An elderly man was killed and at least 18 others were injured when two rival groups clashed in Kosba upazila yesterday allegedly centring a feud over a

A worker was burnt to death in a fire that broke out at a mosquito coil factory in Bogura Sadar upazila yesterday.

Driven by higher profits, cultivation of sunflower, a relatively healthier choice of edible oil, is on the rise in Nilphamari.

More than two weeks after the latest attack on an indigenous community and their betel leaf garden, the mainstay of their livelihood, at Nunchhara Punji in Karmadha union of Kulaura upazila, the authorities are yet to take any action against the offenders.

At least six passengers were injured as a bus overturned on the Dhaka-Mawa expressway in Munshiganj during today’s nor’wester.

A move is underway to make the power distribution system in Dhaka city fully automated to better address the complaints of consumers, State Minister for Power, Energy and Mineral Resources Nasrul Hamid has said.

The inner bar dredging of Mongla Port started today to increase the port’s capacity and ensure smooth arrival of ships at the port jetty. State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury inaugurated the dredging project at Jaymonir Ghol in Mongla today.

The season’s first nor’wester lashed the capital Dhaka and some other parts of the country.

Around 5,000 metres of illegal fishing nets were seized and three mechanised boats engaged in sand lifting were destroyed in Halda River today.

A garment worker was burned to death in a fire at his house at Nagarchar in Rajphulbaria of Savar, early today.

A worker was killed as a mosquito coil factory in Bogura Sadar upazila caught fire this morning.

Two persons were killed and six were injured as a lorry hit a microbus carrying a group of musicians on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Chattogram’s Mirsarai upazila early today.

At least two people were killed and five others injured as a passenger bus collided with an easy bike at Abhaynagar upazila of Jashore today.

Two people were killed and one other injured in a road accident at Kamalapur village in Panchagarh Sadar upazila early today as a tractor carrying an excavator fell into a roadside ditch.

A ruling party man was critically injured after he was stabbed by his rival men during an intra-party clash between two Awami league groups at the AL party office in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday night.

The forest department has recovered a dead dolphin from a shoal of Bhola River adjacent to the Sundarbans.

A Bangladeshi woman whose husband died dismantling an oil tanker in a local shipyard was given the green light this week to keep pursuing a claim for compensation from a UK company linked to the vessel in a test case for the shipbreaking industry.

The closure of educational institutions due to Covid-19 has affected regular learning activities of many school children in Lalmonirhat. Due to the pandemic situation, especially marginalised students in the district have dropped out and engaged in child labour.

A 1971 mass graveyard remains in shabby state due to lack of maintenance by authorities concerned in Shakhari Kathi village of Bagerhat’s Kachua upazila.

Police have rescued a teenage girl today seven days after her abduction from Sharsha upazila of Jashore.