At least 30 student activists have been injured in clashes between Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) at Pabna’s Ishwardi. The clashes between the student fronts of Awami League and BNP that started from Railgate area on…
Comilla – An expatriate was beaten to death allegedly by Awami League men at Gakulnagar village in Muradnagar upazila on Friday after his refusal to pay them toll. The deceased was identified as Oman expatriate Jasim Uddin, 40, son of…
Nine police constables have been injured in Rajshahi when a vehicle carrying them was bombed on Thursday. Boalia Police Station OC Ziaur Rahman Zia said that the attack took place around 12pm at the city’s Rajarhata intersection.
Dhaka – The districts of Habiganj and Brahmanbaria have got new deputy commissioners at the order of the Election Commission.
Three people were murdered in separate incidents in Comilla and Cox’s Bazar districts on Tuesday and Monday night. In Comilla, muggers stabbed a Grameen Bank official to death at Sujanagar of the city on Tuesday noon. The victim was identified…
Three people were killed and 12 others injured as Jamaat-Shibir men clashed with cops in Halutti area of Sadar upazila during the countrywide daylong hartal enforced by Jamaat-e-Islami on Sunday.
An Awami League ward office has been set to fire in Bagerhat early on Saturday. Local AL leaders have blamed the Jamaat-e-Islami for the arson at Kachuya Upazila’s Shankharikatthi Bazaar.
Police arrested 44 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student body Islami Chhatra Shibir from different places of the district from Thursday night to Friday morning.
Comilla – An Islami Chhatra Shibir man was shot to death and 20 people, including cops, were injured in a clash between the Jamaat-Shibir men and law enforcers in Bipulasar Bazar area of Monaharganj upazila on Thursday evening.
A local Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader was shot to death by unidentified miscreants in the district town on Monday evening. The deceased was identified as Kobir Hosain Palash, 30, vice-president of the district unit JCD and son of Mohitul…
Kushtia – A BNP leader and union parishad chairman was shot to death by unidentified miscreants at Mahendrapur Bazar in Kumarkhali upazila on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Munshi Rashidur Rahman, 45, joint general secretary of Kumarkhali upazila unit…
At least 50 people have been injured in a clash between BNP and Awami League supporters at Chhatak Upazila in Sunamganj.
Shillong: Meghalaya is keen to set up 22 more border ‘haats’ (markets) along the India-Bangladesh border to create economic opportunities for the people living along it. The haats, once thriving centres of trade and commerce, were shut down after the…
Dhaka and the highways out of the capital were snowed under unusual volume of traffic since Friday morning following the end of six-day Opposition-backed blockade. Congestion slowed down traffic on the Dhaka-Chittagong and Dhaka-Tangail highways.
A light tremor jolted the country’s northern region on Wednesday afternoon. According to Met Office, the 4.5-magnitude quake shook the region, including Panchagarh, Rangpur, Dinajpur and Nilphamari districts, at 7:05pm.
Local BNP on Sunday called a non-stop hartal in Comilla-9 constituency (Laksam and Monaharganj upazilas) from Monday demanding the tracing of two party leaders, allegedly picked up by law enforcers.
At least 15 people, including an Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO), were injured in an attack by Opposition Jamaat activists in Jessore on Saturday, the first day of its 72-hour blockade throughout Bangladesh.
Local units of BNP on Tuesday called separate hartals in Comilla, Rajshahi, Sirajganj and Sylhet for Wednesday and Thursday. In Comilla, district (south) unit BNP will enforce an eight-hour hartal in the district on Thursday protesting the killing of auto-rickshaw…
Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here have asked the teachers for creating mass social awareness against the curable disease of tuberculosis that kills 70,000-people annually in Bangladesh.
Police in separate drives arrested 26 persons on various charges from different places of five upazilas in the district during the last 48 hours till this morning.
Police arrested two alleged robbers along with a few weapons after foiling a robbery bid at Sonapur in Raipur upazila early Thursday.
A labourer was killed and two others were injured as a truck loaded with sand overturned and fell into a ditch at Batarghat in Sadar upazila of the district on Tuesday.
A court here on Tuesday convicted seven people, including two siblings, and sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2004.
Mass awareness as well as preventive measures is very vital to cut the existing rate of childhood patients suffering from asthma and death caused by the disease.
Police rescued two schoolgirls from Barokheri village in Ramgati upazila on Tuesday morning, two days after their abduction from Alampur village in Sonagazi upazila of Feni district.
An old man was killed in an attack by rivals over a land dispute at Shiler Towa village in Lama upazila on Tuesday morning.
A farmer was chopped to death by his rivals over a land-related dispute at Bamandanga village in Rupsa upazila on Monday morning.
Police in a drive arrested 17 activists of BNP and Jamaat-Shibir from different areas of four upazilas of the district early Monday, on charge of subversion plan.
Police on Monday morning recovered the beheaded body of a man at a tea garden in Fatikchhari upazila.
A battery-run easy-bike driver was beaten to death by miscreants in Benapole town of the district on Monday.