Bangladesh Road Transport Corporation (BRTC) will start sale of advance tickets of its special service on Tuesday, aiming to ease journey of Eid holidaymakers. Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader came up with the announcement on Monday after a meeting with the officials of BRTC and Depot managers at its head office in Motijheel. BRTC will operate 904 special buses while 54 buses will be kept standby to meet ...details

Police claim detainee arrested for drug abuse has committed suicide at Sonaimuri Police Station in Noakhali. The deceased, 23-year-old Tazul Islam Tushar, was an autorickshaw driver. Police detained Tushar on Friday night and placed him in custody at the police station. “Early this morning he committed suicide by hanging himself with his lungi,” Noakhali Additional Superintendent of Police AKM Zahirul Islam told. Police have filed an unnatural death case over the incident. An ...details

A contract was signed between Bangladesh Railway ese consortium on Thursday to conduct a feasibility study and detailed design for the much-hyped ‘Dhaka-Chattogram via Cumilla-Laksam High Speed Railway Project’.The contract was signed at Rail Bhaban between the government and the consortium of China Railway Design Corporation (CRDC) and Majumder Enterprise (ME).Project director Kamrul Ahsan signed the deal on behalf of Bangladesh Railway while CRDC business manager Liu Weichao on behalf ...details

Longing for a rain in the stifling summer heat of the past few days? Well it is here, and most likely, it is not going away for at least four or five more days. After last evening, the downpour came down heavy in the early morning hours, throwing chaos into city life and pulling a curtail of dull clouds over the blue sky. Bangladesh Meteorological Department said, it rained 81mm in ...details

Bangladesh joined Interpol in 1976. But it was after the ‘90s that Bangladesh started sending names of various absconders to the Interpol Sixty-three Bangladeshis are currently named in the Interpol red notice. BNP’s acting Chairperson Tarique Rahman’s name is not among them. As a result, there are no options to bring him back through Interpol. Home Ministry and police officials say Tarique has to be brought back following British law. Concerned officials say ...details

A high-level delegation including ministers from 58 countries will visit Rohingya refugee camps in Cox's Bazar tomorrow, Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali said today. The ministers, state ministers, secretaries and high officials of 57member countries of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Canadian foreign minister and prime minister’s special envoy to Myanmar will take part in the visit, Bangladesh foreign ministry sources said. The foreign minister disclosed details about the delegation's ...details

The city witnessed around 55mm rainfall during six hours of April 29 and that was enough to produce knee-deep water in major residential and commercial areas. What surprised most of us is that city authorities have been harping over the last two years about setting up an underground drainage system which, we were told, would take care of monsoon waters this year! Sadly, as things have panned out, thousands of ...details

Senior Brexiteer MPs have delivered an "ultimatum" demanding Theresa May drops one of the government's preferred post-Brexit customs options. A 30-page document passed to the BBC says a "customs partnership" would make meaningful trade deals "impossible" to forge and render the UK's International Trade Department "obsolete". It comes ahead of a key meeting of senior ministers on Wednesday. They will discuss the different options to replace customs union membership. The ...details

Thailand’s Minister for Economic Reforms and Investment Dr Kobsak Pootrakool arrives in Dhaka today (Wednesday) on a three-day visit to explore trade and investment opportunities in Bangladesh. The Thai minister will lead a high-profile 32-member business and investment delegation including Secretary General of Thailand Board of Investment and high officials from Royal Thai Government which will explore new areas of cooperation until May 4. Commissioned under the political directives of ...details

Police suspect murder-suicide in the deaths of a woman and her two minor daughters in Dhaka’s Mirpur, but the forensic pathologist says the type of wounds appear ‘odd’. Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College Forensic Department head Prof AM Selim Reza spoke to the media after the post-mortem examinations on Tuesday. “The wounds are a bit different. These wounds are not like those we see in such cases,” he said. “Only one wound can be ...details