The contractor concerned of the Water Development Board (WDB) had to suspend the Tk 50-million work on the site. A number of locals have feared that the district town may face severe flooding at the beginning of rainy season. Meanwhile, WDB senior officials held a meeting with water resources ministry’s secretary Nazmul Ahsan in this regard on 13 March. Officials ...

Crown Princess Victoria of Sweden, UNDP Goodwill Ambassador, arrived at Ukhiya upazila in Cox’s Bazar district on Wednesday afternoon to visit the Rohingya camps in the district. She arrived Ukhiya Rohingya camp by an army helicopter from Noakhali’s Bhasan Char at around 1:30 pm. Cox’s Bazar Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Shahin Imran, Police Superintendent Mahfuzur Rahman and officials of the Swedish ...

There is no alternative to preventing tobacco-related deaths and reducing illness caused by tobacco use without strengthening the tobacco control law, Health Minister Dr Samanta Lal Sen said on Wednesday. The minister came up with the remarks during a meeting with a delegation from PROGGA (Knowledge for Progress) and ATMA (Anti-Tobacco Media Alliance) held at the Secretariat. Dr Sen also ...

A total of 80 branches of the country’s various commercial banks will distribute new currency notes of Taka 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100 in the city from March 31 marking the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Fitr. The new notes will be distributed every day until April 9, a Bangladesh Bank press release said in Dhaka on Wednesday. The new note ...

Chinese Ambassador to Bangladesh Yao Wen on Wednesday made a courtesy call on State Minister for Planning Md Shahiduzzaman Sarker at his office at the Ministry of Planning. During the meeting, they discussed issues related to bilateral interests like trade and commerce, export of agricultural products, infrastructural development, development projects and various issues related to mutual interests, said a press ...

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs ministry has recommended extending the suspension of BNP Chairperson Begum Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence for another six months on previous conditions. “We had so far extended the suspension of Begum Khaleda Zia’s jail sentence by seventh time. Today we are again recommending for extension of her jail term suspension for another six months on two ...

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Wednesday granted anticipatory bail to Dhaka Metropolitan North BNP Convener Amanullah Aman, who was sentenced to 13 years in jail, in a case filed over amassing wealth illegally and concealing information. But he will have to take permission from the court if want to go abroad. A five-member bench of the Appellate ...

Medical services at Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital (SBMCH) have faced significant disruptions since Tuesday, as a group of intern doctors extended their strike into a second day. The interns initiated an indefinite strike on Tuesday afternoon, expressing dissatisfaction as they failed to get their desired posts in the two committees – Intern Doctors Association and the Bangabandhu Intern Doctors Association ...

The exit ramp of the Dhaka Elevated Expressway’s Karwan Bazar section opened to traffic on Wednesday morning. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader inaugurated the ramp around 11am. Vehicles from Uttara will be able to get down at Moghbazar, Hatirjheel and Karwan Bazar areas through this ramp. “This is the Eid gift to countrymen from the prime minister,” Obaidul Quader said. ...

Fourteen people were killed and 37 others injured after a bus crashed inside an expressway tunnel in northern China, state media reported today. The accident occurred shortly after 2:30 pm local time (0630 GMT) Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported, citing local authorities in Shanxi province. The bus, which was carrying 51 people, rammed into the tunnel’s interior wall, the report ...