Thousands of residents of Perua Madhupur village in Dirai upazila of Sunamganj have been waiting for a permanent road for nearly five decades. During the monsoon, they rely on a slippery bamboo bridge, while in the dry season they have to use rough and difficult paths. A visit to the area found the bamboo bridge particularly dangerous during rain, with ...

ACI Properties Limited has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with EDOTCO Bangladesh Co Ltd to provide EDOTCO employees with residential property and rental support services through Sereno Levande, a brand of ACI Properties. The MoU was signed at EDOTCO Bangladesh’s corporate headquarters in Dhaka on September 7 by Al Batuni Mohammad Sayed Ahmed, country managing director of EDOTCO Bangladesh, ...

A three-month nationwide cleanliness and public awareness campaign to prevent dengue will begin on Saturday, with Prime Minister Tarique Rahman scheduled to inaugurate the programme. The campaign will focus on the next three months, considered a high-risk period for dengue, and the prime minister has urged people to actively participate in the drive. He gave the directives at a meeting ...

Bangladesh were still a fledgling Test nation at the time. On September 8, 2001, they played their fifth Test. The match was part of the Asian Test Championship. Bangladesh, Pakistan and Sri Lanka were the three teams in the tournament, which was held in Sri Lanka. The series turned into a nightmare for Bangladesh. They lost both matches by an ...

Bangladesh Mahila Parishad expressed deep concern over disappearance of children in the capital and other parts of the country, with more than 2,000 children still missing between January and July this year. In a statement, the organization president Dr Fauzia Moslem and General Secretary Maleka Banu urged authorities to strengthen surveillance and take necessary measures to locate missing children. According ...

Dhaka residents will have to accept some load shedding as the government has moved away from its policy of keeping the capital completely free of power cuts, said Information and Broadcasting Adviser Dr Zahed Ur Rahman on Tuesday. ”Some load shedding is taking place in Dhaka because we have moved away from the idea of keeping the capital entirely load-shedding-free.” ...

Four expatriate Bangladeshis were killed in a tragic road accident in Saudi Arabia. Two of the deceased were identified as Abdul Karim and Khalid Ahmed of Lamar Taluk village under Dakshin Banigram Union of Kanaighat upazila of Sylhet. The identities of the other two could not be confirmed immediately. The accident occurred around 2:00 PM local time on Monday (September ...

The third terminal of Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport will be inaugurated on December 16 this year, said Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Rashiduzzaman Millat on Tuesday. The minister made the announcement while speaking to reporters after inspecting the third terminal at the airport. He said preparations are underway to ensure the terminal is ready for inauguration on the scheduled date.

BNP Acting Secretary General and Prime Minister’s Adviser Ruhul Kabir Rizvi has said that various vested interests and conspirators have repeatedly attempted to undermine religious harmony in Bangladesh. He said the country’s longstanding bonds of communal harmony would remain unshaken, stressing that people of different faiths regularly participate in one another’s religious festivals and celebrations. Rizvi made the remarks on ...

The British government on Monday condemned the “intimidating and thuggish behaviour” of anti-immigrant demonstrators who converged on a port in southern England where migrants were brought ashore after crossing the English Channel. Hundreds of protesters, many dressed in dark clothing and wearing masks, faced off with police in Portsmouth late Sunday in an attempt to prevent lifeboats from bringing the ...