged demonstrations to press for wage hike and quick implementation of the new wage board award for readymade garment workers. The workers came to the factory Monday […]
xMain opposition BNP on Monday demanded resignation of Petrolbangla chairman Hossain Monsur for inaugurating new gas connections in Rajshahi city flouting the electoral code of conduct. In a letter to chief election commissioner Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad, BNP sought punishment for the Petrobangla chairman. Seven BNP MPs led by BNP joint secretary general Mahbubuddin Khokan met the CEC and gave him […]
The Anti-Corruption Commission unearthed a new corruption scandal of Hallmark Group managing director Tanvir Mahmud and chairman Jasmin Islam, who are now in jail, and found that the couple had purchased an industry violating the banking rules. ACC officials said that the Hallmark Group in December 2011 had purchased Musana Wear Product(s) Limited at Savar for Tk 35 crore from […]
The half-yearly examinations at secondary schools in the city scheduled for Monday were postponed while candidates and invigilators of the Higher Secondary Certificate examinations suffered a lot due to Monday’s general strike. The Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami had called the countrywide dawn-t-dusk general strike immediately after the International Crime Tribunal had on Sunday sentenced its three leaders to imprisonment on charge of […]
xThe government on Monday sought to correct a remark by the state minister for law, Quamrul Islam, against three Jamaat-e-Islami leaders who were ordered to be sent to jail by the ICT the previous day for contempt of court. A Press Information Department statement, issued within hours of the Quamrul’s remark, said the junior minister was careless while talking to […]
Parliament on Monday passed a supplementary budget of Tk 11,000.55 crore for the outgoing fiscal year. The supplementary fund went to 26 ministries and divisions with agriculture ministry alone receiving Tk 5,966 crore or more than 50 per cent of the grant followed by road division that received Tk 1,218 crore. The supplementary budget was passed by voice vote after […]
Chittagong port authority (CPA) is ready to sign contracts soon to buy three reconditioned container ships from China and Dubai, port officials said. Those ships will be pressed onto river routes for transportation of containers bound for newly built Pangaon container terminal, they added. Container transportation from Chittagong port to Pangaon on river routes will be launched by the end […]
The Anti-Corruption Commission has set up a probe body to investigate several types of allegations of irregularities against Dhaka city’s sub-registrar offices. An ACC official said that the commission recently received a huge number of allegations of corruption in city’s sub-registrar offices. The commission deputy director KM Mesbahuddin is conducting the probe into the irregularities in 19 sub-registrar offices, with […]
Security has been tightened around the International Crimes Tribunals housed at the Old High Court Building after bombs were hurled at its gate Sunday night The road from Doyel Chattar to Shikhkha Odhikar Chattar, in front of the two tribunals, was closed on Monday for security reasons,’ ICT registrar AKM Nasiruddin Mahmud told New Age Monday. A committee headed by […]
Chhatra League men, accused of using firearms during a clash with Islami Chhatra Shibir at Rajshahi University on October 2, 2012, are now campaigning for ruling Awami League-backed mayor aspirant AHM Khairuzzaman Liton in Rajshai. The police, however, claimed that the ruling Awami League-backed student organisation leaders were yet to be arrested as they were in hiding. Eyewitness said that […]
Health ministry deputy secretary Md Moshiur Rahman has replaced Md Habibul Islam as chief inspector of factories under the labour ministry replacing. The public administration ministry notified the change in the official gazette on Monday, a day after the labour and employment ministry suspended seven factory inspection officials following an investigation into the devastating Rana Plaza disaster. The labour ministry […]
The Netherlands-based Permanent Court of Arbitration is expected to deliver its judgment on the maritime boundary dispute between Bangladesh and India by the middle of next year. Oral hearing of the case would be held before a five-member PCA Tribunal in December this year and the verdict of the case is expected to come by mid next year, said foreign […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain has said the election results of the four city corporations would be a political message for the country and claimed that BNP-backed candidates would win in all the four mayoral posts. Elections to the four city corporations—Rajshahi, Sylhet, Khulna and Barisal—would be held on June 15. BNP has backed mayoral and councilor […]
M Nurul Islam, the investigation officer who probed war crimes allegations against detained BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, on Monday told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that no prosecution witness was examined in six charges against Salauddin. Facing cross-examination for the seventh day by Salauddin’s defence counsel Ahsanul Huq Hena, Nurul, also the 41st and the last prosecution witness against Salauddin, […]
Khulna Newsprint Mills could not yet go back into production even after more than 10 years of its closure. No initiative has been taken for reopening the mill at the state level though it was among the present government’s election pledges to reopen all the shut down mills and factories. But salary of the factory employees, electricity bill and other […]
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