Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan likens Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) to leprosy disease.

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday claimed that he met the CBA leaders and activists of Bangladesh Bank at its headquarters in the capacity of a trade unionist, not as a minister.

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan says the present government has taken initiatives for digging 118 navigation routes to ease national and international trade.

Control over illegal toll collection has led the two feuding groups of road transport workers to be at loggerheads at the capital's Sayedabad Bus Terminal for the last few days, transport workers said.

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan yesterday expressed helplessness in removing illegal religious structures on grabbed land.

Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan skipped yesterday's cabinet meeting to lead a march to lay siege to BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia's Gulshan office but stopped short of it.