Day: September 21, 2022
Staff Reporter :Poor coal unloading facility in the Rampal Power Plant is likely to hamper production of electricity as it is proposed to commission the project next month.Earlier, the ministry concerned has decided to run the coal-based power plant in the next month to ease the country’s ongoing power shortage.Meanwhile, the government has introduced load-shedding across the country and industrial units are also facing the problems, which interrupted the production too.However, the unit-1 of 1,320MW power plant will need around...
News Desk :A technical report submitted to Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation (BPC) said that crude oil from Russia cannot be refined in the government-owned Eastern Refinery Limited (ERL). A sample of 50 litres of crude oil recently arrived from Russia was recently tested at ERL’s own laboratory.The test report sent to BPC by the ERL technical committee on Tuesday was received by BPC General Manager (Commercial) Qudrat-e-Ilahi on behalf of the BPC Chairman.Meanwhile, in the opinion section of the 20-page report,...
DU Correspondent :A Dhaka University (DU) student was found dead at Jagannath Hall on Tuesday. The deceased has been identified as Amit Sarkar, 24. He was a post graduate student of the Institute of Leather Engineering and Technology of the university. Amit, son of Chittaranjan Sarkar of Baliaghat village of Jashore district was found unconscious in his dormitory’s room around 11:30 am. Students took him to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital where on duty doctors declared him dead.“We live in...
Staff Reporter :At least 75 percent of fishermen live in financial distress during the period of the government’s ban on fishing in the sea, a survey report said on Tuesday. The report also found that the government’s food aid programme for the fishermen which included rice was also very inadequate during the embargo. The findings recommended financial assistance to the fishermen along with food aid. This information was presented in a press conference titled “Field reality and some recommendations including...
Staff Reporter :Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) Secretary Mahbub Hossain on Tuesday said a scrutiny is underway if the ace cricketer Shakib Al Hasan will remain the goodwill ambassador of ACC or not.The newsmen asked the secretary whether the corruption charges brought against Shakib will tarnish the image of BCB and the Bangladesh cricket team or whether he would hold the post of goodwill ambassador. In replying to the query, the secretary said, “Action cannot be taken instantly as the allegation is...
UNB :Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said her government is going to introduce a fresh national curriculum from the next year to raise Bangladeshi children as global citizens.“We look forward to raising our children as truly global citizens. We are introducing a new national curriculum from next year. It will prepare our students for the Fourth Industrial Revolution,” she said.The premier said this in a pre-recorded video containing Bangladesh’s national statement, played at the UN Secretary General’s Transforming Education Summit on...
Staff Reporter :Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has been observing protest day in the Capital’s 16 places from 11 September against...
Reuters :An ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and Russia’s top lawmaker on Tuesday backed plans by Moscow-backed separatists in Ukraine to hold referendums paving the way for the annexation of swathes of additional territory in its former Soviet neighbour.After nearly seven months of war, including a critical battlefield defeat in northeastern Ukraine, Putin is pondering his next steps in a conflict that has triggered the biggest confrontation with the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.Russian-backed officials across 15%...
Sports Reporter :Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) has prepared an ‘open roof bus’ for the members of Bangladesh Women’s Football team, which clinched the SAFF Women’s Championship title defeating Nepal Women’s Football team by 3-1 goals in the final at Dasharath Rangasala Stadium in Kathmandu, the capital city of Nepal on Monday.Before winning the prestigious trophy, player of Bangladesh Women’s Football team Sanjida Akhter gave a status on her Facebook. She wrote, ” We need not get a reception with...
Diplomatic Correspondent :The Bangladesh government said that Myanmar had been disrupting regional stability by escalating violence in Rakhine state in a bid to hinder the process of Rohingya repatriation.But Bangladesh said that it would not fall prey to any kind of provocation unleashed by the Myanmar side so that they did not get any excuse to delay the Rohingya repatriation process. When Bangladesh was briefing the diplomats of different countries in the capital on Tuesday, it was reported that gunshots...
Staff Reporter :The court rejected the plea of filing cases against four to five hundred unidentified persons including Jubo League General Secretary Mainul Hossain Khan in connection with the attack on the leaders and workers of Dhaka North BNP in Mirpur area of the capital.Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) of Dhaka Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (CMM) court ordered to dismiss this application filed in the court of Tofazzal Hossain.Lawyer BNP leader Masud Ahmed Talukdar confirmed this information to the media. Earlier,...