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.
7y ago
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.
7y ago
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.
7y ago
A legacy worth remembering
Until yesterday, Mohammed Sumon was worried about how to move forward after losing six of his family members, including parents
7y ago
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.
7y ago
Save hills, save lives
Unplanned settlement, deforestation, lack of guidelines for constructions in the hill region, development interventions, and heavy
7y ago
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.
7y ago
April 18, 2017
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.
April 17, 2017
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.
April 13, 2017
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.
April 9, 2017
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.
April 2, 2017
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.
March 21, 2017
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.
February 3, 2017
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.
January 28, 2017
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
January 28, 2017
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.
January 27, 2017
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.
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