Two people were killed and two others injured when a CNG-run auto-rickshaw crashed into a road divider while taking a U-turn in Tejgaon Industrial area of the capital on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Alim, 48, a CNG driver and passenger Harunur Rashid, 32, of Kishoreganj district,
Police recovered the hanging body of a nurse from a house at Hossaini Dalan area in the Old part of Dhaka on Thursday night. The deceased identified as Nahida Akter Bobi (29) had also left a chit (beside her body) seeking justice against her husband and in-laws. She had served as a nurse at the B
A total of 447 people were killed and 1,181 others injured in 448 road accidents across Bangladesh in February, said Bangladesh Jatri Kalyan Samiti (BJKS) on Friday. BJKS Secretary General Mohammad Mozammel Haque Chowdhury in a statement issued on Friday said that in addition to road crashes, 34 r
Ten people, including women and children, suffered burn injuries in an explosion caused by a gas leak from a cylinder at a house in the capital's Uttara area early Friday. All the injured have been admitted to the National Institute of Burn and Plastic Surgery, hospital authorities said. The inju
Today is the historic Seventh March, a seminal date in Bangladesh's road to independence. On this day in 1971, a crowd estimated at several lakhs gathered at the then-Racecourse Maidan in Dhaka (today's Suhrawardy Uddyan) to hear ‘Bangabandhu’ Sheikh Mujibur Rahman deliver a clarion cal
