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 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
One of the six coaches which came off tracks near Feni railway station yesterday, suspending rail communications between Chittagong and other parts of the country for 12 hours. The derailment occurred as the track bolts and fasteners were removed by unknown miscreants. Photo: Banglar Chokh
BNP acting secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir yesterday said the Islamic Foundation chief decided to keep shut the north gate of the national mosque Baitul Mukarram on Fridays because he got involved in politics.
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Hundreds of people rallied in Chittagong and Khulna cities yesterday as part of their ongoing movement to demand death penalty for all war criminals.
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A local leader of pro-Awami League Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed allegedly by activists of pro-Jamaat student body Islami Chhatra Shibir in the capital's Uttar Badda area yesterday.
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Road accidents killed eleven people and injured eight others in Dhaka, Rajbari, Brahmanbaria and Jhenidah yesterday.
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