Day: December 29, 2012

US shrimp producers filed a petition on Friday asking the Commerce Department to impose punitive duties on billions of dollars of shrimp from China, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and Ecuador to offset what they said were unfair foreign government…

The BNP on Saturday blamed the Awami League-led government for pushing the country towards ‘anarchy’. “Today, [the government has made] democracy bloody, chained human rights… dragged the Constitution to the court,” party’s Standing Committee member Tariqul Islam said. “We’d like…

The work abstention of the doctors of different medical centers and clinics of Chuadanga continued that halted medical service in the district. But in emergency case, the patients were given treatment, said the hospital sources. Hundreds of people have been…

Opposition BNP leader Mir Nasir Uddin Saturday said BNP Senior Vice Chairman Tarique Rahman would come back to the politics for the attraction of soil and people of the country. He also claimed that that no conspiracy would be successful…

Industries Minister Dilip Barua on Saturday urged the applied chemist and chemical engineers to generate green products in making the country prosperous. He came up with the plea at a program at Teachers-Student Centre (TSC) in Dhaka University. Department of…

Noted jurist Dr Kamal Hossain, president of Gono Forum Saturday expressed hope that the country would be free from the current political crisis through change in 2014. “The nation does have 12 more months in hand to search good personalities…

Indian external affairs minister Salman Khurshid will pay a two-day visit to Bangladesh on February 16. Before he visits Bangladesh, Khurshid will meet West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerji to discuss the Teesta water sharing treaty. Indian external affairs ministry…

Former Advisor to the caretaker government Akbar Ali Khan on Saturday recommended four formulas for handing over the power peacefully. The former cabinet secretary came up with the recommendations while addressing a seminar on ‘Hand over Power: Option for Bangladesh’…

Ferry operations remained suspended for several hours at the country’s two key river crossings– Mawa-Kewrakandi and Paturia-Daulatdia — on Friday night, like on many occasions this winter. Ferry services were stopped around 10:30pm on Friday due to heavy fog that…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been named the President of the Awami League for the seventh time in a row at the party’s 19th triennial national council on Saturday. The incumbent General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam has also been re-elected.…

Anisul Islam Noor The country’s power sector cannot work according to its plan as a group of influential, private power plant entrepreneurs, is creating barrier in different way to implement big power plant projects, an official of Power Development Board…