Month: October 2013

Festivities for Durga Puja and Eid-ul-Azha began on a sour note, as home-bound revellers were left stranded due to shortage of transport, overpriced tickets and congested highways. Sources said thousands of passengers had started flocking to railway stations, bus terminals and launch ghats since Thursday night. The crowd swelled further on Friday morning.

The much-talked-about 11-km-long Mayor Mohammad Hanif Flyover in the city is being opened to traffic on Saturday.  Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, on Friday, inaugurated the country’s longest flyover, by cutting the ribbon at Gulistan Point, at 3:50pm. After the inauguration, the Prime Minister,

Cattle Markets Supply huge, price low Days ahead of the official opening of 19 makeshift cattle markets, traders began to bring large numbers of sacrificial animals in the capital. The price of the animals was relatively low this year in comparison to the same time last year as the turnout of customers was small despite ... Read more

Travel a year back. And you see in Rajbari a happy family having happy times with Taslima on the Eid day. Being the sole bread earner of the family, the garment worker brought home many gifts and with them big smiles. This year, the Eid-ul-Azha is around but the family has no happy faces because ... Read more

Saudi Arabia reminds illegal workers of the ‘last chance’ to get their jobs regularised The Saudi government has asked the illegal expatriates to take the last chance of an ongoing amnesty by November 4. “Expatriates are advised to process their paperwork without delay, as we will begin taking punitive action against illegals and their employers ... Read more

Thousands of passengers got stuck on Dhaka-Tangail highway Friday as a 30-km long tailback was created on the highway due to heavy traffic and potholed roads. It took 4 to 5 hours to cross 20 km road from Hatubhanga of Tangail district to Shafipur of Gazipur district due to the long tailback, causing untold sufferings ... Read more

Rights organisation Odhikar’s secretary Adilur Rahman Khan was released on Friday on bail granted by the High Court more than two months after being arrested in connection with a cyber crimes case. Kashimpur Central Jail’s part 1 deputy jailer Mushfiqur Rahim told New Age that they had released Adilur from the jail at about 10:00am ... Read more

The global chemical weapons watchdog charged with overseeing destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile during a civil war won the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday, reports Reuters. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a relatively small organisation with a modest budget, dispatched its experts after a sarin gas attack

Around 7.21 crore people came out of extreme poverty in 2010 from the level of 1981, while 40 crore children are still trapped in abysmal condition of curse of poverty, said World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on Thursday. Jim made this comment at a press briefing at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund ... Read more

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will today open the Bahaddarhat flyover to traffic in Chittagong. “The premier will inaugurate the Bahaddarhat flyover at 10:30am,” Abdus Salam, chairman of Chittagong Development Authority (CDA), told UNB over the phone. Hasina laid the foundation stone of the project

BNP vice chairman Sadeque Hossain Khoka has criticised the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina for hurriedly opening the Mayor Hanif Flyover for vehicular movement, saying it is still risky as 30 percent construction work is yet to be finished. “Our achievement has been hijacked by the premier as most of the development works in the capital ... Read more

Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) is getting ready to welcome the berthing of large sized vessels at its jetties from December this year in a bid to slash the cost incurred against import and export cargos handled through this premier port. Port officials said it would also gear up container handling operation by allowing the entry of ... Read more

At least nine persons were killed and several others injured in separate road accidents across the country on Friday. At least four people, including two siblings, were killed and five others injured as a truck rammed a human hauler on Dhaka-Tangail highway at Naujor area on Friday. Among the victims, three were identified as Sumon, 18, his ... Read more

Members of Airport Armed Police (AAP) arrested two employees of Biman Bangladesh Airlines from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on charge of stealing mobile phone sets from passengers’ language early Friday, reports UNB. The law enforcers recovered five stolen mobile phone sets from their possession. The arrested are Md Nur Alam, 32,

The body of one of the three persons missing in a trawler capsize in the Karnaphuli River in Chittagong has been recovered. An oil tanker had hit the fishing trawler around Friday noon near the Totar Baaper Haat. Fishermen Md Hossain, Yunus and Babul had been missing since the accident. The body of Hossain was recovered at around ... Read more