The caretaker government yesterday proposed that the Election Commission (EC) hold the long-over-due polls of upazila parishads before the stalled ninth parliamentary elections scheduled to be held this year.
Awami League (AL) General Secretary Abdul Jalil will fly to Singapore tonight for treatment as the government yesterday decided to release him on a 30-day parole considering his critical state of health.
The relatives of missing passengers in Thursday\'s launch capsize in Buriganga recovered six more bodies from the river yesterday, raising the death toll to 46.
At least five people were still reported missing yesterday, three days after the launch capsize in the Buriganga. Relatives of the missing ones were searching for bodies, but could recover none since Friday morning.
Following detection of quite widespread use of mobile phones by prisoners in violation of the jail code, the government decided to install cellphone jammers at all 67 prisons across the country.
The passenger train service between Kolkata and Dhaka is likely to begin from \'Pahela Baishakh\', Chief of Bangladesh Army Staff Gen Moeen U Ahmed said yesterday.
At least 32 people--most of them women and children--died after a launch with around 140 passengers was hit by a sand-laden cargo vessel and sank in the Buriganga in South Keraniganj yesterday.
An inter-ministerial committee strongly recommends that the government allow low-cost airliners from Dhaka to save huge foreign exchange and earn huge revenue from aviation and other sectors.
