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 man, who sustained burn injuries from a gas cylinder explosion in Sylhet on Sunday, succumbed to his injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital yesterday.
The deceased Fazal Ahmed, 24, hails from village Ronkeli.
Four people were injured as the cylinder exploded in a shop in Golapganj upazila of Sylhet.
Bangladesh Students' Union and Bangladesh Chhatra League yesterday called upon students of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (Sust) to abstain from all academic activities on March 3, demanding capital punishment for all war criminals and its execution as early as possible.
Their other demands are: banning of Jamaat-e-Islami as the party was involved in war crimes; trying the culprits responsible for vandalising Shaheed Minars and torching the national flag across the country; and seizing and bringing all wealth of Jamaat-Shibir under the state ownership.
The demands were declared in separate press conferences.
Unidentified muggers shot and injured a sub-inspector of the Detective Branch of police in Bhogra area of Gazipur Sadar upazila yesterday.
Mohammad Hasan, 40, with a bullet-wound on his chin, was shifted to the capital's Apollo Hospitals from Gazipur Sadar Hospital.
He was shot when he and his team, during their every day patrols, tried to catch the muggers, who were trying to mug a man before Borsha Cinema Hall. The muggers escaped in their own car, said police.
Agriculture Minister Matia Chowdhury told parliament yesterday that the government was determined to protect Islam against any propaganda.
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Seven new imported cars, estimated to be worth around Tk 35 lakh, were burnt in a fire that broke out at a customs jetty in Chittagong Port yesterday.
The fire originated from a glowing cigarette butt around 6:00am, said fire service sources.
A unit from Bandar Fire Station rushed to the spot and doused the fire after an hour long effort.
A separate ward for prisoner patients was opened at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) yesterday.
Medical treatment facilities for five patients will be available at the ward, said CMCH Director Brig Gen Khondakar Shahidul Ghani.
On an average, seven to eight prisoners undergo treatment in different wards a day now, he said.
Chittagong Medical College Principal Prof Dr Selim Muhammad Jahangir and leaders of Bangladesh Medical Association (BMA), Chittagong, among others, were present at the inaugural ceremony.
A shuttle train derailed near Khoksa Railway Station in Kushtia yesterday.
At least five passengers were injured in stampedes as they scrambled for getting down from the train during the incident.
Shamsul Alam, the station master, said three bogies out of nine of the Poradah-bound train from Rajbari ran off the railway tracks at about 11:00am.
Train services were suspended for nine hours on Goalondo-Khulna and Goalondo-Rajshahi routes due to the derailment.
Abdul Jalil, an Awami League lawmaker and former general secretary of the party, will undergo heart bypass surgery at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore today.
The senior AL leader was taken to hospital after becoming sick on February 25.
Abdul Jalil has long been suffering from different health complications.
Chattagram Samity-Dhaka has invited applications for stipend from meritorious and insolvent students, of greater Chittagong district, studying in first year for a Bachelor's Degree in 2012-13 academic session in different government institutions.
The applications along with necessary documents must reach the general secretary of Chattagram Samity-Dhaka by March 31, said a press release yesterday.
Applicants should collect the application form from the Chawkbazar branch of United Commercial Bank Ltd (UCBL) in Chittagong.
The government will begin capital dredging of the important and large rivers in the country after August this year to bring back their navigability, Water Resources Minister Ramesh Chandra Sen told parliament yesterday.
He also said a two-year long feasibility study titled "Capital Dredging and Sustainable River Management in Bangladesh" is going on.
The government has already prepared a concept paper to carry out the dredging works with a cost of Tk 50,014 crore in 15 years, he said.
The dredging works will be completed in different phases, he further said.
The minister also described the present government's various efforts in digging canals and improving water management system.
