Heavy rainfall disrupts city life
Heavy rainfall in Dhaka and elsewhere across the country disrupted normal life on Saturday as commuters suffered immensely with city streets going under water.
Next general election without BNP wouldn’t be easy: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Saturday said that holding the next general election keeping the party outside would not be ‘so easy’.
Police raid on Jhenaidah ‘extremist den’ ends
The police declared the end of a raid on a suspected extremists’ den at a Jhenaidah village Saturday afternoon, 21 hours after it began.
Mother fishes release eggs in Halda after a year
Mother fishes released eggs in the River Halda, the country’s one of the natural sweet water breeding ground of carps, on early Saturday after a gap of one season.
Rain wreaks havoc in Ctg
Downpour combined with high tide on Friday sent low-lying areas of Chittagong city under water, bringing normal life almost to a halt.
Lucky Akhand dies
Legendary musician Lucky Akhand is no more. He breathed his last at 6:00pm at his Armanitola house in Dhaka. He was 61.
ROLLING OUT POLL-TIME GOVT FRAMEWORK BNP drags heels
Bangladesh Nationalist Party is yet to place the framework of an election-time government it had proposed to put forth to the nation five months ago.
AL-HEFAZAT TIE Allies not happy
Parties in the ruling Awami League-led alliance consider Awami League’s compromise with Hefazat-e-Islam as a backward step for democratic politics and they would not accept it.
Illegal poster, graffiti turn ubiquitous in Dhaka
Illegal banners, posters, festoons and graffiti are visible in every corner of the capital, which is aggravating the bad look the city has already got because of its unplanned growth and indifference of the authorities concerned to its beautification.
Seating Service Drive on hold as govt stoops to bus owners
The government on Wednesday once again bowed down to the transport owners by suspending for 15 days the ongoing drive in the capital against buses running under the tag ‘seating service’. By the time, Bangladesh Road Transport Authority will also decide if the so-called ‘seating service’ could be brought under a legal framework.
