With the Comilla City Corporation polls approaching, two prominent mayoral aspirants promise to address the city problems, if elected.
Infighting within the district Awami League might make it difficult for mayor candidate Anjum Sultana Shima to win the upcoming Comilla City Corporation polls.
Back in 1984, women in judicial services was a rare sighting. But that did not stop Kabita Khanam from joining as a BCS judicial cadre
With the ongoing transport strike intensifying and spreading across the country, a number of transport workers yesterday said they called the shutdown with full backing of some top leaders of their association.
Just because a killer bus driver was sentenced to life, transport workers in 10 southern districts yesterday brought road communications to a grinding halt going on strike for an indefinite period.
A Manikganj court yesterday sentenced a bus driver to life imprisonment in a case filed over the road accident that killed noted filmmaker Tareque Masud, media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk and three others in 2011.
The new Election Commission yesterday discussed how to create an atmosphere conducive to all-party participation in polls -- both at
The authorities concerned will launch a joint drive against over 20-year-old buses, unfit vehicles, and illegal drivers in the capital from March 1 to reduce congestion and the number of accidents on streets.
Ruling Awami League lawmaker from Natore-2 Safiqul Islam Shimul yesterday apologised for violating electoral code of conduct and
Most of the owners of CNG-run auto-rickshaws are charging drivers more rent than the government fixed rate, forcing them to collect additional fare from the passengers.
A number of auto-rickshaw drivers made trips on a contract basis in the capital yesterday, when the new fare chart and mandatory use of the meter for charging passengers came into force.
Operators of intra-city bus services are overcharging passengers on most of the routes in the capital, defying the new fare chart set by the government.
Some bus operators in Dhaka have already raised fares while most are to do so in a couple of days as the new rates, fixed by the government in line with the recent hike in the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) and announced on September 10, came into effect yesterday.
With Eid holidays beginning from today, the chaotic rush of holiday makers reached its peak yesterday as thousands streamed out of the capital defying the rain and overcrowding of transports to go home.
Around 10:00am yesterday, Golam Kibria and his family started their journey to Tangail from the Mohakhali bus terminal in the capital.
Most of the tickets were “sold out” within a few hours after the counters opened at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday, the second day of advance train ticket sale.
After a six-hour anxious wait in a long queue, Eid holidaymaker Mofazzal Hossain got his desired train ticket yesterday.
A chunk of tickets for different modes of transport is kept aside for VIPs ahead of Eid every year, forcing ordinary people to go through
