Stop bus fare anarchy on Banskhali road

Banskhali's main road is plagued by heavy traffic and rampant fare anarchy. On one side, severe traffic jams persist, while on the other, passengers face exploitation by bus operators who charge arbitrary fares. This chaotic situation is the daily reality...

Dangers of online betting

In recent times, the new generation has become heavily engaged with digital cryptocurrency and various online betting platforms like 1XBet and Exness. Primarily, they use Binance to transfer funds into their betting accounts. To deposit funds into Binance accounts, users...

Venomous snakes in our vicinity

In a country where around 400,000 incidents of snakebite take place with reports of some 7,000 fatalities annually, the hype and resulting panic created over a particular type of snake, locally called Chandrabora, or Russell's viper (Daboia russelli) is indeed...

Need for making highways safer

A free-for-all situation is now prevailing in the country's highways, barring the most watched and most regulated ones, such as the Jatrabari-Mawa or the Mawa-Bhanga expressways. Battery-run rickshaws, autorickshaws, and motorbikes dominate those, making the journey of all other regular...

Exaggerated threat from Russell's viper

Mass panic over Russell's viper has almost turned into a mass hysteria, courtesy of social media. It is not for the first time that misinformation spreads like wildfire because the social media craze cashes in on exaggerated virtual picture of...

Islami Bank holds orientation programme

Islami Bank holds orientation programme Islami Bank Training and Research Academy (IBTRA) organised a daylong orientation programme for newly-recruited probationary officers on Sunday at Islami Bank Tower. Mohammed Monirul Moula, Managing Director of the bank, inaugurated the programme as the...

Ctg people demand regular service of Cox's Bazar special train

OUR CORRESPONDENTCHATTOGRAM, June 23: Local people have threatened to launch a tougher movement if their demand for permanent and regular operation of Cox's Bazar special train is not met.The call came from a press conference held in the Chattogram Press...

Locals rush to catch Russell's vipers

Faridpur, June 23 (UNB): Following the announcement of a Tk 50,000 bounty for catching a Russell's viper alive, residents along the Padma riverbank in Faridpur have become desperate to capture the snakes.Last Thursday, Shah Md Ishtiak Arif, general secretary of...

Police admin undergoes major reshuffle

In a major reshuffle in the police administration, an Additional IGP, nine DIGs, 15 Additional DIGs and 15 SP-ranking officials have been transferred to different positions.The Home Ministry issued three separate orders signed by Sirajam Munira, deputy secretary of the...

Court issues travel ban on four Premier Bank officials

A Dhaka Court on Sunday issued a travel ban on four officials of Premier Bank Limited amid an allegation of money laundering. The officials are: Md Shahid Hasan Mallik, Additional Managing Director (AMD) and Manager of Narayanganj branch; Moshfiqul Alam,...

Police 'threaten' media freedom

The Bangladesh Police Service Association's recent statement calling for "greater caution" in publishing reports about the police has been condemned by the Editors' Council as "a threat to free press". The council, which represents newspaper editors in Bangladesh, argues that...

Law doesn't permit Khaleda to go abroad, says Anisul

Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Anisul Huq on Sunday said that the law under which BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia was freed from jail suspending her sentence did not permit her to go abroad for receiving advanced medical treatment."As far...

Khaleda gets pacemaker implanted in Evercare

Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Chairperson Khaleda Zia has had a pacemaker implanted in Evercare Hospital in the capital to address abnormality of her heart rate.A group of specialist doctors successfully installed a pacemaker in Khaleda Zia's chest on Sunday, her...

Economy loses as one-fifth youths lack education, employment

About a fifth of Bangladesh's young population is still deprived of education and employment both as per official count, which analysts term alarming for a growing economy.A total of 18.87 per cent of the young population, aged between 15 and...

Make party well-organised, win people's trust to foil conspiracy

Prime Minister and Awami League (AL) President Sheikh Hasina on Sunday asked her partymen to work for a well-organised party and achieve people's trust so that no attack or conspiracy can destroy the party as it is like a phoenix...

