Dhaka, March 20 – The student-led protest for safer roads, which rocked the country last year, was rekindled again after the death of Abrar Hossain Chowdhury, a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP), in a road accident on Tuesday.…
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BNP blasts govt for ‘indiscipline’ in transport sector
Dhaka, Mar 20 – BNP senior leaders on Wednesday alleged that discipline in the country’s transport sector was not restored as the government did not materialise the demands placed by the students during their ‘safe road’ movement last year. Speaking…
Court takes cognizance in Dipon murder case
Dhaka, March 20 – The Special Anti-Terrorism Tribunal of Dhaka on Tuesday took cognizance of the charges against eight members of banned militant outfit Ansar Al Islam in connection with the Faisal Arefin Dipon murder case. Scrutinising the case documents,…
Protests over university student’s death continue
Dhaka, Mar 20 (UNB)— Protests triggered by the death of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) student Abrar Ahmed Chowdhury continued on Wednesday. Students of private universities demonstrated in front of Bashundhara Residential Area’s main gate to force the authorities accept…
University student’s death on road sparks protests in Dhaka
Dhaka, Mar 19 (UNB) – Students of different private universities blocked the road in front of Jamuna Future Park following the death of a student of Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP) in a road crash in front of Bashundhara gate…
Poll official among 7 killed in BD Hill District gun attack
Rangamati, Mar 18 (UNB) – Seven people, including an assistant presiding officer, were killed and an presiding officer among 13 was injured in a gun attack on a vehicle of a motorcade carrying election officials and law enforcers in Baghaichhari…
BD Home minister defends ‘crossfire’ deaths
Dhaka, Mar 9 (UNB) – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Saturday defended deaths during alleged crossfires, saying law enforcement agencies only fire in self-defence during anti-drug drives. “Many civil society members criticise the law enforcement agencies and accuse them of…
Buriganga River boat capsize: Woman’s body recovered
Keraniganj, Mar 8 (UNB) – The body of a woman, who went missing along with five other members of her family following a boat capsize in the Buriganga River in the city’s Sadarghat area on Thursday, was recovered from the…
Boat sinks in Dhaka’s Buriganga River: 6 of a family missing
Keraniganj, Mar 7 (UNB) – Six members of a family went missing when a boat capsized in the Buriganga River after being hit by a launch in the city’s Sadarghat area on Thursday night. The boat sank near the Sadarghat…
India-Pakistan fighting kills 6 civilians, 2 Pakistan troops
Srinagar, Mar 2 (AP/UNB) — Indian and Pakistani soldiers again targeted each other’s posts and villages along their volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir, killing at least six civilians and two Pakistani troops, officials said Saturday. Tensions have been running high…
BCL activist stabbed dead in Gazipur
Gazipur, Mar 2 (UNB) – An activist of Bangladseh Chhatra League(BCL) was stabbed to death by rivals in Boran Munshi Para road area in Tongi on Friday night over a cricket match. The deceased was identified as Prince Mahmud Nahid,…
Ekushey Award winner Polan Sarkar passes away
Ekushey Padak winner Palan Sarker, who was promoting the reading books of his locality by walking to villages after village has passed away at his home on Friday in Rajshahi.
Dhaka South City Corpn cuts off utility lines to warehouses
Dhaka, Feb 28 – Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) authorities in separate drive cut off utility lines of 23 chemical warehouse and factories of Islambagh and Shahidnagar area of old Dhaka yesterday in the aftermath of deadly Chawkbazar fire that…
PIB DG Shah Alamgir dies
Dhaka, Feb 28 (UNB) – Director General (DG) of the Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) and senior journalist Shah Alamgir passed away at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) here on Thursday. He was 62. Shah Alamgir breathed his last around…
Police say Indian mortar shells kills 6 civilians in Kashmir
Pakistan, Feb 27 (AP/UNB) — Pakistani police say mortar shells fired by Indian troops from across the frontier in the Himalayan region of Kashmir have struck homes, killing six civilians and wounding several others amid increasing tensions between the two…
Two killed, houses razed in BD localised Nor’Westers
Dhaka, Feb 26 – An elderly man was killed in hailstorm in Satkhira while another man died in a lightning strike in Brahmanbaria as localised storms struck during transition of season on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Zamshed Ali,…
2 physicians among three killed in Khulna road crash
Khulna, Feb 25 (UNB) – Three people, including two physicians, were killed when a bus hit a private car on Khulna-Jashore road in Phultola Upazila on Monday. The deceased were identified as Shahadat Hossain, 62, a retired physician of Phultala…
Sheriff: 2 bodies recovered from Texas plane crash site
Anahuac, Feb 25 (AP/UNB) — A southeast Texas sheriff said Sunday that two bodies have been recovered at the site where a Boeing 767 cargo plane crashed into a coastal bay. All three people aboard the Flight 3591 died, according…
Suspected drug trader killed in Joypurhat ‘gunfight’
Joypurhat, Feb 25 – A suspected drug trader was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with the members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Taushara in Khetlal Upazila early Monday. The deceased was identified as Tofazzal Hossain alias Wazed, 37, son of…
Bahrain contractor’s move to stop migrant worker suicides
karim.gfbtu@gmail.com via list.jca.apc.org A Bahraini employer has taken the lead in initiating programmes to help workers lead a stress-free life in the wake of a rising number of expat suicides. Waheed Al Ansari, owner of Areena Contracting that employs 1,000…
No one can avoid liability for Chawkbazar tragedy: Quader
Dhaka, Feb 22 (UNB) – The government will not let anyone responsible for the Chawkbazar get fire off the hook, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said on Friday. A fire broke out at a Chawkbazar building where chemicals…
6 killed in ‘gunfights’ across Bangladesh
Dhaka, Jan 22 (UNB) – Six people, including a Rohingya youth, were killed in alleged gunfights with law enforcement agencies in Dhaka, Cox’s Bazar, Mymensingh, Khulna and Cumilla. In Dhaka, suspected drug trader Hazrat Ali was killed in a skirmish…
Officials say, 67 killed in Chawkbazar chemical warehouse fire
Dhaka, Feb 21 (UNB) – At least 67 people were killed and around 41 others injured in a devastating fire that broke out at a chemical warehouse and raged through four other adjacent buildings in the city’s Chawkbazar area on…
RU student dies of kidney ailments
Rajshahi, Feb 21 – An English department student of Rajshahi University (RU) died on Wednesday night at Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH). He died of kidney disease. The deceased was identified as Junayed Rijbi, a third year student of…
Death toll in old Dhaka chemical warehouse 81
Dhaka, Feb 21 (UNB) – At least 81 people were killed and around 41 others injured in a devastating fire that broke out at a chemical warehouse and raged through four other adjacent buildings in the city’s Chawkbazar area on…
Three suspected drug traders killed in ‘gunfights’
Dhaka, Feb 20 – Three suspected drug traders were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ in the capital, Cox’s Bazar and Benapole early Wednesday. Of them, two ‘drug traders’ were killed in separate ‘gunfights’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) and…
Two under-5 Bd children die of Pneumonia every hour: Report
Dhaka, Feb 19 (UNB) – The burden of Pneumonia in Bangladesh is one of the leading killers of children under 5 years of age as the deadly disease took the lives of over 16,960 under-five children in 2016, which is…
Scientist who popularized term ‘global warming’ dies at 87
New York, Feb 19 (AP/UNB) — A scientist who raised early alarms about climate change and popularized the term “global warming” has died. Wallace Smith Broecker was 87. The longtime Columbia University professor and researcher died Monday at a New…