The opposition alliance-backed candidate MA Mannan took an early lead in the maiden elections to Gazipur city corporation polling 30,174 votes while his rival, the ruling alliance-backed Ajmat Ullah Khan received 22,413 votes in 39 polling centres out of 392. The returning officer, Matiar Rahman, announced the unofficial results of 39 centres at around 9:45pm on Saturday. The elections to […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday alleged that slow casting of votes in Gazipur city corporation polls was part of the government’s ‘plot’ to ‘manipulate’ the elections. The BNP leaders brought a series of allegations of irregularities in the GCC polls at three press briefings on Saturday at the party’s central office on the overall situation of Gazipur polls. BNP […]
Awami League leader Tofail Ahmed on Saturday said that the peaceful holding of the Gazipur City Corporation elections again proved that the BNP’s demand for the holding of the next general elections under a caretaker government was illogical. ‘All elections under the incumbent Election Commission have been free, fair and peaceful. The next general elections will also be fair under […]
The Power Development Board increased the supply of diesel and furnace oil to power plants by 42.32 per cent in the firs half of 2013 compared with the figure of the corresponding period of 2013 as dependence on costly fuel oil-fired power plant has increased. The power board increased the fuel supply as it needed to depend on diesel and […]
It is 7:20pm and five database managers are looking intently at their computer screens. They are waiting for the final elections results to come in from their observers situated at 40 polling stations around Gazipur. So far, with 15 of the 40 polling stations having reported, the BNP is in the lead. Fifty-eight per cent votes are in favour of […]
The European Union has suggested time-bound action plans to improve labour rights and factory safety for continuation of existing trade facilities to Bangladeshi exports, including readymade garment. Officials of commerce and labour ministries told New Age on Saturday that the EU wanted Dhaka to allow trade union in the readymade garment industry in six months. In what seemed to be […]
The captain and five other crew of the Bangladeshi cargo ship MV Hope which was caught in rough weather in Andaman Sea on its way to Chittagong port, still remained untraced despite frantic search for the third consecutive day on Saturday,shipping officials said. The bodies of chief engineer Kazi Saifuddin and chief officer Mahbub Morshed of MV Hope were retrieved […]
Sheikh Rahman Ali, 90, of Uttar Chattar at Nayapara in Gazipur came to the polling centre hoping to elect ‘a good man’ the first mayor of the city. ‘A good man? Don’t you understand? A candidate who is honest, skilled and wants to stand by the poor,’ Rahman said as he came out of the polling booth after casting his […]
A BNP-backed candidate and two rebel candidates of the ruling Awami League won mayoral elections in three municipalities on Saturday. The BNP-led alliance-backed candidate Motahar Hossain Manik won the mayorship of the Sonaimuri municipality in Noakhali, and Habibur Rahman the mayorship of Araihazar municipality and Halim Shikdar the mayorship of the Gopaldi municipality in Narayanganj. The New Age correspondent […]
The home ministry has set up an ‘ethics committee’ aimed at containing corruption and promoting ‘good practices’ in all offices, including those of the law enforcement agencies, under the ministry. Senior secretary to the home ministry CQK Mustaq Ahmed will lead the 28-member body instituted in keeping with the national integrity strategy, according to an official order signed by deputy […]
Nine robbery suspects went missing after an hour-long gunfight with the police in the Jamuna river in Lakshikhola area of Kazipur upazila in Sirajganj on Friday night. The police said that the nine robbery suspects received bullet injuries and jumped into the river. The police arrested two of the gang of the robbery suspects — Monirul Islam, 28, son of […]
About fifty metres stretch of river protection embankment at Maiezbari under Kazipur upazila in Sirajganj were eroded by the water of the Jamuna river on early Saturday. Locals said the part of the embankment still under construction collapsed and devoured into the Jamuna at about 6:00am endangering the 8-kilometre Maiezbari-Shimla Bahuka embankment. Panic gripped the locals. Local Water Development Board […]
A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League activists blocked the Chittagong University rail gate following an infighting that injure one on Saturday. The injured was identified as Salauddin Noyon, a second year students of fine arts department at the university. Witnesses and the police said that Chhatra League activists Meheraj, Shohel, and Robi beat up fellow activist Salaudding on the university […]
Two school children drowned in a pond at Sutarbir of Agailjhara in Barisal on Saturday. The victims were Sumaiya, 5, daughter of Mannat Fakir, and Jannat, 5, daughter of Hamjalal Fakir. The victims were cousins and students of Class I at Dumuria Government Primary School at Rajihar in the upazila. The Gaurnadi police officer-in-charge, Abul Kalam, said that the two […]
Experts and agriculture activists on Saturday voiced concern over the government move to introduce genetically modified Bt-brinjal to the growers’ level, despite a moratorium imposed on its commercialisation in India and a ban on its field trials in the Philippines. When the authorities and courts in two other neighbouring countries are becoming cautious about the promotion of the genetically modified […]
The government has appointed journalist Shah Alamgir, as new director general of the Press Institute of Bangladesh, Ministry of Public Administration made this announcement on Thursday. Shah Alamgir, currently serving as Chief Executive Officer in Asian Television, has been appointed PIB DG in place of Dulal Chnadra Biswas who went back to his teaching job in Rajshahi University. The appointment […]
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has donated Tk 5 lakh to the family of hartal victim Mohammad Musa. The environment and forests minister, Hasan Mahmud, on behalf of the premier, handed over the cheque of the amount to Musa’s father Abdul Monaf at a function at Chittagong Press Club on Saturday. Local MP Nurul Islam BSC was also present. Musa, […]
Most of the schoolteachers continue to use mobiles inside classrooms in breach of a government instruction for not to do so, a government investigation found. Amid widespread allegations of classroom teaching being hampered, the education and the primary and mass education ministry in 2009 instructed teachers not to use mobiles inside classrooms. There are nearly 10 crore mobile users in […]
A local Juba League leader was kidnapped by unknown miscreants from the capital’s Gulshan 2 area on Saturday afternoon. The victim was identified as Jahurul Islam Bhuiyan alias Parvez, 35, a leader of Narayanganj district unit of the ruling Awami League’s youth wing. Quoting the victim’s wife, police said a group of 10-12 armed miscreants impersonating law enforcers intercepted a […]
The Teesta is rising due to heavy rainfall in the upper catchment and crossed the danger level at Dalia point in Bangladesh on Saturday morning. India sounded red alert in some parts of Jalpaiguri following alarming rise in Teesta waters due heavy rainfall there. Md Amirul Islam, executive engineer of Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre of Bangladesh, told New Age […]
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