Three people, including a university student, were killed in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a battery-run auto-rickshaw in Puthia upazila of Rajshahi. The deceased student was identified as Shanto Islam, a student of the Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) department at Ba
A young man has died after suffering burn injuries in a gas fire at a flat in the capital’s Mugda. He died around 1:30pm on Monday at the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery in Dhaka, police said. The victim, 30-year-old Ujjal Hossain, lived in a rented flat in Mugda. He is origi
The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) will set up the country’s first Defence Industrial Zone in Mirsarai, Chattogram, to produce military equipment for domestic use and export. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Investment Promotion Agency (IPA) on Monday, chaired by Chief
A total of 4,05,164 Bangladeshi expatriates cast their votes through postal ballot as of 1:30 pm on Monday, according to the Election Commission. Among them, 3,44,993 voters submitted their ballots at post offices or ballot boxes in their respective countries. Meanwhile, 19,388 ballots were cast w
International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) Chief Prosecutor Tajul Islam has said no state official or employee is obligated to obey any unlawful order issued by the government. He made the remarks on Monday afternoon after the ICT delivered its verdict against eight policemen over the killing of six peop
