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Lack of adequate parking spaces, ignorance and violation of traffic rules and a growing number of vehicles hitting the roads are worsening the traffic congestion in Dhaka city’s roads. Due to insufficient space to park vehicles, people quite often park their cars on the roadside, choking narrow roads and creating difficulties for traffic to move ... Read more

Gulshan lake Land-grabbers active as no walkways yet Long delays in the construction of walkways on the banks of the Gulshan-Banani Lake have allowed land-grabbers to continue encroaching on the lake. In May, following a writ petition filed by Omar Sadat, a resident of the area, the High Court ruled that the relevant authorities should ... Read more

Karnaphuli Paper Mills Artificial crisis of bamboo cuts production Two units of Karnaphuli Paper Mills are shut down due to an ‘artificial crisis’ of raw material, bamboo, allegedly created by a vested quarter. Incurring a loss of about Tk 3-4 lakh a day, the factory is now producing 30-40 tonnes of newsprint using just one ... Read more

The flashing blades of Sabbir Rahman and Naeem Islam took the country’s sports to a new height yesterday as their rescue act in Bangladesh’s five-wicket win over Afghanistan in the cricket final clinched the long cherished Asian Games gold medal for the first time. Despite the Twenty20 competition’s second-string nature with a majority of smaller ... Read more

Several hundred Dhaka University students rampaged through the campus by damaging vehicles and setting two of the on fire in protest at reckless driving after a car had hit one of their fellows on Thursday. Residents of halls of residence brought out a procession and marched down the campus roads in protest at the accident, ... Read more

Experts clueless about reasons The green canopy is shrinking in parts of the capital. More than 550 trees have died while many have fallen into decay in several areas in the last four years. Nearly 500 trees died in the Bashundhara residential area, 20 around the Baridhara Lake, 25 near the Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University and ... Read more

Saving the endangered Sundarban is facing a new challenge from poachers who chop down and burn its trees to sell charcoal to brickfields dodging the police dragnet. Local people said that poachers have been doing it for three years until the Coast Guard found out what they were doing. The Coast Guard with support from ... Read more

Building on Jheel Close shave for tenants Mizanur Rahman has just finished constructing his three-storey building in a jheel (a long pool of water) at Norda in the capital’s Dakkhinkhan area. He had rented it out to tenants who were supposed to move in from Monday next. The building toppled on a tin-shed house at ... Read more

Traffic jam in the capital Dhaka is mounting gradually in an endemic form, causing untold sufferings to hundreds of commuters from morning till late night in almost every working days. According to traffic police, hawkers, indiscriminate parking and illegal establishments have occupied vast areas of roads, resulting in increasing traffic congestion day by day. Preferring ... Read more

Bangladesh had a clean sweep against the touring New Zealand in the five-match Micromax Cup when the Tigers registered a nail-biting three-run win against the Kiwis in the fifth and last One Day International (ODI) Watch at the jam-packed Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium in Mirpur on Sunday. Bangladesh won the ODI series by 4-0. Electing ... Read more

Experts see absence of crash barriers, raised walkways on Salehpur bridge as reasons for Sunday’s bus plunge Absence of crash barriers on the approach to Salehpur bridge in Amin Bazar caused Sunday’s bus plunge in the Turag river, killing at least 13 people. The same engineering flaw of the bridge was responsible for another serious ... Read more

Sakib al Hasan again proved to be the nemesis of New Zealand as the Bangladesh skipper produced yet another brilliant all-round performance to lead the hosts to a historic series win with a nine-run victory in the fourth one-day international on Thursday. Sakib smashed 106 off 113 balls under pressure to help Bangladesh post a ... Read more

Bus pulled out of Turag 55 hours inside accident The death toll from Sunday’s bus accident at Savar reached 11 with about 40 still missing till Tuesday evening when rescuers pulled out the 52-seat bus from the River Turag, more than 55 hours inside the accident. Seven bodies could be found several kilometres downstream and ... Read more

An angry mob in Sirajganj torched an intercity train at Bangabandhu Bridge West station on Monday after it ran into a crowd of people standing on the track beside Khaleda Zia’s rally venue near Mulibari level crossing leaving five people killed and several others injured. About 80 people, including the driver (loco master) and guard ... Read more

At least one female students was killed and 40 passengers were feared dead as an overloaded bus plunged into the Turag river near Amin Bazar bridge in Savar yesterday morning. Tapan Chandra Barman, who swam ashore immediately after the incident, told reporters that the Dhaka-bound bus of Baishakhi Paribahan at about 11:30am skidded of the ... Read more

Though the government has taken various initiatives for curbing traffic congestion, no tangible sign of improvement is visible in almost all the important points in the capital Dhaka. The government’s efforts to ease the nagging traffic congestion have failed due to shortage of equipment and lack of coordination among the agencies, sources said. High officials ... Read more

At least seven workers burnt alive and many others sustained injuries in a devastating fire that broke out at a shoe factory at Dholaipar in South Jatrabari in the capital yesterday. The fire gutted Lily Chemical, an adhesives making factory where adhesives and shoe soles were stuck together around 4:50 pm leaving seven persons dead ... Read more

A commuter train ploughed through traffic at Sayedabad level crossing in the capital yesterday killing six people and injuring 25. Rab-3 sources said they found four bodies on the spot. Two people died at Dhaka Medical College Hospital. Five of the deceased were identified as Nazim Uddin, 26, a student of Jagannath University, pedestrians Liza ... Read more