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Ctg port turns less costly
The overall shipping charges for inbound cargoes have decreased significantly after cancellation of terminal handling charge (THC) and replacement of the outmoded stevedoring system with berth operators
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Gulistan-Jatrabari
Flyover design, layout found seriously flawed
The experts team appointed to examine the construction of the Gulistan-Jatrabari flyover said its design and layout is seriously flawed and will cause unnecessary traffic congestion as the constructors
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Essentials' Prices
Govt in a fix over hike on int'l market
The government is in a dilemma over how to keep essentials' prices low as possible domestic fuel price increase in line with international market movement may affect transport cost of goods.
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Sycophancy destroyed democracy in AL, BNP
Party leaders say on BBC Sanglap
Practice of intra-party democracy, transparency, accountability and decentralisation of power in Awami League (AL) and BNP has been quashed by the practice of rampant sycophancy in the two major political
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Essential Drugs
Patients pay higher as list not updated
Absence of an updated list of essential drugs is taking toll on the patients as they are forced to buy drugs at higher prices while hundreds of unnecessary drugs have flooded the market, experts said.
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India toying with timid Tigers
India piled more misery on Bangladesh as they continued their domination with both bat and ball in the second and final Test at the Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium yesterday.
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Overseas Hotel Job Assurance
46 Garos swindled by 'Singaporean woman'
A Singaporean woman allegedly swindled nearly half a crore taka from 46 Garo Christians tempting them with lucrative jobs in hotels and restaurants in Singapore.
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Killing of Expatriate Housewife
Murder he wrote for Kiwi insurance money
Out of an insatiable greed for life insurance money of several million US dollars, Abdul Gafur, an expatriate businessman in New Zealand, instructed his brother to have Gafur's wife Afroza Akhter Polly,
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Chiefs of three services put on new rank badges
Army Chief Lt Gen Moeen U Ahmed, Navy Chief Rear Admiral Sarwar Jahan Nizam and Air Chief Air Vice Marshal SM Ziaur Rahman were yesterday adorned with the rank of general, vice admiral and air marshal.
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CA asks govt officials to work for fair polls
Chief Adviser (CA) Fakhruddin Ahmed yesterday asked government officials to work for implementing the caretaker government's main programme for holding a free, fair and neutral election.
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Ex-MP Faruk sent to jail
Former BNP lawmaker Joynal Abedin Faruk, picked up by plainclothes police from Nikunja area in the capital on Friday, was sent to jail here yesterday.
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Desa security man shot dead
A security supervisor of Dhaka Electric Supply Authority (Desa) was shot dead by a gang of armed criminals yesterday night at Nilkhet in the capital.
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Extortion, Terrorism
Charges pressed against ex-MP Nadim, 17 others
Police pressed charges against former BNP lawmaker Nadim Mostafa and 17 others in a case filed for extortion and conducting terrorist activities in Durgapur upazila.
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Subsidence
DCC starts demolishing faulty building
The Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) yesterday started demolishing the northern part of the newly-constructed six-storey building at Dayaganj Sweepers' Colony in Sutrapur that subsided Friday night.
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US troops raid Sadr stronghold
5 rebels, 3 GIs killed
US-led forces seized a suspected militant with ties to Iran and killed five others in an early morning raid in the east Baghdad Shia stronghold of Sadr City yesterday, the US military said.
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Blast kills 8 in Assam market
A bomb exploded in a busy market in India's restive northeast yesterday, killing eight people and injuring 19, and authorities said they discovered and defused a large bomb hidden on a crowded passenger
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Peacekeeper in Darfur fatally shot
A United Nations peacekeeper who was among a small group of reinforcements sent to Darfur was shot to death at his residence -- the world body's first casualty since its long-negotiated arrival in the
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