Staff Reporter
A Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) official, Shahidur Rahman (45), allegedly committed suicide by shooting on his head with his licensed pistol at his DCC Staff quarter residence at Banani in the capital early yesterday.According to family sources, the victim was a terminal manager of the city corporation. He stayed at flat No-C- 21 [...]

Azizur Rahman
Following the government directive, all CNG stations in and around Dhaka city remain closed for six hours from 3 pm yesyeday, enhancing sufferings of the people as the auto-rickshaw and taxi cab drivers charged excessive fares. The government on August 12 ordered that all CNG (compressed natural gas) refuelling stations would have to be [...]

bdnews24.com, Dhaka
The telecoms regulator has moved to ensure free customer care calls for mobile phone customers.The regulator has also issued a number of specific directives regarding basic services to mobile phone customers.Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has directed mobile operators to switch to a common toll free number 121 for customer care services by October [...]

Staff Reporter
A Writ petition was filed yesterday with the High Court challenging the legality of some provisions of the International Crimes (Tribunals) Act, 1973 under which the war crimes trial is being held.Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami senior Assistant Secretaries General Muhammad Kamaruzzaman and Abdul Quader Mollah, who are now detained, jointly filed the Writ petition seeking HC [...]

bdnews24.com, Chittagong
The price of green chilli has reached Tk 200 per kg on the first day of Ramzan rising by about Tk 80 in a single day.Selling at Tk 120 on Wednesday, chilli rose by over 65 percent.Wholesale price was Tk 100 earlier. On Thursday it rose to Tk 140.Green chilli was being sold at [...]

Staff Reporter
Awami League presidium member Suranjit Sengupta yesterday said that the AL-led Mohajote government was passing through a crucial time now.The Government, he said, has started at a time many works, including amendment of the Constitution and trial of crimes against humanity.Suranjit suggested the Government to take a decision considering the practical situation in completing [...]

Staff Reporter
Politicians, educationists and water experts at a roundtable discussion yesterday opined that all political parties of the country forgetting petty differences should unite on a common platform to stop the construction of Tipaimukh dam at the upper reaches of the rivers Surma and Kushiara. Some of them underscored the need for organising an [...]

Jamal Uddin
‘Boro Baper Polai khai’, a renowned iftar item of old Dhaka city attracts many people, young and old, for its quality which combines chicken, duck, suti kebab, potato and pulses.People from different parts of the city as before gathered in the Chawk Bazar iftar market adjacent to the Shahi Masjid to buy the [...]

BSS, Dhaka
Sounding a note of warning against campus violence, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Thursday asked the authorities concerned to take stern actions against troublemakers in educational institutions including Dhaka University to maintain congenial academic atmosphere. “None would be spared if found responsible for disturbing peace on the campus even if they belong to my [...]

Staff Reporter
A meeting of the Ministry of Commerce yesterday found the Trading Corporation of Bangladesh (TCB) preparation for market intervention faulty as only 55 dealers, out of more than 250 in the city and 1,800 across the country, so far withdrew commodities from the TCB godown for selling at cheap price.The TCB dealers are given [...]