1,000 pilgrims get visa, but can’t fly if deadline not extended
Biman Bangladesh Airlines on Sunday sought extension of the deadline set by the Saudi civil aviation authorities for pre-hajj flights, otherwise it feared it would fail to carry over one thousand passengers by August 26
Floods recede in north, triggering food, safe water, shelter crisis
Flood situation improved in northern districts on Sunday as the major river systems registered fall in water level but sufferings of the affected people multiplied amid lack of adequate food, drinking water and shelters.
No justice yet for August 21 grenade attack victims
Victims of the August 21, 2004 grenade attack on an Awami League rally and the victim families still cry for justice as two cases for the attack are still pending with a tribunal while the plotters are yet to be identified.
Flood hit-families to get food assistance for 3 months: PM
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina on Sunday assured the flood-hit people of the country for providing food assistance to them for three months until harvesting of the next crops and said that all the affected people would get relief goods.
Dhaka’s rail link with northern, southern regions halted
The rail communications of Dhaka with northern and southern regions in the country were halted as soil under the rail tracks was washed away due to strong current of flood water in Pungli bridge area under Kalihati upazila in Tangail early Sunday.
45 Natore villages submerged freshly
Some 45 villages at Singra and Naldanga upazilas in Natore were submerged by the flood water on Sunday due to unusual rise of water levels of Atrai and Barnoi rivers.
AL former MP Khan Tipu Sultan dies
Former Awami League lawmaker and a valiant freedom fighter Khan Tipu Sultan died at a hospital in the capital on Saturday night. He was 68.He is survived by his wife and two sons to mourn his death, family sources said.
Four of a family among five killed in Chittagong road accident
Five people, including four members of a family, were killed in a road accident in front of the Toll Plaza of Shah Amanat Bridge at Karnaphuli in Chittagong city early Sunday.
‘Test specialist’ Mominul axed as BCB names 1st Test team
Selectors in a massive controversy on Saturday omitted country’s one of the finest Test batsmen Mominul Haque from the Bangladesh squad for the first Test against Australia, beginning in Dhaka on August 27.
PM to visit flood-ravaged Kurigram, Dinajpur Sunday
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina will visit the flood-ravaged Kurigram and Dinajpur districts on Sunday to see for herself the devastation caused by the ongoing flood fury.
