The government has taken a move to rationalise rental power plants consuming excess fuel by lowering the heating value of fuel oil without changing the quality. A power and energy ministry committee recommended that the government should set a lower limit of the heating value to decide the standards of fuel consumption to produce electricity, a power division official told […]
The government has allocated only Tk 1 lakh against the requirement of at least Tk 245 crore in the current financial year for implementation of the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant project, officials said. Expressing concern about the poor allocation for the project, a priority project of the present government amid chronic power shortage, science and technology ministry officials said that […]
The Awami League lawmaker for Barguna 2 constituency, Golam Sabur Tulu, was killed in a road accident in Chumurdi area under Bhanga upazila of Faridpur on Dhaka-Khulna highway on Friday. The accident took place around 4:30pm as Sabur, along with four others, was returning to Dhaka, the police and locals said. The Jeep veered off the road and ended up […]
People planning to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr with their near and dear ones in their country homes started crowding Kamalapur railway station and different bus counters on Friday to buy advance tickets but many returned empty handed after hours of wait in long queues. Many people who went to buy train tickets at Kamalapur railway station returned empty handed while many others […]
Shops and malls in the city were seen crowded with Eid shoppers on Friday buying new dresses and other essentials for celebration of the Eid-ul-Fitr culminating the holy month of Ramadan. Witnesses said shoppers including young men, women and children thronged different malls on the weekly holiday since morning braving drizzling to buy their special items. The salesmen were seen […]
Jahangirnagar University authorities have allegedly embezzled scholarship money for nearly 300 students, deprived students said and officials confirmed New Age on Thursday. The office of the registrar has collected nearly Tk 16 lakh from the exchequer against the 300 students but did not hand over it to the scholarship-winners during the fiscal years between 2005-06 and 2011-12. The number of […]
Four staff members of B Technology, a contractor for the state-owned mobile operator Teletalk, were rescued from remote Merung area of Dighinala upazila on Friday, 18 days after they were abducted for ransom. Unidentified miscreants abducted the five people – engineers Akter Hussain, Hemayet Hussain and Suja Mia and employees Montu Chakma and Mujibur Rahman from Baghaichari of Rangamati district […]
After inauguration in last November, Bangladesh Machine Tools Factory Limited so far affixed retro-reflective number plates only on 6.5 per cent vehicles all over the country while the factory is hoping to affix these plates on the remaining vehicles within next November. About 2.5 lakh vehicles are yet to get new number plates with radiofrequency identification tags after they had […]
A joint poll of CNN-IBN and The Hindu shows 48 per cent of Indians believe their government should trust Bangladesh ‘a great deal.’ Indians trust Bangladesh the most compared to any other country, according to the opinion poll jointly commissioned by Indian news TV channel CNN-IBN and leading English daily The Hindu. The poll, conducted by the Centre for the […]
A worker was shot dead and 50 were injured in a clash between the workers of two spinning mills at Nagarhaola village under Sripur upazila in Gazipur on early Friday. The deceased was identified as Spinning Mills iron headman Abdus Salam, 35, son of Mainuddin of the area. The police arrested three security guards of Gulshan Spinning Mills. Locals said […]
The foreign minister, Dipu Moni, who went to India on Thursday, called on Arun Jaitley, the leader of the opposition in India’s Rajya Sabha on Friday to win the BJP support for the Land Boundary Agreement likely to be placed in the coming monsoon season of the Indian parliament beginning August 5. The meeting is said to be crucial as […]
An online connectivity would be established between the Bangladesh Finance Intelligence Unit of Bangladesh Bank, the Anti-Corruption Commission, home ministry, finance division and National Board of Revenue to deal with money laundering and terror financing. A committee is working on the establishment of the connectivity for sharing money laundering and terror financing related data in coordination of the Bangladesh financial […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, leaves Dhaka for Saudi Arabia today to perform umrah at the invitation of the Saudi government. She will stay in Madinah from July 28 to July 31 to say prayers at Masjid Al-Nabawi and say prayers at the grave side of the Prophet Muhammad (SM), the BNP chairperson’s Saudi Arabia affairs special emissary […]
The Anti-Corruption Commission has started inquiry into alleged irregularities in tender process for Centrally Computerised Seat Reservation and Ticketing System of Bangladesh Railway, an ACC official said. ACC director M Moniruzzman said that the commission last week took the decision to investigate the case. The official said that the railway authorities on October 1 last year invited a tender for […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday alleged that prime minister Sheikh Hasina’s son Sajeeb Wazed Joy has got advance ‘information’ about rigging in the next general elections. BNP joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi at a news briefing at the party central office said the comments made by Joy about the results of next elections gave a broad hint about […]
At least 40 BNP leaders and activists were injured as Awami League activists attacked them at Kalapara in Patuakhali on Friday. The attackers also vandalised eight motorcycles of the BNP men and snatched their mobiles. Of the injured, three were sent to Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.President of the Kalapara upazila BNP ABM Mosharef Hossain said that […]
The prison authorities faced problems for Thursday when they had received 18 transsexuals arrested in an extortion case on Wednesday. A metropolitan magistrate’s court in Dhaka sent the transsexuals, mostly dressed in saris, to the Dhaka central jail on Thursday afternoon in the case the managing director of Basic Shirt Limited, Md Humayun Kabir, of Senpara Parbata in the capital […]
A man suspected of being involved in snatching was beaten to death at Dattapara of Tongi in Gazipur on Friday. The identity of the deceased could not be immediately established. The police and local people said that a group of snatchers took away the bag about 11:00am from a woman who was carrying Tk 30,000. The woman, Kohinoor Begum, and […]
The much-awaited project to provide gas to the country’s southern region is being delayed again for various reasons, including bureaucratic tangles. Though the project, launched in 2009, was supposed to be completed by December 2012, only 10-15 per cent of its works were completed so far, sources told the news agency. Amid the delay, the Executive Committee of National Economic […]
The local administration imposed a ban on any procession or rally or gathering at Quadernagar under Rangunia upazila in Chittagong on Friday after the ruling Awami League activists on Thursday had set on fire the stage made by the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party to hold an iftar party. Local Juba League had declared that they would hold a political […]
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