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.
Three Rohingyas were detained by Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) from a private medical centre in Chittagong city yesterday.
They are Ojifa Khatun, 47, her son Saiful Islam, 22, and daughter Sufia, 16, of Buchidong of Myanmar. They came to the country about a week ago for medical purposes, Rab sources said. They will be deported through Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) after providing treatment.
A Bangladesh Bank (BB) high official and his wife died from electrocution at Shahjahanpur in the capital early yesterday.
The deceased were Krishna Chandra Chanda, 50, joint director of the bank, and his wife Sipra Rani Das, 40.
Their son Likhon, 14, was injured in the incident at their house.
The victims' neighbour Taposh Karmakar said first Likhon was electrocuted as he touched the gate, which somehow came in touch with a live electric wire, to open it when his parents returned from a doctor around 12:00 midnight.
Sipra was electrocuted when she tried to save her son. Later, her husband got electrocuted to save her.
The High Court yesterday cleared the way for the Anti-Corruption Commission to resume trial proceedings of a corruption case against former BNP lawmaker Habibul Islam Habib.
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The two-day summit of the 9th Asia Europe Meeting (Asem) ended in Vientiane of Laos yesterday with a call for strengthening partnership for peace and development among 52 Asian and European nations.
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Bangladesh Railway yesterday signed a Tk 155.77 crore deal with Max Automobile Product Ltd to set up a 25-kilometers long new rail line from Majgram of Ishwardi to Pabna town.
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Three people were killed and three others injured in separate road accidents in Chittagong, Gaibandha and Naogaon yesterday.
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The people will not be benefited from the local administrations until the government formulates a decentralisation policy to strengthen local government bodies, experts and civil society members said at a discussion yesterday.
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The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) yesterday gave approval for submitting charge sheets in three cases for misappropriating money by four persons including the parliament's former speaker Jamir Uddin Sirker.
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A total of 9,970 Yaba tablets worth around Tk 30 lakh were seized by Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) personnel from a boat on the estuary of Naf River near Sabrang union in Cox's Bazar district yesterday.
Three men on the boat, arriving from Myanmar, jumped and swam away on seeing the approaching BGB patrol boat around 5:00am, said BGB sources.
A case was being filed in this connection.
