A man and his son were killed in a lightning strike in Nandail Upazila of Mymensingh. The incident took place on Sunday afternoon in Abdullahpur village of Kharua Union of the Upazila. The deceased were expatriate Golam Mostafa, 45, and his son Abdullah, 9. Mohammad Anwar Hossain, officer-in-cha
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members arrested a man from Konabari flyover area in Gazipur for his suspected involvement in the killing of his son in Hazaribagh area in the capital. The arrestee is Mustafizur Rahman Jewel, 44, according to a UNB report. RAB-10 Assistant Director (Media) ASP Shamim
A mobile court in Kushtia’s Kumarkhali upazila has sentenced two people to one month in jail for illegally extracting sand from the Padma River. The mobile court, led by Kumarkhali Upazila Assistant Commissioner (Land) Bijoy Kumar Joarder, conducted the drive in the Majgram and Kalyanpur are
Police have so far detained 14 accused, including two convicts, in connection with the recent attack, vandalism and clash at Patgram Police Station of Lalmonirhat district to snatch away the convicts from the police custody. Among those arrested are Belal Hossain and Sohel Rana, two stone quarry w
Two minor boys drowned while bathing in a pond in Deoliabari area of Gazipur City Corporation on Sunday. The deceased Junayed, 10, Abdul Momen, 11, were students of a local madrasa and lived with their parents at rented houses in the area. Locals said the boys went to the pond at around 11:00 am
Due to the rapid development of modern science and technology, mobile paddy grinding machines or rice mills, that used to be available in the rural haats and bazars on weekly haat days, are now available reaching the rural people's homes and yards in Chandpur district. Getting the service at hand,
The Forest Department has recovered the carcass of a wild elephant, apparently died from electrocution, near Katabari border area of Nalitabari upazila in Sherpur. Acting on information from locals, forest officials from the Madhutila Range under Sherpur Forest Division recovered the dead elephant
Two young men were killed after a bus hit their motorbike in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj district on Friday evening. The deceased were identified as Mahmudul Hasan, 31, son of Abdul Mannan from Bohori village in Matlab South upazila of Chandpur, and Mehedi Hasan, 30, a resident of Kashimpur vill
Two people died after a bus veered out of control and fell into a roadside ditch in Cox's Bazar's Chakaria Upazila. The accident took place around midnight on Thursday in Harbang Union's Goyalmara, according to Chiringa Highway Police Station chief Ariful Amin, as per a bdnews24.com report. Polic
More than 50 shops, including 10 jewelry outlets, were gutted in a devastating fire at Muripatti of Madhabdi Bazar in Narsingdi district Friday morning. Witnesses said the fire erupted from one of the shops around 5 am and spread fast engulfing adjacent shops within a short time. Seeing this, an
Two people have been killed in a motorcycle accident, and another has died after falling from a van in Chuadanga's Alamdanga Upazila. The accidents occurred near the Alamdanga Microbus Stand and Nowdapara late on Thursday night, according to the local police station chief Masudur Rahman. The vict
Three people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Pabna Highway in Santhia upazila of Pabna district on Friday morning, said police. Two of the deceased were identified as Abed Ali, 37, son of late Hashem Molla of Shantipur area under Sujanaga
Fisheries Department, Gopalganj has taken a programme of pearl cultivation on an experimental basis in the district recently. According to the District Fisheries Office sources, a total of 20 pearl cultivators are involved in the programme. They started the cultivation one year back and by this
