Speed of communication is the key to development, Information Minister Hasanul Haq Inu yetsreday told a convention of autorickshaw-autotempo owners and workers, reports BSS. “You have braved the fiery hooliganism of Khaleda Zia and continued to ply your vehicles despite the petrol bombs. Obviously Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina would consider your demands, sympathetically,” he said at the National Press Club. The minister said that he would take up the issue of having a separate lane for three-wheelers in highways. He criticized those who were campaigning for a ban on three-wheelers. “If they were so bad, why not ban them completely, “Inu asked rhetorically. He said that he would take up the issue of three wheelers with the government and suggest possible options for implementation. He also said “The tri-wheelers have brought dynamism to the stagnant rural life. We cannot disown their contribution,” the minister added.
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Leaders of the Left-leaning political parties yesterday warned the government that the construction of Rampal power plant near the Sundarbans must be stopped by November 30 or they would resort to intensive… 
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