Authorities of Bangladesh Railway’s (BR) east zone have closed down 46 of the 228 railway stations due to severe workforce shortage. This has resulted in delays of over 30 minutes on different routes of the zone.
The probe committee formed by Chattogram Port Authority (CPA) to investigate the devastating fire and explosion at Sitakunda’s BM Container Depot last month could not ascertain the source or specific reason behind the fire.
Ashikur Rahman (28) was returning home for Eid after taking treatment at a Dhaka hospital. But little did he know that he’ll never reach his destination.
A boy was found dead in a Buddhist monastery in Abdullahpur South Baruapara in Chattogram yesterday.
BNP will stage protest across the country tomorrow as the party did not to get permission for holding a rally in Dhaka.
A lack of knowledge on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) is barring local traders from taking its advantage both at home and abroad, stated business leaders at a dialogue in Chittagong city yesterday.
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Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at, Bangladesh leaders yesterday appealed to the government to immediately ensure the reconstruction of a mosque of the community in Kismat Mena Nagar village of Rangpur's Taraganj upazila and uphold their constitutional rights.
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The nation yesterday observed the historic Shaheed Noor Hossain Day with due honour, dignity and solemnity commemorating the supreme sacrifice of the pro-democracy activist.
Noor Hossain, a Jubo League worker, was shot dead by police at Zero Point in the capital on November 10, 1987, while participating in a procession against the military regime of HM Ershad.
The revolutionary slogan, ''Down with autocracy, let democracy be freed'', was inscribed in white paint on his chest and back when the bullet took his life. The killing of Noor fuelled the ongoing movement leading to the fall of Ershad.
Different political and socio-cultural organisations placed wreaths at the Zero Point, now renamed as the Noor Hossain Square, yesterday showing their respect to him.
Twenty nine activists of pro-Jamaat Islami Chhatra Shibir, including one with 10 cocktails and two bombs, were held from different parts of the country in connection with violence and attacks on policemen.
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One-third of girls in urban slums get married before the age of 15 years while about 61 percent of marriages in the slums are arranged and 31 percent involve dowry, says a recent study.
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Seven people were killed and two others injured in separate road crashes in Rangpur, Panchagarh, Sirajganj and Chapainawabganj on Thursday and yesterday.
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Warning that fundamentalist forces would be contained strictly as per the country's laws, Home Minister Mohiuddin Khan Alamgir yesterday urged citizens to catch Jamaat-Shibir men, wherever they were found, and hand them over to police.
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Indian well-known poet and novelist Sunil Gangopadhyay will be living in the hearts of people as long as Bangla language exists.
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