NARSINGDI: Power generation from Ghorashal Thermal Power station has halved after Sunday`s fire, Tamal Karmaker, Chief Engineer of the plant said.The 950MW power station is now generating only 415MW MW, he said.      The unit 6 of Ghorashal that generates 210-megawatt power was shut

MYMENSINGH: Leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League Monday went on the rampage vandalizing the Polytechnic Institute here failing to get party activists admitted under special arrangement.  Police and institute sources said the first-year admission test at the college is

DHAKA: An environment polluter will have to serve five years in jail or/and pay a fine of Tk 5 lakh under provision of a new law endorsed Monday by the Cabinet for enactment.  The approval to the Environment Act 2010 was given at the cabinet meeting held at the Secretariat with Prime

Dhaka: Body of a chef from capital’s Gulshan 2 area was taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital Monday noon. The deceased was identified as Sumon, 20, who was working as chef in a flat at a House 1/D Road 73 in Gulshan 2.Tarique, the telephone operator of the building, took his body to

DHAKA: A coalition of good-governance campaigners Monday launched a cross-country campaign to make people aware and motivate the government in taking decision for decentralizing the administration.  Leaders of the Governance Advocacy Forum at a press conference held at the National Press

DHAKA: A van-puller was killed in a road mishap at the Airport intersection in the city early Monday.  Sub-Inspector Shariful Islam of Airport Thana said a private car rammed a rickshaw-van in front of Hajrat Sahajalal International Airport intersection at midnight. Duty police rushed

DHAKA: The High Court Monday again warned that custodial death would not be tolerated anymore and those guilty of such lynching, whoever they may be, would be meted out legal action.An HC bench comprising Justice AHM Shamsuddin Chowdhury and Justice Sheikh Mohammad Zakir Hossain gave the

CHITTAGONG: A suspected burglar was beaten to death by a mob of villagers at Gabindorkhil village under Patia upazila in the district early Monday.    Imtiaz Ahmed, Officer-in-Charge of Patia Thana, said local people caught a young stranger at around 4am in front of one Mohammad

DHAKA: The government Monday brought some changes in the administration in a latest spell of reshuffle, including removal of an official of the crisis-ridden power sector.According to separate notifications issued by the Establishment Ministry Monday, member of the Power Development Board

DINAJPUR: Hordes of affected locals Monday laid an indefinite siege to Barapukuria coalmine amid a rowdy demonstration to realize compensation for the homesteads and farmlands they lost.Witnesses said the demonstrators also enforced road-rail blockade piling up logs on the Dhaka-Dinajpur

DHAKA: Inspector-General of Police Nur Mohammad Monday raised a riddle over ward councilor and BNP leader Chowdhury Alam’s disappearance as he said it could be an act of “sabotage” centering “business conflict” or next Dhaka City Corporation election. “Investigation is

DHAKA: The government is working to achieve cent-percent literacy in the country by the year 2014, ensuring education for all the children aged 6-18, an international meet in Dhaka was told Monday, as Bangladesh still hosts a large number of illiterates.  State Minister for Primary and

DHAKA: The Government has gone for enhancing health and housing facilities for officials and employees by establishing a modern hospital and constructing multistoried buildings in the capital. An official source said the initiatives have been taken mainly for those government officials

DHAKA: Detained Jamaat leader Delwar Hossain Sayedee was Monday taken on three days’ remand for grilling over the ‘attempt to murder’ Dhaka University Professor Dr. Humayun Azad.Metropolitan Magistrate SK Tofael Hasan granted the remand when he was produced in the court, at the end

DHAKA : A student of Open University was shot dead by unidentifiedassailants at capital`s Khilgaon area Sunday, police said.Sub-inspector of Khilgaon police station Mostafizur Rahman said some10 to 12 unidentified youths sprayed bullet indiscriminately on ShetuReza at around 9.30pm while

DHAKA: The High Commission of India here introduced online submission of visa applications. Visa seekers to India may visit www.hcidhaka.org or www.ivacbd.com to register applications online, a press release of Indian High Commission here said on Sunday. However, online submission of visa

DHAKA: Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) personnel rescued a 15-year-old schoolgirl in the city’s Banasree area Saturday, 13 days after she had allegedly been abducted from Kushtia.The girl was identified as Alo Khatun, daughter of Mosharaf Hossain of Jugia Mathpara village and a class-ten

DHAKA: Foreign Minister Dr. Dipu Moni MP said Bangladesh will open a resident mission in Lisbon soon to serve the needs of the growing Bangladesh community in Portugal. “The community in Portugal is growing and they are contributing positively there,” she said as a Special Envoy of

DHAKA: The government will award 108 foreign nationals recognizing their contribution to the liberation war of Bangladesh in 1971.A national committee has prepared a preliminary list by evaluating the contribution of foreigners to the War of Liberation, official sources said.  ``Further

DHAKA: The government on Sunday extended the contracts of Bangladesh Tariff Commission Chairman Dr Mojibur Rahman for two years, a notification by the Establishment Ministry said. The government also made some changes in a number of positions in the civil bureaucracy.Deputy secretaries of