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
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
Bangladesh Bank Governor Ahsan H Mansur has criticised the tendency to vote for “symbols” rather than carefully evaluating candidates in elections. “In that case we are obviously creating conditions for an autocrat to emerge,” said Mansur The culture of voting by “
