Garlic price rises further

The price of garlic witnessed a further rise in the city’s kitchen markets over the week ending Friday.

No headway in reclaiming grabbed JnU halls

The Jagannath University authority has yet to make any headway in reclaiming 10 of the 12 dormitories from illegal occupants while students are forced to live at rented places on their own taking financial burden on them.

Four gas cos stop paying VAT again

Four major state-owned gas distribution companies have again stopped paying value-added tax and supplementary duty collected by them from their consumers on the prices of gas after paying the taxes for few months in 2015 though the companies have dues of Tk 13,278 crore to the National Board of Revenue, officials said.

BB, Fed, Swift to gear up efforts to recover $81m theft fund

Bangladesh Bank on Wednesday said that New York Federal Reserve Bank, BB and SWIFT would work together to gear up efforts for recovering the US$ 81 million fund stolen from the BB’s Fed Reserve account that was laundered into the Philippines.

Arrest of Selima Rahman, 66 BNP leaders ordered

The Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Judge’s Court on Wednesday issued warrants for the arrest of 67 Bangladesh Nationalist Party leaders and activists, including its vice-president Selima Rahman, in a case filed under the Special Powers Act 1974.

Citycell staff form human chain for dues, compensation

Employees of Citycell Wednesday formed a human chain demanding their outstanding salaries along with compensations as the country’s first mobile phone operator faces shutdown for defaulting a huge amount of government dues.

1 dead, 100 missing as boats capsize on turbulent rivers

A woman died while around 100 fishermen went missing as a boat capsized in Noakhali, Barguna and Patuakhali due to rough weather.

Khaleda shows no magnanimity, says Hasina

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday said that Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia

Kader Siddique blames Mujib’s sycophants for his killing

Krishok Sramik Janata League president Abdul Kader Siddique said on Tuesday the sycophants of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman had prepared the ground for the killing the country’s founding president.

Anti-Rampal project campaigners block city road

Progressive Students Alliance, a platform of left-leaning student organisations, held demonstrations in the capital on Tuesday, protesting at the Rampal coal-fired power plant project.