The state-run Soil Resources Development Institute has found some 40 per cent of both locally produced and imported fertilisers adulterated. Laboratory tests by SRDI also found that the adulteration levels in fertilisers, including urea, DAP, SSP, SOP and boron, increased compared with the levels last year. SRDI officials on Tuesday submitted the findings to the agriculture ministry. The report on […]
Apparel workers continued agitation to press home their demand for a minimum monthly wage of Tk 8,100 for the fourth consecutive day in Dhaka, Narayanganj and Tangail, ignoring the government’s call for joining their works. The government held a tripartite meeting with factory owners and workers on Monday night and after the meeting shipping minister Shahjahan Khan on behalf of […]
Civil society think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue on Tuesday proposed Tk 6,560 in monthly minimum wage for entry-level apparel workers. The minimum wage needs to be increased to Tk 8,200, CPD officials said at a dialogue in the CIRDAP auditorium. The CPD executive director, Mustafizur Rahman, presided over the progrmame on the minimum wage in the apparel sector. Economists, labour […]
The Dhaka-Sundarban long march, which reached Manikganj town on Tuesday afternoon for an overnight stay, called on the government to cancel the Rampal Thermal Power Plant Project terming it ‘contrary to national interests’. The National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports started the five-day march towards Sundarban, a World Heritage site and home to the world’s […]
Apparel factory owners on Tuesday said that they would not be able to pay wages and festival allowances to workers if the unrest in the sector over wage increase continued. The fresh unrest and vandalism in the apparel sector over an increase in wages creates new fears and the situation will hinder the sustainable growth of the industry, sector leaders […]
German Ambassador in Dhaka Albrecht Conze on Tuesday said political dialogue rather sooner than later is obvious to have peaceful and just elections in Bangladesh in the coming months. ‘Germany joins the UN secretary general and other international efforts in expressing the deep desire for peaceful and just election process in months,’ he told a group of journalists at the […]
The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Tuesday began hearing Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee’s appeal seeking acquittal from death sentence on war crimes charges. Earlier, a five-member bench headed by chief justice Md Muzammel Hossain rejected Sayedee’s lawyers’ petition seeking three weeks time to prepare for the appeal hearing. Four other judges are Justice SK Sinha, Justice MA […]
Transport owners in Chittagong called a 24-hour strike for today in protest at vandalism a mob carried out after a student had been killed in a traffic accident at Sitakunda in Chittagong on Tuesday. Rabiul Islam Rubel, 22, a student of International Islamic University in Chittagon, was killed in the accident. After the accident, his fellows and local people had […]
Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal activists on Tuesday went on berserk and vandalised vehicles in the capital, Savar and Rajshahi, protesting at the inclusion of their top leaders in the charge-sheet of the case of bomb attack on the house of home minister Hasanul Haq Inu. The activists, backed by Bangladesh Nationalist Party, vandalised and torched around 10 vehicles at Savar and […]
Expressing her firm confidence about holding the next election in a free, fair and neutral manner, prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday said that the upcoming polls in Bangladesh would make its democratic process and constitutional rule sustainable. ‘We’ll have to uphold the constitution and to begin the practice of transferring power under a democratic process from a certain stage,’ […]
Three people, including a woman, were killed in separate incidents in the capital on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Roksana Begum Laila, 36, wife of Saifullah Khan, of Rayerbagh in Jatrabari, Aziz Matubbar, 60, of Sadar upazila in Faridpur and Chitta Ranjan Chowdhury, 45, of Bashuria village in Muksudpur upazila of Gopalganj. Witnesses and family members said Roksana who […]
An activist of Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal, youth front of the main opposition BNP, was stabbed to death allegedly by Awami League men at Jagannathpur under Chaugacha upazila in Jessore Monday night. Local BNP and its front organisations have called a half-day general strike in the district for Wednesday in protest at the killing of Atiar Rahman, 35. BNP activists carrying […]
A worker died after falling into a washing machine at a factory in Bhannara of Kaliakoir upazila on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Ujjal Mia, 22, washing machine helper of ‘China Kitchen Ware Industry’ and a resident of Shibpur Shelerchar village in Gopalpur upazila of Tangail district. The police said Ujjal fell into the washer while talking to its […]
Airport Armed Police arrested an employee of a private airline on charge of stealing fuel from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport Monday night. The arrestee was identified as Sohel,28, working as a welder of Bismillah Airlines. Sources at the airport said some vehicles of GMG Airlines were parked near boarding bridge no 16 at apron area of the airport. Members of […]
Jurist Kamal Hossain on Tuesday sought to intervene in a writ petition challenging the legality of the amendment of eight provisions incorporated in the Contempt of the Courts Act 2013 which was enacted on February 23. The application, made on behalf of the Bangladesh Administrative Service Association and Prothom Alo’s joint editor Mizanur Rahman Khan, questioned the maintainability of the […]
The High Court on Tuesday directed Bangladesh Bank governor and the bank regulations and policy department’s general manager to explain in two weeks why they would not be prosecuted and punished for contempt of court charges for flouting its order. On February 11, the High Court directed the governor Atiur Rahman and general manager KM Abdul Wadood to dispose of […]
German ambassador in Dhaka Albrecht Conze whose country is a leading buyer of Bangladesh’s readymade garments favours pay rise of apparel workers agitating for wage hike for the last few days. ‘It is obvious that wage rise is necessary in the garment industry. Compared to other industries of Bangladesh, the garment industry here is almost at the lowest end in […]
Police arrested thirty-four Shibir men on Monday night and as a response Chhatra Shibir activists exploded over a dozen crude bombs leaving a pedestrian injured in the Chittagong city on Tuesday. Police arrested the Shibir activists from their office at Chandanpura of Kotowali thana. Chittagong metropolitan Shibir president (north) general secretary of metropolitan Shibir (south) Md Sohel and Nurul Amin […]
The High Court on Tuesday directed the government to submit in two months a report on the number of industries in Dhaka and its outskirts have so far installed effluent treatment plants. A bench of Justice Mirza Hussain Haider and Justice Muhammad Khurshid Alam Sarkar passed the order after hearing a writ petition filed by Pakija packaging company’s general manager […]
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday sought until May 31, 2014 from the Election Commission to organise its national council and submit the names of the national executive committee to the commission. The Representation of the People Order 1972, the primary electoral law, stipulates that a registered political party should submit its newly-formed committee after holding council sessions regularly as […]
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