The Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP) has conducted countrywide drives to keep the price of onion under control as well as to keep its supply chain intact following uptrend in price of such essential item after India imposed a ban on onion export.
Officials at the DNCRP said that four separate teams of the directorate have conducted drives in various parts of the Dhaka metropolitan.
Besides, different teams headed by divisional and district level officials of the DNCRP also conducted drives in the kitchen markets of 54 districts to keep the price of onion under control.
Election Commission (EC) Secretary Jahangir Alam today said that action will be taken in line with the country existing laws for creating obstacles towards holding the national elections.
In response to a query if political parties, those are out of the election, hold meeting then whether it is within the jurisdiction of the EC, he said, "Any activity that can creates obstacles in the election must be considered as anti-election activity".
In that case, the prevailing rules and laws will be applicable for everyone, he added.
Rail communication between the capital Dhaka and most other parts of the country has been suspended as a train derailed near Tejgaon station in the city this evening.
Officer-in-Charge of Dhaka Railway Police Station Ferdous Ahmed Bishwas confirmed the matter to BSS.
He said the incident took place as the locomotive of the Dhaka-bound Titas commuter train hit a crane, which was engaged in the Dhaka Elevated Expressway project, around 5.30pm.
Russia will stand with Dhaka against possible US or any Western sanction against Bangladesh, Russian Ambassador in Dhaka Alexander Mantytskiy said today.
“We are against of any illegal actions here (Bangladesh). We will be against of any sanctions or steps which can be taken by America or Western countries here,” he told an interaction with a group of journalists at Jatiya Press Club (JPC).
Mantytskiy said other then any sanction slapped by the UN Security Council his country does not recognise any such ban imposed unilaterally by any Western nation.