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Cold snap, dense fog disrupt normal life

Dense fog and bone-chilling cold weather have disrupted normal life in all nine upazilas of Kurigram district and five upazilas of
23 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Section 144 imposed in Nandail

District administration imposes section 144 at a union of Mymensingh’s Nandail upazila, after two factions of the ruling Awami League announces holding rallies at the same venue simultaneously.
23 January 2016, 14:18 PM

Rajuk's demolition drive in the city

Rajuk has launched simultaneous drives in various parts of the city to reclaim footpaths, parking spaces that were being used for other purposes.
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Decision time on fuel prices

The minister of finance has sought the opinion of the ministry of energy on how to revise prices of petroleum downwards.
22 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Police or politician?

We are flabbergasted by the comments made by officer-in-charge of Hatibandha Police Station, of a decidedly political nature, at two consecutive programmes at which 1100 former BNP and JP activists formally joined the AL at Gaddimiri union.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Bringing Wasa, Rajuk under City Corporations

Policymakers would do well to pay heed to the call of the DNCC mayor to bring Rajuk and Wasa under the jurisdiction of the city corporations in order to tackle the city's worsening waterlogging problem.
21 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Shipbreaking workers in peril

In this paper we have written many times about the hazardous working conditions at shipbreaking yards.
20 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Cost overruns and missed deadlines

The initial cost of the Moghbazar-Mouchak flyover was Tk 7.73 billion and original completion of the project was December 2014.
20 January 2016, 18:00 PM

War crimes: Body formed to collect info on Pak POWs

A five-member committee is formed to gather information about all Pakistani prisoners of war (POWs) who were allegedly involved in war crimes during the country’s 1971 War of Independence.
20 January 2016, 08:05 AM

Gross violation of traffic rules

Just days after two schoolgirls were killed within hours in road crashes at the Shahbagh and Matsya Bhaban intersection, reckless driving of buses continues unabated.
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Digital survey in ex-enclaves of Panchagarh starts today

Land Secretary Mesbaul Alam yesterday handed over the manually prepared map based on the primary land survey of erstwhile 36 enclaves
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Special audit of Bangladesh Bank

It is perhaps the first of its kind that a special audit on Bangladesh Bank has been asked for the parliament's Public Accounts Committee (PAC).
19 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Bangabandhu Bridge lights off to save electricity

We are aghast by the discovery of a Daily Star report that during the horrific pile up on January 9 on Bangabandhu Bridge that left six people dead...
18 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Sanctions on Iran lifted

We welcome the lifting of the long-running international sanctions against Iran. It will certainly help the country to recover from the consequences...
18 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Reckless drivers continue to kill

The death of two budding young students apparently caused by reckless driving within a span of only eight hours, around Shahbagh area...
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Dip in international oil price

The logic being offered by the government for not adjusting the oil price in the country with the international price is that the BPC is making up for the huge 'losses' it has run up over the years.
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Locals encircle DB men

Local people encircled several members of Detective Branch (DB) of police for an hour on Saturday night at Khalpara in Thakurgaon municipality area as they
17 January 2016, 18:00 PM

Hill slide snaps Sylhet rail link with Dhaka, Ctg

The rail communication of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chittagong is cut off after a hill slide caused cracks in a rail bridge in Moulvibazar.
17 January 2016, 13:57 PM

‘Time bombs’are fake

Experts confirm that the time bomb-like devices recovered in Gazipur do not contain any explosive elements.
17 January 2016, 07:34 AM

Akheri Munajat ends seeking world peace

The Akheri Munajat, seeking spiritual well-being and welfare of the Muslim Ummah, of the second phase of three-day Biswa Ijtema, ends.
17 January 2016, 05:47 AM