Rajshahi suffers from 1.5hr power outage

Residents of Rajshahi city had to suffer a one-and-a-half-hour blackout due to an “emergency shutdown” by the Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) yesterday morning. In some parts of the city, the power outage lasted for more than two hours.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

$4m South Korean aid for Rohingyas

The Republic of Korea has announced $4 million in assistance for Rohingyas and host community.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

2,355 yaba pills recovered from Dhaka airport

Some 2,355 yaba pills were recovered from Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport yesterday.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Air at two Dhaka slums 5 times thicker than usual

Air density at two of Dhaka’s most marginalised low-income slums is four to five times higher than the permissible limit in Bangladesh for a 24-hour period.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

By-polls to four constituencies in July, EC decides

The Election Commission will hold by-elections to the four parliamentary constituencies in July.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Is a 1923 law applicable for modern Bangladesh?

Civil society bodies and eminent citizens across the nation issued statements decrying the arrest of Prothom Alo senior correspondent Rozina Islam and demanded her immediate release.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Free Rozina’

Calls for unconditional release of Prothom Alo’s investigative reporter Rozina Islam, who was arrested on Monday in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act, 1923, continue to grow louder throughout the country.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

DSCC working to ease waterlogging: Taposh

Dhaka South City Corporation Mayor Sheikh Fazle Noor Taposh said DSCC is hoping to reduce waterlogging problems during the upcoming rainy season.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Tea Workers’ Day: 100 years of a forgotten tragedy

These days, Shamnarayan Goor doesn’t do much other than sitting on the porch of his hut and watching the day go by, over the hilly terrain of Lungla Tea Garden in Sylhet.
19 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Wanted justice from Allah, got it: rickshaw-puller assaulted in Bangshal

“I wanted justice from Allah [Creator], I got it.”
19 May 2021, 15:15 PM

Woman run over by truck in Natore

A woman died on the spot after a truck ran her over at Garmati area of ​​Natore-Pabna highway in Baraigram upazila of Natore around 7am yesterday.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Mayhem in Sunamganj: Jhumon Das, sued under DSA, still in jail

Jhumon Das Apon, accused in a Digital Security Act (DSA) case filed over criticising Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque on Facebook, has been in jail for over two months.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

11 killed by lightning strikes in three districts

At least 11 people were killed in lightning strikes in Netrakona, Faridpur and Manikganj yesterday.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Chinese national stabbed dead by compatriot in Sylhet

A Chinese man was stabbed by his flatmate after an altercation at their apartment in Sylhet city’s Pathantula area yesterday morning.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Gloomy weather adds to their woes

Amid the gloomy weather, holidaymakers were struggling to return to the capital yesterday following the Eid vacation, due to the transport crisis caused by the suspension of long-distance bus service.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

‘Allow resumption of launch operations immediately’

Waterways workers in Barishal held a rally yesterday, demanding resumption of passenger launches.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

EC mulls by-polls to Papul’s constituency

The Election Commission is considering to hold by-election to the Laxmipur-2 constituency -- of Mohammad Shahid Islam, also known as Kazi Papul -- amid Covid-19 pandemic for constitutional obligation.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

Hefajat’s Mamunul brought to N’ganj for interrogation

Police yesterday brought Hefajat-e-Islam leader Mamunul Haque to Narayanganj from Dhaka to interrogate him centring three cases which contain rape and violence charges.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

CID to press charges for trafficking, not murder

Nearly two years after investigating the cases filed for trafficking and killing of 26 Bangladeshi migrants in Libya, the CID is mulling to submit charge sheet only for the human trafficking charges in a month, keeping the murder charges pending.
18 May 2021, 18:00 PM

PSTU gets VC after 4 months

Prof Swadesh Chandra Samanta of Patuakhali Science and Technology University’s (PSTU) agriculture department was appointed the university’s vice-chancellor yesterday, after four months of the position remaining vacant.
17 May 2021, 18:00 PM