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.
The SSC and its equivalent examinations slated for today and Tuesday (March 5) have been rescheduled for March 9 and March 6 respectively due to a three-day countrywide hartal called by Jamaat-e-Islami and opposition BNP.
Prof Abdus Salam Hawlader, acting chairman of Dhaka Education Board and head of Inter-Education Board Coordination Committee, told the news agency that the examinations slated for today will be held on March 9.
The examination slated for Tuesday will be held on Wednesday.
The Secondary School Certificate (SSC) and its equivalent Dakhil and SSC vocational examinations simultaneously began across the country on February 3.
Two youths were stabbed to death and another died after falling from the roof of a building in separate incidents in the capital on Friday night and yesterday.
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Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called upon the government and Jamaat-e-Islami to put an end to the ongoing violence, which sparked off after Jamaat leader Delawar Hossain Sayedee was sentenced to death Thursday.
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A leader of Rajshahi University unit Jatiyatabadi Samaj Sangskrity Sangstha (Jasas) was beaten up by students of the drama and music department for sexually harassing a female student of the department on the campus yesterday.
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A tremor measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale jolted Sylhet and Rangpur regions yesterday.
The earthquake was felt at 7:30am. However, no casualty or damage has been reported.
Our Sylhet correspondent reports, the quake jolted Sylhet twice within few seconds. While it jolted Rangpur and its nearby areas for once, adds our Rangpur correspondent.
The epicentre of the quake was in Bangladesh-India border, inside Karimganj of Assam, some 195km north-east of Dhaka, said Met office sources.
As a part of the national flag hoisting programme of Shahbagh
movement yesterday, Imran H Sarker, convener of the Bloggers and Online Activists Network, hoists the national flag at Shahbagh Gonojagoron Mancha in the capital in the morning demanding that war criminals be hanged and Jamaat-Shibir be banned. photo: Focus Bangla
Two schoolboys drowned in a pond while they were bathing in it at Bangshal in the old part of the capital yesterday afternoon.
The victims identified as Faisal Ahmed, 16, and Mohammad Shaon, 15, were class X students of Nababpur Government High School.
A team of divers from fire service recovered the bodies from the pond around 3:15pm yesterday.
The family members of the deceased took them to Dhaka Medical College Hospital where the doctors pronounced them dead.
Defending the action of the law-enforcers in the face of countrywide violence by Jamaat-Shibir activists in the last couple of days, State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku yesterday claimed that police opened fire in self-defence.
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A covered van helper was killed and three highway policemen were injured as the van hit a truck parked on Dhaka-Chittagong highway near Dhumghat area in Mirsarai upazila in Chittagong early yesterday.
The deceased was Md Dulal, 40, son of late Hashmat Ali of Noakhali.
Jorarganj highway police said the truck hit by the Dhaka-bound covered van from behind knocked the on-duty policemen around 2:30am.
The injured cops, including Assistant Sub-inspector Md Kashem and constable Amir, were given primary treatment.
A journalist also a Jamaat leader was arrested at Kashiram Balapara village in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat yesterday on charge of vandalism during hartal on Thursday.
The arrested man Hasan Abdul Maleque, 55, of Tusvandar village, former treasurer of Kaliganj upazila Jamaat unit, is an upazila correspondent of the daily Sangram.
A magistrate's court ordered to send him to jail when he was produced before it.
Kaliganj police Officer-in-Charge Amiruzzaman claimed that Maleque worked for Jamaat in the name of journalism.
