Tangail, Sept 1 – An assistant of a bus driver has been arrested on the charge of raping a disabled teenaged girl along with two of his accomplices in a moving bus near Ibrahimabad Rail Station at Bhuapur area of…
Month: September 2018
Thousands of undocumented BD workers fear arrest in Malaysia crackdown
Md Owasim Uddin Bhuyan Thousands of undocumented Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia are in fear of arrest as the Malaysian authorities were set to launch a massive crackdown on them on Friday.
Dubai’s RTA to deploy 368 ‘smart’ school buses to increase safety
Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has announced that it will deploy 368 “smart” buses to transport about 8873 students in 17 schools during the new academic year that begins in September. The school service is operated by the RTA’s…
Air France to deploy A380 on Paris-Dubai route
Air France plans to temporarily deploy an Airbus A380 on its Paris-Dubai route in January 2019, according to aviation website Routesonline. The airline filed operational aircraft changes for the Paris Charles de Gaulle-Dubai service earlier this month, it said. The…
Serena matches her easiest win over Venus in US Open rout
New York, Sep 1 (AP/UNB) — Serena Williams kept booming big shots for winners, never allowing herself to feel sorry for the overmatched player on the other side. So what if it happened to be her big sister?
BNP vows to continue movement
Dhaka, Sept 1 – BNP on Saturday took a fresh vow to continue its movement for ‘ousting’ the current government to ‘restore’ democracy and people’s rights.
Private car catches fire on Gazipur highway, gutted
Gazipur, Sept 1 – A private car was gutted as a fire broke out in it on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Masterbari in the city on Saturday morning.
UAE firm begins producing ‘affordable’ generic medicines in Dubai
Pharmax Pharmaceuticals, a UAE-based pharmaceutical company, has begun production of “affordable generic medicines” in its manufacturing facility located in Dubai Science Park. The Dhs125m custom-built factory has a current annual capacity of over 200 million tablet and capsule dosage forms,…
Addressing Bangladesh’s age-old public transportation system
By Naimul Haq Dhaka, Aug 31 2018 (IPS) – After the recent student uprising in Bangladesh, and despite increased policing on the streets and amendments to the traffic laws, there has been criticism that things have not changed significantly enough…
Kazi Sayed Ahmed’s 7th solo Art show begins at AFD
Dhaka, September 01 – The inaugural ceremony of the seventh solo art exhibition by artist Kazi Sayed Ahmed titled ‘Surface as Symbol’ was held on Friday, 31 August 2018 at Alliance Francoise Dhaka.