AP, LONDON : The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II returned to Buckingham Palace on Tuesday evening, making its way through...
Day: September 14, 2022
AP, YEREVAN : Fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan killed about 100 troops Tuesday as attacks on both...
– Mainul Hosein :I know how ordinary I am. Even then I cannot help not to express as an ordinary...
Staff Reporter :Incessant rain lashed the capital since Tuesday morning, throwing normal life and movement of vehicles out of gear...
Staff Reporter :The government has formulated the ‘Shipbuilding Policy-2020’ with US$ four billion annual export earnings target in five years for the shipbuilding industry to provide a range of facilities for entrepreneurs, including bank loans at a four per cent interest rate. Meanwhile, Bangladesh has earned more than 100 crore foreign currency by exporting ships to different countries.Against this backdrop, another cargo container ship manufactured in Bangladesh had been exported to the UK with a capacity of 6,100 tonnes on...
Staff Reporter :About Tk 182.42 crore additionally are being collected from passengers daily by the public transport owners and staffers in the capital city Dhaka.Besides, passengers are being regularly harassed, insulted and on occasions killed when they protest against such chaos, or if passengers protest against the extra fare violating the government fixed fare chart. Even, conductors of some buses have given life threat openly to passengers if asked to collect as per government fixed fare chart.According to multiple sources,...
Noman Mosharef :The Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has built unplanned passenger shelter on the footpath which barred the citizens’ smooth movement. Interestingly, these unplanned passenger shelters were built in front of the street railing for which the citizens’ unable to use the shelters. As a result, these passenger shelters remain unproductive.Recently, a photograph has become viral showing that the authority was building a passenger shelter before a railing in the Ramna footpath area. Later, the authority has broken down...
News Desk :Two more Dengue patients died in 24 hours till Tuesday morning, raising this year’s death toll from the mosquito-borne disease in Bangladesh to 39.During this period, 353 patients were hospitalised with the viral fever as cases have continued to increase, according to the Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).The latest deaths were reported from Chattogram and Barishal divisions, reports UNB.With the new numbers, the dengue death toll in Dhaka division remained unchanged at 17, in Chattogram it rose...
News Desk :The Police Bureau of investigation (PBI) on Tuesday pressed charges against former Chattogram Superintendent of Police (SP) Babul...
Staff Reporter :Several hundred hawkers demonstrated against a drive by the Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) in Gulistan’s Zero Point...
BBC Online :Ukrainian forces have seized even more territory from Russia as they continue their counter-offensive, the country’s president has said.Volodymyr Zelensky said troops have now retaken more than 6,000 sq km (2,317 sq miles) from Russian control in September, in the east and the south.The BBC cannot verify these figures.Russia has admitted losing key cities in the north-eastern Kharkiv region, in what is seen by some military experts as a potential breakthrough in the war.Moscow describes its troop withdrawal...
DU Correspondent :Ruling Awami League-backed teachers ‘Blue Panel’ of Dhaka University (DU) has won the university’s Syndicate, Academic Council, and Finance Committee bagging all the 13 posts.The Pro-BNP backed ‘White Panel’ has not secured any post of the highest decision-making body of DU. In the last Syndicate election in 2018 White Panel won only one post.The election was held at Nabab Nawab Ali Chowdhury Senate Bhaban of the university from 9:00am to 2:00pm on Tuesday....