Dog bites on rise
The number of people suffering feral dog bites across the country increased in recent times with a rise in dog population in the absence of culling and sterilization.
TANGAIL KILLING : Police prosecute 1,000 villagers
The death toll from Friday’s police firing on protesters against sexual harassment of a woman in Tangail reached at four as another victim succumbed to bullet injuries on Sunday, while police field two murder cases against 1,000 villagers on Saturday night.
Dhaka now ailing patient at ICU: Annisul
Dhaka north city mayor Annisul Huq on Sunday said that traffic congestion had turned the capital into an ailing patient at an intensive care unit. ‘It seems that the mayor is a quack doctor at the ICU to save that ailing patient,’ he said at a round table on ‘Traffic congestion in Dhaka: strategies and solutions’.
Cattle continue to arrive at city markets
Traders and farmers from different districts continued pouring different makeshift cattle markets in the capital with their cattle hoping to get better prices.
Election must by next year: Khaleda
Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson Khaleda Zia, who is now in London, on Friday night told her party leaders of the UK chapter that general election in Bangladesh must be held by 2016.
BNP for Tk 1,000 for per tonne of goods to be transhipped
Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Saturday asked the government to set transit fee for per tonne of Indian goods at Taka 1,000 as proposed by NBR.
BBC BANGLADESH SANGLAP : Govt not always sensitive to citizen’s demands, says Shahriyar
State minister for foreign affairs Shahriyar Alam on Saturday said it was not always possible for the government to understand its citizens’ demands or interests.
Income tax fair collects Tk 1,096cr in 4 days
The National Board of Revenue has collected Tk 1,096.68 crore in four days of the week-long income tax fair it is organising across the country.The collection was Tk 931.50 crore in the same period in the last year’s fair.
Prices of vegetables high in capital
The prices of vegetables remained high in the city’s kitchen markets over the week ending Friday. Traders said that consumers would have to wait until harvest of winter vegetables for decreasing prices as rains damaged farmland across the country.
PROTEST AGAINST SEXUAL HARASSMENT : 3 killed, 5 injured in police firing
Three people were killed and five were injured as police opened fire at local people who clashed with the police during their protests against an alleged sexual harassment at Kalihati upazila in Tangail on Friday.
