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    The three day-long Bishwa Ijtema, the second largest congregation of Muslims after the Hajj, is set to begin on the bank of the Turag River at Tongi, Gazipur on Friday. Thousands of Muslim devotees have already reached the venue of the Ijtema, which would end through Akheri Munajat on Sunday. The second phase will begin on the 15th of January and will end on the 17th. meanwhile, Bangladesh Railway has decided to run 28 special trains for Bishwa Ijtema devotees to Tongi from different parts of the country. Home minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal visited the Ijtema ground today. He said that Bangladeshis are pious and knowledgeable. Therefore the government has been able to curb militancy in the country.

    BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia today demanded the authorities to immediately arrange a parliamentary election under a nonpartisan government. The Election Commission’s present responsibility is to immediately arrange an inclusive national election in a free, fair and impartial manner, she said. The BNP also demanded talks among political parties for the sake of democracy. “We want an end to the prevailing chaotic situation through discussions and to work together for the sake of de-mocracy,” she said adding the ruling Awami League is staying in power forcibly. Citing several instances of election irregularities, the BNP chief alleged that the Awami League government wants to show its popularity by manipulating elections. She also lambasted the Election Commission (EC) for its...

    Relief and Disaster Management Ministry has identified 72,000 buildings at the risk of earthquakes in the capital. Relief and Disaster Management Minister Mofazzal Hossain Chowdhury Maya made the statement at a press briefing in the capital on Monday afternoon. He said: “We had put black and red marks on the 72,000 buildings in the capital that were identified to be at the risk of earthquake".

Sharier Khan: In the last six years, the Awami League government has made significant progress in the power sector virtually eliminating the phenomenon of load shedding. But this success may grind to a halt in the near future as the gov-ernment's new plans to build two dozen large coal power plants are going nowhere fast. In the last four years, the government rolled out plans and bids to build large coal fired power plants totalling 20 thousand megawatt capacity—which is almost three times the electricity available to the nation today. Coal is cheap and it was chosen as an alternative to natural gas for power generation. As gas resources are deplet-ing fast, the government wants one third of the country's power to be generated with coal by 2030. Out of these two dozen coal power projects,...