Changes in national ambient air quality standards proposed
The Department of Environment has taken a plan to update the country’s ambient air quality standards to widen the area of enforcement.
New CEC more loyal to AL than his predecessor: BNP
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said that the newly appointed Chief Election Commissioner was way ahead of his predecessor Kazi Rakibuddin Ahmad on ‘Awami partisan spirit’.
3 workers killed yet again in Sylhet landslide
Three workers were killed in a landslide at a sandstone quarry in Sylhet early Friday, police and local people said.
PURBACHAL PLOT IRREGULARITIES: Ex-Rajuk chair, Partex director arrested
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Thursday arrested former Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha chairman Iqbal Uddin Chowdhury and Partex Group director Shawkat Aziz in a case over plot forgery.
SAGAR-RUNI MURDER RAB fails to detect killers in 5 years
The Rapid Action Battalion investigators failed to identify the suspected killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi into five years of the murders in their bedroom, in the capital. Frustrated family members said they are being deprived of justice.
Polls boycott again to make BNP irrelevant : Quader
Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Thursday warned that the Bangladesh Nationalist Party may become irrelevant in politics if it repeats the mistake by boycotting the next polls as it did in the 10th parliamentary elections.
New CEC talking like ‘ruling party spokesman’: BNP
Criticising the chief election commissioner-designate KM Nurul Huda for his reported remark that the parliamentary elections should be held under an elected government, the Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Thursday alleged that he is talking like the ‘ruling party spokesman’.
FAILURE TO SIGN TEESTA, FENI DEALS Deals on six rivers put on hold
The government has put on hold negotiations on reaching agreements on sharing of waters of six transboundary rivers as Bangladesh and India have failed to sign an agreement on sharing of waters of Teesta and Feni rivers in spite of formal commitments from two successive Indian prime ministers in the past six years.
PM seeks co-op of all to combat extremism
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina has sought more cooperation from all including armed forces in combating militancy and terrorism to keep undisrupted the country’s ongoing development process.
Drive to free Buriganga from illegal occupants slows down
The much publicized drive the government had launched on December 22 to free the Buriganga River from illegal occupants has slowed down.
