A truck helper was killed and the driver injured after a truck overloaded with paddy sacks hit a tree after veering off the Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway in Rajshahi early today.

Thousands in Pattashi union of Pirojpur’s Indurkani upazila and Bagerhat’s Morrelganj upazila have been suffering immensely for almost a year as a vital road they use has turned into a muddy ditch -- thanks to the negligence of forest department.

Bangladesh has observed the golden jubilee of its independence. The country has achieved a lot at this time and our development progress with the dream of independence has reached a great height today.

At least 118 more Bangladeshis, who were stuck in India, returned home through the Gede-Darshana border in Chuadanga today.

An activist of Hefajat-e-Islam, an accused in three violence cases in Narayanganj’s Sonargaon, died in police custody at a hospital in Dhaka today.

Three people were killed in lightning strikes at Shibganj and Nachole upazila of Chapainawabganj today.

A Netrakona court yesterday sent three people to jail in connection with a case for killing a teenager in Durgapur upazila on Monday.

Occupied by illegal occupants, the river Chakirpashar in Rajarhat upazila of Kurigram became almost non-existent.

Rendered jobless due to the ongoing restrictions imposed to contain Covid-19, a good number of the less fortunate like Mujibur Rahman passed the Eid day this year without having any special meal.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today demanded the suspension and arrest of officials involved in the harassment of Prothom Alo’s Senior Reporter Rozina Islam, who was arrested on Monday in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act, 1923.

Three college girls, including two siblings, drowned in the Jamuna river near Kalurpara area in Gaibandha’s Saghata upazila yesterday.

A housewife was tortured by her husband and in-laws allegedly for dowry in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila.

Criminals killed a youth, who was also an accused in a murder case, in Gaibandha’s Saddullahpur upazila yesterday.

Unidentified miscreants have cut down and looted a 40-year-old mahogany tree worth Tk 50,00 from Barguna’s Amtali Upazila Parishad premises on Thursday night amid Eid vacation.

An eight-storey building was built for it at a cost of Tk 30.25 crore, but the 250-bed Habiganj Sadar Hospital has yet to start its operations after more than four years of its inauguration.

Twenty-three people, who illegally entered Bangladesh through Dahagram land port in Lalmonirhat district, have been detained and put in mandatory 14-day quarantine at Dahagram Hospital.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-12) in a drive early yesterday rescued a minor girl, abducted from Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila on May 12, and arrested two people for their alleged involvement in the abduction.

A pregnant housewife was strangled to death allegedly by her husband at Shibnathpur Baropota village under Benapole Port Police Station on Sunday.

The Eid festival of 41 teachers and staffers of a college in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur has been somber for the non-payment of salaries and festival bonus as the chairman of the college’s managing committee did not sign the documents on time.

A worn-out Bailey bridge in ​​Batuli Customs Station and Immigration Check Post area of Juri upazila lies useless for long, badly hampering the export and import business activities.