BERC sets quality power prices at Tk 14-16 a unit
The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission decided that different levels of industrial consumers would need to pay between Tk 14 and Tk 16 a kilowatt-hour for uninterrupted electric supply, an official said. Full storyBahrain fire kills 10 Bangladeshis
Ten Bangladeshis died from suffocation in a fire that broke out in their house in Bahrain early Sunday morning, a Bangladesh embassy official told New Age. The incident took place in the house of 11... Full storyRuling alliance offers dialogue on interim govt
The Awami League-led alliance on Sunday decided that dialogues could be held with the opposition on the issue of an election-time interim government but ruled out any talks on restoration of the caretaker... Full storyBudgetary measures fail to prop up stock market
Most of the government’s budgetary measures, including the facility for legalizing undisclosed money, failed to boost the country’s ailing capital market as the general index of Dhaka bourse shed 1,359.59 points from... Full storyHeat wave may continue past first week of June
The ongoing moderate heat wave may continue past the first week of June when it starts raining, meteorologists said on Sunday. They said that at least six heat waves swept over the country’s north, the north-west... Full storyNepal faces deadline on new constitution
Nepal’s leaders held urgent talks on Sunday to avoid a political crisis, with just hours remaining before a midnight deadline to agree a new post-war constitution or face the dissolution of parliament. Full storyPolice want lists of troublemakers in industrial belts
Police at a meeting on Sunday asked the RMG factory owners to provide them with lists of troublemakers in the export oriented sector now facing a fresh turmoil due to labour unrest. Labour and employment... Full storySQC counsel apologises
Fakhrul Islam, defence counsel for detained lawmaker Salauddin Quader Chowdhury, on Sunday unconditionally apologised to the International Crimes Tribunal-1for calling the first prosecution witness ‘a liar.’ Full story30 hurt as RMG workers clash with police at Kanchpur
HC grants bail to 5 MPs, issues rule on pleas of Fakhrul, others
The High Court on Sunday granted ad interim bail to five lawmakers of the BNP-led alliance and issued a rule on the government asking it to explain in a week why 29 others, including the acting BNP acting secretary... Full storyAccept CG to avoid people’s wrath, Moudud asks govt
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led ‘18-party’ alliance will launch ‘mass contacts’ beginning today across the country demanding ‘return’ of its leader Ilias Ali, unconditional release of detained leaders and restoration... Full storySpeaker agrees to mediate AL-BNP dialogue
Jatiya Sangsad speaker Abdul Hamid on Sunday said he could mediate dialogues between the treasury and opposition benches in the house, if they so wanted. Hamid made the proposal after independent... Full storyAC Shahidul suspended in face of protests
