Pankag Karmakar

Passengers were looking for better train services as they started buying tickets at higher prices yesterday.

Elections to 752 union parishads, the biggest grassroots-level polls, will be held on March 22 on partisan lines for the first time.

The Election Commission yesterday complained to the prime minister and the Speaker that Awami League MP Sharif Ahmed had threatened a returning officer to influence the municipality polls.

To prevent road crashes, the government has lowered the speed limit to 50kmph on highways during foggy weather, despite the fact that similar decisions on road safety remain unimplemented for years.

The Election Commission is likely to ask the returning officers concerned today to look into the allegations of electoral code violation against around two dozen ministers and lawmakers, and take action against them if found guilty.

Although the municipality polls are only eight days away, many returning officers are falling behind with the probes into alleged violations of electoral laws by the ruling Awami League men.

With the Awami League men continuing to breach the polls code, an election commissioner yesterday sought the prime minister's intervention to check this.

Police want restrictions on journalists' access to polling stations in the December 30 municipal polls, but the Election Commission has

The Election Commission last night directed the returning officers of six municipality polls to investigate the allegations of violating electoral code of conduct by a minister and some lawmakers.

Ruling Awami League (AL) men allegedly continue violating the electoral code of conduct centring the municipality polls while apparently turning a deaf ear to the Election Commission's (EC) repeated directives.

Ruling Awami League lawmaker from Natore-2 Safiqul Islam Shimul yesterday apologised for violating electoral code of conduct and

Most of the owners of CNG-run auto-rickshaws are charging drivers more rent than the government fixed rate, forcing them to collect additional fare from the passengers.

A number of auto-rickshaw drivers made trips on a contract basis in the capital yesterday, when the new fare chart and mandatory use of the meter for charging passengers came into force.

Operators of intra-city bus services are overcharging passengers on most of the routes in the capital, defying the new fare chart set by the government.

Some bus operators in Dhaka have already raised fares while most are to do so in a couple of days as the new rates, fixed by the government in line with the recent hike in the price of compressed natural gas (CNG) and announced on September 10, came into effect yesterday.

With Eid holidays beginning from today, the chaotic rush of holiday makers reached its peak yesterday as thousands streamed out of the capital defying the rain and overcrowding of transports to go home.

Around 10:00am yesterday, Golam Kibria and his family started their journey to Tangail from the Mohakhali bus terminal in the capital.

Most of the tickets were “sold out” within a few hours after the counters opened at Kamalapur Railway Station yesterday, the second day of advance train ticket sale.

After a six-hour anxious wait in a long queue, Eid holidaymaker Mofazzal Hossain got his desired train ticket yesterday.

A chunk of tickets for different modes of transport is kept aside for VIPs ahead of Eid every year, forcing ordinary people to go through