People yet to get economic emancipation: Hasina
August 30, 2010
Each of the 12 families of Ansar members who had given guard of honour to the acting president of the government in exile on April 17 in 1971 received Tk 2 lakh as donation from Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday.
Road, rail link, trade to dominate talks
August 26, 2010
Regional connectivity, particularly setting up of Chittagong-Kunming road and rail-link, expansion of trade and commerce and joint efforts to curb poverty will dominate talks during a three-day visit of Chinese Yunnan Governor Qin Guangrong to Bangladesh.
Severe water crisis within next two decades, say experts
August 22, 2010
Bangladesh will face severe water crisis within next couple of decades due to random contamination of surface and ground water, absence of comprehensive water sharing with neighbouring countries and mismanagement in preserving rain water.
Production target set at 14 million tonnes
August 21, 2010
Despite having insufficient rain, the department of agriculture extension (DAE) eye an increased production of aman paddy in the current season with the target set at 14 million tonnes – an increase of over one million tonnes from the previous season.
According to DAE sources, some 5.45 million hectares of land would be brought under transplanted aman in the current season while 400,000 hectares under broadcast aman across the country.
e-governance to strengthen development process
August 19, 2010
Planning Minister Air Vice Marshal (Retd) AK Khandaker yesterday underscored the need for implementing e-governance in strengthening planning, monitoring and evaluation of government’s development activities by empowering field level administration in policy decisions.
Universities to be set up in major dists
August 18, 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday directed the authorities concerned to ensure cent percent admission facilities for every SSC and HSC passed students into colleges and universities.
She gave the directives at an inaugural function of the 1st senior staff course and unveiling plaque of administrative building of National Academy for Educational Management (Naem) at its auditorium.
Build poverty-free Bangladesh: PM
August 17, 2010
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the government is moving ahead with two major tasks — implementation of the Supreme Court verdict on the fifth amendment of the Constitution and build a country free from hunger and poverty.
She said the defeated and anti-liberation forces had distorted the Constitution after the assassination of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in 1975.
Golden rice by 2012
August 9, 2010
The country is likely to complete all necessary experiments on golden rice, a genetically modified crop variety, tentatively by 2012, said Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) sources.
They said as the government is yet to approve the field level experiment of the variety, the institute is conducting test in multiplying the seed of the new rice variety at laboratory level.
Law to stop indiscriminate extraction of sand, soil
August 3, 2010
The cabinet yesterday approved Balumahal and Soil Management Act 2010 in a bid to stop indiscriminate extraction of sand and soil from rivers and ensure proper land management.
The draft proposed a legal ban on extraction of sand, mud and soil within one kilometre of important bridges, dams, barrages, highways, forests, rail tracks, gas and electricity lines.
Pak intellectuals support war crimes trial
July 31, 2010
Two high-profile Pakistani intellectuals yesterday welcomed Bangladesh’s move to expose Bengali-speaking perpetrators of 1971 crimes against humanity, as a special tribunal earlier this week in its maiden order issued arrest warrants against four main suspects.
“I appreciate and support any move against anyone responsible for the killing of innocent civilians in 1971.Genocide is a crime against humanity and every sensitive human being must support a move to put the criminals on trial in a court of law,” leading Pakistani journalist Hamid Mir told BSS.