Two people were killed and three others injured when a truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Paltan intersection in the city early Thursday. Among the deceased, one was identified as Alim, driver of the auto-rickshaw and son of Jahirul…
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SSMC interns call strike off
Interns at Sir Salimullah Medical College and Mitford Hospital called off their strike on Wednesday night. The interns made the announcement around 8:15pm following the intervention of local MP Haji Mohammad Selim and Bangladesh Medical Association secretary general Iqbal Arsalan.
Fire at Otobi furniture factory
A fire has broken out at furniture-maker Otobi’s factory at Savar on the outskirts of capital Dhaka. Fire Service control room official Md Ali told journalists the fire started around 9:45pm on Tuesday at the factory at Birulia Union’s Khagan…
Terrorism, militancy brought under control, says IGP
Inspector General of Police (IGP) Hasan Mahmud Khandker on Monday said terrorism and militancy have been brought under control thanks to the law enforcing agencies acting effectively to curb such activity. The IGP made the remark while addressing the opening…
Sohel Rana living in luxury behind bars: Khaleda
BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia has alleged that the owner of Rana Plaza is living in luxury behind bars. “That boy is having a good life in jail. That’s because he is an Awami League man. But our leaders have languished…
Body of one missing student out of 4 found in St Martin’s
The body of a missing student, out of four, of Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka, was found in the bay in the Saint Martin’s Island here on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Sabbir Hasan, 22, a…
BIRDEM doctors observe work stoppage to protest assault
Doctors of BIRDEM have stopped working in protest of an alleged assault by relatives of a patient who died in the hospital. In a press release on Tuesday, the doctors said they will not treat patients until the ‘attackers’ were…
Truck rams into Leguna kills 4 at Chandra
A truck rammed into a four-wheeler, ‘Leguna’, killing four passengers at Chandra of Gazipur’s Kaliakoir Upazila on Tuesday. Police said five more were injured in the accident in front of Chandra Forest Office on Dhaka-Tangail Highway at 8am.
3 die in Noakhali road mishap
Three people were killed and two ohers injured when a tractor hit an auto-rickshaw at Noakhali’s Companyganj. The accident occurred around 1am on Sunday in Rastar Matha area under Charkakra union, said Companyganj Police Station OC Sajedur Rahman. All those killed…
Agri Varsity expels 6 students after fellow murder
The Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU), Mymensingh, has expelled six students, including three leaders of the Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), for their suspected involvement in the killing of a student. The decision was taken at an emergency meeting of the university…
Another fake rice saline-making factory busted in city
A Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) mobile court on Monday unearthed another factory producing fake rice saline of icddr,b at North Badda in the city. The mobile court also sentenced the fake factory owner, his younger brother and three employees to…
Creativity must, President Tells DU convocation
President Abdul Hamid has told graduates that they need to be creative. Hamid was speaking at the 48th convocation of Dhaka University while he gave students this advice on Monday. He said getting a degree was not enough. “Your education…
Yet another gold haul in Chittagong
Customs officials have seized 53 gold bars from a passenger on transit at Chittagong’s Shah Amanat Airport. The contraband gold was found on Anis Chowdhury, 34 and it weighed more than 6 kgs, said Airport Customs Assistant Commissioner Moshiur Rahman…
Strike at RU protesting BCL leader’s death
Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL), Rajshahi University Unit, enforced a strike on the campus on Saturday protesting the killing of a leader and demanding arrest of the killers. Activists of BCL took position at important points on the campus since the…
Police seize 67 crude bombs in Feni
Police seized 67 crude bombs from a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Balugaon in Feni Municipality area on Friday night. The crude bomb seizure was made on the eve of Saturday’s by-polls to Feni Municipality.
Housewife beaten dead ‘by husband’ in Magura
A housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband at Jhama village in Mohammadpur upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Runa Khatun, 30, wife of Jahid Molla of the village. Quoting locals, Manirul Islam, officer-in-charge of Mohammadpur Police…
Maiden Ticfa meeting in April-end
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…
One killed as picnickers’ bus plunges into ditch
One person was killed and 15 others were injured as a bus carrying jute mill workers on a picnic plunged into a roadside ditch on the Dhaka-Jamalpur Highway at Haridrata in Sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as…
‘Locals’ torch Jagannath University banner
Locals in Potuatoli have destroyed a banner on Shaheed Ajmal Hossain Hall, minutes after it was put up by Jagannath University students agitating to reclaim occupied dormitories. Students said the vandals are working for ‘influential illegal occupants.’ The area is tense…
Bangladeshi boss of TV in UK jailed
The founder of a television station for Britain’s Bangladeshi community has been jailed for three years over a crash-for-cash insurance scam. Mohammed Ferdhaus, 40, admitted to laundering half a million pounds from a scam operated by his brother, Mohammed Samsul…
Execution of 3 Bangladeshis held up in UAE
Dhaka – The United Arab Emirates (UAE) authorities have postponed the execution of death sentence of three Bangladesh nationals. The death penalties were scheduled to be executed on January 22 in Sharjah, said a Foreign Ministry media release here Thursday.
Four Bangladeshi men arrested after raid on UK restaurant
FOUR men from Bangladesh were arrested after a UK Border Agency (UKBA) raid on a Cwmbran restaurant on Sunday evening. A spokesman for UKBA said the raid targeted “illegal working” at Tiffins Indian Buffet Restaurant on Glyndwr Road, at around…
Eid-e-Miladunnabi observed in Faridpur
Eid-e-Miladunnabi, the day of birth as well as demise of Prophet Hazrat Muhammad(SM), according to Arabic calender was observed in Faridpur Tuesday with due religious fervor and solemnity as elsewhere across the country and the Islamic world.
8 burn to death in Sirajganj road crash
Sirajganj – Eight people were burnt to death as two vehicles caught fire following a road accident at Konabari in Kamarkhand upazila on Thursday night. The identities of the deceased could not be known yet.
‘Confrontation brings country to brink of civil war’
The Bangladesher Samyabadi Dal in a statement to the press on Thursday expressed its concern at the loss of life and property in blockade and hartal for several weeks. It blamed the government for its stubbornness in not accepting the…
6 shops gutted in Noakhali fire
Six business establishments were gutted and four others partially damaged by a fire at Sonapur Bazar in the district town on Friday.
Mohiuddin Chy has no plan to contest this time
Awami League senior leader ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury said he has no plans to contest the upcoming national election.
4 outlaws held with arms in Jhenidah
On Wednesday noon police arrested four outlaws with arms from Tetultala bazaar in Jhenidah sadar upazila.
Woman Phensidyl peddler held in Magura
Police in a drive arrested a female drug peddler while she was carrying 432 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup in Arpara Bazar area of Shalikha upazila on Saturday afternoon. The arrestee was identified as Zahura Akter Mary, a resident of…
Two brothers get death penalty in Manikganj
Additional District and Sessions Judge and Judge of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal-2 Md. Mafizur Rahman Bhuyan sentenced two persons to death for killing a woman in Manikganj. The Court handed down the verdict to Santash and his brother…