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Road safety elusive

Road safety elusive
Concern over road safety is growing following the sudden rise in road accidents over the past couple of days across the country. Lives of those who commute from one place to another using the roads and highways across the country have now been rendered most vulnerable. After the loss of 40 lives in 4 days starting from the Eid vacation, 22 more people were killed and 90 injured in road accidents across the country yesterday. Experts attribute these accidents mostly to vehicles without fitness certificates and route permits. An international survey says Bangladesh ranks second in terms of deaths in road accidents among the countries of Europe, Australia and Asia. The highest number of accidents occurs in Nepal and the lowest in United Kingdom.…

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Tigers post highest total against SA
Tigers post highest total against SA
The South African openers weathered Bangladesh after the hosts posted their highest Test innings score…

Paddy fields submerged in 40 villages in Patuakhali

Paddy fields submerged in 40 villages in Patuakhali

Water-logging in 40 villages in Kalapara  upazila has made Aman paddy cultivation uncertain. Nearly 30, 000 farming families of the villages will be badly affected if they  cannot prepare seed bed in time. The farmers have blamed the Gabbaria closure dam for inundation of their land.  They…
Recommendations lie unheeded

Recommendations lie unheeded

Despite repeated recommendations put forward for a permanent resolution to avert casualties caused by mudslides in Chittagong, they have failed to translate into actions. Mudslides and the casualties they cause have been followed by the usual approach. Probe committees are formed and they submit their…
Undeserved publicities against our garments industry

Undeserved publicities against our garments industry

Most of the time on reading newspapers in Bangladesh or watching the electronic media, one cannot be blamed for getting afflicted by a notion as if the garments sector is but one monstrous creation inspired by sheer greed of its entrepreneurs and sustained by their devilish ways of exploiting the workers…
US and EU views of trade unions 
and Bangladesh

US and EU views of trade unions and Bangladesh

The former US Ambassador to Bangladesh observed in a seminar before his departing some months ago that Bangladesh still had a long way to cover to get back its lost GSP facility in the US because it was lagging behind in meeting compliance demands from US and other Western buyers. But the fact of the…
23 lakh prepaid gas meters to be installed

23 lakh prepaid gas meters to be installed

The government has decided to install 22.80 lakh prepaid gas meters in the country aimed at preventing the wastage of natural gas, reports BSS. “The government under different projects will install prepaid gas meters to prevent wastage of gas during its use at different holdings,” Energy…
Japan trade deficit narrows 92pc on jump in exports

Japan trade deficit narrows 92pc on jump in exports

AFP, TOKYO: Japan’s trade deficit narrowed sharply last month as exports of automobiles and electronic parts picked up while a sky-high energy import bill continued to fall, finance ministry data showed yesterday. The country’s trade deficit came in at 69.0 billion yen ($556 million), plunging…
China ire as Myanmar jails scores for illegal logging

China ire as Myanmar jails scores for illegal logging

AFP, YANGON: Beijing yesterday hit out at long jail sentences handed to more than 150 Chinese nationals for illegal logging in Myanmar, in the latest tremor to shake relations between the neighbours. The mass sentencing, which has sparked outraged editorials in Chinese state-run media, comes after the…
PrangoneMor invited to ‘Purba Paschim Theatre Festival’

PrangoneMor invited to �Purba Paschim Theatre Festival�

Theatre troupe PrangoneMor has been invited to stage their  much acclaimed play ‘Roktokorobi’ in India at a theatre festival on August 1 at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kolkata. A Kolkata based leading Theater troupe ‘Purbo Paschim’ has arranged a six-day colourful theater…
Shakib, Mushfiq throw away wickets

Shakib, Mushfiq throw away wickets

Bangladesh sensed yet another chance to take the stranglehold over South Africa in the first Test when Shakib Al Hasan and Litton Das batted with utmost composure but at the end they couldn’t materialised it. Shakib played a rash shot to throw away his wicket as he was approaching towards his…
Illegal structures on river bank pulled down

Illegal structures on river bank pulled down

About six houses, including some under-construction structures, built illegally on the bank of the Korotoa River in Bogra town, were evicted and pulled down yesterday following a High Court order. “We have demolished the dwelling houses during an eviction drive that started from 11:30pm,”…
Millions in grip of arsenic poisoning

Millions in grip of arsenic poisoning

Around 20 million people using tube-wells in 61 districts are leading a precarious life because of arsenicosis and pure water scarcity. Arsenicosis, a disease caused by drinking arsenic-contaminated water, may lead to a very painful death. Around 4,000 cases of arsenicosis patients have been identified…
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