Barisal, Bangladesh News

DHAKA: United Airways, a local private carrier, has stepped in the third year of operation with ambitious plan to expand its network to UK, Gulf and some regional destinations.

BARISAL: BTCLa s offer for free land phone connections has failed to get expected response of the subscribers in Barisal due to non-cooperation of the staff and low standard service of the state-owned company.

Heavy downpour triggered flash flood in low-lying areas of several districts including Netrakona, Sunamganj, Sylhet and Feni yesterday leaving thousands of people marooned.

BARISAL: Prices of green chilly and dry pepper and turmeric increased by an average of Tk 40 per kilogram within a month in Barisal market.

Over the past two months the local authorities in Cox's Bazaar District, southeastern Bangladesh, have torn down scores of makeshift huts belonging to an estimated 1,000 Rohingya refugees.

Shabdabali Group Theatre, a troupe from Barisal, received this year's 'Arju Smriti Natya Padak,' an award initiated by Subachan Natya Sangsad.

BARISAL: Ruling Awami League activists in Bhola on Wednesday vandalised the municipality office and assaulted the activists of the Bangladesh National party and Jatiya Party in protest against the municipal chairmana s tearing off a letter sent by the state minister for LGRD.

The number of rural landless households in the country increased by 2.66 percentage points in 12 years, according to the latest survey by Bangladesh Bureau of Statistics .

DHAKA: Incidents of rape have alarmingly increased in Barisal with at least 75 women violated in the last six months of the current year, according to law enforcers and hospital sources.

Our Correspondent, Barisal The activists of Bangladesh Chattra League and Jubo League are pro-testing against a court verdict, which gave eight BCL and JL activists to life in prison for killing Jubo Dal activist at Hizla upazila on Saturday.

DHAKA: Today is the 98th anniversary of birth of poet Begum Sufia Kamal. Sufia Kamal, a major literary figure was a freethinker and all her life she led the Muslim women to the path of progress.

UNB, Barisal A trial court here yesterday sentenced eight activists of Jubo League and Bangladesh Chhatra League to life term imprisonment for killing a rival Jubo Dal leader eight years back.

UNB, Barisal Some unruly ruling party cadres burnt down tender documents after snatching from the office of the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh here Tuesday noon.

BIWTA workers demolish unauthorised structures on the Shitalakhya at Fire Ghat in Narayanganj yesterday.Photo: STAR Tawfique Ali With various flaws and loopholes environmental laws in our country have failed to take any measures against influential quarters responsible for environmental degradation, experts said.

Our Correspondent, Barisal The intern veterinary doctors of Barisal Veterinary Institute at Rahmatpur under Babuganj upazila have been agitating on the campus for reducing internship period of them.

BSS, Barisal A total of 1,23,855 hectares of land was brought under massive jute cultivation in 11 southern districts under Barisal Agriculture Extension Zone during the current season.

Tender for expansion of Dhaka-Chittagong highway to four lanes is being floated in a week and the project involving Tk 2,000 crore will complete in four years, Communication Minister Syed Abul Hossain said today.

A committee constituted by the health ministry on Tuesday started investigation into the reported death and sickness of the children after taking Vitamin A capsules and deworming tablets as a third child died reportedly of complications from the medicines in Pirojpur on the day.

BARISAL: A total of 59 cases have remained pending with the marine court against at least 40 water transports plying different inter-district and regional routes in the south for violation of marine act and laws.

The High Court yesterday directed the authorities concerned to maintain status quo for three months on earth-filling on the bank of river Sandhya in Barisal for the development of housing plots.