Jahangirnagar University (JU) Administrative Officer Mahtab-ud-Zahid testified on Tuesday to Dhaka’s Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 in the case filed for the killing of JU student Zubair Ahmed. Judge ABM Nizamul Haque of the tribunal recorded the depositions of the witness and…
Five policemen were injured as a truck collided head-on with a pickup van carrying them at Beltoli in Sadar Dakshin upazila on Tuesday morning.
The Election Commission has informed the Prime Minister about alleged violation of code of conduct by Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu during the fourth phase of the Upazila Parishad elections. EC Joint Secretary Jesmin Tuli told journalists on Monday of…
A truck driver and his helper were killed as their vehicle plunged into a roadside ditch at Raipur in Daudkandi upazila on Monday morning.
A total of 10 chairman candidates, mostly backed by BNP, boycotted the upazila elections in Bhola, Barisal, Chittagong, Pirojpur and Jessore districts on Sunday on various allegations. In Bhola, four candidates — BNP-backed Samsuddin Bachchu Chowdhury in Manpura, Zahurul Islam…
A fire broke out at the multi-storey shopping mall ‘Multiplan Centre’ at Elephant Road in the city on Saturday night.
A veteran freedom fighter was killed and another six persons including three women were injured in a road mishap in Lebutala-Rajapur area on Jessore-Magura Highway in Sadar upazila here on Friday.
A mobile court here on Friday sealed off three illegal water factories and punished 15 people for producing and marketing substandard drinking water which is harmful to public health.
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized contraband Indian sarees worth Tk 2 crore from Sadipur border here on Friday.
A farmer was killed in a clash over irrigating a cropland at Nagua village in Tarakanda upazila on Friday.
At least 50 people, including some Dhaka University students, were injured as a picnic bus collided head on with a truck at Ashulia on Dhaka-Aricha highway on Friday morning.
Police recovered 500 crude bombs from an abandoned house in Fulgazi upazila on Wednesday night.
A court here on Wednesday sentenced a young man to life term imprisonment for violating a dumb girl in Mohra area of the city in 2008.
A farmer died from electrocution at Duttabari in the municipality area on Wednesday afternoon.
A couple was killed in a road accident in Bihar area on the Bogra-Rangpur Highway under Shibganj upazila of the district Wednesday night.
A couple has been missing since a motorised boat sank during a storm in Rangamati’s Kaptai Lake on Wednesday afternoon. Boatman Biton Chakma, however, had a narrow escape. He has been admitted to the Rangamati General Hospital, said Kotwali Police…
A man was killed in a road accident at Alipur Hatkhola intersection on the Satkhira-Kaliganj Road in Sadar upazila on Tuesday noon.
A young man was killed and another person injured after falling from the roof of a running bus at Abdullahpur in Keraniganj upazila on Tuesday.
A motorcyclist was killed and his co-rider injured as a truck hit their vehicle on the Nageshwari-Phulbari Road at Chottabari More in Phulbari upazila on Tuesday afternoon.
Two villages under Shaghata upazila in the district were brought under rural electrification network by Gaibandha Palli Bidyut Samity (GPBS) recently.
A schoolgirl was killed as a covered van crushed down her near Bagur Bus Terminal on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Chandina upazila on Tuesday morning.
At least four shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Shilasthan Miaji Bazar in Kachua upazila early Monday.
A young man was crushed to death by a train at Mohonpur rail crossing under Matihar thana in the city on Monday afternoon.
The first meeting under the Trade and Investment Cooperation Forum Agreement (Ticfa) between Dhaka and Washington will be held in the last week of April next, said an official on Monday. “The meeting will be held in the last week…
An inmate of the Kashimpur High Security Jail died of cardiac arrest, authorities have claimed. Doctors pronounced Md Jamal Uddin Mridha, 33, dead after he was rushed to a Gazipur hospital on Monday. Jail Superintendent Abdur Razzak said Mridha was…
Three women were killed and five others injured when a gas cylinder exploded in a microbus at Chittagong’s Fatikchharhi on Monday. Police and fire fighters had initially reported four casualties. Bhujpur Police OC Md Kabir Hossain later told journalists there…
Three cloth stores burnt down in a fire incident that took place in New Market area of the district town early Monday.
A man and his son were killed in a road accident in Bala Bazar area on the Chandpur-Shariatpur Highway in Sadar upazila on Monday morning.
At least 15 shops and five houses were gutted by a fire that broke out in Borobazar area of the district town on Sunday night.
An assistant presiding officer was killed as a tractor rammed his motorcycle at Jhalua in Nandail upazila on Saturday night.