Railway to upgrade its 5 hospitals into medical colleges thru PPP The government will build a separate railway bridge alongside the existing Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge to facilitate railway connectivity and the project will be implemented on a public private partnership…
In a prompt action, police rescued 10 of the 21 fishermen kidnapped by pirates along with two trawlers from the Meghna River under Monpura upazila early Wednesday.
A leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir was reportedly shot dead in a clash with police at the city’s Jatrabari during today’s (Wednesday) countrywide 48-hour hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami.
Police recovered the bodies of two unidentified young men in Manikganj and Sirajganj on Tuesday.
A schoolgirl was found hanged at Goalkhali under Khalishpur Police Station in the city on Wednesday morning.
Two more “border haats” (markets) will be set up this year along the India-Bangladesh border to boost local trade and people-to-people contacts between the two countries, a Tripura minister said on Tuesday.
At least 13 people, two among them policemen, were injured in two separate clashes between police, Jamaat-Shibir men and Awami League activists in Sadar Dhakshin Upazila during today’s (Wednesday) hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islam.
A member of highway police was killed in a road accident on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway at Bakchar in Gobindaganj upazila of the district on Tuesday.
Police arrested 10 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir in four upazilas of the district on charge of creating trouble during today’s (Wednesday) hartal called by Jamaat.
Hajj flights to carry Bangladeshi pilgrims to Saudi Arabia will begin on September 7.
A Bangladeshi national was stoned to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Bherbherihat border in Patgram upazila on Wednesday.
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