Authorities of Bangladesh Railway’s (BR) east zone have closed down 46 of the 228 railway stations due to severe workforce shortage. This has resulted in delays of over 30 minutes on different routes of the zone.
The probe committee formed by Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) to investigate the devastating fire and explosion at Sitakunda’s BM Container Depot last month could not ascertain the source or specific reason behind the fire.
Ashikur Rahman (28) was returning home for Eid after taking treatment at a Dhaka hospital. But little did he know that he’ll never reach his destination.
A boy was found dead in a Buddhist monastery in Abdullahpur South Baruapara in Chattogram yesterday.
BNP will stage protest across the country tomorrow as the party did not to get permission for holding a rally in Dhaka.
National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports yesterday urged the government to ban open pit mining by December 31, and stop the Rampal power plant project to protect the Sundarbans.
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Communications Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday gave a two-month ultimatum to Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), Bangladesh Police and the country's district administrations to stop plying of unauthorised vehicles on highways.
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BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia yesterday alleged that attacks and repression on the country's minorities increased whenever the Awami League came to power.
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The authority of ten more government offices and departments in the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) under different ministries were handed over yesterday to each of the CHT District Councils in line with the 1997 peace accord.
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Jatiya Party Chairman HM Ershad yesterday said his party would take part in the next parliamentary election independently and under any system.
Jatiya Party is still with the Awami League-led grand alliance, he said, but time would say when the party would move out of the alliance.
He told journalists after visiting the shrine of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) in Sylhet city.
Some 12 people including a teacher and an employee of the Institute of Leather Engineering and Technology in the capital's Hazaribagh were injured yesterday after one BCL faction of the institute unit attacked another over establishing supremacy.
Assistant Prof Sabur Ahmed, 40, of the leather department was treated in a local hospital for stab wounds on his right hand.
One of the injured, Shefayet Rahman Shibli, former treasurer of ILE unit Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), claimed that a junior faction carried out the attack.
“They chased us with sharp weapons and attacked anyone who tried to stop them,” he said.
Lecturer Noor Mohammad said a probe committee will investigate into the incident.
A delegation of Buddhist monks, who are participating in an international peace conference in Dhaka, called on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at her official Gono Bhaban residence yesterday evening.
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Ethnic communities across the country should be recognised as "Adivasi" people and their equal rights and entitlements of should be ensured as any other Bangladeshi citizen, said speakers at a discussion yesterday.
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Hay Festival Dhaka will be held for the second time in the capital's Bangla Academy from November 15 to 17, providing a number of renowned foreign and local authors and artists the opportunity to hold dialogues.
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