Road safety goes awry

Road safety recommendations of National Road Safety Council have largely been ignored for years on end amid repeated incidents of fatal accidents on roads and highways across the country

Tarique must be brought back: PM

Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Saturday expressed her firm resolve to take back BNP acting chairperson Tarique Zia from London by any means and bring him under the ambit of law.

Ending the debate on quota system

THE government has a two-tier administration system. The upper tire is the central secretariat at the national level consisting of the ministries and divisions to provide policies and to perform clearing-house functions

Nor’wester kills eight

At least eight people were killed during nor’wester which, coupled with thunderbolts, lashed different parts of the country in 24 hours ending Wednesday afternoon

QUOTA REFORM Protesters give a week to withdraw cases

Protesters for reduction of quota in public service recruitment on Wednesday extended for seven more days their ultimatum to the authorities to withdraw all cases filed against unnamed protesters or to face tougher protests

2 deadlines missed to upgrade weather forecasting system

Bangladesh Meteorological Department is set to miss yet another deadline for automatizing its thunderstorm and lightning forecast systems.

Road management not responsible for Rajib’s accident: Quader

Road transport and bridges minister Obaidul Quader has said there is no link of road management to the accident of Rajib.The youth (Rajib) might have made a mistake. Perhaps his standing position on the bus was wrong,’ he said.

Bangladesh wants to bring back Tarique from UK: PM

The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has said Bangladesh wants to bring back Bangladesh Nationalist Party's acting chairperson Tarique Rahman from the UK as he is convicted by Bangladeshi court

Rajib laid to rest

Govt Titumir College student Rajib Hasan, who died at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital early Tuesday after getting his right arm lost being pressed between two buses in the city

Bangladeshi photojournalist in Pulitzer winning photography team

Mohammad Ponir Hossain, a Bangladeshi photojournalist, is one of the photography staff of Reuters team that won the Pulitzer Prize for feature photography documenting the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar and Bangladesh, reports United Ne-ws of Bangladesh and Reuters.