Gazipur city goes to polls today to elect its first mayor and ward councillors amid confusion over the timing of the announcement of unofficial results of the high-voltage election by the returning officer. The Election Commission on Friday said it had tightened security and urged the voters to go to the polling stations and cast their ballots without fear. It […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has reiterated that the next general elections of Bangladesh will be held in such a manner which is followed by the United Kingdom and other democratic nations across the world. ‘Our government would hold next general polls the way it is held in the UK and other democracies,’ she said. The prime minister said this […]
German ships on Friday retrieved two floating dead bodies and rescued an engine cadet from the scene on Andaman sea near Phuket coast where a Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Hope was caught by rough weather early on Thursday and ran into trouble with 11 of its crew missing, shipping officials said. A Thai flagged fishing trawler FV Pilin with its 11 sailors […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday night accused the government of plotting to rig the Gazipur city polls by stuffing ballot boxes and other machinations. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi made the allegations at a hurriedly called press briefing at the party central office. Quoting ‘reliable’ sources, he alleged that the ruling party was planning to occupy polling […]
Ruling Awami League advisory council member Tofail Ahmed on Friday said BNP-backed mayor candidate would not win the Gazipur City Corporation election as Gazipur has traditionally been a stronghold of Awami League. ‘It’s not like the elections of the four city corporations where the BNP won recently for their stronghold there. It’s a different city election. Here, Awami League has […]
Two factions of Ganajagaran Mancha on Friday held separate programmes at Shahbagh in the city to press for capital punishment for the war criminals of 1971. One faction is led by Ganajagaran Mancha spokesperson Imran H Sarkar while Shamim Ara Nipa, one of the founders of the mancha, leads the other group. The faction led by Imran organised a mass […]
After independence many railway stations and sections were shut down due to inadequate allocation of resources to Bangladesh Railway, according to a finance ministry report placed in Parliament last month with the national budget for 2013-14. The report on ‘Railway communication: Present and future,’ also said, ‘After the independence of Bangladesh, it was not possible to repair or replace the […]
Bangladesh Railway is planning to increase the train fare by five per cent each year. The BR director general Mohammad Abu Taher told New Age on Wednesday that he had already talked with the higher authorities on this regard. Meanwhile, the transport experts said that it was not justified for the BR to increase the train fare each year. The […]
An activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti was shot dead by masked gunmen in Laxmichhari-Manikchhari area in Khagrachari district on Friday. The victim was identified as Umong Marma, 50. He was an activist of the Santu Larma-backed PCJSS. According to police and witnesses, a group of people wearing masks had shot Umong at point-blank range at about 1:30pm while […]
The defeated candidate in Kishoreganj-4 by-election, Sayed Mahitul Islam, on Friday demanded cancellation of the results of 31 polling centres and holding re-election there as, he claimed, his votes were looted from those centres. Mahitul, also an Awami League rebel candidate in the by-election held on July 3, made the demand at a press conference at Dhaka Reporters’ Unity in […]
The high technology-based laboratory for testing drugs and vaccines is yet to come into operation while the drug manufacturers have to get their drugs tested and certified by World Health Organisation-approved laboratories abroad for export. The National Control Laboratory, established in a joint initiative of World Bank, World Health Organisation and the Bangladesh government at Mahakhali in Dhaka, was scheduled […]
The government is considering withdrawing the six-hour suspension of sales of gas by the CNG filling stations from August, officials said. At a meeting on Friday, Bangladesh CNG Filling Station Owners and Conversion Workshop Owners Association requested prime minister’s energy adviser Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury to allow 24-hours sales of gas withdrawing the suspension after the month of Ramadan, they said. The […]
The information minister, Hasanul Haq Inu, on Friday said a section of media has been resorted to criminalisation taking the advantage of the present government’s liberal democratic attitude. ‘The present government believes in full freedom of newspapers and the electronic media . . . but mass media is not a weapon of spreading falsehood and propaganda,’ the minister said this […]
Bangladesh has been closely following the latest round of events in Egypt and wishes that all political forces in Egypt would follow maximum restraint to avert further violence and disorder in public life. The foreign ministry in a statement said Bangladesh urged all parties to uphold the rule of law and the constitutional process. It also hoped that the transition […]
At least 400 workers fell sick after taking tiffin at a garment factory at Telirchala in Mouchak of Kaliakoir upazila on Thursday. Factory sources said the workers of Sezad Design Wear Limited fell sick after eating food provided by the factory authorities at 8:30pm. A good many of the sick workers were admitted to hospitals in Mouchak, Shafipur, and Konabari […]
The country’s power generation hit a new milestone as all available power units produced 6,576MW about 9:00pm on Thursday, officials said. The power generation, which was increased following the demand, shot up to 6,452MW about 7:30PM on Thursday. In an hour and a half, the demand reached 6,576MW, according to a report of the National Load Despatch Centre. The demand […]
Araihazar and Gopaldi municipalities under Araihazar upazila in Narayanganj go to polls today to elect mayors and councillors. According to election officials, 17,137 voters have enrolled at Araihazar and to cast their vote to elect the mayor and 24,523 voters at Gopaldi. Twelve people are contesting for the office of Araihazar municipal mayor, while three mayoral candidates are contesting at […]
Politicians and academics at a discussion meeting on proposed Rampal coal-based power plant on Friday urged the government to refrain from implementing the project considering its drawbacks and negative impacts. The proposed power plant at Rampal in Bagerhat district would create huge loss of arable land in the area and also affect the Sundarbans, the biggest mangrove forest in the world. […]
The prime minister’s foreign affairs adviser, Gowher Rizvi, on Friday said Bangladesh would get back the suspended GSP facility in the US market within six months though the leading economists think it is not possible even in a year. ‘It’s possible to regain GSP benefits in the US market within the next six months,’ the adviser said while talking to […]
The foreign minister, Dipu Moni, has said the prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, was welcomed in London with ‘full protocol’, dismissing some newspaper speculations that the British government will not give any protocol or special security since she will attend her niece’s post-wedding reception. Hasina arrived in London on Thursday on an eight-day official visit to the United Kingdom and Belarus. […]
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