Barishal, Feb 18 – Thirty-three bodies of premature babies were found in a dustbin of Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital here on Monday night, sending shock waves across the city. Conservancy workers of Barisal City Corporation recovered the bodies of the…
Thakurgaon, Feb 18 – The Director General (DG) of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) Major General Md Shafeenul Islam on Monday described the killings of three people in firing by the paramilitary force members at Bahrampur in Haripur Upazila here as…
Cumilla, Feb 17 (UNB) – At least five people were killed and 10 others injured when a bus crashed into a truck from backside on Dhaka-Chattogram highway at Gangrai in Chauddagram upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as…
Chattogram, Feb 17 (UNB) – At least nine people, including seven members of two families, were burned to death and several others injured as a deadly fire broke out at Bheramarket slum in Chaktai area early Sunday. Seven of the…
Dhaka, Feb 16 (UNB) – Al Mahmud, one of the major poets of modern Bengali literature who died on Friday night, will be laid to rest at his hometown, Brahmanbaria, on Sunday afternoon. “We’re taking my father’s body to Brahmanbaria.…
Dhaka, Feb 15 – Senior photojournalist Farhad Hossain died on Friday after a prolonged illness since 2011. He was 71. He left behind his wife Asia Begum, only son Ashik Mohammad, a host of relatives, friends, colleagues and well wishers…
War zone acts including denial of aid, damage to hospitals and outright attacks killed 100,000 babies every year in the world’s 10 worst conflict-affected countries, the international charity Save the Children said on the eve of Munich’s Security Conference. And,…
Dhaka, Feb 14 – Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal has said that the authorities concerned are inquiring the incident of killing three people by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) shooting at Thakurgaon’s Haripur recently. “No one is above the law. Action…
Dhaka, Feb 14 (UNB) – A total of 4,732 people were killed in 639 waterway accidents in the country over the last 42 years. State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury came up with the statistics in parliament while responding…
Dhaka, Feb 13 (UNB) – Condemning the killings of people by the members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in Thakurgaon’s Baharampur village, BNP on Wednesday demanded a neutral investigation into the incident. In a statement, party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul…
Thakurgaon, Feb 13 (UNB) – The local administration has formed a seven-member probe committee to investigate Tuesday’s clash between villagers and members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) that left three people dead and several injured. The probe body, headed by…
Dhaka, Feb 12 – A suspected robber was killed in a reported gunfight with police in Gopibagh Railgate area here early Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Shanto, 18. Being informed that a gang of robber was taking preparation to…
Dhaka, Feb 11 – Former Principal of Eden Mohila College Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin was found dead on Sunday. Autopsy confirmed that she was strangulated. Dr Sohel Mahmud, head of Forensic Department of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH), said Monday, two…
Khulna, Feb 11 – Five leaders and activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League and Juba League were killed in a collision between a truck and a private car on Rupsha bridge bypass road at Harintala in the city on Sunday night.…
Paris, Feb 11 (AP/UNB) — On a day of mourning for Emiliano Sala, Nantes players walked onto the field dressed all in black with Sala’s name on their backs as the crowd chanted for him over and over again. “La…
Dhaka, Feb 10 (UNB) – Mahfuza Chowdhury Parvin, former principal of Eden Mohila College, was found dead at her residence in the city’s Elephant Road area on Sunday. Police recovered the body from her apartment at Sukanya Tower at night,…
New Delhi, Feb 10 (Xinhua/UNB) — The death toll due to consumption of illicit liquor in northern India has risen to 72, officials has said. According to officials, in Saharanpur district of Uttar Pradesh 36 deaths have taken place owing…
Noakhali, Feb 9 – A suspected thief was killed in a lynch mob-attack at Char Uria village in Sadar Upazila early Saturday. The identity of the deceased could not be known yet. Anwar Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said…
Munshiganj, Feb 9 (UNB) –Three women, including two siblings, died after taking excessive liquor at Hosendi in Gazaria upazila on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Chameli, wife of Mantu, her sister Chaina and their aunt Josna, of Sundarganj upazila…
Noakhali, Feb 8 (UNB) – Three army personnel were killed and nine others injured in a road accident in Subarnachar upazila here on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as sepoys Mamun, Foyez and Firoz of the Engineer Corp-21 of…
London, Feb 8 (AP/UNB) — More than two weeks after the plane carrying Emiliano Sala to a new career in the English Premier League crashed into the sea, police confirmed Thursday that the body recovered from the wreckage was the…
Bogra, Feb 06 – A female assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Dhunat Police Station reportedly poisoned herself in an apparent suicide Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Rozina Khatun (30), assistant sub-inspector of Dhunat Police Station and daughter of Nannu Mia…
Savar, Feb 7 (UNB) – A madrasah student and an unidentified man died as a boat capsized in the Turag River here on Thursday afternoon. The madrasah student was identified as Towhidur Rahman, 11. Atiqur Rahman Khan Shanta, chairman of…
Gopalganj, Feb 5 (UNB) – A bank official and a woman were killed and 20 others injured after a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in the Sadar Upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased are Nurul Islam, 40, son of…
Chattogram, Feb 03 (UNB) – At least four people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a microbus on Chattogram-Cox’s Bazar highway at Bhaer Dighi village in Patiya upazila on Sunday. The identities…
Gazipur, Feb 03 – A truck driver and his helper were killed as the vehicle collided head-on with a covered van on Dhaka-Tangail Highway at Naotana area in Kaliganj Upazila on Saturday night. The identities of the deceased could not…
Dhaka, Jan 31 (UNB) – Six people were murdered everyday on average in the first month of the new year, the Bangladesh Human Rights Commission (BHRC) said on Thursday. A BHRC report documented 185 killings in January alone. ‘Social violence’…
Savar, Jan 29 (UNB) – Three brick kilns workers and a truck driver, were killed as a truck plunged into in a roadside ditch in Ashulia Boro Bridge area near Bypail-Abdullahpur highway early Tuesday. The deceased were identified as workers…
Report unilateral, did not mention ATC’s fault, says Bangladesh official Dhaka, Jan 28 – The US-Bangla Airlines aircraft was misaligned with the runway and its pilot was disoriented and tried to land in “sheer desperation” when it crashed last year…
Paris, Jan 27 (AP/UNB) — Oscar-winning composer and pianist Michel Legrand, whose hits included the score for the ’60s romance “The Umbrellas of Cherbourg” and the song “The Windmills of Your Mind” and who worked with some of biggest singers…