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| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:02 PM PDT Soft attitude of the government towards polluters and lack of awareness among city dwellers have literally left dead all the rivers and other surface waters in and around the capital. Over the years the government agencies conducted small-scale drives against the polluters without yielding any major success. The polluters have meanwhile continued polluting the rivers side [...] |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:01 PM PDT Life in the capital has become utterly miserable over the last ten days due to a severe heat wave accompanied with repeated load shedding, an acute water crisis, shortage of gas supply, infestation of mosquitoes, and the resultant near epidemic of diseases like diarrhoea. Other diseases like typhoid, jaundice, and heatstroke are also on the [...] |
| Tk 14 for paddy, Tk 22 for rice Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT The government has fixed the procurement prices of per kg Boro paddy at Tk 14 while rice at Tk 22 to encourage farmers and protect their interest. A meeting of the Food Planning and Monitoring Committee also decided that a total of 10.5 lakh tonnes of rice and 1.5 lakh tonnes of paddy will be procured [...] |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 02:00 PM PDT Wasa water has become a source of quick bucks for some dishonest government employees in the wake of unbearable water crisis in the capital, allege a number of city dwellers. They allege a clique of Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) officials are exacting more money than the official rates for water supply in lorries without [...] |
| Students down under look down the barrel Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT About 6,000 Bangladeshi students brace for bad times as recession strikes Australia and starts to bite deeper into a once solid economy of a paltry 21.7 million population. Feeling pinch of the slowdown in November last year, Kevin Rudd’s government kept on trying every tricks laid out in the capitalistic economics to thwart the impact that [...] |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:59 PM PDT Formation process of industrial police force would be completed within next three months to maintain peace and discipline in apparel sector for which all procedures already have been finalised. Before introducing the new force, the government has decided to use battalion Ansars in the industrial areas to protect the sector from any untoward situation. This was disclosed [...] |
| Recession to bring food crisis back Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:58 PM PDT The food crisis that hit many developing countries last year is likely to re-emerge following the recession and Asian countries must take measures to protect poor people from rising prices, a UN report said Friday. The report released in Bangkok called for Asian governments to implement social programs such as cash assistance and food-for-work schemes that [...] |
| Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:58 PM PDT Prime Minister (PM) Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the power division and Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority (Wasa) to act expeditiously in reducing sufferings of the people caused by ongoing water and power crisis. The PM gave the directive at a meeting with the power secretary, chairman of Wasa, managing director of Dhaka Power Distribution Company [...] |
| 3 Bangladeshi teachers killed in Saudi road accident Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:57 PM PDT Three Bangladeshi lecturers of King Khaled University were killed and two others injured in a tragic road accident at Doadmi, 328-km northwest of Riyadh last Friday. A relative of one of the victims told UNB that lecturers Sakil Ahmed Sohel, 27, Dr Akhtaruzzaman Afroz, 24, and his wife Sarzia Sajib, 25, died in the mishap. The [...] |
| 72 more BDR men shown arrested Posted: 26 Apr 2009 01:56 PM PDT Seventy-two more suspected Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) mutineers were shown arrested yesterday and 10 of them were placed on a five-day remand each. Meanwhile, a lost BDR pistol was recovered from the Pilkhana quarters of a BDR member. A BDR jawan died of cancer at Narsingdi Sadar Hospital Saturday, says a BDR press release. Criminal Investigation Department (CID), [...] |
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