DHAKA: A coalition of three UN agencies would jointly provide food, shelter package, and water and sanitation facilities to 14,000 Aila-hit families still living on embankments in Khulna and Satkhira districts. The Aila-affected families in Dacope and Koyra Upazilas under Khulna and

DHAKA: The government decided to import one-tonne `Atop (non-parboiled)’ rice from Vietnam and 30,000 tonnes of `non-Basmati’ boiled rice through international tender under a contingency measure against any food crisis. “Rice will be bought to meet our demand as the government has

DHAKA: Now go boating round the capital to avoid getting caught in impassable traffic tailbacks in the overcrowded city.      The alternative route to and from the metropolis opens Saturday with the government launching ‘waterbus’ services from Sadarghat to Gabtoli in the first

DHAKA: This year`s fitra has been fixed at Tk 100 per head for Dhaka and its adjoining areas.A committee of the Islamic Foundation for determining fitra took the decision in a meeting Thursday.Committee members and ulema (Islamic scholars) fixed the amount of fitra in proportion to the

DHAKA: The High Court Thursday cancelled the election results of the Noakhali-6 constituency and asked the Election Commission to hold reelection to the vacated parliament seat. A one-member bench comprising Justice Md Emdadul Haque delivered the verdict after the hearing on a writ

SATKHIRA: Indian Border Security Force (BSF) shot dead an Indian cowboy early Thursday in Jalalpur frontier area of India, according to information received here.Local sources told banglanews24.com.bd that the members of BSF from their temporary camp at Jalalpur fired towards Bangladesh

DHAKA: The fifth census of the country will begin on March 15 and continue till March 19, 2011 to determine the latest size of the population and the number of households.National Statistics Council Thursday fixed the schedule in a meeting held at the auditorium of Bangladesh Bureau of

DINAJPUR: The fourth anniversary of Phulbari tragedy was observed Thursday commemorating the death of several people in shooting by law enforcers during protest against coal-mining bid by a foreign company on this day.Different organisations and political parties across the country marked

RAJSHAHI: Two people were killed and 25 injured when a passenger bus plunged into a roadside ditch at Duari in Poba Upazila on Thursday morning. Witnesses told banglanews24.com.bd that a Rajshahi-bound bus of Tithi Paribahan coming from Tanore upazila of the district skidded off the road

DHAKA: The High Court declared illegal the seventh constitutional amendment that had legalized former army chief HM Ershad`s takeover and his military rule, moving further forward the current work on rewriting the national constitution.An HC bench of Justice Shamsuddin Chowdhury Manik and

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DHAKA: One person was killed in a deadly boiler blast at Hasan Steel Mill in the city’s Shyampur area Wednesday, local sources said.The deceased was identified as Billal Hossain, 30, of Jurain. Police said local people recovered Bellal’s body from the mill at about 5:30 pm.  Earlier,

DHAKA: The Election Commission Wednesday issued a gazette fixing expenditure for the chairman and member candidates in the upcoming union parishad elections. The ceilings of spending are fixed at Tk 5 lakh and Tk 1 lakh for chairman and member candidates respectively. Election

DHAKA: A number of officials of Joint and Deputy Secretaries level have been given transfers and postings in a latest round of reshuffle in the administration.The Establishment Ministry issued separate notifications Wednesday to this effect.According to the notifications, Joint Secretary

DHAKA: The verdict in a case challenging legality of the 7th amendment to the constitution is likely to be given Thursday and it will decide whether former president general HM Ershad should face the court.Additional attorney-general MK Rahman Wednesday termed Ershad’s going to power

DHAKA: While announcing that the non-government teachers would get their salary and bonus before Eid-ul-Fitr, Education Minister Nurul Islam Nahid Wednesday called for all concerned to keep away from corruption and build a clean image of the sector.     “We have taken necessary

DHAKA: A parliamentary panel Wednesday urged the government to formulate a jute policy and reopen 7 closed jute mills, as the sector holds fresh prospects for revival.The parliamentary standing committee on Textiles and Jute Ministry made the strong plea from a meeting which was informed

DHAKA: British Foreign Secretary William Hague has said his country supports in principle the trial of war crimes. He stated this at bilateral talks with visiting Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London Tuesday. Regarding the ongoing

CHITTAGONG: Chittagong City Corporation is going to modernize the traffic system of the port city after long 21 years of some patchwork."To improve the traffic system automatic and modern signal lamps are being set up at cost of Tk 3.5 crore," a competent source said. The City Corporation

DHAKA: The Buriganga River, capital Dhaka’s endangered lifeline, is going to get a new life drawing in freshwater from the Jamuna under a government plan already fianalised. As the Buriganga is heavily polluted by reckless dumping of wastes, it is going to be veritable medical operation