A 50-year-old woman was killed and three others injured when a microbus crashed into an auto-rickshaw on the Dhaka-Mawa Expressway at Ompara in Sreenagar upazila of Munshiganj district on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Zobaida Begum, wife of Ekhlas Uddin of Baroikhali Shibrampur are
Workers of a garment factory staged a demonstration in front of PN Composite Ltd at Ambagh in Konabari, Gazipur on Tuesday, protesting the sudden closure of the factory. “The authorities hung a closure notice on the main gate on Monday evening. When workers arrived for duty on Tuesday mornin
A police constable has been accused of entering a flat in Barishal and beating Asian TV's Barishal bureau chief, Firoz Mostafa, with a hammer. The incident took place on Monday night at his rented home on Gorachand Das Road, according to Barishal Kotwali Model Police Station chief (OC) Al Mamun Ul
India's decision to ease stricter rules on pilot rest following a wave of flight cancellations by the country's largest carrier should be reversed due to the adverse effect of fatigue on safety, the head of global pilot union group IFALPA said. IndiGo, which controls about 65 percent of India's do
India's aviation regulator has ordered crisis-hit IndiGo to cut its number of planned flights by 5 percent to stabilise its operations. In a notice dated on Monday but disclosed on Tuesday, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation asked IndiGo to submit a revised schedule by Wednesday.
Two Chinese men are in custody for allegedly smuggling Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China, the US Justice Department said on Monday, as President Donald Trump gave the green light for Nvidia to export its H200 chips to Beijing. Prosecutors allege that Fanyue Gong, 43, a Chinese citizen living in
Before the deadly landslides and floods hit Indonesia about two weeks ago, Amran Siagian, 39, frequently met Tapanuli orangutans on a hill in the region of Sipirok, North Sumatra province. Siagian, who has been working as a ranger to protect the endangered animal at the Orangutan Information Cente
Members of the Armed Police Battalion (APBn) believe that a policeman whose body was recovered in Chattogram died by suicide. Deepak Jyoti Khisha, superintendent of police for RAB-9, said law enforcers initially suspect that 25-year-old Nayeem Biswas hanged himself. The cause of death will be conf
A month after students from Dhaka College and Ideal College brokered a “peace pact”, the two sides have clashed again. A dispute on Tuesday over arguments and a scuffle eventually escalated to the vandalism of buses. Since then, the two sides have been engaging in back-and-forth chase
BNP Acting Chairman Tarique Rahman on Tuesday said his party is ready to lead a fresh strong and comprehensive drive against corruption if voted to power as graft has become deeply rooted in Bangladesh and continues to disrupt the daily lives of millions of people. “Fighting corruption
Robi Axiata PLC has introduced eco-friendly Robi Super Bikes for its field staff to support sustainable mobility and strengthen digital service delivery across rural Bangladesh. The electric bikes, designed for the company’s field staff, aim to ensure faster, greener, and more efficient cust
Australia is set to become the first country to implement a minimum age for social media use on Wednesday, with platforms like Instagram, TikTok and YouTube forced to block more than a million accounts, marking the beginning of an expected global wave of regulation. From midnight (1300 GMT), 10 of
