Bangladesh’s auto-rickshaw workers continue protests for 3rd day

People continued to suffer for the third consecutive day yesterday as auto-rickshaw workers and owners demonstrated against the government ban on three-wheelers and slow-moving vehicles on highways.
3 August 2015

Marooned for weeks

In the rainy season, life of thousands of people comes to a near standstill due to waterlogging in the Dhaka-Narayanganj-Demra dam area.
3 August 2015

Man accuses cops of shooting him after arrest in Ctg

A 20-year-old man who was arrested in Chittagong city's Amin Colony field on Sunday night says police deliberately shot him in the calf muscle from a close range just hours later while law enforcers claim the pellets were shot by his cohorts during an exchange of gunfire with police.
3 August 2015

Filling station accused of tampering with pumps

A state-owned filling station in the capital's Poribagh was shut down for several hours yesterday after consumers laid siege to it alleging that the petrol pumps had been tampered with and were providing less than what the consumers were paying for.
3 August 2015

Protesters lock WDB office in Rajshahi for protection from Padma erosion

Several hundred people locked the divisional headquarters of Water Development Board (WDB) in Rajshahi city yesterday demanding that the authorities concerned ensure protection of the district from bank erosion of Padma.
3 August 2015

Toll protest continues to make public suffer

Transport workers' blockade on the first Buriganga Bridge protesting a steep rise in toll rates and demanding an immediate revision of the new charges continued for the third consecutive day yesterday.
3 August 2015

Total chaos on highways across Bangladesh

The government ban on three-wheelers and slow-moving vehicles on highways effective from yesterday brought enormous sufferings on people as transport owners and drivers put barricades at different points protesting the ban. Parts of Dhaka-Chittagong, Dhaka-Khulna, Dhaka-Sylhet, Dhaka-Barisal, Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Mymensingh highways were blocked by agitated transport workers, causing tailbacks on both sides of the roads.
2 August 2015

Poor sanitation facilities plague DU Arts Building

Every day long queues are seen in front of the seven toilets for 6,000 female students at Dhaka University's Arts Building, revealing an appalling condition of its sanitation facilities.
2 August 2015

Get prepared to serve patients outside Dhaka

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday asked the promoted doctors to remain prepared to work at district-level.
2 August 2015

Tea workers won't give ancestral land

Workers of Chandpur Tea Garden in Habiganj yesterday threatened that they would rather die than give up their ancestral land chosen
2 August 2015

Top Quote!

“If you are brave, then take away the land-grabbers' land. Only then we will accept that this is a brave state.”
2 August 2015

Traffic gridlock in Uttara

Traffic gridlock on airport road in Uttara area became acute due to heavy rain and pressure of the Dhaka-bound vehicles from different adjoining districts.
2 August 2015

Record rainfall already

After two consecutive dry monsoons, the country this year experiences 25 percent more rainfall than usual, hampering daily life and
1 August 2015

Dubai-Sylhet flight escapes crash

A Dubai-Sylhet flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines narrowly escaped an accident after a bird ended up inside the plane's engine during
1 August 2015

Eviction from English Road protested

Hundreds of drivers and workers of truck, mini-truck, covered-van and tank-lorry yesterday formed a human chain protesting the
1 August 2015

Minister asks officials to improve livestock sector for food security

State Minister for Fisheries and Animal Resources Narayan Chandra Chanda asked the field level officials concerned and other dairy and
1 August 2015

'The Unfinished Memoirs' of Bangabandhu published in Japanese language

Prestigious publishing house in Japan, The Ashahi Shoten Publishers, has published “The Unfinished Memoirs” of Father of the Nation
1 August 2015

75 teachers get training

Teachers sometimes fail to deliver English lessons in the expected manner due to a lack of good techniques and experience, said
1 August 2015

Commuters suffer as protesters block street

Hundreds of three-wheeler auto-rickshaw drivers and locals who use non-motorised transports blocked for the second time in eight
1 August 2015

Where waterlogging never ends

For the low-lying parts of Chittagong waterlogging is a serious problem especially during the monsoon, but in the city's Agrabad CDA
1 August 2015