Poor don’t get benefits of govt subsidies
Experts say at CPD seminar
May Day observed
The International Labour Day, widely known as May Day, was observed in Bangladesh on Friday, as elsewhere around the world, with colourful processions and the voicing of the workers’ demand for the establishment of trade union rights at all factories.
Ban Ki-moon phones Hasina
The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, on Friday expressed her hope that UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon would suggest the BNP to ‘return to the democratic politics shunning the path of terrorist and militant activities,’ reports United News of Bangladesh.
Khaleda informs Sharmen about ‘vote fraud’
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairperson, Khaleda Zia, on Friday informed US under secretary of state for political affairs Wendy Sherman about the ‘vote fraud’ in Tuesday’s elections to three major city corporations and provided her with documents in this regard, reports United News of Bangladesh.
4 killed in Kushtia road accident
At least four people were killed and 30 more injured as a bus fell into a roadside ditch at Noy Mile of Mirpur upazila in Kushtia early Thursday, United News of Bangladesh reports.
BRTC leaves 32 inter dist routes to pvt operators
State run Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation has been facing obstructions from private bus operators in opening and continuing its bus service on inter-district routes, said officials. In last five years, BRTC was compelled to wind up its bus service from at least 32 inter-district routes to facilitate monopoly business of private bus companies, said the officials.
People hired as Ansars clash with police over poll day pay
At least seven people who were hired to serve as Ansar members during the elections were injured when police fired blanks and charged batons on members who were demonstrating at the capital’s Darussalam area Wednesday evening in demand for dues from electoral duties.
AL rivals clash for controlling vote rigging.
The activists of rival candidates from ruling Awami League clashed each others at several polling stations in three city corporation elections in the capital and Chittagong in a bid to rig votes and occupy centres.
Polling officers helped ballot stuffing at Curzon Hall centre.
The polling station at Curzon Hall of Dhaka University on Tuesday presented vivid show ballot stuffing by the polling agents of ruling Awami League’s candidates with help from the election officers.
