The government has planning to start electric bus services on three routes in the capital to reduce air pollution as the  air quality in Dhaka plummeted to a catastrophic level. World Bank will provide 300 million to run  this project. Electric vehicles represent a viable solution to mitigate vehicular air pollution in major cities like Dhaka. It can help reduce ...

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Amir Dr Shafiqur Rahman has said none can survive by adopting corruption and misrule. He said only the rule of Quran can bring peace in the society and emancipate people from all problems. Jamaat Amir said this in a public meeting organized by Laxmipur district unit of the party at the Adarsha Samad Government High School ground on ...

BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Saturday said unity among the democratic forces is crucial to protect Bangladesh and its people from conspirators. “If we want to protect the people of the country and, above all, safeguard Bangladesh, we must all remain united at any cost,” he said while virtually addressing the council of the Jashore district unit BNP at ...

Police have dispersed the outsourcing workers, who demonstrated blocking the road in front of the National Press Club, by using water cannons and sound grenades. The incident happened at around 5:15 PM on Saturday. It was learnt that the outsourcing workers had been blocking the road for around two hours, causing heavy traffic the secretariat and its adjacent areas. At ...

About 84 percent of the people want an independent and strong Local Government Commission to be formed through enactment of a new law aiming to strengthen the country’s local government system, a household survey revealed, reports BSS. It showed that about 71 percent think that elections should not be held to local government bodies with symbols of political parties, while ...

Rome’s finance police have arrested five individuals, including three officials from the Italian Embassy in Dhaka, on charge of bribery and visa trafficking. According to local authorities, among those arrested people, two are Bangladeshis, one of whom–Nazrul Islam– is believed to be the mastermind behind the syndicate. Nazrul, a resident of Rome, has been associated with the Italian chapter of ...

The nation is paying glowing tributes to the language martyrs on the occasion of The Great Martyrs Day and the International Mother Language Day Marking the ‘Amar Ekushey’, people  from all walks of life paid homage to the language movement heroes, the valiant sons of this soil who made supreme sacrifice to establish Bangla as the mother-language in 1952, by ...

The government of Japan has allocated $3.2 million (JPY 500 million) to support WHO’s (World Health Organization) efforts aimed at reducing morbidity and preventable mortality among the Rohingya refugees and host community in Cox’s Bazar and Bhasan Char. An exchange of notes was signed by Saida Shinichi, Ambassador of Japan to Bangladesh, and Dr Ahmed Jamsheed Mohamed, the World Health ...

Police recovered the body of a 50-year-old man from a residential hotel in Sylhet’s sadar upazila on Thursday afternoon. The body of Shamsul Alam, a resident of Mirpur-12 in Dhaka, was recovered from Lalbazar area in the upazila. Confirming the matter, Kotwali Model Police Station Officer-in-Charge Md Ziaul Haque said that Shamsul had arrived in Sylhet for business purposes on ...

The nation remembered the language martyrs with humble respect, solemnity and due dignity in the first hour of Ekushey. Breaking the silence of the night, historic immortal song ‘Amar Vaiyer Rokte Rangano Ekushey February . . . Ami Ki Vulitey Pari?’ played out from the Central Shaheed Minar. After 12midnight on Thursday,  President Mohammed Shahabuddin, marking his second Ekushey as ...