People grow restive, want democracy
restored
Pressure is mounting on the military-backed interim government to take effective steps to contain the soaring prices of essentials and restore democracy as different political parties and professional groups are raising their voices against the administration’s utter failure in tackling the crisis...[ + ]
Final electoral roll expected in Sept
EC plans to complete registration work by June
The Election Commission is planning to advance the start of the last phase of voter registration work by 15-20 days for the areas where data collection, fingerprint and photograph taking are scheduled to begin in June...[ + ]
Train service disrupted
as rail clips go missing
Train communications between Dhaka and other parts of the country were disrupted on Friday for an hour and a half as a huge quantity of rail clips along a stretch of two kilometres from the Banani level crossing to the Staff Road went missing. Hundreds of passengers suffered as the communications had been suspended since the detection of incident at about 9:30am...[ + ]
BARI prescribes ways
to raise local cooking
oil production
The country can significantly reduce dependence on imported cooking oil by producing more oil seeds applying upgraded knowledge and newer technologies, says the Bangladesh Agriculture Research Institute which has developed a number of high-yielding varieties of oil seed plants...[ + ]
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Prices of rice, vegetables, chicken shoot up
The prices of rice, vegetables, chicken and eggs increased in the city market in the past week due to finishing stocks or supply shortage. Edible oil and sugar prices declined in the week after the commodities had seen increased supply in the previous few weeks...[ + ]
Dhaka calls for investment in ICT sector
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