An unidentified person was hit by a train while passing through a railway crossing in Jashore’s Abhaynagar upazila today.

The district administration started a much-awaited eviction drive along the Ichamati river in Pabna to free it from the structures illegally built on the river land.

A trail of damage could be seen everywhere in Brahmanbaria, resulting from the mayhem centring the daylong hartal called by Hefajat-e-Islam.

Gas supply -- both residential and commercial -- in Brahmanbaria municipality area was suspended since last night due to a technical glitch.

Mango farming methods in Chapainawabganj are changing with time. Orchards with shorter trees, planted closer to each other, are on the rise in the district where traditional mango orchards have taller and fewer trees.

A college student was stabbed to death yesterday centring a feud allegedly over a disputed land in Shailakupa upazila.

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a teenage boy from a bamboo cluster beside a canal in Panchagarh Sadar upazila yesterday.

A police officer accidentally died from electrocution at Atghoria Police Station premises on Saturday night.

Chattogram-Khagrachhari regional highway, which was blocked since Friday after the clash between police and Hefazat activist, was opened to traffic after 72 hours.

Miscreants today set fire to Music maestro Ustad Alauddin Khan’s music academy “Sur Samrat Alauddin Sangeetangon” in Brahmanbaria’s Kumarshil area.

At least 10 vehicles were set on fire by Hefajat-e-Islam activists on Dhaka-Chattogram and Dhaka-Sylhet highways in Narayanganj this evening.

The land office in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila was set on fire during the dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Hefajat-e Islam.

Over a century-old Atghar haat under Nesarabad upazila in Pirojpur remains plagued with manifold problems.

A bridge for pedestrians and vehicles on the Begboti river at Defolbari village of Jhenidah Sadar upazila has remained at risk of collapse for the last five years.

The Department of Public Health Engineering (DPHE) spent around Tk 2.25 crore to construct a facility for supplying fresh water to Neelachal, a tourist hotspot in Bandarban, and areas surrounding it.

Bangladesh Hindu Bouddha Christian Oikya Parishad today urged Hefajat-e-Islam to withdraw tomorrow’s hartal as it coincides with Dol Purnima, a major religious festival of Hindu community.

Hathazari madrasa students continue to block the Chattogram-Khagrachhari highway and have constructed a brick wall after four people were killed in a clash between Hefajat-e-Islam activists and police in Hathazari upazila yesterday.

Railway authorities decided not to stop any train at Brahmanbaria Railway Station until the damaged signal system is restored.

At least two people were killed and six injured in a road accident on Dhaka- Rangpur highway in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila this morning.

President M Abdul Hamid and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina paid rich tributes to the martyrs of the Liberation War by placing wreaths at the National Memorial in Savar, marking the 51st Independence and National Day.