Mahbubur Rahman Khan

Commuters continued to suffer yesterday on the second day of BRTA's drive against “seating”, “gate-lock”, “nonstop” and other so-called special public transport services as many owners kept their buses off the street to artificially create a transport crisis in the capital.

The seeds of corruption are sown when bureaucrats okay files, turning a blind eye to the violations of rules, so that they can stay in their posts and gain benefits, said the chief of the Anti-Corruption Commission.

It was midday; lost in thoughts, Mizanur Rahman was sitting inside his electronics store.

The maximum fare from Jatrabari to Motijheel, only three kilometres, should be Tk 5 but Shahnaz Khatun has to pay Tk 10 for the ride in the so-called sitting-service buses. The capital's bus owners are charging the passengers fares at their will every day but Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA) apparently cares little.

It was one of the happiest days for Kazi Mashiur Rahman yesterday as it was the wedding day of his beloved youngest daughter Khushi.

Meat traders threaten to stop sale countrywide if their demands are not met. Last update, the government has called them to a meeting in this regard on Sunday. Traders say, they will decide on further activities after the outcome of the meeting.

Mominul Haque has been suffering from obesity, so doctors advised him at least an hour's walk every day. But he can't go for that must-do exercise. The banker is also allergic to dust, and much of the capital's Gulshan, where he lives, is covered with thick dust these days. So he is skipping his walk and, as a result, his weight gain continues.

For about twenty years the Bowbazar Ghat remained a crowded place as hundreds of people used to cross the

Over 1,100 buildings in Kalyanpur and Paikpara in the capital's Mirpur were built encroaching upon roads in violation of the city's

Some of the buses are turning around while many buses, cars, auto-rickshaws and rickshaws move back and forth haphazardly -- this has become a common scene at Jatrabari and Sayedabad Bridge intersection where risking lives hundreds of pedestrians cross these roads every day.

It's a mobile oil mill. Now Uttara, now Motijheel. But wherever it goes, it instantly creates a strong customer base because the

The recent surge of activity by the Anti-Corruption Commission seems to have less impact on curbing corruption, with an

Shafiqur Rahman had been looking for a toilet for half an hour. A man with prostate issues, he had to urinate frequently and

After the news that the Gulshan café attackers “used two flats in the capital as their dens” surfaced, suspicion and a sense of

Back in 1967 when the country attained self-sufficiency in fish production, the haors of Sunamganj produced one lakh tonnes of fish a year.

It seems an errant painter has brushed the surroundings of the capital's peripheral road between Showarighat and ZH Sikder Women's Medical College Hospital with the blackish water of the adjacent Buriganga river and plunged it into darkness.

Had it not been detected that Mohammed Kamruzzaman had the rare Bombay blood group in the first place, it would have been very difficult to save him.

It's a road, but you can't see it. All you see is sewerage water and human waste overflowing it and household and commercial garbage

They could have got a good lesson on grammar or learnt crucial strategies of maths but the students of class IX and X of City Corporation Adarsha High School of the capital's Dhalpur yesterday learnt how seniors wrestle to get microphones and complain to the mayor about local problems.

Banker Rehan Ahmed rushed to Jamalpur after his grandmother passed away last month. Spending some days there, he went to the local railway station to buy the next day's ticket to the capital. But all he got was disappointed.