Upper riparian countries need to respect lower riparian’s rights
Upper riparian countries need to respect the rights of the lower riparian neighbours to meet growing needs of the people in the regional river basins for food production, industrial and domestic use and sustainable ecology, experts said on Monday.
Bangladesh still hosts largest number of Myanmar refugees: Report
The number of refugees from Myanmar rose to 490,300 by the end of 2016, from 451,800 the previous year with Bangladesh remaining to host the largest number of them — 276,200, says a new global report.
Rain drenches country as lightning kills 16
Heavy rains coupled with thunder and lightning hit many parts of the country including Dhaka on Monday.
Patients suffer as doctors skip pvt practice
Marzia Begum, 60, brought her ailing sister all the way from Madhabdi, Narsingdi to consult a doctor at Green Life Medical College Hospital in the capital Sunday afternoon and found no doctor around as they had put off their private practice for 24 hours ending Monday morning.
Fresh landslides kill six more
Fresh landslides due to heavy rain killed six more people in Rangamati, Khagrachari and Moulavibazar on Sunday.
MPs bash govt for price hike, water-logging
Opposition lawmakers in parliament on Sunday flayed the government for failing to control the price hike of rice and other essential commodities and address water logging in Dhaka and Chittagong.
Khaleda for immediate arrest, punishment for Fakhrul's attackers
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia on Sunday described the attack on the motorcade of her party’s secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as ‘a proof that Awami League has been staging all the incidents of terrorism, chaos and anarchy in the country’.
Musa still trapped in PNG mountain
Bangladesh mountaineer Musa Ibrahim, along with two other Indian climbers, is still trapped at the base camp of Mount Carstensz Pyramid in Papua New Guinea as second rescue operation was called off due to bad weather early on Sunday.
People suffer amid traffic tangles
Illegal parking, people’s rush to shopping malls, water-logging and lack of law enforcement, all these have combined to render traffic in the capital into a complete chaos ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, leaving commuters to suffer terribly.
LANDSLIDES Affected people worried about future
Landslide-affected people in Rangamati, living at shelters or their relatives’ houses losing their homes, expressed on Saturday worries about their future.
