A number of people live under the poverty line rose to about five to six percent on account of frequent natural calamities during the last few years in the country, Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque said in the city on Wednesday, reports BSS. Bangladesh has become most vulnerable to any disaster and ... Read more
Month: July 2009
To determine additional reserves BAPEX to start 3D seismic survey soon on 5 gas fields
Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX) is going to start a three- dimensional (3-D) seismic survey soon on five gas fields to determine additional reserves. Under a project of Asian Development Bank (ADB), the survey will be carried out on 1,250 square kilometers in Titas and Bakhrabad gas fields by Bangladesh Gas Fields ... Read more
Microsoft, Yahoo agree on ad partnership
Microsoft Corp and Yahoo Inc have agreed to an online search and advertising partnership, in an attempt to rival Google Inc, that will be announced within 24 hours, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday. Microsoft will not pay an upfront fee to Yahoo, and the focus of the deal is on sharing ... Read more
BTRC moves to break monopoly
The telecoms watchdog is set to make ‘competition regulations’ by September this year to restrict monopolisation, aiming to ensure a level-playing field in the rapidly growing Bangladesh telecoms market. The telecoms regulator has followed the recommendations made by International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations agency for information and communication technology, which recently reported on ... Read more
Shades of rain
Underground parking turns underwater parking; upper floor apartments get wet treatment; fishes glide through streets Following the overnight torrential rain, some city dwellers realised that reality sometimes may really beat their wildest imagination. For instance, when the residents of an apartment building on Green Road woke up in the morning
Poor coordination blamed for law and order slide
DC conference begins Districts’ administrative chiefs have identified lack of coordination among different authorities in field administration as major reason for recent deterioration in law and order situation. A number of deputy commissioners came up with the observation on Tuesday as their annual conference began in
BNP blasts govt for sending one-party team
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) yesterday said that the government has failed to stand above narrow party politics on the issue of Tipaimukh dam. “It is disappointing that the parliamentary delegation is going to neighbouring India to visit the Tipaimukh dam site sans the
Rain disrupts work at PMO, secretariat
Overnight torrential rain inundated many important government establishments including the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday. Activities at the secretariat could not begin till noon as a large number of officials and employees failed to turn up at their offices
53-yr record rain
Torrential overnight rain broke a half-century record, said the met office on Tuesday morning as the city half submerged ground to a halt, reports bdnews24.com. The Met office said 333mm of rain was recorded in the capital over the 24 hour period to 7am, breaking a 53-year-old record in
Obama praises Bangladesh for women empowerment
US President Barack Obama has praised Bangladesh’s role in women empowerment, democracy, and poverty alleviation through micro-credit. “Many countries in the world can follow Bangladesh’s role toward the issues,” he said adding, “Bangladesh as a tolerant
No rain in Rajshahi, Naogaon
Farmers in Rajshahi, particularly in the Barind area where a drought-like situation is prevailing, still remain frustrated for lack of rainfall this season. Although many parts of the country experienced heavy rainfall from early hours of Tuesday, officials at the Meteorological Office in
SQC to sue 3 Ahmeds, 9 others for violation of constitution
BNP lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chwdhury will sue 12 persons — including former President Iajuddin Ahmed, former chief adviser to military-controlled interim government Fakhruddin Ahmed, former army chief Moeen U Ahmed, former
Only Tk 10 allocated for three meals for an accused in lock-up
Only Tk 10 is allocated per day for feeding an accused person who has been arrested and is detained in the lock-up of a police station, said police officials. ‘A person cannot even take breakfast at present with Tk 10. So how can we feed an accused three times a day with this meagre
Divers detect more holes under Jamuna ‘hard-point’
The Bangladesh Navy divers have detected more scouring holes near the Jamuna embankment’s ‘hard point’ when the Water Development Board engineers are yet to find out the cause of the collapses in the embankment on July
18 inches rainfall swamps capital
Six electrocuted, life paralysed, millions marooned, drinking water polluted The Monday’s overnight very heavy downpour, triggered by a monsoon low, has inundated different parts of the country mounting misery of people, especially the inhabitants of the capital city and its low-lying suburbs, putting the normal life and business in complete disarray. At least six people ... Read more
Clogged drains, filled up canals blamed
Waterlogging in Capital Clogged drains, filled up canals blamed Clogged and inadequate drainage system and filling up of most of the city canals are mainly responsible for waterlogging in the city. The city drainage system has not improved with the pace of rapid growth of urbanisation while most of the canals out of around 50 ... Read more
Bangladesh’s demand: no water withdrawal from Barak
Parliamentary team leaves for Tipaimukh today The Bangladeshi parliamentary delegation leaving for the site of the proposed Tipaimukh dam on Wednesday will ask India for assurances that it will not withdraw water from the Barak River through any irrigation project. The delegation, headed by former water resources minister Abdur Razzak, is also scheduled to visit ... Read more
Paddy procurement: middlemen eat up cream, farmers suffer
The marginal farmer, who is supposed to be benefited by the government’s paddy procurement drive, is hardly welcome at the procurement centres where he has to face numerous difficulties and usually has to leave without selling his stock of paddy. He has no alternative but to sell the paddy in the markets where the prices ... Read more
JS body for forming Maritime Cell
To move demarcation case in UN JS body for forming Maritime Cell The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Foreign Ministry Tuesday recommended immediate formation of a permanent Maritime Cell to determine Bangladesh’s sea boundary with India and Myanmar – the two contending neighbors who claim some extended parts of the Bay of Bengal – taking up ... Read more
Dry monsoon blights farmers’ hopes
Low rice yield feared as vast tracts remain uncultivated Little or no rains in monsoon and power supply shortage have taken their toll on paddy crops, already weighed down by low prices of earlier harvests, leaving thousands of acres of lands uncultivated in northern districts. Farmers in the northern region, known as the country’s rice ... Read more