RIDESHARING SERVICES Accidents on rise, guideline not implemented
An increasing number of fatal road accidents in Dhaka are being attributed to ridesharing services by experts because of poor safety gears, untrained and unskilled drivers and riders and lack of monitoring while their scope of operation across the country is expanding.
Six killed as bus hits tree in Bagerhat
At least six people were killed and nine others injured after a bus crashed into a roadside tree in Fakirhat upazila on Saturday morning.
Most city public transports charging exorbitant fares
Most city bus operators and the drivers of CNG-fuelled auto rickshaws and ridesharing motorcycles have been charging exorbitant fares from the passengers in the capital since the beginning of Ramadan, says a study report. \
Probe initiated as abnormal purchase prices go viral
The government has initiated a probe into ‘abnormal’ high price paid for household articles to furnish apartments in multi-storey buildings under the Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant Project in Pabna.
Silk Road Forum launched
Chinese ambassador Zhang Zuo on Saturday said that the Belt and Road Initiative undertaken by China would help establish a new type of international relations for creating an inclusive world with shared prosperity.
LOW PRICE OF UN-HUSKED RICE Growers count heavy losses
Growers are incurring heavy losses being compelled to sell un-husked boro rice below the production costs.
ROHINGYA CRISIS ASEAN team to visit Rakhine, Cox’s Bazar soon
Indonesia on Friday informed Bangladesh that a comprehensive response team of Association of Southeast Asian Nations will soon visit Rakhine State and Cox’s Bazar to prepare a comprehensive need assessment.
Govt agencies should be divided: Khokon
Dhaka South City Corporation mayor Mohammad Sayeed Khokon on Friday said that the government agencies providing various services in the capital should be divided into two parts like the city corporation.
3 held for human trafficking to Europe
The Rapid Action Battalion arrested three suspected members of a human trafficking gang from the capital on Friday.
Bangladesh sees nearly 13 rapes every day
On an average nearly 13 women and girls were raped in the country every day in the first four months of the year as rape incidents were on the rise.
