A female passenger has reportedly been advised to get married and settle down in Dhaka by an immigration officer at Dhaka airport. The passenger, Priyanka Basu, shared her experience on Twitter on January 5, 2023 – that received a lot of reactions, reports the Hindustan Times. After enquiring her details at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport, the immigration officer apparently advised Priyanka to “find a Bangladeshi man, get married and settle in Dhaka.” Read More: E-gates at Sylhet airport will improve passengers’ experience: Foreign Minister He also noted down her contact number to be in touch if a “suitable match” comes up, Priyanka tweeted. There were many responses to the tweet, with Twitterati making jokes and mocking the immigration officer’s advice. “Never knew this was part of their job description,” said one Twitter user. Read More: Dense fog: 8 int'l flights diverted, 7 delayed at Dhaka airport Another wrote, “Sounds like this officer has stakes in a ‘marriage bureau’, start-up (dating service) as you call them in the West. I hope he will soon make you an offer you cannot refuse.”

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Wednesday became the first passenger of the metro rail buying her own ticket, as she set another milestone in the country's communication history between a span of six-month of opening the dream Padma Bridge. The first-ever metro train, carrying the prime minister and her younger sister Sheikh Rehana along with around 200 other selected passengers left from North Uttara to Agargaon at 01:53pm today.  Among the 200 riders were freedom fighters, the parliament speaker, ministers, government officials, diplomats, school students and ethnic minority people. Read more: Metro rail is pride of Bangladesh: PM Hasina

Jatiya Party Chairman GM Quader on Saturday suffered some pain in his body as a passenger bus hit the government vehicle carrying him. He is now resting at his residence as per his doctor's advice, said the Jatiya Party Chairman’s press secretary (2) Khandaker Deloar Jalali. Read: GM Quader calls for white paper on corruption in the energy sector He said the accident occurred on the road adjacent to Le Meridien Hotel in the capital’s Khilkhet area on the way back to his Uttara residence from Jatiya Party Chairman's Banani office at around 5 pm. Jalali said GM, Quader also the deputy opposition leader in parliament, took necessary medicine as per doctor's advice after dinner.  “He is feeling some pain in his body.  He has no symptoms other than body pain,” the press secretary added. He said GM Quader urged the country’s people to pray for him. Meanwhile, police seized the bus and arrested its driver. Jatiya Party leaders and workers have called upon the authorities concerned to take legal action against the driver after an investigation into the incident, said a party press release.

Three persons drowned while four others went missing after a passenger vessel sank in the Turag river off the coast of Savar following a collision with a bulkhead on Saturday. The identities of the missing could not be known immediately. Kazi Mazharul Islam, officer-in-charge of Savar Police Station, said the Gabtoli-bound vessel with 15 people on board capsized in the river after hitting the bulkhead off the coast of Savar's Aminbazar on the outskirts of Dhaka this morning. READ: Trawlers with 24 fishermen capsize in the Bay, one dies While eight people managed to swim to safety, seven others went missing.  On information, divers from the local fire service station rushed to the spot and launched a rescue operation. READ: 11 fishers rescued as trawler capsizes in Bay of Bengal The bodies of two children and a woman were subsequently fished out of the river, said Raihanul, station officer (media) of Fire Service and Civil Defense headquarters.