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Only one, out of the eight interested companies, has got permission from the communications ministry to run taxicab in the capital. The ministry on Sunday gave the permission to the Toma Construction Limited to put in service 250 taxicabs on the Dhaka city roads in the next four months.

BISHWAJIT KILLING Plaintiff makes deposition The plaintiff of Bishwajit murder on Sunday narrated how Bangladesh Chhatra League activists carried out attack on him on December 9, 2012 on his way to his tailor-shop. About 25 activists of Chattra League attacked the victim by sharp weapons and stick and iron rot following a blast, the plaintiff, ... Read more

Bureaucrats, lawyers, academicians, NGOs working for people with disabilities on Sunday urged political parties to choose people with disabilities as candidates to ensure their representation in parliament. At a roundtable discussion, they urged the government to develop a guideline for accessible voting system to ensure the rights of around 1.6 crore people with disabilities.

The Mongla Port Authority has issued work order in favour of Messrs China Harbour and Engineering Company Limited to remove 35 lakh cubic feet silt from the River Passur at an estimated cost of Tk 106.51 crore. The process of removing silt is expected to start in

The detective branch police arrested five suspected hijackers in different drives in the Sylhet city Saturday night. The arrested were identified as Jamal Ahmed alias Kala Jamal, son of Taiyab Ali Khan of Nurani residential area at Subidbazar, Mirza Aslam Beg alias Atiq Mirza,

Almost 70 per cent of the capital is outside the sewerage network of Dhaka Water Supply and Sewerage Authority resulting in significant amounts of untreated sewage goes straight into rivers, canals and other water bodies. DWASA superintending engineer AKM Shahiduddin

Communications minister Obaidul Quader on Saturday inaugurated new air conditioned single-decker bus service in the capital by pressing 30 buses into service. The minister, who was supposed to launch 88 such buses on long routes on the day to ease the transport crisis, said that the long route buses would be pressed

Khulna city and its adjoining areas are going to have a modern look with the implementation of a number of development projects taken by the authorities. The projects for modernisation of the city and the areas in its vicinity have been taken under a mega plan. The projects include renovation of KDA New Market,

A group of Bangladesh Chhatra League men stabbed a leader of the the ruling Awami League-backed student organisation at Rajshahi University on early Saturday. Sources in the organisation said that Rajshahi University unit programme and planning secretary Sheikh Maruf Hossain was stabbed at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

The Rapid Action Battalion on Saturday rescued a minor boy who was kidnapped 24 days ago from Jatrabari area of the capital. They also arrested two alleged kidnappers, Mamun, 25, and Golap, 25. A team of RAB-7, led by ASP Sakhawat Hossain, rescued the seven-year-old boy named Imon during a drive at a hilly slum in ... Read more

The seven cooperatives markets the government set up in the capital aiming at selling chemical-free essential items at fair price could not fulfill the aspiration of consumers and department of cooperatives. The markets are located at Agargaon, Mohakhali, Azimpur,

Vendors, hawkers and iftar shops have continued their businesses on the Dhaka city footpaths, causing immense sufferings to the pedestrians. Business leaders at a recent meeting with law enforcers had pledged not to set up shops on the city footpaths during Ramadan.

Prices of essentials in the kitchen market continue to go up in the Chittagong city from the very first day of Ramadan, to the great discomfort of the fixed income people. The price of green chilly, tomato and eggplant jumped double keeping pace with their demand as seen in a visit to city’s kitchen markets ... Read more

An eight-member team of Korea Overseas Volunteer, dispatched by the Korea International Cooperation Agency, has arrived in Dhaka to share their knowledge and expertise on computer design, Korean language, clinical pathology, architecture and management with the people of Bangladesh.

Hundreds of people thronged the capital’s traditional Chawkbazar iftar market to buy mouthwatering iftar items on Thursday, the first day of Ramadan. Though some buyers complained about high prices of some items this year, the sellers claimed they tried their best to serve the huge crowd.

The massive and unabated erosion in the River Padma has posed a serious threat to the Rajshahi town protection embankment, officials and others concerned said. In the wake of rising floodwater in the mighty river, erosion is continuing at different places especially Sonaikandi, Noboganga, Bulanpur, Char Taranagar,

World Population Day was observed in Barisal on Thursday revealing that the Barisal region advanced towards the national rate of adapting family planning method but behind in neonatal death rate and providing maternity service. The participants in the day’s programmes called

A 1000-bed multi-disciplinary and specialised hospital will be established under Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University at a cost of $122.25 million. A memorandum of understanding was signed on Thursday between the Korean government and the university on fact-finding mission for feasibility study of

The education minister, Nurul Islam Nahid, on Thursday stressed the need for improving the standard of technical and vocational education for the country’s rapid progress. ‘Technical and vocational education can open up a new horizon for our economy. The nation’s economic emancipation lies in this education system,’ he told a seminar.

Only one, out of the eight interested companies to run cabs in the capital, was able to fulfil all the conditions of the Taxicab Service Guidelines of 2010, said a member of the taxicab selection committee. The communications ministry is yet to make its decision