PPP scheme still confined to paper work
The government took up public-private partnership more than three years ago to keep rolling its ‘mega infrastructure projects’ but the scheme has till now largely remained confined to paper work. Full storyPeople still suffer for poor power supply
Several thousand people of Keraniganj, Dohar and Nawabganj in Dhaka and neighbouring areas of Sreenagar and Sirajdikhan in Munshiganj suffered greatly till Friday for almost no... Full storyHard times ahead for Bangladesh: The Economist
British weekly The Economist in an article in its current issue has asked New Delhi to ‘stop Sheikh Hasina ruining Bangladesh’, saying, ‘The prime minister [has] set the country on a dangerous path’. Full storyPDB yet to realise Tk136 crore in LD
Power Development Board is yet to realise more than Tk 136 crore in liquidated damage from Quantum Power System for delaying in commissioning two rental power plants. Full storyBuild country as dreamt by Nazrul, Mujib: PM
1/11 players active again for govt misrule, failure: BNP
The opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Friday said that behind-the-scene actors of the January 11, 2007 changeover were active again because of the misrule and failure of the government. Full storyNow it’ll be minus Khaleda: Inu
The Jatiya Samajtantrik Dal president, Hasanul Haque Inu, has threatened to force the BNP chairperson, Khaleda Zia, from politics if she did not stop siding with the suspected war criminals. Full storyEach truck to pay $16 as toll to cross Padma Bridge initially
Each truck will have to pay US$16 as toll to cross the proposed Padma Bridge in the initial years and almost double in 2030 as per condition of a Malaysian consortium willing... Full storyUS penalises Pakistan for jailing CIA agent
US senators scandalised by Pakistan’s jailing of a doctor for helping the CIA track down Osama bin Laden voted on Thursday to cut aid to Islamabad by $33 million — one million for each year in the doctor’s sentence. Full storyKhaleda’s eviction from cantt home was right punishment: Ershad
BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s ‘eviction’ from her cantonment home was the ‘right punishment,’ thinks the Jatiya Party chairman, HM Ershad. ‘You had driven me out of my home in ten minutes. You have... Full storySubrata Roy asks Bangladeshis not to be wary about his investment bid
Sahara India Pariwar chairman Subrata Roy Sahara on Friday asked Bangladeshis not to be ‘suspicious’ about his group’s bid to come to Bangladesh and claimed that he was willing to invest... Full storySirajganj road accident claims 5
Five people aboard a truck died as it rammed into a moving articulated lorry at a spot near the Bangabandhu Bridge in Sirajganj on Friday morning. The police said three men died on the... Full storyEgypt to pick Islamist or military man as president
