Bangladesh has launched artificial intelligence (AI)-powered traffic surveillance on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway as authorities pursue wider upgrades aimed at reducing accidents and congestion.
Officials plan to install 1,427 AI cameras at 490 points along about 250 kilometers from Jatrabari to Chattogram City Gate. The system detects speeding, lane violations, dangerous overtaking, wrong-way driving, and illegal parking.
Myanmar’s Mandalay international airport suspended all international flights after a drone attack by anti-military rebels, while domestic services were shifted to a nearby airport, Myanmar Airways International said.
Building-rule violations are widespread in Chattogram, Bangladesh, with about half of buildings deviating from approved plans, according to Chattogram Development Authority (CDA) officials.
Bangladesh is unlikely to send a representative to the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) summit in New Delhi on Sept. 12-13, with a senior official saying Prime Minister Tarique Rahman was not invited in his government capacity.
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Bangladesh should stand with India in rejecting China’s attempt to strengthen its territorial claims over Arunachal Pradesh through repeated renaming of places.
Saima Wazed Putul, daughter of ousted Bangladesh prime minister Sheikh Hasina, resigned Wednesday as World Health Organization Southeast Asia regional director following fraud investigations by the agency and Bangladeshi authorities.