Muhith hints at changing fiscal year
Finance minister AMA Muhith on Wednesday hinted at changing the fiscal year against the backdrop of demands by the economists for improving the implementation of the annual development programme.
Transport workers go on indefinite strike at Benapole
Transport workers enforced indefinite strike in Benapole from Saturday morning protesting vandalism in a bus counter and assault on four transport workers.
Dengue panics Dhaka people as chikungunya continues
An early outbreak of dengue has panicked residents of Dhaka, already faced with the menace of chikungunya. At least 325 people were infected with dengue in three months since April in Dhaka while chikungunya, which also broke out in April, became endemic in Dhaka, according to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research.
City buses go desperate
Bus operators seem to have become desperate, as if in competition of traffic rule violation, in the absence of enforcement, leading to frequent accidents in the capital.
Four ‘Neo-JMB men’ arrested in Rajshahi
Police arrested four suspected members of Neo-JMB, a faction of banned extremist outfit Jamaatul Mujahideen Bangladesh, in Durgapur and Puthia upazilas of Rajshahi early Friday.
FARHAD MAZHAR ABDUCTION Court record bus ticket seller’s statement
A Dhaka metropolitan magistrate in Dhaka on Thursday recorded the statement of an executive of Hanif Paribahan in Khulna who reportedly issued to poet, writer and researcher Farhad Mazhar a ticket for a Dhaka-bound bus on Monday.
80kg venison, two deer heads, skin seized in Bagerhat
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized a trawler with 80 kilograms of venison, two deer heads and a skin from Sunderbans at Katlar Canel of Sarankhola upazila in Bagerhat on Thursday night.
Flood, landslides kill 7 in Cox’s Bazar, Bandarban
Flood and landslides amid incessant monsoon rains killed at least seven people in Cox’s Bazar and Bandarban Wednesday night and Thursday. Five of the victims either drowned in, or were washed away by, flood waters while the rest two were found buried under their houses in landslides.
Rain brings miseries to city life
Hours of monsoon rain sent under water almost all thoroughfares, lanes and by-lanes in capital on Wednesday, triggering severe terrific congestion that disrupted city life.
FARHAD MAZHAR ABDUCTION Detectives launch investigation, not clear about motive
Detective police on Wednesday formally launched investigation into the abduction of poet, writer and researcher Farhad Mazhar, found on a Dhaka-bound bus in Jessore 18 hours after his reported abduction from Dhaka Monday morning.
