Job seekers want age limit for govt jobs 35 years
Job seekers on Saturday demanded that the government should extend the age limit for government jobs from 30 years to 35 years.
3 city roads go off limits to rickshaws today
The government has decided to ban rickshaws on three major city roads beginning today without mulling any rehabilitation programme for rickshaw pullers and alternative vehicles for passengers.
Heavy rains in Ctg, landslides feared
Heavy rainfall since Friday night, due to active monsoon, hit hard the port city of Chattogram submerging most of the city’s low-lying areas.
Wood, bamboo used at railway tracks, bridges!
The Bangladesh Railway is using wood and bamboo instead of iron equipment at rickety railway tracks and bridges in at least two major sections, posing great risks of fatal accidents.
Ershad given 8 bags of blood after dialysis
Jatiya Party chairman HM Ershad was given eight bags of blood in six hours following a dialysis he underwent on Friday dawn at the Dhaka Combined Military Hospital, said Ershad’s personal secretary and also a JP presidium member Khaled Akhter.
Dhaka, Beijing agree on speedy Rohingya solution
Dhaka and Beijing on Friday agreed on speedy solution to the protracted Rohingya crisis as Chinese president Xi Jinping and Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina held talks in Beijing.
2,329 killed in 2,159 road accidents over 6 months
At least 2,329 people, including 291 women and 381 children, were killed and 4,361 others injured in 2,159 road accidents across the country in the first half of the current year, said a new report.
Doctors to decide if Khaleda needs to stay at hospital: Quader
Awami League general secretary and road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader on Friday said a medical board would decide whether BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia should stay at hospital as she is now being treated at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University Hospital.
China to persuade Myanmar to resolve Rohingya crisis: Li
Chinese premier Li Keqiang on Thursday assured that China will persuade Myanmar to resolve the Rohinya crisis through bilateral discussions agreeing that the return of the forcibly displaced people to their homeland is a solution to the problem.
Ershad on life support now
Jatiya Party chairman Hussain Muhammad Ershad was put on life support at 4:15pm on Thursday as his health condition deteriorated further at the Dhaka Combined Military Hospital, JP secretary-general Mashiur Rahman Ranga told New Age.
