Foreigners held with fake currencies in city
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested 10 people including nine foreigners along with huge amount of counterfeit notes and fake currency-making materials in Bashundhara residential area in the capital Sunday night.
Ethnic minorities fear eviction in Madhupur
Ethnic minorities are in fear of eviction following a gazette notification issued declaring 9,145 acres of Madhupur Forest lands in Tangail reserve forest and have alleged that the government has made the decision keeping them in dark.
Banks’ consumer loans double to Tk 50,508cr in 2 years
Outstanding amount of banks’ consumer loans almost doubled in two years, surpassing Tk 50,000 crore as of March 31, 2016 as the country’s business sector has been going through a dull situation in recent years amid political uncertainty and delicate law and order situation.
GAS TARIFF HIKE: Govt goes against national interest, creates artificial crisis of gas: speakers
Slamming a government plan to raise gas prices to match with international price of Liquefied Petroleum Gas that will be imported, speakers suggested that the government should explore unexplored and abandoned gas fields to meet the home demand for this natural resource.
Ruling class consider CHT as colony: Santu Larma
Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samiti president Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, widely known as Santu Larma, on Sunday said that the ruling class still considered the Chittagong Hill Tracts as a colony and continued colonial rule there.
Most people have no confidence in ACC: TIB
Most people of the country have no confidence in the Anti-Corruption Commission while 91 per cent people are not aware of the activity of the commission, revealed a Transparency International Bangladesh study.
PATURIA-DAULATDIA ROUTE: Ferry service closed indefinitely
Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation suspended ferry service on Paturia-Daulatdia route due to strong current in Padma River that has already damaged three landing stations at Daulatdia ghat.
Fighting radicalism through Rabindra philosophy stressed
Academics on Saturday sought massive initiatives to install the philosophy of Rabindranath Tagore into youth minds to prevent them from being radicalised.
Strong Padma currents interrupt ferry services
As flood water recedes, it is making a trail of devastation in many districts, devouring houses and croplands and displacing pontoons in the Padma River, causing problems to ferry movement on Paturia-Douladia route.
Ethnic minorities pushed into uncertainty: Santu Larma
Adivasi Forum president, Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, also known as Santu Larma, said on Saturday that population transfer to minority dominated areas, grabbing of land of ethnic minorities and absence of rights to self determination and their constitutional recognition as ‘indigenous people’ continued to force ethnic minorities to an uncertain future.
