Construction works for a bridge over the Chhora River - long demanded by students and workers in the Surma tea garden area in Madhabpur Upazila - remain incomplete for years. The earthen access route at one side of the bridge - which enabled some people to use the structure in the absence of a con
A 20-year-old girl died when a truck knocked her down on the bypass road in Sadar upazila of Habiganj district on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Sujina Akter, daughter of Manik Mia of Najirpur village in the upazila, reports UNB. The accident occurred around 8:00 pm at the Poddarbar
A student of Chittagong University has been found dead at a flat in the port city in an apparent suicide. Omar Faruk Sumon, a student in the university’s Arabic Department from the 2021–22 session, was discovered hanging from a ceiling fan hook at a residence on Road No. 5 in the Khuls
The interim government has passed two ordinances relating to the country's forest, biodiversity, and wildlife protection. These are "Forest and Tree Conservation Ordinance 2025" and "Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Ordinance 2025". The approval was given at a meeting of the Council of Adviser
SYLHET, Dec 04: A total of 24 buildings considered to be highly vulnerable in Sylhet city would soon be demolished, official sources said. These structures have remained in a dilapidated condition for a long period of time, although these were earlier marked as vulnerable to earthquake. Related i
A court in Pabna has sent a woman to jail on charges of killing eight puppies in Ishwardi upazila. The accused, Nishi Rahman, is the wife of an official at the Small Farmers Development Foundation (SFDF) in the area. She was produced before the Senior Judicial Magistrate Court-1 on Wednesday arou
A man was killed in a road accident at Banoful intersection in Nilphamari district town on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Shawkat Ali, 68, son of Jasim Uddin, of East Kukhapara in the town. Ali was the night guard of a market, reports BSS. The accident took place on the Nilphamari-Said
A young man was killed on Wednesday after being run over by a train in the Daulatpur rail gate area of Khulna city. Police said the victim, identified as Touhidur Rahman, 25, was crossing the railway line when a Khulna-bound passenger train from Chilahati hit him, killing him on the spot. Azad Ra
Locals have beaten three people including a “drug dealer” after an announcement of a robbery was made from a mosque in Manikganj. Those who are beaten are 27-year-old Arif, son of Dulal from Sultanpur village in Harirampur Upazila, Sagar, son of Afsar from Kalashi area in Sadar Upazila
Northern Bangladesh has begun to feel the first true grip of winter, with temperatures dipping to 13.5°C in Lalmonirhat on Tuesday, signalling a sharper seasonal shift for residents accustomed to early December's milder chill. Between 6 am and 9 am, the Kurigram Weather Observatory recorded th
Three people were killed and seven others injured when a truck crashed into a bus on Dhaka-Bhanga Expressway over Arial Khan Bridge in Shibchar upazila of Madaripur district on Tuesday. One of the deceased was identified as Munir Sheikh, 35, of Najirpur upazila in Pirojpur district. Md Sabuj, ser
CHANDPUR, Dec 01: More than a hundred marginal farmers of Hajiganj Upazila's Badarpur remain in acute poverty as they are unable to utilise 200 acres of their farmland since 2016 due to waterlogging. Water could not be drained from their land as a culvert under a village road was blocked with soil
COX'S BAZAR, Dec 01: After a nine-month closure, movement of vessels transporting tourists resumed on the Cox's Bazar-Saint Martin's route on Monday (December 1). Cruise ships MV Bar Aulia, MV Karnaphuli and Keary Sindabad set off for Saint Martin's Island from the Nuniarachara BIWTA jetty in Cox'
