A local Jatiyatabadi Jubo Dal leader, missing for the last five days, was found dead in Atghoria upazila of the district on Monday yesterday.

It was March 28 in 1971, after three days of the countrywide crackdown by the Pakistan occupation army, people of Pabna from every corner of the district regrouped and launched an attack on the trained Pakistan army at the old telephone office (now abandoned) with lethal weapons.

Bombing at a firing range from Bangladesh Air Force fighter jets at Domar Char area of Ward No-9 in Hatia’s Nijhum Dwip union under Noakhali is going on since Monday, according to a press release of Inter Service Public Relations (ISPR).

Plan International Bangladesh, an NGO working for the unprivileged children in Bangladesh, has provided cash grants support among the families of 12,726 beneficiary children in Teesta River basin.

A woman and her minor daughter were killed during nor’wester that lashes through different upazilas of the district on Sunday evening.

An influx of child patients with typhoid and cold-induced diseases including pneumonia has been causing overcrowding over the last month at paediatric ward of Patuakhali 250-bed General Hospital.

Bhanna plants used to be grown commercially in every village of Jashore’s Chougachha upazila as oil from its seed was once a well-liked commodity in rural areas.

Twenty-one policemen and two drivers were injured when a bus collided with two pick-up vans in Brahmanbaria this morning.

A young man was crushed to death under the wheels of a running train in Joypurhat town yesterday.

Police on Saturday detained a member of a fraud gang from Joypurhat’s Panchbibi upazila for allegedly luring a youth to Narayanganj for a job and killing him.

Three families have been receiving treatment as social pariahs for not following the arbitration over land issue in Korbanpur village of Kulaura upazila of Moulvibazar.

April 5, 1971 is a black day that lives on in the memory of survivors and the Liberation War generation of Lalmonirhat.

Four people were killed in three upazilas of Gaibandha after trees crushed them during a Nor'wester today.

Police are yet to arrest the killer of Tangail District Cultural Officer Khandakar Redwana Islam Ilu even after a week of her sensational murder.

A woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her drug addict son in Mithapukur area of Panchagarh municipality yesterday.

A memorial service for trees, held recently in Khadimnagar area of Sylhet city, might have aroused curiosity among a section of the city residents. But mourning for untimely deaths of trees is close to religious ritual for inhabitants of a remote indigenous village in Barlekha upazila.

Police yesterday arrested a man in connection with a case filed under the Digital Security Act over spreading distorted photos of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Facebook.

Two people were killed today and another one was injured when a bus hit the motorbike the victims were on at Mathiura Tea Garden area in Rajnagar upazila of Moulvibazar.

The Anti-Corruption Commission last night arrested a sub-registrar of the Chakaria Sub-registry Office with bribe money from Cox’s Bazar.

In a protest rally in Chattogram today, leaders of Hefajat-e-Islam demand withdrawal of cases filed against them and a total of Tk 50 crore in compensation for members who died and were injured during the recent anti-Modi protests.