Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said on Thursday they have seized 14 gold bars weighing around 1.630kg from Pachvulot border of Jashore's Sharsha upazila, reports UNB. Lieutenant Colonel Tanveer Ahmed, commander of the BGB-21 battalion, said tipped-off that a consignment of gold was
Although upgraded to a 50-bed hospital from a 31-bed facility in 2018, the Barlekha Upazila Health Complex in Moulvibazar district is still operating with its previous staff. Locals allege that the authorities have not allocated the necessary manpower. As a result, patients are forced to seek serv
More than 200,000 residents of salinity-hit Khulna's Dacope upazila have been grappling with a severe shortage of safe drinking water since the onset of the dry season. Long queues have become a common sight at shops selling purified open water, while some people are resorting to collecting water
Two people were killed and four others injured when a microbus overturned after being hit by a truck on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Cumilla's Daudkandi, police said. The accident took place at Shahidnagar in Daudkandi upazila of the highway at 8:30am on Sunday, reports UNB. The deceased were
Members of the Rapid Action Battalion have arrested a man with 1.26 kg of heroin in Chapainawabganj, reports UNB. The arrestee Ziakur, 50, of Shibganj upazila of the district was arrested from Langra Mor area of Charbagdanga union of Sadar upazila of the district on Thursday night, said a pr
A newly-built culvert in Chandpur district suddenly collapsed within 11 days of its construction. Locals said, ''In the afternoon on May 23, the culvert suddenly collapsed making a big sound.'' The culvert is located near Munshibari on Nandikhola-Bokchar Road in Matlab Dakhshin Upazila's Nayergao
BNP vice-chairman Abdullah Al Noman on Wednesday said they will start one-point movement soon to oust the incumbent government. "We (BNP) are yet to observe programmes like shutdown (hartal). We are still working on our 10-point demand movement which will soon be a single-point demand to topple th
A Rangpur court on Tuesday sentenced a Hindu man to 10 years in prison in a case over derogatory remarks about Islam and Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (PBUH) on Facebook around six years ago, reports UNB. The court of Rangpur Cyber Tribunal Judge Dr Abdul Majid also fined the convict Tk 50,000, said Pub
For the last couple of years, fruit-bagging technology has been promoted in mango orchards in Rajshahi region, including its vast Barind tract, commercially to protect mango from pest attack besides facilitating the farmers to get quality yield. Mango is the leading seasonal cash crop of the count
For the want of a concrete bridge over a wide canal lying between Ward no 5 and Ward no 6 in the Moidhyochar area of Nilkomol union in Chandpur’s Haimchar upazila, hundreds of people from Beparikandi, Maalkandi, Munshikandi, and Chairman Bazar areas have been relying on a bamboo-made bridge.
The pro-Awami League teachers' organisation Bangabandhu Shikkhak Parishad' formed a human chain at Jahangirnagar University (JU) to protest against the threat to kill Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. On Monday (May 22) at 12 pm, they held this human chain program on the road adjacent to Shahid Minar
Police recovered the body of a student of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Techno-logy (RUET) from a hostel in the city's Sadhur Mor area on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Samiur Rahman, a 17th batch student of Computer Science and Engineering (CSE) department of the universi
The future of Chandpur Paura Auditorium hangs in the balance as its construction work is yet to complete although long 15 years have already elapsed. The uncertain fate of the important infrastructure in the district town is holding back many important activities in the cultural arena here. Queri
