Bangladesh

The country’s current gas reserve as of June 2015 is 14.16 TCF, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid informed parliament on Sunday. As of May, 2015, he said, some 815.98 BCF gas was extracted in the current fiscal year and if this rate of extraction remains unchanged, it would be possible to use the gas for ...

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia alleged that there are various attempts to keep the ruling Awami League in power for a very long time. “The Awami League government was installed through conspiracy in a planned way in a bid to destroy the nation, and attempts are now underway to perpetuate its power,” she said. The BNP chief made the remarks at ...

Chinese government has given fire and rescue equipment to Bangladesh Fire Service and Civil Defence (BFSCD) to strengthen its capability and efficiency for providing service, reports BSS. Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Ma Mingqiang handed over the equipment to the BFSCD at a ceremony at BFSCD Training Complex at Mirpur -10 in the capital yesterday morning. The equipment, including 100 towing ...

The High Court on Tuesday directed the food ministry secretary and the director-general of the directorate of food to explain to the court in 72 hours as to whether the wheat imported and released by the ministry is suitable for human consumption, as newspapers ran conflicting reports over it. A bench of Justice Quazi Reza-Ul-Hoque and Justice Abu Taher Md. ...

Police are yet to find any major lead in the murders of three bloggers in Dhaka, even after two people were arrested for their suspected involvement in one of the killings. Law enforcers claim that it is taking time to identify the perpetrators as they carried out the crimes in “cut out” manner. US citizen and writer-blogger Avijit Roy was ...

The Supreme Court has upheld the High Court’s order granting bail to BNP leader Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir in three violence-related cases. A four-member Appellate Division bench, headed by Chief Justice Surendra Kumar Sinha, granted the BNP leader bail until police filed their report on the three cases on Sunday. Now, there was no bar to the BNP acting secretary ...

Finance Minister AMA Muhith presented proposed budget for 2015-16 in Parliament on June 4 The proposed budget for the 2015-16 financial year is to be passed without major changes, Finance Minister AMA Muhith has indicated. He told  that the Finance Bill 2015 will be passed on Monday and the Tk 3 trillion budget on Tuesday after weighing the suggestions made ...

Khaleda can even leave her own party, but not the side of Jamaat: Awami League The Awami League’s Publicity Secretary Hasan Mahmud has said BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia can even leave her party but not the side of her key ally Jamaat-e-Islami. He said on Friday the 20-Party alliance leader’s joining an Iftar hosted by Jamaat the previous day indicated ...

At least eight people have been killed in flash flood, storm and landslide in Cox’s Bazar. Seven others were injured and two were reported missing. Five were killed in flash flood at Ramu, and two died after trees fell on them during the storm at Saint Martin’s Island. A child was killed in a landslide at Ghonar Parha hill in ...

Election Commission is correcting the National Identity Cards of three citizens to introduce ‘Justice’ as a title for the first time in line with a High Court decision. The applications by High Court Justices Naima Haider and Mirza Hussain Haider, and that of his wife to change their names to include the title were approved by the EC on Wednesday. ...