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Crashes kill around 500 in 6 months The highways across the country have virtually become death traps as there are apparently no authorities to control reckless driving. The country witnessed deaths of around 500 people and injuries to many others in road accidents on the stretch of about 12,000-kilometre highways in the first half of

More than 200 injured as workers, cops clash; rubber bullets, tear gas used; factories, shops vandalised again More than 200 RMG workers and 20 policemen were injured in clashes between the two sides in Ashulia after the labourers protested a new wage hike, which they say is still too low. Meanwhile, garment workers and activists ... Read more

Three people, including Acting Secretary of Women and Children Affairs Ministry Razia Begum and BSCIC Chairman Siddiqur Rahman, were killed and one police constable was injured in a tragic road accident on Dhaka-Aricha highway this (Saturday)

Fake New Zealand Visa 8 cheated job seekers return The eight Bangladeshi jobseekers, whom an organised gang deserted in Malaysia with fake visas of New Zealand, returned home yesterday. The victims are Ruhul Amin, Abu Al-Razin, Santo Ghosh, Nesar Uddin, Abul Kashem,

The cost of telephone calls to most overseas destinations will be reduced from (today) Sunday, according to the website of Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited. These lower call rates fixed by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission

Rampaging workers vandalise over 200 business establishments, several factories in city a day after announcement of new pay structure Several thousand garment workers yesterday rampaged through different parts of the capital and Gazipur rejecting new wage structure and demanding Tk 5,000 minimum wage

UTTARA MODEL TOWN Rajuk betrays affected people Landowners, whose land was acquired for the third phase of Uttara Model Town, accused Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha of going back on its promise of providing compensatory plots all without discriminating between the holding

BBC documentary told Although Sena Kalyan Sangstha (SKS) is a philanthropic organisation whose only duty is to ensure welfare, former army officers and their family members rarely receive any advantages from SKS, reported the BBC radio documentary “Probaho”

Lending agencies are pressing for raising the toll rates for the users of the Bangabandhu Bridge as a condition for lending $2.2 billion for the construction of a multipurpose bridge across the river Padma, communication ministry officials

BCS PRELIM TEST Mistakes in question paper confuse examinees The question paper of the 30th Bangladesh Civil Service preliminary examination, held throughout the country on Friday, contained eight mistakes in one of the sets which created a lot of confusion among the examinees. After the preliminary test, examinees who obtained the B set of English

Immigration personnel at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in the capital yesterday detained a Nigerian national with six kilograms of white powder which, they think, is heroin. He was caught around 7:00pm at gate-3 of the airport with five luggage and identified

The roads of the city’s Zigatola area were dug by Dhaka Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) in December last for development of sewerage system to free the area from perennial waterlogging. Since then, people of the area have been facing serious problem in their movement

About 65% households in haor areas in the north-eastern region have no agricultural land, according a recent study. Aggregating all kinds of land, about 71% households were found effectively landless of which about 55% were absolutely landless, about 17% households were of marginal category (between 51 and

Cabinet okays 9:00am to 3:30pm Office hours during Ramadan will be from 9:00am to 3:30pm for government, semi-government, autonomous and semi-autonomous organisations. The cabinet at its regular weekly meeting at Bangladesh Secretariat yesterday fixed the new

The High Court on Thursday asked the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority to dismantle in a month a ‘recreation centre’ being constructed on a char in the middle of the River Buriganga at Kamrangirchar in

Bangladesh joins hand with 12 other Tiger Range Countries (TRC) to save global tiger population. Tiger is treated as one of the most critically endangered animals fast disappearing from the world. Only 3,200 big cats [Penthera Tigris] of five sub-species exist in the wild of 13 countries including

Environmentalists urge govt Environmentalists yesterday demanded that the government dismantle illegal establishments erected on the Shuvadda canal to protect it from the grabbers. They made the demand from a rally organised by the Poribesh Bachao Andolon (POBA) in front

The wage board has recommended raising the minimum monthly pay for garment workers to Tk 3,000 from Tk 1662.50. The proposed raise is 80 percent on the present wage of an entry-level worker, board Chairman

The land ministry has finally leased out a stretch of 103.66 acres of the Mukteshwari river for fish farming for the next six years. A meeting of the National Water-body Management Committee took the decision on July 26

Suspects can be arrested, remanded during investigation, offences made cognisable, non-bailable The International Crimes Tribunal, formed on March 25, has framed rules for the trial of crimes against humanity committed during the country’s war for independence in 1971 empowering the investigation officer to arrest any suspect on a warrant issued by the