Japan has suggested partnering with Bangladesh in further developing the southern Chattogram area, centring the Matarbari projects, as the two countries agree to build a strategic relationship by intensifying the current excellent bilateral ties.

Bangladesh Chhatra Union today suspended eight leaders of its different units, including the central committee, for violating rules and disciplines of the organisation.

A student of Jahangirnagar University died in a road accident at Bagatipara upazila in Natore last night.

A speech-impaired woman was trampled to death in an attack by a herd of wild elephants in Lama upazila early yesterday.

A new born baby, allegedly stolen from Sirajganj 250-bed Bangamata Sheikh Fazilatunnesa Mujib General Hospital on Tuesday, is yet to be rescued even a day after the incident.

A road has been built right through the Ubdakhali river, in Netrakona’s Kalmakanda upazila, by the owners of a brick kiln.

At least four people were injured when a group of criminals attacked the house of a local journalist in Thakurgaon municipality allegedly over a trivial matter on Tuesday.

Police recovered the body of a battery-run auto-rickshaw driver from near a local waterbody in Shibganj upazila yesterday.

Law enforcers during a drive seized about 2 crore metres of illegal fishing nets worth around Tk 60 crore from Sadar upazila yesterday.

Police recovered the body of a woman from a waterbody at Shreepur village in Rajbari’s Kalukhali upazila on Monday. The decease, Manjuara Khatun, 42, was daughter of Manik Mandal of Kushitadangi village.

Language movement veteran and education luminary Zahir Uddin Ahmed, now aged 86, continues to serve people with his knowledge in herbal medicine.

The canals flowing through different areas in Tangail town are disappearing one after another, thanks to the illegal grabbing and negligence by the authorities.

A 50-year-old man was arrested in connection with the rape of a woman in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati.

A full bench of the Supreme Court will hold a hearing on April 4 on an appeal challenging the High Court verdict that barred women from becoming Nikah (Muslim marriage) registrars in the country.

A man died today in a landslide while he was allegedly cutting a hill on his own land in Ramgarh upazila under Khagrachhari.

About 60 acres of crop land in Sohagpur village has been submerged as a dam on a canal collapsed in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria today.

At least five people were killed and 15 others were injured as a bus collided with a truck after its tyre got punctured at Konabari near the Bangabandhu bridge west zone of Sirajganj this morning, police said.

The second consignment of Covid-19 vaccine from India – 20 lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine – has reached Dhaka.

A Kishoreganj court yesterday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment in connection with a case for killing a housewife in 2011.

Idris Ali of Jashore’s Chougachha upazila has found success in cultivating Thai guava at his village.