Two motorcyclists were killed in a head-on collision with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Sunamganj yesterday morning.

The accident occurred around 8:30pm in front of the Livestock Research Office in Panchbaria, said Jashore Kotwali Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Abdur Razzak.

The incident occurred around 11:30am when Rajan was playing near a large stove used for boiling rice in the courtyard of his house, said his mother, Parveen Begum.

Electricity has been restored in Building 7, which had remained closed for 11 days, but water supply remains unavailable, delaying the resumption of full office operations, officials said today.

The number of road crashes and fatalities in Bangladesh increased last year, with motorcycle-related incidents accounting for nearly one-third of all crashes and casualties, according to the Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samity.

The grim tally of road crashes and fatalities in Bangladesh in 2024 paints a harrowing picture. These staggering numbers are more than statistics; they are a wake-up call for a nation grappling with a systemic road safety crisis

The number of road accident casualties in Sylhet division rose in December compared to November 2024, according to a report of Nirapad Sarak Chai (Nischa), Sylhet

Three people, including a primary school teacher, were killed in separate road accidents in Pirganj and Sadar upazilas of Thakurgaon last night and today

The body of a rickshaw puller was found in a sack at Faridpur's Model Town around 1:30pm today, four days after he went missing

A week after a deadly accident on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway, four more people died in two road crashes on the expressway in Munshiganj early yesterday.

According to police and locals, Nurul was heading towards Jhikargachha on a motorcycle around 9:00pm. When he reached the Beneali area, he collided head-on with a bus coming from the opposite direction.

Two people were killed when a minibus hit a covered van on Dhaka-Mawa Expressway in ​​Srinagar upazila of Munshiganj early today

A motorcyclist died while his pillion rider was injured when their motorbike collided head-on with a bus in the Bhurghata area of Gournadi upazila, Barishal, this morning

Police have seized the bus

The truck driver fled the scene with the vehicle

Three people were killed and six others were injured yesterday in separate road accidents in Narayanganj’s Rupganj upazila.

The deceased, identified as Ishtiak, was a student at St Joseph High School in the upazila's Bonpara area

Eight-year-old Farhan was admitted to the hospital with 15 percent burn on the body

Four workers were killed, and three others critically injured in a cylinder explosion at an under-construction factory of Akij Group in Habiganj’s Bahubal upazila yesterday.

Family members and locals said the sisters were playing on a bank of a pond