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

Two persons were killed in two separate road accidents in Manikganj and Kishoreganj yesterday.

It was May 14 in 1971, when residents of Demra village and traders of Demrahaat (one of the leading rural markets during that time) were closing their daily works in the evening, suddenly Pakistani occupation troops cordoned off Demra and adjoining villages Rupshi and Baushgari in Pabna and started firing on unarmed villagers.

About Tk 114 crore was spent only last year to excavate a 80-kilometre stretch of Nilphamari’s second largest river Charalkantha. But most of the excavated earth, piled up on its side, has already made it back to the river and shrunk it to a mere channel at most places.

A returnee from India died in institutional quarantine at a hotel in Jashore today.

A honey collector died after being mauled by a tiger in the Sundarbans on Friday.

Mango cultivators began harvesting the fruit from today following the scheduled date as instructed by the local administration.

Residents near Ekhtiyarpur canal in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj can now finally breathe a sigh of relief after a factory in the vicinity was shut down for polluting the environment with industrial waste.

There were 51 cinema halls in Tangail in the 1990s. But only five managed to survive while 46 could not due to lack of audience.

Md Ishtiaq Ahmed, inspector (operation) of Brahmanbaria Sadar Model Police Station, has been transferred.

Two people were killed in lightning strikes in Shibganj upazila yesterday.

Traders of palmyra palm fruit in Pirojpur are enjoying higher profits this season with demands for the fruit on the rise across the country.

Hundreds of Indian truck drivers entering Bangladesh through Benapole land port are not following health guideline, posing the risk of spreading the new variant of coronavirus.

Red crab is one of the most attractions for the tourist of Kuakata sea beach, thousands of red crabs roam in the Lemburbon and Gangamati point of the beach. The abundance of red crabs is declining day by day due to excessive pressure of tourists, noise pollution and uncontrolled vehicles, especially recklessly moving of motorcycles.

A beautiful mosque having 201 domes and 451 feet high minaret is being constructed in Tangail’s Gopalpur upazila. The founders are expecting that this aesthetically beautiful mosque is going to be enlisted in the Guinness World Record as the most domed mosque.

A housewife was killed by her husband allegedly over a trivial matter in in Dashani Uttarpara area of Bagerhat town on Saturday.

When the other tea vendors have been sitting idle and waiting for assistance from the government due to countrywide lockdown, Mosharaf Hossain of village Bahadurpur in Chatmohar upazila is going from door to door of his clientele with ready tea after iftar.

Seven recovered Covid-19 patients, who were among 10 to escape from Jashore General Hospital while still infected with the virus, were granted bail after being arrested earlier today.

A youth was killed and at least five others were injured in a clash between two families over a trifling matter in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila on Saturday.

Eid shopping has gained momentum in Tangail but heath guidelines are not being followed at the markets and shopping malls.