Metropolitan

Metropolitan

Railway’s east zone reels from manpower crisis

Authorities of Bangladesh Railway’s (BR) east zone have closed down 46 of the 228 railway stations due to severe workforce shortage. This has resulted in delays of over 30 minutes on different routes of the zone.

2y ago

Sitakunda Blast: Who started the fire?

The probe committee formed by Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) to investigate the devastating fire and explosion at Sitakunda’s BM Container Depot last month could not ascertain the source or specific reason behind the fire.

2y ago

Eid joy marred by tragedy

Ashikur Rahman (28) was returning home for Eid after taking treatment at a Dhaka hospital. But little did he know that he’ll never reach his destination.

2y ago

Boy found dead in Ctg monastery

A boy was found dead in a Buddhist monastery in Abdullahpur South Baruapara in Chattogram yesterday.

2y ago

Barred from rally at Suhrawardy, BNP to hold protest across country tomorrow

BNP will stage protest across the country tomorrow as the party did not to get permission for holding a rally in Dhaka.

8y ago

'Conspiracy on to root out religious edn'

A conspiracy is going on to root out religious education in the name of formulating a secular education policy, speakers said at a roundtable yesterday.
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15y ago

Reforms a must to end political influence on public admin

Adviser to Prime Minister HT Imam yesterday said reforms in the public administration are needed to eliminate political influence from the civil service.
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15y ago

EU pledges large climate fund

The European Union (EU) has committed a large financial aid for Bangladesh to fight the impacts of climate change and global warming.
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15y ago

SQ Chowdhury granted bail

The High Court yesterday granted an anticipatory bail for six months to BNP leader Salauddin Quader Chowdhury in a defamation case filed in Panchagarh.
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15y ago

Workshop on carbon financing begins

A two-day workshop titled 'Global Climate Change and Carbon Financing: Opportunities for Bangladesh' opened in the city yesterday.
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15y ago

Road crash kills 3

Three people were killed and 30 others, including six shopkeepers, were injured when a passenger bus lost control and rammed into some shops in a market at Itakhola under Shibpur upazila in Narsingdi yesterday.
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15y ago

NU degree results today

Results of Degree (pass), Subsidiary and Certificate Course examinations of 2008 under National University (NU) will be published at 4:00pm today, says an NU press release.
The results will be sent to respective colleges by post.
However, the results will also be available on www.nu.edu.bd and www.nuresults.net
Besides, a student can get his/her result by typing nu degRoll and sending the SMS to 4636 from any mobile operator, says the release.

15y ago

Poor to get rice ahead of Eid

The government is going to distribute 10 kilograms of rice to each of one crore poor people across the country ahead of the Eid-ul-Azha under vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme.
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15y ago

Irregular migration likely to tarnish country's image

Speakers at a programme yesterday said when cross-border migration of people has become an inevitable part of today's globalised world for their livelihood, irregular migration could seriously affect the country's image.
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15y ago