DHAKA: Most of the women vice-chairmen of the country’s upazila parishads do not get due cooperation from the respective UZ and UP chairmen although they are oath-bound to assist their female colleagues for an effective run of the freshly introduced local-government body.The women

DHAKA: Another multistory building in the jerrybuilt capital city tilted at Jabbar Housing Society colony at Mirpur on Sunday morning. Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (RAJUK) gave notice to the residents to leave the vulnerable building within the day. RAJUK sources said the water and

DHAKA: Speakers at a human-chain demonstration here Sunday urged the government to increase manpower in the railway sector and reopen the closed rail-stations at the soonest to breathe dynamism into the country’s communications system as well as the economy. Save the Environment

Dhaka: Government’s petroleum corporation, Petrobangla, is going to invite international tender by December for onshore gas exploration, in a bid to remedy the energy crunch facing the country.“Drafting the production-sharing contract is underway,” chairman the Bangladesh Oil, Gas

DHAKA: The government will go for amending the country’s existing labour law soon for ensuring rights of the working boys and girls, as the existing one is being deemed outdated.“As the existing Labour Act-2006 is not fit for the time, it will be amended in next parliamentary

DHAKA: The national budget is losing its capitalistic character and evolving slowly as a social-welfare one, Unnayan Samunnay, a think tank, said Saturday in an antithesis of all that is being said by all other traditional analysts.Samannay theorists differed with similar other

DHAKA: Building ship with a bright potential for Bangladesh can offer US$ 5 billion in the next five years, a prospect now plagued by various problems like lack of government support. “A 10 percent cash incentive for the sector from the government may return US$ 5 billion in the next

Chuadanga: Police authority Saturday suspended the officer-in-charge of Alamdanga Thana, Elias Fakir, on charges of neglect of duty and nepotism.      Khulna Divisional Police Headquarters issued him the marching order and he handed over charge of the Thana to Sub-Inspector

DHAKA: The country will observe Eve teasing Prevention Day on Sunday with a fresh vow to prevent the menace that took lives of 16 girls.In observance of the day, the Education Ministry will bring out a procession from Muktangan that will march up to Central Shahid Minar at 8 am. A rally

Saver: The workers of two garment factories clashed at Savar on Saturday morning, leaving at least 25 wounded.One of the workers, Motahar, said a number of workers switched sides from Apparel Village into Mozart Knitwear recently, as they used to be tortured and denied wages. “Since

DHAKA: Supreme Court Bar Association President Khondoker Mahbub Hossain Saturday accused the government of ‘nakedly’ interfering into the run of the media and the administration, which he thinks is an insidious action that strikes at the root of democracy.  “The puppet government

Natore: Chasing three suspected car-riding robbers, police nabbed them on the Bonpara-Hatikumrul road connecting the Jamuna bridge highway early Saturday, official sources said.On suspicion, a team of patrol police asked the driver of the private car to halt near the toll plaza on the

Dhaka: An ill-driven bus ran down a bike-riding couple at capital’s Maghbazar level-crossing Saturday, police said, as fatal accidents seem to be occurring in a sequence in the city these days. The duo deceased were Saiful Islam Sahin, 35, and his wife Shampa, 28. Sahin was a senior

Chittagong: The port city saw ‘mock’ e-voting Friday in one of its wards to test Election Commission’s preparation for launching digital polling system in the June 17 Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) elections. The mock voting through Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) started at 10

BARGUNA: Three pirates were killed in a so-called gunfight with a combined force of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) and Coastguard members at Majherchar on Baleswar River under Patharghata upazila in the district on Thursday night.The deceased were identified as Kuddus Molla alias Nati

CHITTAGONG: The Election Commission Thursday sued BNP Standing Committee member Salahuddin Qader Chowdhury MP on charge of making baseless comments alleging voter-list manipulations ahead of Chittagong City Corporation polls.District election officer Farhad Hossain filed the case with

Chandpur: Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni Friday reaffirmed that Ruppur Nuclear Power Plant would be set up during the tenure of the present government for mitigating country’s nagging power crisis. “A treaty has been signed with Russia to this effect, and with the establishment of the

DHAKA: The World Day Against Child Labour will be observed in the country as elsewhere across the globe Saturday with an urge for tackling underlying poverty that breeds child labour, a problem Bangladesh finds hard to resolve.Some 80 lakh children are engaged in different jobs in the

DHAKA: A suspected criminal died Friday after his arrest by Rapid Action Battalion personnel in the capital a day before, police said.The deceased was identified as Biplob, 38, hailed from Gupinathpur in Gopalganj district.Uttara thana SI Kamrul Islam said they found Biplob after Juma

DHAKA: The Daily Amar Desh eventually couldn’t see the light of the day Friday for police action although the management, armed with a High Court order, took initiative for resuming its publication. Tejgaon Thana police kept the press locked since Thursday midnight though the High Court