Azzizur Rahaman
The dwellers of the capital city have been suffering from acute water crisis due to its inadequate supply, which Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) continuing to blame the frequent load shedding.Sources said lifting of water by WASA’s deep tube-wells was reducing day by day in Dhaka city for want of electricity. WASA almost [...]

Staff Reporter
Senior Joint Secretary General of BNP Mirza Fakrul Islam Alamgir yesterday alleged the Government is intervening on the media illegally. It (government) is busy to establish one-party rule like ‘Bakshal’ by gagging the freedom of press, he also alleged. Talking to journalists after a human chain programme in front of High Court in [...]

Qadaruddin Shishir
Teachers are frequently becoming targets of the cadres of ruling party’s student organisation, Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), on the Dhaka University (DU) campus.For the last few months, more than 11 teachers were assaulted on the campus by the arrogant leaders and activists of the organisation. But actions were taken against a very few culprits [...]

Staff ReporterStorming on Palli Bidyut Samities, road blockades, demonstrations and gherao of Upazila Nirbahi Officers offices continued yesterday in different parts of the country protesting against the ongoing power outage.In recent days, frequent power crisis prompted the local people to stage demonstrations, gherao UNO offices and vandalise Palli Bidyut Samities in different districts of the [...]

Staff Reporter
BNP chairperson and Opposition leader in the Parliament Begum Khaleda Zia yesterday invited Awami Legue president and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to join an Iftar party.On behalf of Khaleda Zia, her PS Saleh Ahmed and APS Surutuzzaman handed over the invitation letter to Prime Minister’s PS-2 Selima Begum at the PM’s office at [...]

Staff Reporter
The Government will start Open Market Sale (OMS) of rice from today to help minimise burden of essential commodities on common people.Food Minister Abdur Razzak at a press briefing disclosed it and said that rice selling through fare price cards will also begin on Aug 16 for the same.Under the OMS programme rice will [...]

Staff Reporter
The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Constitution Amendment has turned into a Constitutional Commission with inclusion of technocrat Law Minister Barrister Shafique Ahmed and Law Commission Chairman Justice Abdur Rashid, says BNP Standing Committee Member Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury.Talking to The New Nation last night, “The committee cannot be considered as a Parliamentary Committee as two [...]

DU Correspondent
The government imposed ban on all kinds of physical punishment to the students in educational institutions in the country.Education ministry sources said legal action would be taken for violation of the new rule.The education ministry yesterday served a notice to the concerned authorities prohibiting physical punitive measures against the students especially those junior levels.The [...]

UNB, Dhaka
Major Bangladesh missions abroad - Washington, Berlin, Rome, Madrid, The Hague, London and Paris - could not achieve the export target set for them in the last fiscal as the overall export earnings for the year fell 7.93 percent short of the target.The actual export earnings for fiscal 2009-10 was $ 16204.65 million against [...]

Sahidul Islam Rana
Co-chairman of the Constitution Review Committee and veteran parliamentarian Suranjit Sengupta once again stirred controversy on the issue of banning religion-based political parties by referring Election Commission in the light of the High Court ruling on the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.Ruling Awami League Advisory Council member Suranjit at a meeting on Monday [...]