Bangladesh

Golam Mostafa Jibon: Though, country’s people are experiencing frequent furious fire incidents at different places in the country including Old Dhaka and Narayanganj, bulk portion of the chemical warehouses is yet to remove from Old Dhaka even after putting several pledges by the authorities concerned.Observing the situation, question has been…

Staff Correspondent: CNG-driven public transports in Dhaka are too charging the commuters extra, violating the government directive to only increase fares of diesel-run vehicles.While visiting different parts of the capital on Monday, our reporters found that several bus companies to have illegally increased their fares by at least 50 percent.Passengers…

Industry Desk: Bangladesh has signed the Glasgow Leaders’ Declaration on Forests and Land Use in the COP26, pledging to end and reverse deforestation by 2030.Mostafa Kamal, a member of the Bangladesh delegation and secretary of the ministry of environment, forests and climate change, confirmed this.Mostafa said that NDC had uploaded…

Industry Desk: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has raised questions over BNP’s existence as political party in future as its top leadership was convicted for their involvement with illegal activities.“How a political party will exist when a fugitive, who is convicted in arms smuggling, August 21 grenade attack, siphoning off orphans…

Raising fare to be illogical Golam Mostafa Jibon: Though, the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) finally permitted to raise the bus fare on the face of transport workers and owners’ pressure, raising fare of 95 percent buses in the capital will be illogical as those run by CNG, experts claimed.According…

RMG exports at high risk Ayub Ali from Ctg: Export commodities worth over Tk3,000 crore remain stuck at the Inland Container Depots (ICDs) of Chattogram port as the nationwide transport strike, enforced by transporters against fuel price hike, has disrupted goods delivery for the third consecutive day.No export product entered…

Staff Correspondent: The authorities have agreed to increase the fares charged by the operators of diesel-run buses by about 27 percent starting from today amid a transport strike that created nationwide chaos.City buses will now charge Tk 2.15 per kilometre, a 26.47 percent increase from the old price of Tk…

UP polls being polluted Special Correspondent: The use of legal arms has increased in different illegal activities across the country especially centering the Union Parishad elections scheduled to be held at different places by rotation.From influential politicians to top businessmen, contractors, terrorists, extortionists, various classes of people are using legally…

Launch owners start from todayConsumers face price hikeDiscussion with minister fails Mahfuja Mukul: The transport owners and workers associations have decided to continue the ongoing country-wide transport strike until the additional fuel price is withdrawn. Transport owners in port city have halted the strike but the vessel owners’ association yesterday…

Staff Correspondent: Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterdaysaid Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is monitoring the situation evolving in the country following the fuel price hike.Obaidul Quader, also Road Transport and Bridges Minister, made the remarks at a briefing at his official residence in the morning.“The government has re-fixed the…