The inhabitants of the Ashrayon Prokolpo, established by the LGED for landless families, have been suffering much due to its location on low land and lack of road link. The families living in the project area located at Sridhampur under Bodolpur union of Ajmiriganj upazila in Habiganj district hav
A 40-year-old man was killed and three others injured in a head-on collision between two motorbikes on Magura-Jhenaidah road at Choto Bridge in Magura district town on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Sumon Kumar Sen, 40 of Hazrapur area, reports UNB. The accident occurred around 7
Two motorcyclists were killed as a passenger bus knocked down their motorcycle in Kalihati upazila of Tangail district on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Ismail Hossain, 55, and Masudur Rahman Mojumder, 54. They used to work at a NGO. Sub-Inspector at Bangabandhu East Thana Liton Mia s
A-54-year old man was killed and two others were injured in a road accident at Harishpur of Natore in the early hours of Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Ayub Khan, 54, resident of Sathiya under Pabna district, reports UNB. Sadar Police Station inspector (investigation) Abul Kalam said t
Two people were killed as a motorbike crashed into a truck on the Sylhet-Bholaganj highway at Salutikar early Sunday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Jalalbad UP chairman Obaidullah Ishaq, and M Hafizur Rashid, joint general secretary of district unit Chhatra Dal and a businessm
A 45-year-old journalist died after allegedly being run over by a speeding truck in Lalmonirhat's Aditmari Upazila on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Yunus Ali, president of Lalmonirhat Reporters Unity. He was also a Lalmonirhat correspondent of Somoyer Konthosor and Swadesh Pratidin, acc
A baghair (deveil catfish or Gangetic goonch) weighing over 79-kg fish was sold at Tk 60, 000 in Sylhet’s Kanaighat upazila on Saturday. The fish was caught from the bordering Lova River in Laxmiprasad East Union of the upazila around 3:00 pm on Saturday, reports UNB. Abdullah, Ahmed Hossai
Inhabitants of various upazilas of Sunamganj district have been facing problem due to the poor state of the Jamalganj connecting road from the district town for long. Potholes have been developed in the 19-km road from Kathoir point on the Sylhet-Sunamganj highway to Jamalganj upazila headquarters
A trader, who was bitten by a snake, died due to alleged negligence by physicians in Lalpur upazila of Natore on Thursday night, his family said. Mahbub, 27, was a resident of Ramandapur village under the upazila and had a small business at a local bazar. Family members said a poisonous snake bit
Two young girls reportedly died by suicide in their respective houses in Sripur upazila of Magura district on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Mithila, 13, a class 7 student of Kajli Sarangdia Girls School and daughter of Siddique Biswas of Amtoil village, died by hanging herself from the cei
Two people including a woman were killed as a speeding bus crashed into a motorbike on Dhaka-Khulna Highway in front of Magura Sadar Hospital on Monday afternoon. The deceased were Anwar Hossain, 50, of Atharkhada village of Magura Sadar upazila, and Rokeya Begum, 60, of Urura village in Mohammadp
A woman and her son were killed after being hit by a speeding private car while crossing a road in Sylhet's Osmaninagar upazila on Sunday night. The accident occurred in front of VARD Eye Hospital in the Tajpur area on Sylhet-Dhaka highway around 8:30 pm on Sunday (September 10), reports UNB. The
Kushtia Medical College Hospital’s (KMCH) inauguration is facing uncertainty due to the snail pace of the construction work over the last decade. Medical equipment purchased from abroad - costing over Tk 6.5 million - are left unused. Though the authorities concerned set several dates, incl
