Rashidul Hasan

A parliamentary watchdog yesterday came down heavily on Industries Minister Nurul Majid Mahmud Humayun for the price spiral of sugar despite ample supply of the commodity.

The current rates of VAT and other taxes are a major obstacle to developing the country’s tourism industry, a parliamentary body said yesterday.

There has been no external audit of the accounts of Bangladesh Petroleum Corporation over the last 10 years, the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Undertakings has found.

The Election Commission has decided to use EVMs in up to 150 parliamentary seats in the next general election though major opposition political parties still have no confidence in the voting machine.

A recommendation has been made to a parliamentary standing committee that a martial-law era provision be brought back for shielding Petrobangla officials from legal proceedings for “acting in good faith”.

Even though 18 years have passed, Mahbuba Parvin is still unable to put herself back together after the trauma she faced in the August 21 grenade attacks on a rally by the Awami League.

Two similar accidents in front of the hangar of Biman Bangladesh Airlines at the Dhaka airport have raised questions about the national flag carrier’s efficiency and the sincerity of its staff in carrying out their roles.

Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) has found several “ghost equipment”-purchases, worth several crore taka, made by the Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB).

Air passengers from Dhaka to Jashore and Barishal have dropped significantly as many southbound travellers are preferring to travel by road following the inauguration of Padma Bridge in late June.All three airlines -- Biman Bangladesh, US-Bangla and Novoair -- are facing difficulty to attract passengers on these routes.

A parliamentary body yesterday said the environment and biodiversity of Cox’s Bazar are at serious risk due to the dumping of poisonous substances from the shrimp hatcheries into the sea.

In spite of massive preparations undergoing for long, Biman Bangladesh Airlines’ much-awaited maiden commercial flight on the Dhaka-Toronto route will run today with around 138 seats empty.

At least 39 officials of the civil aviation ministry and Civil Aviation Authority of Bangladesh (CAAB) made over 50 foreign trips in fiscal 2021-22 spending around Tk 1.5 crore of taxpayers’ money despite a government restriction. 

A parliamentary body yesterday formed a three-member sub-committee to investigate alleged corruption and irregularities centring construction of the third terminal at Dhaka airport.

The authorities at the Kolkata airport have rejected Biman’s claim that they did not permit the deplaning of passengers from a Biman flight left stranded at the airport for four hours on July 18 due to a technical glitch.

The repayment of foreign loans in the power sector may worsen the country’s debt-servicing burden as the government will have to pay the lenders Tk 197,677.27 crore in the 30 years from 2024-25 fiscal.

Islam is a religion of peace which never supports any violent activities against people of other religions, said Maulana Mohiuddin Kasham, a pesh imam of Baitul Mukarram National Mosque.

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has blamed Kolkata airport authorities for the suffering of its passengers on a Dhaka-bound flight on Monday night.

A parliamentary body yesterday recommended conducting energy audits on different government buildings to identify the energy efficiency of those structures.

The government paid Tk 16,785 crore in capacity charges to power plants in the first nine months of the last fiscal year for 22,118MW daily power generation capacity.

They are lawmakers. Yet they took the law into their own hands.