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Stray incidents mark shutdown
The countrywide dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced on Sunday by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party-led opposition alliance in protest at the price hike of fuel oils partially disrupted life and businesses in the capital and other cities and towns. Police in riot gear used tear gas and rubber bullets to break up stray processions in the city as pickets burned and damaged passing vehicles and... Full story
Extra transport cost pushes up goods prices
Increase in fuel oil prices has already started pushing up prices of essential goods as truck owners started charging increased fare. Several traders at Karwan Bazar and Shyambazar in the capital told New Age... Full story
Mosharraf admits deleting e-mails on Padma Bridge
Former Bridges Division secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, now in jail in connection with the Padma Bridge ‘corruption’, deleted from mail box all his email correspondence with officials of the Canadian construction company... Full story
No textbooks yet for secondary students
The government is yet to provide secondary students of English version with textbooks which has forced them to attend classes without textbooks for a week. Students and teachers said that the delay in providing the... Full story
Strike may be used as final weapon against govt: Tariqul
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Sunday said that it might continue to use general strike as the final weapon in democracy against the ‘fascist government.’ ‘We do not want to enforce general... Full story
METRO
Construction workers demand implementation of ILO charter
Building construction workers on Sunday demanded full implementation of the ILO charter, labour act and building construction code. At a rally, they placed their six-point demand including immediate enlistment of construction workers and issuance of identity cards, separate pay commission and compulsory... Full story
BUSINESS
MRA moves to cut further microcredit interest rate
The Microcredit Regulatory Authority has taken further move to trim down the rate of interest at which the micro finance institutions are lending money to their clients who are mostly poor. Currently no MFI is allowed to provide loans at more than 27 per cent rate of interest to their clients. Full story
INTERNATIONAL
Pakistan, India in border clash
Pakistani and Indian troops exchanged fire Sunday along their disputed border in divided Kashmir, with each side blaming the other for the flare-up and Pakistan saying one of its soldiers was killed. Full story
SPORTS
BCB drops dubious bylaws
After a long dilly-dally the Bangladesh Cricket Board dropped the controversial point system in the Bangladesh Cricket League and reinstated the bylaws that was provided to the franchises initially. Full story
EDITORIAL
Incumbents need to be more responsive to people’s woes
THE government’s plan to enter into negotiations with... Full story
OP-ED
Nothing in recent history has gripped India as the gang-rape
ANONYMITY of the New Delhi gang-rape victim must be counted as a factor which has helped sustain remarkable youth mobilisation to this day. If names were revealed at the very outset of the gruesome incident, it is just possible that caste differences would have come in the way of the unprecedented upsurge. Anonymity enabled Braveheart to transcend the... Full story
TIMEOUT
Samina talks about music industry revival
She created a buzz in her schooldays winning the First Prize for Patriotic Songs in the Reality Show—‘Notun Kuri’ in 1977. Under the proper guidance from her father, renowned singer Mahmudun Nabi, she developed as a quality playback contemporary singer. The melodious singer made a brilliant beginning her professional musical career in 1981 with the song Jonmo theke... Full story
LETTERS
Power scenario
An essay on the current power scenario was published in the pages of local English daily on December 30. It rightly pointed out that for the new coal fired power plants, we should go for open pit coal mining instead of... Full story
