Three members of the Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) were killed and four others injured after a BAF pickup fell from a flyover at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport’s third terminal on Monday night.
The prices of fuel oil have been kept unchanged for the month of September.
Bangladesh remains dependent mainly on two government submarine cables — SMW-4 and SMW-5 — even as neighbouring countries connect one after another to double-digit numbers of international submarine cables. India has 19, Malaysia 23, Thailand 12 and the Philippines 19 international submarine cable connections, while Bangladesh remains stuck with only two. This gap between limited capacity and growing demand has raised concern, with sector stakeholders saying the country's digital economy could face major obstacles in the coming decade if new connections are not added on time. They believe new submarine cables would raise the country's internet usage rate by 20-30 percent, which could bring down internet prices by up to 50 percent.
Manabadhikar Shongskriti Foundation (MSF) has claimed that mob and political violence across the country has increased alarmingly in August compared to July. The organization has also informed that the number of recovery of unidentified bodies has also increased during the same period.
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has commented that the democracy-loving people of the country are the source of all political power of BNP. He has said the other name of BNP is the struggle of building a public-welfare, democratic and self-reliant Bangladesh.
Indian High Commissioner to Bangladesh Dinesh Trivedi has paid a courtesy call on Prime Minister’s Finance and Planning Adviser Rashed Al Mahmud Titumir.