Dhaka North City Corporation Mayor Atiqul Islam has directed authorities concerned to reduce the fares of Gulshan Chaka and Dhaka Chaka- passenger buses plying in the Gulshan-Banani-Baridhara-Niketon areas by Tk5 for each stoppage.
The directive will come into effect tomorrow (23 February), he said while addressing a meeting at his conference room in the Nagar Bhaban at Gulshan on making community bus services in Dhaka South today (22 February).
Officials of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police, Gulshan Society, Banani Society and Baridhara Society were present in the meeting along with representatives of Dhaka Chaka and Gulshan Chaka.
The government has opened three AI software based on Bangla language, enabling users to convert Bengali text to speech and speech to text and extract text from unedited documents.
State Minister for Posts, Telecommunications and ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Wednesday launched the software for users at a function organized by his ministry at BCC auditorium here coinciding with International Mother Language Day, according to an official release.
He also unveiled a Bangla font, digitally representing the Bangla characters, symbols and glyphs, announced a special affordable package of BTCL Broadband Internet Bandwidth Zipon and opened Teletalk Bangladesh Limited E-SIM.
Foreign Secretary Masud Bin Momen has said conflicting parties in regions afflicted with trouble now appeared to be taking advantage of geopolitical rivalries, a scenario that protract the crises alongside making seriously difficult peacekeeping operations there.
“Conflicting parties take advantage of the geopolitical rivalries protracting the crises and seriously affecting peacekeeping operations,” a foreign ministry statement quoted Momen as telling a session on Peacekeeping operations in the Munich Security Conference on Friday.
Momen also highlighted Bangladesh troops commitment and continued contributions to the peacekeeping operations, including their track record of winning the hearts and minds of the local communities where they served.
MYMENSINGH: Seven persons, including a woman and children, were killed in a collision between a bus and a CNG-run autorickshaw in Barabila area of the district today.
The accident occurred around 11.30am when a Nalitabari-bound passenger bus crashed into the autorickshaw coming from the opposite direction on the Mymensingh-Sherpur road in the Barabila area under Mymensingh Sadar Upazila, leaving all seven auto-rickshaw passengers dead on the spot, said Officer in Charge (OC) Mayeen Uddin of Mymensingh Kotwali Model police station.
The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
The OC said, being informed, police and fire servicemen rushed to the spot and sent the bodies to Mymensingh Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Police seized the bus.