Senior leaders of ruling Awami League think that failures in implementing election pledges, intense campaign branding Awami League as ‘anti-Islamic’, corruption and widening gap between policymakers and the people were major factors behind a series of defeats for the party in civic polls. Frustration among the voters, huge gap between the expectations of the people and the performance of the […]
Local leaders and activists of Awami League said that national politics and religious issues as well as internal feuds were some of the reasons for the stunning defeat of its mayoral candidate in the Gazipur city corporation polls on Saturday. The opposition alliance-backed mayoral candidate MA Mannan swept to victory in the maiden GCC polls defeating ruling alliance-backed candidate Ajmat […]
Dhaka South City Corporation authorities on Sunday finally demolished an under-construction ‘market’ on the footpath along Bangabazar in the city’s Gulistan area, corporation officials said. Local leaders of Awami Juba League and their accomplices had occupied the busy footpath and started construction of the ‘market’ illegally in mid-June. The New Age carried a report on June 19 headlined, ‘Jubo League […]
The government borrowing form the banking sector increased by 15.45 per cent in the just concluded fiscal year 2012-13 from that of the previous FY 2011-12. According to the Bangladesh Bank data released on Sunday, the government borrowing from the banking source stood at Tk 24,776.43 crore in the FY 2012-13 against Tk 21,459.03 crore in the FY 2011-12. Economists […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party claimed on Sunday that the people had given mandate to the opposition’s demand for an election-time ‘non-party neutral’ government through the ballot in Gazipur. Acting BNP secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir at a news briefing on Sunday urged the government to immediately restore the provision for non-party neutral government to the constitution to hold the […]
Six policemen, all in plain clothes but carrying a walkie talkie, were having their meals in a small restaurant, packed with about 30 people, at Chankharpool in the capital on Sunday afternoon. They ordered rice and meat. They had them all. After they had finished their meals, the manager of the value-for-money Aftab Restaurant sent a bill of Tk 950 […]
The government on Sunday asked shop owners to close their business after 8pm from the first day of Ramadan to 10th Ramadan to increase power supply to the households. At a meeting on Sunday, prime minister’s energy adviser Tawfiq-E-Elahi Chowdhury also asked the Bangladesh Shop Owners’ Association to close their business after 8pm till 10th Ramadan for the sake of […]
Four piracy suspects were killed by mob after a gunfight between rival gangs of pirates in the Meghna estuary at Char Jahiruddin Teliar Char under Tazumuddin upazila in Bhola on Saturday night. Local fishermen handed over nine people to Charfasson police station in Bhola on early Sunday on suspicion of their involvement in piracy. The lynched four were identified as […]
The High Court on Sunday asked the government to report on July 16 the action the government has taken against 46 private schools and colleges which have yet to return or adjust the additional amount of money they charged from students during admission in the 2011–2012 academic session. A bench of Justice Naima Haider and Justice Zafar Ahmed passed the […]
Nine crew have been rescued alive as of July 6 from the partially capsized Bangladeshi merchant ship MV HOPE, which faced an accident on July 4, about 40 nautical miles south of Phuket in Thailand due to inclement weather. A foreign ministry release said that there were 17 Bangladeshi crew onboard the ship. Of the rescued crew, second officer Mohammad […]
Fish supplies from rivers, beels and other open water bodies dropped by over 50 per cent in last 30 years due natural as well as manmade factors, fisheries department officials said. But the supplies from closed water bodies like ponds, baors and seasonal water bodies, used for commercial fish production and shrimp and prawn farms increased by three and half […]
Freedom Fighters’ commander at Santhia in Pabna Baten was killed by Razakar men in September 1971 on orders from war crimes accused, Jamaat chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, prosecution witness Rathindra Nath Kundu testified on Sunday. In his testimony as the 12th prosecution witness, Rathindra Nath, now 58, told the International Crimes Tribunal-1 that he heard about Baten’s killing from his […]
A Dhaka court on Sunday deferred to August 14 the trial of 46 opposition leaders, including BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, on charge of setting a bus on fire in front of the Prime Minister’s Office during a general strike on April 29, 2012. The Speedy Trial Court 5 judge, Harun-or-Rashid, passed the order after hearing a […]
The International Commission on the Chittagong Hill Tracts on Sunday expressed deep concern over increasing violence in the hill districts of Khagrachhari, Bandarban and Rangamati and called for specific actions to bring the perpetrators to justice. The commission is alarmed with the increasing level of violence in the Chittagong Hill Tracts and the questionable role of the law enforcement agencies […]
The government has taken up for consideration a proposal from Karnaphuly Fertilizer Company Limited to allow it to set up a new fertilizer factory at Ashuganj. Officials said the government ignored the acute gas supply shortage and opposition from the industries ministry in considering the KAFCO proposal which could force the closure of four state owned fertilizer factories. KAFCO is […]
The British high commissioner in Dhaka, Robert Gibson, on Sunday assured Bangladesh of its constant support in improving workplace environment and safety. The assurance came from a meeting with the parliament Speaker, Shirin Sharmin Chowdhury, at her office. The British envoy said the importance of readymade garment industry for the development of Bangladesh is huge and laid emphasis on improvements […]
Several hundred villagers formed a human chain blocking Dhaka-Aricha highway at Hemayetpur bus stand in Savar on Sunday morning, demanding capital punishment of the accused policemen involved in the murder of a businessman in police custody. On June 6, Shamim Sarker, 38, a local businessman, was killed in police custody. The angry locals set fire to a police box and […]
Representatives of the Association of Southeast Nations member states said in Dhaka on Sunday that there is ample scope for expanding trade and investment between Bangladesh and Asean countries and laid emphasis on mutual cooperation for stronger trade ties. They hoped that Bangladesh’s relation with the Asean countries would be strengthened further in the days to come. The observation was […]
Shajahan Ali of Jessore has pioneered the cultivation of cardamom in Bangladesh. He started the commercial cultivation of the spice in 2011 with the help of information collected from the internet. He brought roots from India and started cultivation in 1.5 bighas of land. He already started selling cardamom in local markets. A group of scientists from Spice Research Centre […]
Green activists on Sunday demanded quick approval and proper implementation of the draft Safe Food Act 2013 to ensure safe food for consumers. At a seminar, they said that there are many laws and policies to ensure safe food for consumers, even some government institutions, having laboratories to test food, are authorised to ensure food safety; but those institutions lack […]
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