DHAKA: The draft Power and Energy Fast Supply Enhancement (Special Provision) Law 2010 is likely to be sent to the Law Ministry for vetting soon before its enactment to put the energy business on a crash course. A cabinet meeting held on September 6 approved in principle the draft law

DHAKA: Over 850 unions of the country are still left in the dark and there is no possibility of bringing these vast areas under electrification in next two years, according to available statistics. The statistical data on the country’s infrastructural condition show that out of over

DHAKA: Public Works Department and Dhaka City Corporation under joint efforts completed arrangement of the National Eidgah for smooth holding of Eid congregation, which was hampered last year due to inclement weather.The biggest religious festival of the Muslims, Eid-ul-Fitr, will be

DHAKA: The Anti-Corruption Commission has put on the dock four top officials of Local Government and Engineering Department charging them with corruption, as anti-graft campaigners considered LGED as one of the hotspots for underhand dealings.According to official sources, the

DHAKA: The gap between the ruling Awami League and its major Grand Alliance partner Jatiya Party is widening following growing dissatisfaction over unfulfilled expectations, JP sources said.They told banglanews24.com.bd that the relationship between JP chairman and former military ruler

DHAKA: With the focus on privatization of the losing public concerns, at last the ‘Industrial Policy-2010’ is going to be placed in the cabinet meeting Monday for approval. Earlier on August 3, the cabinet committee on economic affairs finalized the draft of the policy in a meeting

DHAKA: As homebound people are suffering a lot in collecting bus, launch and train tickets amid Eid rush, the affluent ones started flocking in different airlines’ offices in the city to avail a hassle-free trip home.  The state-owned Biman Bangladesh Airlines and some private

DHAKA: Much of the cheer of the holidaymakers got dampened into regret, as five-day Eid vacation plea of the Home Ministry didn’t get the Prime Minister’s nod.Traditionally, people enjoy a three-day holiday on the occasion of Eid, but it is too short a span of time for them to

DHAKA: The ruling Awami League-led grand alliance is going to hold rallies at divisional headquarters to mobilize public support for holding the trial of war criminals and also to build a political counteroffensive against the anti-government movement being waged by the opposition

DHAKA: Sherifa Quader, wife of the Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister, began to go sailing in a fair weather as soon as she became active in Jatiya Party politics of late.She became active in JP politics in the middle of July. JP chairman and ex-president HM Ershad made her party

DHAKA: Aspirants for the position of Secretary-General in opposition BNP appear to be in a rat race although the party chief has nothing of that sort of change in her mind for now. A group of leaders in BNP strengthened their efforts in a bid to sideline incumbent secretary-general

DHAKA: Now eid bonus is added on to toll, with drivers and transport owners held hostage by thugs.  A section of transport workers, identified terrorists and an organized gang, allegedly with the blessing of a section of cops and influential quarters, got busy extorting toll ahead of the

DHAKA: Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport (HSIA), the main gateway to Bangladesh by air, is going to get a facelift to a most modern airport as a long-delayed modernization project finally takes off at the beginning of next year.The Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB)

DHAKA: Former President HM Ershad, who had ruled Bangladesh for nine years as a strongman, now passes his days in unhappiness, with most of his desires cherished in joining the grand-alliance government remaining unfulfilled. Political analysts think that the situation is going beyond

DHAKA: Paperwork got going at government initiative to establish the proposed Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Airport through public-private partnership (PPP), a newly devised development paradigm now being practiced around the global by combining the two sectors in a synergy.The Ministry of

DHAKA: The government is taking initiative to recover some Tk 4000 crore allegedly misappropriated from nine government banks under cover of debt waivers during the times of the past four-party coalition and the caretaker governments. Competent sources said the huge amount of money was

DHAKA: Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) Chairman Ayubur Rahman Khan sees it as only natural that the capital will get more suffocating with impassable traffic jam for pressures of population. “For roads, an ideal city should set aside 25 percent areas inside while Dhaka offers

DHAKA: Biman Bangladesh Airlines had renewed the accord with Kabo Airlines on chartering an airplane bypassing the rules and regulations of the institution, competent sources said when asked about reasons for a high-level row over the issue. They pointed out that the deal, signed during

DHAKA: The city streets again got clogged with a comeback of outworn vehicles ahead of Eid-ul-fitr as the police drive apparently nosedived, putting city-dwellers in abject misery besides polluting the environment.Allegations have it that dilapidated vehicles are plying roads due to

DHAKA: The government has earmarked Tk 191 crore for funding the acquisition of 646 acres of land and rehabilitation of the people displaced for the Barapukuria coalmine, according to a draft budget. A sum of Tk 80 crore has been projected as land-acquisition cost while Tk 109 crore for