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City reels under rainwater
Traffic, business screech to a halt; thousands of phones go dead
Heavy monsoon downpour yesterday caused acute waterlogging and traffic tailback across the capital, putting brakes on business and paralysing public life.
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Aussie firm hired to drill relief well
Energy adviser warns to block Niko dues if it refuses to compensate
Niko yesterday announced to have hired an Australian company to drill a new relief well beside the burning one in its Tengratila gas field to seal up the main well that suffered the severe blowout inJanuary.
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Tengratila Blowout
Vast swath of land lays a wasteland
The June 24 blowout from a Niko relief well at Tengratila in Sunamganj district has wreaked irreparable environmental and ecological havoc in at least two-kilometre radius.
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Essentials
TCB reports price spiral, ministries see media hype
When a government agency reports that essential prices shot up substantially in a short span of time, an inter-ministerial meeting yesterday observed the price situation is not as 'exorbitant as reflected
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DC-10 Crash-landing
No int'l flights for another week
Shah Amanat International Airport in Chittagong might remain close to the international flights at least for another week, as it would not be possible by that time to salvage the crash-landed DC-10 aircraft
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TIB Report on Ctg Port Customs
Traders bribe over Tk 800cr a year
Traders bribe over Tk 800 crore to the Chittagong Port Customs a year, Transparency International, Bangladesh (TIB) revealed yesterday in a report.
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DND damned
Several lakh residents living inside the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra (DND) embankment area have been trapped by a fresh waterlogging after Saturday's heavy overnight downpour that continued yesterday, though
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Comes water- logging, comes a committee
Waterlogging in the city turns out to be a regular event, with mere forming of high-level government committees as the problem worsens during the rainy season and practically doing very little to address
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Tata investment hinges on site selection
Experts visit proposed location today
The fate of Indian Tata Group's $2.5 billion investment now hangs on the site selection for its 4-lakh-ton steel plant at Ruppur in Pakshey near the Pakshey Nuclear Power Plant Project.
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Grenade 'smuggler' killed in 'crossfire',
Another Arges grenade seized at Aminbazar
A person arrested on charge of grenade smuggling was killed in 'crossfire' between Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and his accomplices in Savar in the early hours yesterday.
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ADB sets condition for assisting ACC
Proposes four consultants against two sought
Asian Development Bank (ADB) has set a condition on providing technical assistance for the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) in its core functions and capacity building.
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Govt to decide about UP polls today
The government has once again initiated steps to hold the much-talked about upazila parishad (UP) elections in an apparent bid to distract the opposition from its anti-government movement.
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Egypt ambassador in Iraq kidnapped
Egypt's envoy to Iraq has been kidnapped in Baghdad, possibly in response to reports he would become the first full-ranking Arab ambassador to the US-backed Iraqi government, an Egyptian diplomat said
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Top Qaeda man killed in Saudi clash
The suspected Saudi frontman of the al-Qaeda network, Yunis Mohammed Ibrahim al-Hayari of Morocco, was killed in a shootout with security forces in Riyadh yesterday, the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya news channel
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Kibria Murder
Habiganj DC obstructing probe
Family alleges
Family members of the slain former finance minister Shah AMS Kibria yesterday said the deputy commissioner (DC) of Habiganj is obstructing the investigation into the killing of Kibria and demanded his
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Indefinite strike called at DU
Following two-day strike ending yesterday, seven opposition-backed student organisations led by the Awami League's student wing Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) have called an indefinite strike at Dhaka
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Rab crossfire a 'State-sponsored crime'
Speakers say in book launching
The 'crossfire' by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the name of curbing 'terrorism' itself is 'a state-approved act of terrorism', said speakers at a book launching ceremony in the city yesterday.
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HC stays graft cases against Muyeed Chy
Orders govt not to arrest him
The High Court yesterday stayed for four months the proceedings of two corruption cases filed against former advisor to the caretaker government and National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Abdul Muyeed
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Federer does it again
Roger Federer produced another master-class to trounce Andy Roddick in straight sets on Sunday and complete a rare hat-trick of Wimbledon wins.
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BAF Plane Crash
Injured woman dies at DMCH
Another woman who suffered critical burns in the June 7 fighter crash died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) yesterday.
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Judiciary suffers from image problem
Moudud says
Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Moudud Ahmed yesterday said he is trying to restore the image of the judiciary as it has been suffering from an image problem for the last three and a half
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