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Banani high rise buildings lack fire safety

Banani high rise buildings lack fire safety

Chowdhury Akbor Hossain
In the backdrop of a series of recent fire incidents, city planning authority RAJUK has found several irregularities and lack of fire safety...Details
Mobile internet technical glitch intentional?

Mobile internet technical glitch intentional?

Md A Halim
The advent of technology has reached such heights that people now want everything on the palm of their hands — on cell phones. As a result, mobile...Details
More channels to be axed after Zee Network

More channels to be axed after Zee Network

Waliul Biswas
Transmission of all television channels under India’s Zee Network was suspended across Bangladesh by Monday (Apr 1) afternoon. The move is said to...Details
Mokabbir’s oath taking Gano Forum’s conundrum

Mokabbir’s oath taking Gano Forum’s conundrum

Aditto Rimon
Elected MP of Sylhet-2 seat, Mokabbir Khan has said that he has given a letter to the speaker to take oath as per the decision of Dr. Kamal Hossain...Details
TCB can do a lot more: Minister Tipu

TCB can do a lot more: Minister Tipu

Shafiqul Islam and Mahbub Hasan
The Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) is capable of playing a larger role in the market, says Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi. He said...Details
Old Dhaka fire: Chemical godown owners yet to be arrested

Old Dhaka fire: Chemical godown owners yet to be arrested

Nuruzzaman Labu
The authorities were prompt to arrest owners of the Banani high-rise where a blaze claimed 26 lives last week, but over a month into the...Details
Govt steps in to stop damaging religious sermons

Govt steps in to stop damaging religious sermons

Salman Tareque Sakil
In the wake of complaints that religious sermons foment sectarianism, instigate social division, make derogatory comments about members from the...Details
Pressure group outlines proposals for reducing tobacco use

Pressure group outlines proposals for reducing tobacco use

Shafiqul Islam
Anti-tobacco group PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) wants the government to implement its seven-point recommendation in a bid to reduce use of...Details
Cross-border power policy keeps provisions for export

Cross-border power policy keeps provisions for export

Shanchita Shitu
The government has finalized the policy for cross-border electricity trade with a provision for exporting power in addition to importing...Details
Chairman of Rupayan group has skedaddled

Chairman of Rupayan group has skedaddled

Rafsan Jani
In the case lodged over the fire at the FR Tower in Banani, the owner of the land SMH Faruk, 65, and owner of the extended part of the building,...Details
Korea wants to set up 1200MW LNG-fired plant

Korea wants to set up 1200MW LNG-fired plant

Shanchita Shitu
South Korea’s state-owned East West Power Co Ltd (EWP) has submitted a proposal to set up a power plant fired by imported liquefied natural gas...Details
No Sylhet University students’ union polls for 21 years

No Sylhet University students’ union polls for 21 years

Shahjalal University Correspondent
For about two decades, the central student election at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology has not taken place.Students are now...Details
Supravat ran 400 buses with 70 permits

Supravat ran 400 buses with 70 permits

Shahed Shafiq
Gopal Chandra Karmakar is the owner of Supravat bus which killed Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury, a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP)....Details
BGMEA moving its headquarters to Uttara

BGMEA moving its headquarters to Uttara

Shafiqul Islam
Bangladesh's top apparel business body is moving its headquarters from the multi-storey office building, which was built in violation of the...Details
Waaz Mehfils: Influence and dwindling audience

Waaz Mehfils: Influence and dwindling audience

Salman Tareque Sakil
Waaz Mehfils nowadays have become well known for contributing to sound pollution with sermons that go on well into the night, vehement criticism of...Details
Yaba transported by air cannot be detected

Yaba transported by air cannot be detected

Rafsan Jani
Due to the ongoing anti-drug drive, transporting yaba by road, rail and waterways has become tough. In such a situation, drug traders have chosen...Details
Cyber-crime committed every twenty seconds

Cyber-crime committed every twenty seconds

Dipu Sarwar
Cyber crimes are rising in the country and every 20 seconds, one crime is being committed. Many of the crimes are being committed via YouTube,...Details
Pakistani progressive people were denounced in 1971

Pakistani progressive people were denounced in 1971

Udisa Islam
In 1971, progressive writers, journalists and human rights workers of West Pakistan who took to the streets to protest atrocities in East Pakistan,...Details
Manpower shortage puts Dhaka airport security at risk

Manpower shortage puts Dhaka airport security at risk

Chowdhury Akbor Hossain
A lack of manpower has put the security at Dhaka’s Shahjalal International Airport at risk. Several employees are being given jobs that they are...Details
Intellectual property needs to be given due importance

Intellectual property needs to be given due importance

Sheikh Shahariar Zaman
In the current age, when one technology is supplanted by another, the patent and design law of the country is 100 years old. But in 2016, a new...Details
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