Dhaka’s rail link with northern, southern dists resumes
Dhaka’s rail communications with the country’s northern and southern districts resumed on Monday, after remaining suspended for 35 hours since Sunday morning. Railway officials informed that the Dhaka-bound Rangpur Express successfully crossed the railway bridge at Pouli of Kalihati in Tangail at 5:25pm after repairs were conducted on the bridge.
People to pay last respects to ‘Nayakraj’ at FDC, Shaheed Minar
Fans, artistes and people from all walks of life will pay tribute to the legendary actor Razzak, popularly known as Nayak Raj Razzak, on Tuesday at Central Shaheed Minar.
PLOT TO KILL HASINA 10 to die by firing
The Dhaka Speedy Trial Tribunal-2 on Sunday sentenced 10 suspected extremists to death by firing and seven to imprisonment for varying terms in two cases filed for a plot to kill prime minister Sheikh Hasina in her home district Gopalganj in 2000.
1,000 pilgrims get visa, but can’t fly if deadline not extended
Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Sunday sought extension of the deadline set by the Saudi civil aviation authorities for pre-hajj flights, otherwise it feared it would fail to carry over one thousand passengers by August 26
Floods recede in north, triggering food, safe water, shelter crisis
Flood situation improved in northern districts on Sunday as the major river systems registered fall in water level but sufferings of the affected people multiplied amid lack of adequate food, drinking water and shelters.
No justice yet for August 21 grenade attack victims
Victims of the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally and the victim families still cry for justice as two cases for the attack are still pending with a tribunal while the plotters are yet to be identified.
Flood hit-families to get food assistance for 3 months: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday assured the flood-hit people of the country for providing food assistance to them for three months until harvesting of the next crops and said that all the affected people would get relief goods.
Dhaka’s rail link with northern, southern regions halted
The rail communications of Dhaka with northern and southern regions in the country were halted as soil under the rail tracks was washed away due to strong current of flood water in Pungli bridge area under Kalihati upazila in Tangail early Sunday.
45 Natore villages submerged freshly
Some 45 villages at Singra and Naldanga upazilas in Natore were submerged by the flood water on Sunday due to unusual rise of water levels of Atrai and Barnoi rivers.
AL former MP Khan Tipu Sultan dies
Former Awami League lawmaker and a valiant freedom fighter Khan Tipu Sultan died at a hospital in the capital on Saturday night. He was 68.He is survived by his wife and two sons to mourn his death, family sources said.
