Authorities of Bangladesh Railway’s (BR) east zone have closed down 46 of the 228 railway stations due to severe workforce shortage. This has resulted in delays of over 30 minutes on different routes of the zone.
The probe committee formed by Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) to investigate the devastating fire and explosion at Sitakunda’s BM Container Depot last month could not ascertain the source or specific reason behind the fire.
Ashikur Rahman (28) was returning home for Eid after taking treatment at a Dhaka hospital. But little did he know that he’ll never reach his destination.
A boy was found dead in a Buddhist monastery in Abdullahpur South Baruapara in Chattogram yesterday.
BNP will stage protest across the country tomorrow as the party did not to get permission for holding a rally in Dhaka.
Some 250 aspiring students of Teesta KR Khadem High School and Mostofihat High School in Lalmonirhat sadar upazila took part in a daylong English Language Fair yesterday.
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Rainwater can be a potential alternative source for tackling acute water crisis faced by rural and urban people, said experts yesterday.
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A day labourer was electrocuted at Satkania Upazila in Chittagong yesterday.
The deceased was identified as Sadek Hossain, 25, son of Abdul Karim of the upazila's Kerani Haat area.
Sub-Inspector Abdul Salam Munshi of Satkania Police Station said Sadek was cutting the branches of a tree owned by Abdus Salam in the Kerani Haat area around 10:00am.
He was electrocuted when he fell onto utility wires after the tree branch on which he was standing snapped, he said.
Sadek was rushed to a local hospital where doctors declared him dead, he added.
An unnatural death case was filed with Satkania Police Station in this connection.
Dhaka and its adjacent areas are likely to experience showers in a day or two.
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A man repairs a fishing net in Bridge Ghat area of Firingi Bazar in Chittagong city. He is among the thousand people who are repairing nets in the area every day at a charge of Tk 220-300. Simultaneously, the nets are being produced here at a fast pace with expectations of better catch this fishing season. The photo was taken on Tuesday. Photo: Prabir Das
An informer of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was killed allegedly by unidentified miscreants at Jhumjhumpur in Jessore town last night.
The victim was Ziauddin, son of Shahjahan Ali of Sadipur in Kushtia district.
Locals said the miscreants stabbed Zia near local BGB School around 10:00pm on his way to a local bazar from his Jhumjhumpur home, leaving him critically injured.
He was taken to Jessore General Hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
Zia is believed to have been killed for giving information about smugglers to the law enforcers, police said.
Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge Abdul Jalil said they launched an investigation to identify the killers.
Eleven years have passed with the cases filed over a bomb attack, carried out on this day on the Awami League office in Chashara of Narayanganj that left 20 people dead, still awaiting the submission of the charge-sheet.
The charge-sheet will soon be submitted to the court, hoped Criminal Investigation Department's (CID) Narayanganj Assistant Superintendent of Police Ehsan Uddin Chowdhury yesterday.
The attack also left 100 people injured, including former AL lawmaker Shamim Osman.
CID accuses some 15 people for the attack including banned militant outfit Harkatul Jihad al Islami leaders Mufti Hannan and brothers Mohibul Muttakim and Anisul Morsalin, arrested in Delhi, and BNP leader Abdus Salam Pintu.
Four leaders of BNP's front organisations were shown arrested yesterday in a case filed after a driver, Badar Ali Beg, was burnt alive when his bus was set alight in the capital's Khilgaon on April 21.
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A rickshaw-puller was crushed under the wheel of train at Bidirpur in Chapainawabganj yesterday.
The victim is Sumon Ali, 25, a rickshaw puller and son of Solaiman Ali of Bidirpur mohalla in the town.
Railway police said a Rohanpur-bound Mohananda Express from the district town crushed Sumon when he was asleep on the railway track near his house around 1:00am.
Railway police recovered the body around 9:00am yesterday.
An unnatural death (UD) case was filed with Amnura GRP Station in this connection.
A flash storm wrecked havoc in Lalmonirhat district on Thursday night, leaving some 15 people injured and flattening around 350 semi-concrete and tin homes and partially damaging around 3,500 others, said the district administration.
Starting from around 10:00pm, the 30-minute rainstorm accompanied by gale-force winds uprooted some 1,000 trees of 30 villages in Lalmonirhat sadar, Aditmari, Kaligo and Hatibandha upazilas.