Matiur removed from NBR post, barred from Sonali Bank board meet

Amid widespread criticism and social media uproar over his son's purchase of a goat worth Tk 1.5 million (15 lakh) before Eid-ul-Azha, Md Matiur Rahman, President of the National Board of Revenue's (NBR) Customs, Excise, and VAT Appellate Tribunal, has...

Benazir submits written statement to ACC

Former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Benazir Ahmed didn't appear before the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Sunday as the anti-graft body summoned him to quiz over graft allegations and amassing huge wealth beyond known sources of income.He instead sent a...

Revive regulator, rescind legal indemnity for fair energy pricing

Revive regulator's tariff-adjustment authority to ensure fair pricing of power and petroleum products for Bangladesh's sustainable growth, an all-stakeholder meet recommends as an industrialist narrates business woes for high energy and fund costs. In this context, the speakers also demanded...

BD getting $400m AIIB budget support

A US$400-million budget-support credit is forthcoming from the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) for Bangladesh to help implement critical structural reforms meant for building climate resilience in development activity. Mainstreaming climate-change adaptation and-mitigation actions for a sustainable, resilient and inclusive...

Entrepreneurs in quandary as countryside banking squeezes

Emergent entrepreneurs get into a quandary as countryside banking squeezes amid fallouts from uncapped high interest rates and obdurate inflation, thus affecting the overall national economy, sources say. Of late, commercial banks' focus on rural Bangladesh keeps shifting with the...

Light rain likely today --

Light to moderate rain/thunder showers accompanied by temporary gusty wind is likely to occur at many places over Rangpur, Mymensingh, Sylhet, Rajshahi, Dhaka, Khulna and Barishal divisions in the next 24 hours from 06:00 am today (Monday), according to the...

Two prisoners die while undergoing treatment at DMCH

Two prisoners receiving treatment at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) died on separate days. Inspector Md Bachchu Mia, in charge of the DMCH police outpost, made the confirmation, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Shah Alam Hawlader, 60, from...

Chinese Minister Liu Jianchao in city

Minister of the International Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Liu Jianchao is now visiting Bangladesh to discuss issues of mutual interest between Bangladesh and China, reports UNB.He arrived in Dhaka on Saturday on a four-day...

US Embassy Dhaka awards $18K grants to young journalists

The United States Embassy in Dhaka awarded grants to four projects by journalism students and young journalists on Sunday who participated in the first-ever TechCamp in Bangladesh, totaling US$ 18,430, reports UNB.The ceremony took place at Bangladesh Youth Leadership Center...

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan MP handing over a crest to Director General (DG) of Bangladesh Ansar

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan MP handing over a crest to Director General (DG) of Bangladesh Ansar and VDP Major General A K M Aminul Haque at the Ministry of Home Affairs in the capital on Sunday. The agency secured the...

Cantonment saves Cox's Bazar from Arakan Army

Ruling Awami League (AL) Whip Saimum Sarwar Komol on Sunday said if there was no cantonment, Cox's Bazar area would have been occupied by Myanmar's Arakan Army, reports UNB."If there was no cantonment, Cox's Bazar area would have been occupied...

Army Chief adorned with General rank badge

Chief of Army Staff Waker-Uz-Zaman was adorned with the new rank badge of General in the presence of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina at Ganobhaban in the city on Sunday, reports BSS.Chief of Naval Staff Admiral M Nazmul Hassan and Chief...

BTRC locks horns with IIG cos over Tk 976.35m dues

The Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) is at loggerheads with the International Internet Gateway (IIG) companies over recovery of outstanding dues amounting to Tk976.35 million from 32 IIG companies. BTRC sent letters late last month to the IIGs to pay...

AL's upcoming challenge is to resist communal forces: Quader

Awami League (AL) General Secretary Obaidul Quader has said the upcoming challenge of his party is to resist the communal evil forces under the patronisation of BNP, reports BSS.Quader said this while talking to reporters after placing a wreath at...

Fakhrul surprised over BPSA statement on graft stories in media

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir expressed concern over the Bangladesh Police Service Association's (BPSA’s) statement regarding media reports on corruption allegations against its former and current officials, calling it a threat to the media uncovering the truth, reports...