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.
Violence against women is an age-old phenomenon, which cannot be banished until a just socio-economic system develops, participants viewed at a discussion yesterday.
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The Delhi High Court on Friday stayed a lower Indian court order to extradite a Bangladeshi national to the USA where he is wanted in a 24-year-old murder case.
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Leaders of the ruling Awami League-led 14-party alliance yesterday urged the country's people to resist BNP-Jamaat's hartals and rise against war criminals.
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Today is the 11th death anniversary of Syed Md Habibul Haque, founder managing director of Crystal Insurance Company Limited.
He passed away on this day in 2002 at his residence.
Habibul was a prominent personality of the insurance industry. He significantly contributed to the development of the industry in the country, said a press release.
Board of directors, shareholders, executives, all officers and staff of the company prayed for eternal peace of his departed soul.
1) BNP activists temporarily disperse after police fired teargas canisters in their midst in the capital's Shantinagar yesterday. 2) Explosive substances burn on a street in Fakirapool. Jamaat-Shibir activists had hurled those at police from a procession. 3) A firefighter tries to douse the flames on a car set alight by BNP activists before Viqarunnisa Noon School and College on Bailey Road. 4) The shattered windshield of a microbus in Mouchak following an attack by BNP men.Photo: STAR
One hundred and fifty tourists, who were stranded in Cox's Bazar due to the ongoing unrest across Bangladesh, returned to the capital in three special flights yesterday night, said Md Ruhul Amin, deputy commissioner of Cox's Bazar.
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A group of 21 eminent personalities yesterday condemned "the recent killings of civilians and law enforcers and attacks on minorities by a quarter, which is leading the country towards conflict in the name of protesting the death sentence of Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee".
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The country's minorities have been the target of attack of the reactionary forces after Jamaat-e-Islami leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death Thursday for war crimes in the Liberation War, minority leaders said yesterday.
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