Noakhali, Bangladesh News Archives

DHAKA: Travelling on highways across the country became dreadful and unsafe with an alarming rise in robbery and fatal accidents due largely to a lack of adequate policing, reckless driving and poor maintenance of the roads and bridges.

The parliamentary delegation scheduled to visit the Tipaimukh dam site in India on Friday, said that the extent of its access to the site will depend on how much its counterpart is willing to allow.

Influenced by a monsoon depression formed over the northwest Bay, low-lying areas of most coastal districts of the country are likely to be inundated by wind-driven surge of up to five feet above normal astronomical tide during tonight, Met office warned.

Shamim Jahangir Aman and Boro cultivation is likely to suffer a serious setback in the 11-Aila battered coastal districts in the upcoming season due to poor allocation of fund under the two-year agriculture rehabilitation programme of the government.

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

DHAKA: The parliament on Thursday passed the national budget worth Tk 1,13,819 crore for fiscal year 2009-10 by approving the Bill of Appropriations 2010, amid abstention of the main opposition led by Bangladesh National Party.