The deputy commissioners on Thursday alleged that rural areas are having more power outages than the urban areas and that they are under constant pressure from the ruling partymen seeking lease of the sand and stone quarries in their districts. The heads of the district administration made the allegations at a meeting with the power ... Read more
Month: July 2009
Ctg still reels from power shortage
Diverting gas supply from CUFL to power station fails to improve situation The port city and its suburbs continue to suffer from acute power shortage despite the move to increase power generation in two units of Raozan power plant by diverting gas there from the Chittagong Urea Fertiliser Ltd (CUFL). The government indefinitely suspended the ... Read more
Restore canals, wetlands to stop waterlogging
Suggest experts as water bodies being lost due to unplanned urbanisation Mindless destruction of natural water bodies in and around Dhaka coupled with flagrant disregard for urban planning of successive governments have brought the capital to its knees, said noted urban
Indian officials brief Bangladesh team on Tipai
Indian officials Wednesday held briefing discussion with the Bangladesh parliamentary delegation on the controversial Tipaimukh Dam project after the fact-finding mission arrived in New Delhi en route to the dam
Cut emission level by 45pc within 2020
Vulnerable countries urge developed ones The most vulnerable countries (MVCs) demanded the developed countries to reduce their emission by 45 percent in aggregate against 1990 levels by 2020 and make available fund of $150 billion a year to help protect the
One drowns and another goes missing after police chase
A teenage boy drowned and another went missing when police chased a group of people who allegedly stormed into a house at Kamrangirchar on early Wednesday. Police arrested nine young men, allegedly for attacking the house’s
CNG pump owners postpone strike
CNG pump owners have postponed their proposed countrywide strike till August 16 in response to the call from the government to resolve their grievances through discussion, reports
No financing available for migration of the poor: WB
Projects around 10pc remittance growth despite recession Poverty reduction in Bangladesh will be accelerated significantly if the poor are provided with the opportunity to be employed abroad, said the World Bank, which projected around 10 per cent growth in remittances this fiscal
NCTB asked to insert ‘creative’ questions in HSC textbooks
The education ministry on Wednesday ordered the National Curriculum and Textbook Board authorities that each chapter of the compulsory Bangla textbooks for class XI and XII should end with a set of ‘creative’
WASA drainage covers 37pc in Dhaka city
The WASA drainage system covers only 37 percent area in Dhaka City leaving the most of the metropolis vulnerable to severe waterlogging particularly during the monsoon. Concerned experts say ensuring free flow of water to all the existing 26 canals, freeing those from encroachers, extension of drainage
Only 5pc farmers under agri credit coverage: Muhit asks BKB, RAKUB to expand branch network
Finance Minister AMA Muhith Wednesday asked the state-owned banks specialized and dedicated to agriculture credit to expand their branch network to reach farmers of the areas that still remained out of the
Titas MD sued for bribery
A CNG filling station and conversion workshop owner yesterday sued the managing director and two others of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd for demanding Tk 1 lakh bribe from
Micro-credit programme with a difference
Chinta Rani, 32 and Maloti, 35, both housewives and living at the village of Kutubpur under South Sunamjganj Upazila in Sunamganj, are no more taking loan from any NGO or Mohajan. Now, they can take loan from their own organisation formed comprising 30 others families of the village three years ago in association with a ... Read more
Bangladesh beat Windies, win ODI series
After their magnificent first-ever overseas test-series victory in West Indies last week, Bangladesh again proved their worth clinching the maiden ODI series against a test nation abroad when the tigers chased down the galloping Caribbean hosts to beat them by 3 wickets at Windsor Park in Dominica Tuesday. They were doubly crowned through making a ... Read more
Biggest pullout from CHT
Govt decides to withdraw one brigade, 35 temporary army camps by Sept; 200 camps already withdrawn in phases as per the 1997 peace accord In a major development towards implementation of the Chittagong Hill Tracts Peace Accord 1997, the government has decided to withdraw one brigade of troops and 35 temporary security camps from CHT ... Read more
Rid’s syrup unauthorised, toxic element found
Says probe report on paracetamol tragedy The government-formed probe committee has found presence of poisonous Diethylene Glycol in the paracetamol syrup of one pharmaceutical company after examining 300 samples of paracetamol and vitamin syrup of 10 companies. The seven-member body submitted its report to Health Minister AFM Ruhal Haque yesterday. The committee headed by Joint ... Read more
Parts of the city still submerged in rainwater
Much of the low-lying areas in and around the city and many of its roads were still inundated on Wednesday as rainwater was taking time to recede due to lack of adequate drainage system. Meanwhile water, gas and electricity connections which were snapped at many parts of the city during Tuesday’s record downpour were yet ... Read more
DCs ask govt to define duties of upazila reps, officials
Deputy commissioners from across the country on Wednesday called on the government to bring an end to the conflict between the local representatives and the administrators at the grassroots level by defining their responsibilities more specifically. At the working session on the local government ministry on the second day of the deputy commissioners’ annual conference, ... Read more
Mega plan to generate 5000 mw electricity
The Ministry of Power and Energy has been mobilising Tk 40,000 crore to generate 5,000MW of electricity to reduce load shedding into a tolerable level within next four and half years during the term of the present government. The ministry has placed its mega plan of power generation to Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her ... Read more
Padma Bridge: Bonds to mobilize fund locally
Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday said the resource gap for the construction of Padma Bridge would be around US$ 500 million, as an inter-ministerial meeting reviewed the proposed mega project. “We’ll have to mobilize funds locally to meet the resource gap locally. I think there will be no problem to meet the gap.” he ... Read more