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  Mismanagement blamed for exodus from city

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:01am on May 11, 2021

  Massive exodus of people from the capital city and adjacent areas continued on Monday as usual to celebrate the upcoming Eid-ul-Fitr amid mismanagement of the...

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  Unregistered, overloaded speedboats continue to operate

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:13am on May 04, 2021

  Rampant operation of unregistered speedboats with overloaded passengers and unskilled drivers continue on major water channels amid lacklustre monitoring, said officials and experts. Year after...

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  Infection rise feared as restrictions ease in Bangladesh

  Shahin Akhter and Manzur H Maswood | Updated at 12:26am on April 24, 2021

  The government has further relaxed the ongoing restrictions on public movement and other activities allowing the shops and shopping malls to reopen tomorrow. As growing...

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  Road transport workers in hardship

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:34am on April 22, 2021

  Hundreds of thousands of road transport workers across the country are passing their days in severe hardship and uncertainty ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr as they have...

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  Crowd swells everywhere in Bangladesh ahead of shutdown

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 03:04pm on April 13, 2021

  Thousands of people thronged roads, markets, shopping malls and banks on Tuesday, a day ahead of the fresh restrictions while a huge number of people...

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  People rush out of cities as fresh curbs announced in Bangladesh

  Mustafizur Rahman and Shahin Akhter | Updated at 06:32pm on April 12, 2021

  The government on Monday announced closures of all government and non-government offices and financial institutions for eight days, imposing further restrictions on public movement and...

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  Restrictions end in Bangladesh today amid chaos

  Shahin Akhter and Rashad Ahamad  | Updated at 12:33am on April 11, 2021

  The weeklong restrictions imposed on public movement and businesses end today after a gross violation of the instructions to contain the current surge in COVID-19...

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  People suffer amid slack restrictions

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 12:45am on April 06, 2021

  The government’s fresh weeklong restrictions on public movement and businesses were ignored in many places in the capital as elsewhere in the country on the...

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  People rush home as govt declares shutdown for COVID-19

  Shahin Akhter and Rashad Ahamad  | Updated at 04:08pm on April 04, 2021

  Thousands of people thronged bus, train, ferry and launch terminals in the capital for the second consecutive day on Sunday as government slapped a fresh...

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  Govt health instructions largely ignored

  Shahin Akhter | Updated at 11:56pm on March 31, 2021

  Almost all of the government instructions to contain the rising trend of COVID-19 infections were largely ignored across the country on Wednesday as gatherings at...