Archive for December, 2009
Thursday, December 31st, 2009Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd yesterday decided to recommend the government to keep CNG filling stations in Dhaka and Narayanganj closed for two days a week during winter, which would help reduce the gas crisis.Faced with acute gas crisis in the capital and its adjacent districts, which is triggering discontent among people, Titas at a high-level meeting yesterday made a number of decisions that include replacing old and narrow gas pipelines and snapping illegal connections at a certain area.Closing CNG filling stations two days a week would save 40 million cubic feet of gas a day and ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009The cabinet yesterday approved in principle a memorandum of understanding with Delhi, seeking open-ended import and export of electricity with an option to purchase power from both public and private sectors of India.A meeting of the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina also approved a proposal to amend policy guidelines for expanding private sector's participation in generating power.Hasina asked the authorities concerned to increase scopes for the private sector to generate power to meet the growing demand of electricity. She also directed them to fix the price of electricity on the basis of production cost.A team of Bangladesh delegates ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009A Rab team yesterday busted a forged money factory in the city's Dakshinkhan area and seized fake notes worth Tk 2.3 lakh.During an hour-long raid at Faidabad Madhyapara from midnight on the third floor of a four-storied building, Rab members also recovered some equipment and chemicals used in printing fake notes and arrested two people in this connection.Detained Jahirul Islam, 27, and his wife Ayesha Akter, 25, had been involved in the fake note scam for the last one and half a year, Rab sources said.Maj Mohammad Mahbubul Haque of Rab-3, who led the drive, told The Daily Star ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009The distribution of free new textbooks to the students for the next academic session began yesterday with the inauguration of the programme by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina.With the inauguration, the government formally started the massive task to distribute 19 crore textbooks among the students of primary, secondary, ibtedai (primary level of madrasa), dakhil and technical classes.The government is giving free textbooks to the students of secondary level for the first time. Every year free textbooks are given at primary level. Some 1,868,950 copies of textbooks will be distributed among the secondary level students in the academic year.In the ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha yesterday, in the fourth phase, announced the names of 3,116 plot winners of the Purbachal New Town Project and Uttara Model Town Project Third Phase.Among the winners, 147 plots were allotted directly to the ministers, state ministers, lawmakers and people enjoying the same status.The names of winners of 2,750 plots in three categories -- government job holders, people serving at different autonomous bodies, and armed forces -- were announced as per their age and salary.All the 57 applicants of Purbachal project and 83 applicants of Uttara project under the category of minister, state minister, and lawmakers were ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009Home Minister Sahara Khatun was advised to talk to media after knowing the facts on the topics.At a regular cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair, the home minister came under criticism for her comment that she does not know about deployment of India's own security personnel at its high commission in Dhaka.During the meeting, some of her cabinet colleagues said she should have known the facts that any embassy or high commission could arrange their own security and deploy their personnel to this end, one of the members of the cabinet told The Daily Star yesterday.Referring ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009The clock will be adjusted back by an hour tonight to its original GMT-based timing position.At a regular cabinet meeting yesterday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said the clock will be pushed back to 10:59pm from 11:59pm midnight to set the GMT plus 6 hours timing.She also directed the authorities concerned to take all measurers so that people do not have to suffer due to time change, meeting sources said.The cabinet on December 24 decided to keep the Bangladesh Standard Time until March 31 next year.On March 31, the clock would be put forward again by an ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009Bangladesh Bank, the country's central bank, has no idea how many fake notes are circulating in the market much to the chagrin of innocent people who very often fall victim to such fraudulence.“The menace is on the rise with the use of ultra modern technology,” said a Bangladesh Bank (BB) currency officer who is responsible for verifying fake notes.“I received six or seven cases yesterday,” said the currency officer, adding that note forgers convert Tk 100 note into a Tk 500 one easily.Fake notes of Tk 500 are already in the market, which is the same size as a ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009At least five workers were injured in a ship-breaking yard at Sonaichhari in Sitakunda upazila yesterday afternoon.Of the injured three have been identified as Ledu Miah, 35, of Moheshkhali upazila in Cox's Bazar, Nayan, 25, and Amir Solaiman, 17, of Mirersarai upazila in Chittagong.Injured Ledu and Nayan were admitted to Medical Centre (Pvt) Hospital while Solaiman and two others were released after first aid at a local clinic.A worker of the yard told The Daily Star that Ledu and some other workers were removing mud at the yard around 1:00pm when one of the vertically piled iron plates ...
(read more) Thursday, December 31st, 2009A parliamentary body yesterday asked the commerce ministry to enforce immediately the Consumers Rights Protection Act passed in parliament nine months ago to ensure people's right to quality goods and services at fair prices.Expressing dissatisfaction over the delay in enforcing the law, the parliamentary standing committee on commerce ministry said people still don't get any remedy for being cheated in the market.It asked the ministry to recruit manpower to enforce the law to prevent cheating at weight, price and quality of commodities."People could not seek redress in absence of a law. But now there is a law to protect ...
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