- Gas line blast causes fire at Bangla Motor
Flames spouted out of a defective underground pipeline of Titas Gas, causing panic and disruption to vehicular movement on the busy Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue near Bangla Motor intersection yesterday afternoon.
The surrounding roads experienced a massive gridlock for over three hours as the sudden incident forced the traffic authorities to block portion of the road [...] (local) - Post office hassle awaits car tax payers
Vehicle owners going to post offices to deposit tax renewal fees for their motor vehicles face untold sufferings as the post offices are failing to cope with the huge number of people queuing up.
This is likely to continue for at least two and a half months more till booths are installed nationwide for easing this [...] (local) - Agriculture reforms must to transfer resources to poor
Comprehensive reforms in agriculture and markets are imperative to create opportunities for people deprived of resources and thereby alleviate poverty, eminent economist Prof Rehman Sobhan said yesterday.
Asset deprivation is a major reason for poverty, he said, expressing concern over emerging gap in education and health opportunities for the poor, and suggesting equal access to land, [...] (local) - Time not ripe to lift emergency fully: CA
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday said the time is not yet ripe for fully lifting the state of emergency, as some reasons still exist ?justifying its enforcement?.
?We want to proceed towards complete withdrawal of the state of emergency by relaxing it in phases. Our experience will tell what needs to be done,? he told [...] (local) - Living in ankle- deep water
West Monipur in the city has been under ankle-deep water for a week following heavy downpour due to poor drainage in the area.
About 10,000 people who live in the area have to make their way through this stinky, stagnant water — which is knee deep at places — daily running risk of various infections.
Md Razu, [...] (local) - 5,000 Bangladeshi workers go on strike in Kuwait
Around 5,000 Bangladeshi workers went on an indefinite strike in Kuwait City yesterday protesting underpayment and irregular wages, and not getting other facilities promised by the Kuwaiti company they work for.
“The workers staged a peaceful sit-in Sunday morning but today (Monday) they are staging strike at their barracks saying that they will not join work [...] (local) - Each car maintained for Tk 6 lakh a year
Employees of Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL), former Bangladesh Telegraph and Telephone Board (BTTB), misappropriated over Tk 45 crore in three sectors involving transportation between 2000-2001 and 2007-2008.
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) taskforce, while probing corruption at the BTTB head office in Dhaka as part of its drive against institutional corruption, found that the employees indulged [...] (local) - Private rice import dips as price on int?l market goes up
The country’s rice and wheat importers have refrained from importing the food grains for the last several months, triggering a shortage in the local market as well as raising their prices, observed traders and officials concerned.
The anti-graft drives that sent a chill through the country’s business community and the pressure mounted on them by the [...] (local) - Advisers? meet okays economic zones ordinance
The Council of Advisers in its first meeting here yesterday approved in principle Bangladesh Economic Zones Ordinance 2008 as well as a 12-point package for development of Sylhet region.
With Chief Adviser Fakhruddin Ahmed in the chair, the meeting also endorsed finally the EPZ trade union and Industrial Relations (Amendment) Ordinance 2008.
This was the third [...] (local) - DND area braces for waterlogging
Despite the emergency measures taken by the government, including excavation and cleaning of canals in the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) dam area, to check severe waterlogging, the region looks set to suffer from water logging for some time more.
Indiscriminate fish farming and encroachment of canals are contributing to the continual waterlogging in the area.
About 20 lakh residents [...] (local)
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