LGRD Minister inaugurates Material Recovery Facility

A Material Recovery Facility for municipal solid waste and plastic waste segregation has been installed in Sylhet at a cost of Tk 15 crore 30 lacs for sustainable management of plastic waste of the Sylhet City Corporation (SCC), a press release said Saturday.   The plant was inaugurated at Sylhet's Lalmatia Dumping

Nahid replaces Engr. Mosharraf as chair of JS body on LGRD

Engineer Khandker Mosharraf Hossain, former LGRD minister and an Awami League MP elected from Faridpur-3, was removed as chairman of the parliamentary standing committee on LGRD ministry on Sunday.Nurul Islam Nahid, former education minister and AL lawmaker from Sunamganj, replaced Mosharraf in the committee.Chief Whip of parliament, Noor-e-Alam Chowdhury Liton,

Ex-minister brother held in Tk 2,000cr money laundering case

Khandaker Mohtesam Hossain Babar, younger brother of former LGRD minister Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, has been arrested in connection with a money laundering case worth Tk 20 billion in Faridpur. Babar was apprehended in Dhaka's Bashundhara Residential Area around 3 am on Tuesday, according to Faridpur's Superintendent of Police Md Alimuzzaman. He had