DHAKA: A new Environment Act and Environment Court Act to pave the way for tough punitive actions against polluters will be placed in the next session of the Parliament, State minister for environment and forest Dr. Hasan Mahmud said on Wednesday.  He said Department of Environment (DoE)

DHAKA: Agitated people at places across the country Wednesday enforced hartal, blocked roads and highways and attacked local power offices to press for electricity supply, as outages reportedly disrupted normal life and business. Naranyanganj: At least 22 people, including six police

DHAKA: Archer K. Blood American Center Library and the Educational Advising Center of the U.S. Embassy have announced fresh business hours for the month of Ramadan. A statement from US Embassy said, from August 15 to September 15, the library and educational advising center will be open

DHAKA: The anti-adulteration cleansing drive backed up by mobile court to prevent product faking and control prices of essentials got a major blow as two cabinet ministers faced off out of “ego”, top officials of both the ministries said. According to them, Industries Minister Dilip

DHAKA: Month-long daytime fasting and abstinence by Muslims begins Thursday as the Islamic month of Ramadan began with the sighting of moon on Wednesday evening. “The Ramadan moon was sighted in the country this evening,” announced the national moon-sighting committee after reviewing

DHAKA: A World Bank team is arriving here next month for providing technical assistance in executing government’s high-priority agenda for tackling the endemic power crisis in the country.Prime Minister’s Energy Adviser Dr Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury Wednesday told reporters at the

DHAKA: Speakers at a seminar Wednesday said transparency, participation and accountability are prerequisite to budget reform for strengthening the democratic process.  "Participation in pre-budget discussions has begun and many opinions are coming from the discussions, but it is not

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Wednesday extended the time for submitting probe report on one of the two cases involving the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally. Metropolitan Sessions Judge (2nd) Fazila Begum issued the order extending the timeline to November 22 after the state side

DHAKA: Agriculture Minister Begum Matia Chowdhury urged the countrymen to use own thoughts and ideas instead of following foreign prescriptions in forestation, so to avert the harm done in the past."We have destroyed our country by using foreign prescription, and we have done it only for

NARAYANGANJ: Two workers of Meghna Petroleum company died inhaling apparently toxic gas and two others fell sick while they were unloading petroleum products from an oil tanker at Panchaboti under Fatullah upazila on Tuesday night.Firefighters recovered the bodies of the two workers two

DHAKA:  The Home Ministry is going to propose a 5-day-long public holiday for Eid instead of the traditional 3-day closure, which is considered by many as too brief a break from the rut for vacationing and breathing fresh air at far-off native homes. Official sources said that a decision

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Wednesday extended the time to submit probe report on one of the two cases involving the August 21 grenade attack on an Awami League rally. Metropolitan Sessions Judge (2nd) Fazila Begum issued the order extending the time till November 22 after the state side sought

NARSINGDI: Five people were killed and some 40 injured in a road accident at Jongishibpur area of the district Wednesday noon. Witnesses and police said, the bus owned by Prottasha Paribahan lost its control and hit a bridge at Jongishibpur on its way to Raypura in Narsingdi from Dhaka.

DHAKA: The government-sponsored Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice at subsidized rate did not get expected response Tuesday, the first day of the food rationing, meant for a relief of the poor in the wake of market upturns. Although gatherings of buyers were thin in front of the rice-carrying

CHITTAGONG: Additional Inspector General of Police Naba Bikram Kishore Tripura Tuesday asked the officials concerned to take necessary steps to open the forensic lab of the CID in the port city by October.The AIGP gave the directives while visiting the works of under construction forensic

DHAKA: As the local marketing company of a bestselling soybean oil was made to pay a high price for price-fixing offence, Industries Minister Dilip Barua Tuesday alleged not only country’s businessmen but also foreigners were trying to make the market unstable ‘through syndicate”. 

DHAKA: As Ramadan is round the corner, the Power Development Board (PDB) holds out the hope that 450MW more electricity would be added to the national grid before the holy month. The power is due to be pumped in Wednesday, PDB Chairman ASM Alamgir announced Tuesday, explaining

DHAKA: Students of two departments of Dhaka University clashed with each other on the campus on Tuesday over football match leaving seven including three teachers injured, police said. Shahbagh police and university sources said the clash ensued between the students of Department of

DHAKA: The government decided to go for gas rationing to ensure supply of fuel from industries to power plants in a bid to keep the problematic power situation normal during the month of Ramadan.Under the contingency plan, the government will increase gas supply to the power plants

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Tuesday issued summons against F Narayan Maheswar, President of World Peace Council, on charge of hurting religious sentiment through sacrilegious act. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Mehedi Talukder issued the summons.Mufti Mohammad Masum Billah, President of