Quick energy fix mulled
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:40 AM PDT
Faced with a deep energy crisis due to gas shortage that cannot be overcome overnight, the government considers importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), increasing efficiency of bulk gas users to reduce demands and setting standards to promote energy efficient electrical equipment, says Dr Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, energy adviser to the prime minister. Besides, to overcome investment [...]
Salary of govt staff likely to double
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:37 AM PDT
The Seventh Pay Commission is going to submit its report with recommendations for increasing salaries of the government staffs by up to 95 percent and allowances for their children’s education. The Pay Commission has already finalised its report and will submit it to the finance minister in a couple of days, sources say. The commission would recommend [...]
BNP to fight it legally; may even boycott JS
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:36 AM PDT
Apart from launching a legal battle and protest programmes, BNP may even boycott the next budget session of parliament if the government does not withdraw its notice asking Khaleda Zia to vacate the cantonment house. The party will observe countrywide demonstrations today. As part of their protest programme, central BNP will hold a protest rally [...]
Outraged by outage
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:35 AM PDT
Several thousand angry residents including workers of Araihazar area yesterday damaged a power sub-station, and attacked a rural power supply office and a police outpost, protesting against repeated long periods of load shedding. The mob also staged violent demonstrations for about six hours putting up barricades on about three kilometres of road, damaging vehicles, and clashing [...]
Agents hailed as heroes
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:34 AM PDT
Ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday alleged that many ministers in the grand alliance government are “paid agents of DGFI”. Talking exclusively with a few reporters at his Mercantile Bank office in the city, he said, “We were the ones beaten up and tortured but now we are being punished, while those who [...]
AL constitution breached to neutralise Jalil
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:34 AM PDT
Making Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil inactive in running the organisation goes against the party’s constitution. As per the AL’s constitution, its general secretary who is elected at the triennial council is the chief executive officer of the organisation and he/she has a lot of role to play in running the party. But Jalil, [...]
Boro farmers frown as rice prices fall
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:32 AM PDT
Farmers may again suffer huge loss from Boro cultivation because of downtrend in rice price, which comes as a ’stronger blow’ to the peasants who also incurred a huge loss in potato and wheat cultivation in winter season. Rice price, which is now at Tk 16-17 per kg in the major rice producing districts, may go [...]
121 firearms still missing
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:25 AM PDT
Some 121 firearms went missing from the BDR headquarters during the February 25-26 mutiny. The missing firearms include 92 pistols, 17 rifles, five sub-machine guns, three point 22-bore rifles, two shotguns and two single barrel guns. Total number of missing firearms from battalions, units and central stores of the headquarters in Pilkhana after the February 25-26 carnage [...]
Hasina talks worker issue with Saudi FM
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:23 AM PDT
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Conference Palace in Riyadh yesterday and discussed various bilateral issues. Expatriates’ welfare, one of the topics on top of her agenda, is among the issues discussed during the meeting, said officials accompanying her. Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu [...]
Source : Bangladesh News
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:40 AM PDT
Faced with a deep energy crisis due to gas shortage that cannot be overcome overnight, the government considers importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), increasing efficiency of bulk gas users to reduce demands and setting standards to promote energy efficient electrical equipment, says Dr Towfiq-e-Elahi Chowdhury, energy adviser to the prime minister. Besides, to overcome investment [...]
Salary of govt staff likely to double
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:37 AM PDT
The Seventh Pay Commission is going to submit its report with recommendations for increasing salaries of the government staffs by up to 95 percent and allowances for their children’s education. The Pay Commission has already finalised its report and will submit it to the finance minister in a couple of days, sources say. The commission would recommend [...]
BNP to fight it legally; may even boycott JS
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:36 AM PDT
Apart from launching a legal battle and protest programmes, BNP may even boycott the next budget session of parliament if the government does not withdraw its notice asking Khaleda Zia to vacate the cantonment house. The party will observe countrywide demonstrations today. As part of their protest programme, central BNP will hold a protest rally [...]
Outraged by outage
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:35 AM PDT
Several thousand angry residents including workers of Araihazar area yesterday damaged a power sub-station, and attacked a rural power supply office and a police outpost, protesting against repeated long periods of load shedding. The mob also staged violent demonstrations for about six hours putting up barricades on about three kilometres of road, damaging vehicles, and clashing [...]
Agents hailed as heroes
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:34 AM PDT
Ruling Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil yesterday alleged that many ministers in the grand alliance government are “paid agents of DGFI”. Talking exclusively with a few reporters at his Mercantile Bank office in the city, he said, “We were the ones beaten up and tortured but now we are being punished, while those who [...]
AL constitution breached to neutralise Jalil
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:34 AM PDT
Making Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil inactive in running the organisation goes against the party’s constitution. As per the AL’s constitution, its general secretary who is elected at the triennial council is the chief executive officer of the organisation and he/she has a lot of role to play in running the party. But Jalil, [...]
Boro farmers frown as rice prices fall
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:32 AM PDT
Farmers may again suffer huge loss from Boro cultivation because of downtrend in rice price, which comes as a ’stronger blow’ to the peasants who also incurred a huge loss in potato and wheat cultivation in winter season. Rice price, which is now at Tk 16-17 per kg in the major rice producing districts, may go [...]
121 firearms still missing
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:25 AM PDT
Some 121 firearms went missing from the BDR headquarters during the February 25-26 mutiny. The missing firearms include 92 pistols, 17 rifles, five sub-machine guns, three point 22-bore rifles, two shotguns and two single barrel guns. Total number of missing firearms from battalions, units and central stores of the headquarters in Pilkhana after the February 25-26 carnage [...]
Hasina talks worker issue with Saudi FM
Posted: 21 Apr 2009 11:23 AM PDT
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at the Conference Palace in Riyadh yesterday and discussed various bilateral issues. Expatriates’ welfare, one of the topics on top of her agenda, is among the issues discussed during the meeting, said officials accompanying her. Bangladesh Foreign Minister Dipu [...]
Source : Bangladesh News
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