- Deported workers yet to get arrears
Kuwait has not yet paid the arrears of several hundred Bangladeshi workers who were arrested and deported following a protest there one and a half years ago against low wage and non-payment of salaries.
“The deported workers submitted their passports and legal documents of working in Kuwait. We have promised them to recover their arrears, but [...] (local) - Finger pointed at top agency men
Md Hafizur Rahman, the prime accused in Chittagong Arms case, in a confessional statement here Saturday night hinted at involvement of the same high officials of intelligence agencies and leaders of United Liberation Front of Asom (Ulfa), as mentioned in his previous confessional statement.
He made the statement under section-164 in the arms smuggling case filed [...] (local) - Cell phone crime goes unabated
Extortion and threat to high profile people using cell phones is going unabated as law enforcers could hardly trace the criminals who manage their SIM cards without following proper registration procedure.
Sources observe that the menace has reached an intolerable level as even Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her nephew lawmaker Fazle Noor Taposh could not [...] (local) - No room for new vehicles
The number of vehicles is around seven times the capacity of the roads in the capital.
In last six years, the volume of motorised and non-motorised vehicles has almost doubled, while the city has seen only two new thoroughfares–Doyaganj-Jurain and Bijoy Sarani-Agargaon–built during the period, said officials involved in traffic management.
With 250-300 kilometres of roads, Dhaka [...] (local) - Research, latest tech the need
Bangladesh needs to focus on intensive agriculture researches and collaboration with other countries for next generation technologies, which will increase productivity and reduce input cost to face the challenges of climate change and rising energy prices.
Amit Roy, president of the US-based International Fertiliser Development Centre (IFDC), said this in an exclusive interview with The [...] (local) - Consultant considered, ?poor record? ignored
In a tender to study the country’s coal sector, the Hydrocarbon Unit of power, energy and mineral resources ministry has short-listed a British consultant ignoring the company’s past ‘poor performance’ in the Barapukuria coal mine.
Under a one-million-dollar financing from the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Hydrocarbon Unit floated a tender to hire a consultant who [...] (local) - Overseas jobseekers to get smart card
The government is introducing smart card, a tag with computer chip, for overseas jobseekers from tomorrow to ease the immigration process and help them more effectively while they are abroad.
The card will contain all the information furnished in the passport, a jobseeker’s fingerprints and the name and licence number of the recruiting agency so that [...] (local) - Road safety held hostage
Reckless and callous driving of rundown city-service buses is an everyday hazard for Dhaka dwellers and commuters and with law enforcement agencies not being strict enough, it puts people’s lives and safety at risk.
A large number of such bus and minibus drivers do not even have driving licenses or have fake ones. They drive at [...] (local) - Demolition starts with glass walls
Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha tore down the outer glass walls of the top four floors of 10-storey Jamuna Future Park Shopping Complex yesterday.
Even though the Rajuk eviction team was supposed to demolish the illegally-built four floors, it just broke the glass walls from 10th floor down to seventh, a small number of the partition walls [...] (local) - 600 trees felled for shrimp farm
Over 600 keora and bain trees at a coastal mangrove forest in the district’s Chakoria upazila have been felled to make way for a shrimp enclosure.
Locals said some 50 labourers under supervision of Mohammad Ali Chowdhury, general secretary of a Badarkhali cooperative association, denuded the area in last five/six days.
They are now building earthen [...] (local)
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