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Petrobangla plans to deploy BAPEX, intensify exploration

Amid deepening energy crisis in the country, the interim government is planning to intensify hydrocarbon-exploration campaign in a major policy shift to deploy the lone local company to conduct the exploration activities.State-owned Bangladesh Oil, Gas and Mineral Corporation (Petrobangla) prefers its subsidiary Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company Limited (BAPEX)...

Dr Yunus for 'UN- guaranteed safe zone' in Rakhine

Chief Adviser Professor Dr Yunus on Monday urged the international community to create a "safe zone guaranteed by the UN" for the displaced people in Rakhine and finding ways to support them.This will be "the best thing to get aid to them," Professor Yunus told Thomas Andrews, the Special Rapporteur...

Govt reconstitutes ICT

The government has reconstituted the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) by appointing Justice Golam Martuza, an Additional Judge of the High Court Division of the Supreme Court, as its chairman. Law Adviser Asif Nazrul disclosed the update in a briefing at the secretariat on Monday. He further stated that the trial...

Egg, chilli, brinjal prices hit record highs

Woes of consumers, who are already in a fix amid the rocketing trend in prices of essential commodities, mounted further on Monday as some commodities, including eggs, green chilli and brinjal, hit record highs.Green chilli price hit Tk600-650 a kg in the city on Monday morning which was Tk350-400 a...

Ex-minister Razzaque arrested

Detectives arrested former Agriculture Minister Dr. Abdur Razzaque in an operation in the capital's Eskaton area on Monday evening, reports UNB.A team from the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) detained Razzaque from a flat at around 7:45 pm, according to Rezaul Karim Mallik, additional commissioner of DB.He...

Benazir sued for passport scam

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) filed a lawsuit against former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed along with four others on charges of passport fraud and forgery.Deputy director Hafizul Islam, ACC's Integrated District Office Dhaka-01, lodged the case on Monday, according to a senior ACC official.Other accused are former director...

Govt cancels CIP cards for 2023

The government has cancelled all activities related to issuing Commercially Important Person (CIP) cards for 2023, reports BSS.To this end, the Export Promotion Bureau (EPB) Monday issued a circular.The government every year awards CIP status to businesspeople in recognition of their contributions to the country's export and trade activities.

Delhi's statement baseless: Dhaka

Dhaka has binned a statement by the spokesperson for Delhi's external affairs ministry alleging "a systemic pattern of desecration of and damage to temples and deities" in Bangladesh as baseless and uncalled for."The attention of the government has been drawn to a statement by spokesperson for the Ministry of External...