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Cold wave likely to sweep on polling day

Most parts of the country are likely to experience moderate to severe cold wave today (Sunday) when the nation goes to the 11th parliamentary election, Met office sources said.Moderate to severe cold wave will sweep over the western and northern districts with moderate fog in the early hours of the...

BTRC suspends 3G, 4G services

The telecom regulatory commission has instructed the mobile operators to suspend 3G and 4G services across the country ahead of the general election scheduled for today (Sunday). In an e-mail sent to the mobile operators, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) asked them to postpone 3G and 4G services until 12:01...

Army chief urges voters to cast vote without fear

Army chief General Aziz Ahmed said on Saturday the election environment in the country is very "calm and peaceful" encouraging voters to cast their votes without any fear, reports UNB."To voters, I would say, go and cast your votes without any fear. We'll try our best so that no one...

Container handling at Ctg port to cross 2.9m TEUs in 2018

CHATTOGRAM, Dec 29: Chittagong Port handled a record number of containers in the outgoing year.Until December 26 of the 2018, the prime seaport of the country handled over 2.861 million TEUs (twenty-foot equivalent units) of containers, said Golam Sarwar, director (traffic) of the Chittagong Port Authority.He expressed the hope that...

Train to run on polling day

FE ReportBangladesh Railway will operate all the long and short-distance trains from Kamalapur Railway Station in the capital as per schedule on the polling day.As usual, all trains will run on the polling day (Sunday), said sources at Kamalapur Railway Station."Passengers may come to the station and make their trips...

Traffic was thin on the streets of the city on Saturday. The photo was taken from Bangla Motor in the city

Traffic was thin on the streets of the city on Saturday. The photo was taken from Bangla Motor in the city — FE photo by KAZ Sumon