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.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has alleged that opposition leader wants to take Bangladesh backward as she (Khaleda Zia) promised to make the country a middle-income one by 2030, against the Awami League-led grand alliance government's timeframe of 2021.
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Police recovered the body of a member of outlawed Purbo Bangla Communist Party (PBCP) from a field at Kanta village in Jhenidah sadar upazila early yesterday.
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Police arrested 10 leaders and activists of Bangladesh Jammat-e-Islami on charges of planning to carry out subversive activities from Tongi in Gazipur yesterday.
The Jamaat men were arrested from the party's Tongi office around 12:00pm.
The arrestees are Jamaat-e-Islami Tongi unit assistant secretary Md Erfanul Haque, rokons Nurul Amin, Md Mahiuddin, Abul Kalam Azad, Md Maqbul Hossain and Amir Hossain and activists Md Ahmed Abdullah, Md Ashraful Alam, Md Rabiul Hasan and Md Mamun.
“We arrested them following information that they were planning to carry out subversive activities,” said Azizur Rahman, sub inspector (SI) at Tangi Police Station.
The situation in Ashulia remained calm yesterday after four days of agitation by readymade garment factory workers demanding a salary hike, said locals.
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A boy cleans a signboard bracing him against an electric pole at the second floor of a six-storey building, inset, at Syed Nazrul Islam Sarani in the capital's Bangshal yesterday. Fastened by a rope, the boy climbed down the building hanging from the rooftop. The hazardous work put him at high risk of fall or contacting live electric wires. Photo: Palash Khan
Today is the ninth death anniversary of Sajeda Islam, wife of late engineer Fakhrul Islam, says a press release.
