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.
The government yesterday hiked bus and CNG-run auto-rickshaw fares in Dhaka and Chittagong cities amid passengers' worry that transport operators may charge them more than the rate fixed.
Some bus operators in the capital are charging additional fare due to gas price hike, although the authorities concerned repeatedly said they would not increase it until the government decided about it.
Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) has proposed increasing bus fare by 10 percent; however, private bus owners in Dhaka and Chittagong cities demanded the fare increase to be double that.
Private launch owners yesterday put forward two new proposals that aim to make large profits, but also put passengers' lives at risk.
Unfit human hauliers, driven by reckless drivers without licenses or with fake licenses, ply the Motijheel-Mugda route in the capital putting commuters' lives at risk.
The Election Commission is struggling to make the registered political parties submit their annual financial transaction reports in time,
Some senior field level officials of the Election Commission (EC) have proposed to scrutinise the authenticity of the annual audit
The Election Commission (EC) prepares to hold municipality polls in December, paving the way for a battle of ballots among the grassroots leaders of the ruling Awami League and BNP.
Excited five-year-old girl Naima was waiting at a bus stop but she could hardly wait for a boat ride, which her grandfather promised to make it happen during her Eid holidays at their village home in Bogra. "Dadu [grandfather] has told me over the phone that a boat is waiting for me. Dadu and I will get on it tomorrow [Friday] and be on it all day long," an enthusiastic Naima said.
A double-decker bus of the state-run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) left Nandan Park in Ashulia at 9:20am on Monday. It slowly moved towards the capital as the helper looked for passengers.
