WB favours launching carbon tax in Bangladesh
A World Bank mission scheduled to take place from July 31 to August 11 may suggest the government to introduce carbon taxes in the country to reduce environmental pollution due to carbon emissions, officials said.
Overnight raid kills 9 extremist suspects
Nine suspected Islamist extremists were killed and an injured suspect was arrested in what police named ‘Operation Storm-26’ at a house at Kalyanpur in Dhaka early Tuesday.
PM asks deputy commissioners to be firm in enforcing law for peace
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Tuesday asked the deputy commissioners to be firm and careful in enforcing law to ensure peace and stability through eradicating militancy, terrorism and communalism.
Bangladesh-Russia ink $11.385b loan deal for Rooppur nuclear plant
Bangladesh and Russia signed an $11.385 billion supplier’s credit agreement in Moscow on Tuesday for the Rooppur nuclear power.
Body of missing businessman found in Buriganga
The body of Dutch-Bangla Chamber of Commerce and Industry president Hasan Khaled was found in river Buriganga on Tuesday, three days after he went missing on Saturday.
Nine killed in police raid in Kalyanpur
At least nine alleged extremists were killed in a ‘gunfight’ between police and extremists in the capital’s Kalyanpur on early Tuesday, police said.
Rights activists demand scrap of decision of declaring Madhupur land as reserve forest
Ethnic minority leaders and rights activists on Monday urged the government to withdraw the gazette notification declaring over 9,100 acres of lands at Madhupur in Tangail as reserved forest.
Child worker Sagar killing: 27 minor workers rescued from spinning mill
Rupganj police on Monday rescued 27 child workers from Jobaida Textiles and Spinning Mills Limited, just a day after a 10-year old worker Sagar Barman, was killed in the same factory by pumping air through his rectum.
Global network needed to curb terrorism: Bernicat
The US ambassador in Dhaka, Marcia Stephens Bloom Bernicat said on Monday that a global network was needed to fight against terrorism.
Quasem’s review petition hearing deferred to Aug 24
The Appellate Division on Monday posted a hearing of the petition of war crimes death row inmate Mir Quasem Ali seeking review of the apex court’s verdict upholding his sentence for August 24.
