Bangladesh ready to face climate change
January 6, 2010
Speakers tell discussion
Speakers at a discussion yesterday said Bangladesh is one of the few countries in the world to have devised a climate change adaptation and mitigation plan.
The cabinet-approved Bangladesh Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan 2009 is a proof that the country is prepared to face the challenges of climate change, they added.
They said this at the discussion of National Model Youth Parliamentary Session Read more
JU classes resume today
June 12, 2009
June 11: After a one-month long summer vacation classes of the Jahangirnagar University (JU) will resume tomorrow. The university bus service for first year students (2008-09 academic session) will also resume plying tomorrow. The Read more
Tk 10 crore for holding trial of war criminals
June 12, 2009
The government will allocate Tk 10 crore for holding the trial of war criminals, Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Barrister Sahfique Ahmed told The New Nation yesterday.
The decision was taken, in principle, at the cabinet meeting held yesterday with Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in the chair just before the placement of national budget in Parliament for 2009-2010 fiscal.
However, no allocation for the trial of war criminals was mentioned in the proposed budget placed by the Minister for Finance AMA Muhit in Parliament Read more
Govt mulls decentralisation of police admin: Muhith
June 12, 2009
Proposes Tk 5,801cr for home ministry
The government is actively considering the issues of decentralising the police administration and setting up a Public Representative Board to supervise and oversee the forces, Finance Minister AMA Muhith disclosed in his budget speech yesterday.
About the extrajudicial killings, Muhith said, “We shall in no way tolerate any extrajudicial killing. All such incidents will be subject to judicial investigation.”
The government has also proposed allocating Tk 5,801 Read more
Reclamation drive on Sitalakhya banks continues
June 12, 2009
Four multi-storey buildings erected on the banks of the River Sitalakhya were razed on Thursday.
The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority and the district administration continued the drive for the third consecutive day to reclaim from the encroachers the banks of the river stretching from Kanchpur to Syedpur.
‘About 50 structures including seven brick-built buildings have been razed to the ground so far,’ Narayanganj Port deputy director Abu Zafar Hawlader Read more
Creative question system in SSC exams from 2010: Education Minister
June 12, 2009
Education Minister Nurul Islam Naheed on Thursday said creative question system would be introduced in SSC examinations from 2010.
He made this disclosure at a press briefing in the conference room of the ministry.
The minister said primarily the new question system would be introduced for two subjects – Bangla first paper and Religion in SSC exams.
More subjects would be included in each group in the Read more
20 govt officials to leave for Japan at month-end
June 12, 2009
Twenty Bangladeshi young government officials will leave for Japan at the end of the current month under Japan Development Scholarship (JDS) programme.
Out of 269 candidates, 20 Bangladeshi young government officials have been selected to study there for two years to get Master’s degrees in four fields: Public Administration, Economics, International Relations and Environmental Policy.
The send-off ceremony for the fellows of JDS was Read more
Unicef urges action against poverty to tackle child labour
June 12, 2009
Unicef and its partners have urged action to tackle the poverty that leads to child labour marking the 10th anniversary the World Day against Child Labour.
Improving access to quality education, particularly for girls in poor and rural settings, is a key part of an effective overall approach, Unicef said in a statement yesterday.
About 100 million girls around the world involved in child labour are often exposed to some of the worst forms of child labour in work Read more
Myanmar firm keen to export electricity to Bangladesh
June 12, 2009
A Myanmar company is interested to set up a 500-megawatt hydroelectric plant in Rakhine state and export electricity to Bangladesh, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said yesterday.
The minister said she talked to the authorities of the company, Shwe Taung Development Co, during her recent visit to Myanmar.
Besides, a local company that has already got lease of land in Rakhine state to set up two power plants would consider exporting electricity to Bangladesh Read more
10 injured in BCL factional clashes
June 12, 2009
Ten students of Bangladesh Institute of Glass and Ceramic (Diploma engineering) at Tejgaon in the city were injured in a series of clashes between two factions of Bangladesh Chhatra League yesterday.
During the two-hour long clashes from 2:00pm, the feuding groups also vandalised around 20 rooms of the lone dormitory of the institute, prompting the authorities to close the Kazi Nazrul Islam Hostel sine die.
The resident students vacated the dormitory by 7:00pm Read more