Gearless vessel number downsized at Ctg port
Chittagong Port Authority in an undeclared move forced the shipping companies to downsize the number of gearless (ships without cranes) vessels calling at this premier port of the country, port and shipping circles said
DNC MAYORAL BY-ELECTION EC fears legal complications
Election Commission officials said Tuesday that holding mayoral by-election in Dhaka North City faces legal complications over letting the voters of 18 new wards to cast their votes.
JAILING PHYSICIAN IN LAKSHMIPUR ADC made OSD, summoned by HC
Additional deputy commissioner of Lakshmipur Sheikh Murshidul Islam was made officer on special duty at public administration ministry on Tuesday, a day after a mobile court jailed a physician, Salauddin Sharif, for three months on the allegation of assaulting the ADC.
Khaleda gets bail in graft cases
A Dhaka court on Tuesday granted bail to Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia in Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Orphanage Trust and Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Charitable Trust graft cases.
Overcrowding increases risks of disease outbreak in Rohingya camps
Overcrowding has increased the risk of outbreak of diseases at camps of Rohingyas entering Bangladesh to flee ethnic cleansing in Rakhine State of Myanmar. Decongestion of Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar is a critical and immediate need to mitigate the health and safety risks
RESTORING CAPITAL’S CANALS HC asks govt to submit action plan in 6 months
The High Court Division on Monday directed the government to prepare and submit within six months ‘a time-bound action plan’ for the recovery and restoration of the capital’s 50 canals by demarcating their boundaries according to their original flows.
Govt allows activities detrimental to CHT Accord implementation: Santu
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Samhati Samiti president and Chittagong Hill Tracts Regional Council chairman Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, better known as Santu Larma, on Monday complained that the government had been allowing activities detrimental to the implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Accord, 1997.
Udichi activist killed by husband
An activist of Udichi Shilpigoshthi was beaten to death by her husband in her in-law’s residence at Maniknagar in the capital on Sunday.The deceased was identified as Ludmila Ahmed Liza, 38, wife of SM Sazzad, of Maniknagar area in the city
Dinajpur, after five years
IT WAS more than drizzling when I stepped out of the railway station in Dinajpur. I was tired because of the night-time travel. I could hardly sleep the night before. I was looking for a rickshaw to go to my home a little more than a kilometre in the west
ACC quizzes Bacchu over BASIC Bank scam
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Monday quizzed former BASIC Bank chairman Sheikh Abdul Hye Bacchu over default loan during his tenure in the once profit-making state-owned bank.
