BERC to rationalise billing for domestic consumers
Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission is likely to restructure the slabs of electric bills for domestic consumers dividing them into six categories in order to rationalise billing, officials said. Full storyExtortions continue at ferry terminals, on highways
Illegal collection of toll continues to hamper smooth traffic movement at ferry terminals and highways across the country though the government is stating that it was making efforts to restore... Full storyHumayun’s body due today
Muhith visits Philippines, Japan by week-end
The government plans to step up diplomatic efforts to arrange foreign funds for the Padma Multipurpose Bridge after the World Bank pulled out of the project, officials said on Sunday. Full storyAL council session unlikely this year
The Awami League is unlikely to hold its central council session this year to constitute a new committee although the present committee serves out its three-year term today. Full storyKamaruzzaman formed Al-Badr in Mymensingh town: witness
Freedom fighter Md Hamidul Haque on Sunday testified that Jamaat’s detained assistant secretary general, Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, formed Al-Badr in Mymensingh town during... Full storyPranab India’s new president
Zillur, Hasina greet Indian president-elect
The president, Zillur Rahman, and prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Sunday greeted the veteran statesmen Pranab Mukherjee for being elected as the 13th and first Bengali president of India. Full storyACC quizzes three local agents of SNC-Lavalin
The Anti-Corruption Commission on Sunday interrogated three local agents of SNC-Lavalin in connection with the alleged corruption in the Padma Bridge project. Full storyRMG workers block road for arrear wages
NGO financing needs to be under watch: FM
The foreign minister, Dipu Moni, has stressed the financing of some ‘suspected’ NGOs in Bangladesh should be monitored so that no terror financing could take place. Full storyFeared regime forces assault Syrian capital
Feared forces headed by president Bashar al-Assad’s brother used helicopters Sunday in a new offensive against rebels in Damascus, as clashes also raged in Syria’s second city Aleppo, activists said. Full storyNew areas in north submerged
Many of new areas in the northern region of the country were inundated afresh by monsoon floods triggered by onrush of water from upstream. Our Kurigram correspondent reports: About two lakh people... Full storySwedish national picked up, handed over to embassy
The police escorted a Swedish citizen from Bandarban and handed him over to the Swedish embassy in Dhaka on Sunday, officials said. The foreigner, Per Lijas, was taken into police custody about 6:30pm... Full storyBUET protests on
Teachers, students and employees of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, rallying for the removal of the vice-chancellor and the pro-vice-chancellor, continued their protests on Sunday. Full storyBUET protests on
Teachers, students and employees of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, rallying for the removal of the vice-chancellor and the pro-vice-chancellor, continued their protests on Sunday. Full storyRemove roadside illegal structures, says Obaidul
The communications minister, Obaidul Quader, directed the local administration to remove the illegal structures built on both sides of Comilla-Sylhet Highway. He gave the directive during his visit to the highway on Sunday. Full storyBus hits BUET student
A student of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology sustained critical injuries after a bus hit her in front of the National Press Club in the capital on Sunday afternoon. Full storySuper rich hold $32 trillion in offshore havens
Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday. Full storyTajuddin’s 87th birth anniversary today
