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
New gas field found in Bhola
Bapex has found a large gas reserve at Shahbazpur of Bhola.
23 October 2017, 18:00 PM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Farmers in pain as cartels gain
If you were a farmer and went to buy locally produced TSP and DAP, you can't buy it at the government-fixed retail price. You have to pay at least 50 percent more.
It is because two syndicates have been in control of the distribution of these two important fertilisers for around two decades, thanks to a flawed distribution system.
27 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Even a ship full of fertiliser vanishes
Mongla Port is no Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle in the Atlantic Ocean, where several ships and also aircraft are said to have mysteriously vanished.
But when it comes to ships full of fertiliser, they can disappear under equally mysterious circumstances from this port in southern Bangladesh, about 14,000km east of Bermuda Triangle.
26 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Fertiliser riddle - 1: Exists on paper, lost in reality
Sometimes, a simple phrase can make you richer by hundreds of crores of taka. Consider the magical term “in transit,” which is making a syndicate of fertiliser traders unimaginably rich.
This syndicate along with some officials of Bangladesh Chemical Industries Corporation (BCIC) has made off with urea worth hundreds of crores of taka over the last eight years with impunity, The Daily Star has found.
24 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Irregularities aplenty
Forty-five months have gone by but the 14 months' project to restart the Chittagong Chemical Complex (CCC) is yet to be finished and it is costing the state dearly.
For the last seven months, the lone state-owned chemical factory in Sitakunda has been incurring Tk 16 lakh in production loss every day, all because a Chinese firm failed to get the factory going again.
21 January 2017, 18:00 PM
MP Liton Killing: PM asks lawmakers to stay alert
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said the killing of Awami League lawmaker Manzurul Islam Liton was a planned murder, and asked all the ministers and lawmakers to stay alert.
2 January 2017, 18:00 PM
Defeat of AL Chairman Aspirants: Some MPs' role, money mattered
Ruling party lawmakers contributed significantly to the win of rebels against the party-backed candidates in at least five districts in Wednesday's Zila Parishad election.
29 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Flyover Puzzle for Bangladesh: Costliest in South Asia
It costs more and takes longer to implement a flyover project in Bangladesh than in any other South Asian country, despite labour and construction materials being comparatively cheap here.
24 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Updated drug policy okayed by cabinet
The cabinet yesterday approved the draft of revised and integrated drug policy, first of its kind in Bangladesh, to make sure
19 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Job tenure of 3 services chiefs fixed at 4 yrs
The cabinet yesterday approved in principle a draft law proposing the service tenure of the chiefs of the army, the navy and the air force to be four years.
12 December 2016, 18:00 PM
Top tiers of admin get heavier
Only six months after promoting more than 200 officials, the government has gone for another large-scale promotion in the already top-heavy civil administration, making its upper tiers further imbalanced.
27 November 2016, 18:00 PM
Girls' Age for Marriage: 18 years, with exceptions
The cabinet yesterday okayed a draft law for preventing child marriage fixing 18 years as the minimum age for girls to get married but kept a provision for special circumstances under which girls below the age could tie the knot.
24 November 2016, 18:00 PM
AL Ticket for NCC Mayor: Ivy wants Hasina to intervene
Narayanganj City Corporation Mayor Selina Hayat Ivy will seek Awami League President Sheikh Hasina's intervention in getting party ticket for the upcoming mayoral polls, as the city AL has excluded her from the list of prospective candidates.
16 November 2016, 18:00 PM