Case against MP Mostafizur for violation of code of polls conduct
Staff Correspondent: The Election Commission filed a case against Member of Parliament Mostafizur Rahman Chowdhury, the candidate of the ruling Awami League in Chittagong-16 Constituency for violating the Election Code of Conduct. Banshkhali election officer Muhammad…
Read More »4 dev projects on same route created traffic deadlock
Ashulia-Airport-Kamalapur Farhad Chowdhury: Four major projects in the communication infrastructure sector are currently running simultaneously on the Kamalapur route from Dhaka’s Ashulia to the airport. Among these, the ‘Dhaka-Ashulia Elevated Expressway’ is being constructed on the…
Read More »IPPs sucked Tk 17,156 cr as capacity charge without works
Mahfuz Emran: Private sector power plant rental and IPP (Independent Power Producer) capacity charges continue to rise. However, the expenditure in this sector increased by more than 25 percent in the last financial year. But at…
Read More »New public varsities crying for permanent campus
Staff Correspondent: Seventeen of the 25 public universities that got approval since 2008 have yet to establish permanent campuses. As a result, educational activities continue to take place in rented buildings, posing complexities for students concluding…
Read More »No financial improvement despite gas price hike
Staff Correspondent: Import of liquefied natural gas (LNG) into the country started in April 2018. Until then one of the profitable government companies was Petrobangla. The company reported its first loss in the fiscal year 2018-19…
Read More »10 more high ambitious wind power plants on the card
Current unit production cost Tk 56 Mahfuja Mukul: Bangladesh Power Development Board (BPDB) has two wind farms at Sonagazi in Feni and Kutubdia in Cox’s Bazar. Their capacity is 900 kilowatts and one megawatt respectively. Another…
Read More »Govt to speed up oil search after election
Zarif Mahmud: Elections, so the search for fuel in the sea and in the shore is stuck. However, government contracts with various companies to import high-cost LNG and build terminals are one after the other.Last November,…
Read More »True picture of bank failures even more dire
Expert opinion on CPD report Staff Correspondent : In the report of the private research institute CPD (Center for Policy Dialogue) it has been said that Tk 92 thousand crore have been looted from banks in…
Read More »Red Crescent becomes center of corruptions
Staff Correspondent: Although it is supposed to work in the service of humanity, Bangladesh Red Crescent Society has become an arena of looting. The officers and employees of the company are now busier with their sugarcane…
Read More »Christmas Day today
Staff Correspondent: Today is Christmas Day, the birthday of Jesus Christ, Jewish preacher and religious leader of the first-century.The Christians of different groups in Bangladesh and elsewhere across the world will celebrate the day amid festivity…
Read More »Trusted friends aren’t in budgetary help
India, China and Russia have not given financial help to BD in crisis Mahfuz Emran: The main and trusted friends of the government including India, China and Russia are not in any help of supporting during…
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