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Hasan Jahid Tusher

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CTG Chemical Factory: Rules bent to favour errant contractor

A Chinese contractor fails to restart the country's lone state-run chemical factory in over four years, yet it finds no problems in getting its employer to deliver undue benefits.
13 November 2017, 18:00 PM
13 November 2017, 18:00 PM
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New gas field found in Bhola

Bapex has found a large gas reserve at Shahbazpur of Bhola.
23 October 2017, 18:00 PM
23 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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Orphan sisters find a parent in Rangamati DC

Meem and Sumaiya, only 6 years and 18 months old respectively, lost their parents in the devastating landslide in a Rangamati town on June 13. But in the aftermath of the tragedy, they have found a guardian in Mohammad Manzurul Mannan, deputy commissioner of Rangamati.
22 August 2017, 18:00 PM
22 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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Project nightmare

The government is incurring a loss of around Tk 5.65 crore every month as a 14-month project to reopen the country's lone state-owned chemical factory could not be implemented in more than four years. The loss has been nearly Tk 82 crore since May last year, when the Tk 115 crore project to restart Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) in Sitakunda was extended for the second time.
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM
17 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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A legacy worth remembering

Until yesterday, Mohammed Sumon was worried about how to move forward after losing six of his family members, including parents
16 August 2017, 18:00 PM
16 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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GOVT CRITICAL

Some senior ministers yesterday expressed strong disagreement with the Supreme Court over the restoration of Supreme Judicial Council for removal of SC judges on grounds of gross misconduct or incapacity. The SC in the full verdict in 16th constitutional amendment case said the provision of SJC has been reinstated following the cancellation of that amendment, which had empowered parliament to remove SC judges.
7 August 2017, 18:00 PM
7 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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Save hills, save lives

Unplanned settlement, deforestation, lack of guidelines for constructions in the hill region, development interventions, and heavy
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
4 August 2017, 18:00 PM
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Ctg waterlogging becomes unbearable for city dwellers

A video captured recently on the Chittagong-Kaptai road shows a vivid picture of the present scenario of waterlogging in Chittagong as most of the areas under the Chittagong City Corporation are inundated, causing immense sufferings for the commuters every day.
25 July 2017, 12:19 PM
25 July 2017, 12:19 PM
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Tales of a lucky escape, grim ends

It is being called a miracle; a single moment that offers some semblance of hope in this bleak period.
14 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Proposed Budget: No concrete plan on rail network

Efforts to improve rail networks across the country, a core demand of the people, appearrhetoric rather than realistic in the proposed
2 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Go slowly, get costly

Be it construction of a road, a sea port or a power plant, almost all projects go through delays and cost escalations, a problem that
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM

Big boost for road, railway

Allocation for communications infrastructure saw a big boost in the proposed budget, though quality compliance will remain a concern
1 June 2017, 18:00 PM
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Patients suffer across country

Patients across the country suffered a lot yesterday as doctors refrained from work at private healthcare facilities protesting vandalism
23 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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News Analysis: Unexpected death, unruly protest

The premature death of a Dhaka University student at a private hospital, the subsequent vandalism there and Bangladesh Medical Association's decision to abstain from work for a day have left the nation shocked.
22 May 2017, 18:00 PM

PM intervenes to resolve feud

Several pro-Awami League teachers of Dhaka University yesterday heavily criticised their vice-chancellor in front of Prime Minister
16 May 2017, 18:00 PM

Hasina for promoting young AL leadership

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday suggested that her cabinet colleagues promote young leadership in the Awami League and in the next parliamentary election.
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM

DU Senate Election: Pro-AL teachers split with eye on VC post

The next election to the vice-chancellor panel of Dhaka University was the main reason behind the split in the pro-Awami League teachers' Blue Panel over the May 22 senate election, teachers said yesterday.
15 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Struggling, still

Nurul Amin saw his makeshift bookstore near Baitul Mukarram National Mosque being gutted in front of him during Hefajat-e Islam's
4 May 2017, 18:00 PM
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Good news for heart patients

The longstanding anomalies in pricing coronary stents are set to be resolved as the drug administration started fixing the prices of the life-saving medical device for patients with blocked coronary arteries.
20 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Heart patients at high risk

Cardiologists during their angioplasty and stent implant procedures on patients yesterday learnt stent suppliers went on an undeclared “strike”, putting heart patients' lives at stake and holding them hostage.
19 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Staff vanishes with Tk 10cr fertiliser

Fertiliser “disappearing”, fund embezzlement, and corrupt officials going unpunished plague the Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) but a class-I civil servant “vanishing into thin air” with fertiliser worth crores of taka was a new low for the corporation.
17 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Where crimes draw no flak

A culture of impunity has been reigning supreme in the state-run Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) for years. A look into the affairs of the corporation reveals that even a parliamentary standing committee could not get the corporation to take action against its officials for corruption, negligence and malpractice.
16 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Relief for critical heart patients

Heart patients in need of angioplasty and stents can have a sigh of relief as the government has moved to fix the uncontrolled prices of stents that had been worrying patients and their families for years.
12 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Cardiology dept choked by equipment shortage

The country's lone medical university, BSMMU, spent over Tk 1,000 crore in the last five years, but it could not afford to procure a Tk 6 crore worth of equipment for its catheterisation laboratory that has been out of order during the same period.
8 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Lone Medical University: Running without emergency unit since inception in 1998

The country's premier postgraduate medical institution, Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU), is being run without an emergency department since its inception in 1998.
1 April 2017, 18:00 PM
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Law on land use okayed

The cabinet yesterday approved a draft law aiming to bring discipline in land management and prevent misuse of land in the country.
20 March 2017, 18:00 PM
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2 officials of Chinese firm held at 'gunpoint'

Two officials of a Chinese company were held at “gunpoint” at the capital's Rail Bhaban for around five minutes apparently to prevent them from participating in a tender for a more than Tk 250-crore rail line project.
2 February 2017, 18:00 PM
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Report on Anomalies: CCC probes info leak

The Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) authorities have formed a probe committee to find out how information regarding a Tk 115
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM

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