Khulna division transport strike underway
Transport strike in 10 southern districts, which was called in protest to sentencing of a truck driver for life, entered second day today putting commuters in limbo.
All long haul buses and goods transportation were suspended in the strike clamped through Bagerhat, Chuadanga, Jessore, Jhenidah, Khulna, Kushtia, Magura, Meherpur, Narail and Satkhira.
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Many of the trucks which entered Bangladesh through Benapole border in Jessore from India remained stranded due to transport crisis, reports our Benapole correspondent.
Loading and unloading of goods at Benapole port remained halted for the second consecutive day.
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At Bhomra land port, more than a hundred of trucks with imported goods remained stranded since yesterday, reports our Satkhira correspondent.
Noted filmmaker Tareque Masud and media personality Ashfaque Munier Mishuk popularly known as Mishuk Munier, along with three others died in the road crash on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Joka area of Ghior upazila in Manikganj on August 13, 2011.
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In a case filed over the crash, the bus driver was convicted and awarded life-term imprisonment.
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