OC in trouble for demanding biriyani, sweets
15 October 2023, 15:16 PM
Water scarcity hampers jute processing
19 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Auto rice mill near school
18 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Ramshackle ratnai bridge: An impediment of development
16 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Sudden Jamuna erosion makes many homeless
13 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Natore UP member found dead, wife injured
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Two kids drown in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Permanent shops on leased land!
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Illegal pond: A threat to surrounding cropland
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM
Payra erosion threatens Barguna villages
25 June 2022, 18:00 PM
2 more die of diarrhoea in Bandarban, 200 affected
A six-year-old child and a middle-aged woman of Mro community died of diarrhoea hitting the death toll to eight in remote Kurukpata area of Bandarban’s Alikadam upazila.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Fishermen of Gohala river being driven out by influentials
A group of fishermen who have been fishing in the waterbody of Gohala river at Shahzadpur upazila in Sirajganj for generations has alleged that they are not able to fish in the river as a section of non-professional fishermen backed by the influential quarter is fishing there ousting them.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Contractor using substandard rod in college building
Putting lives of students, teachers and others in danger, low-grade deformed bars are being used in the construction of a government educational institution in Juri upazila.
15 June 2021, 18:00 PM
ACC asks for wealth statements of BTOA secretary general
The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has issued a notice asking Khandaker Enayetullah, secretary general of Bangladesh Transport Owners Association (BTOA), to submit his wealth statement.
14 June 2021, 18:04 PM
Hefajat mayhem in B’baria: Train services to resume today
Operations of the Brahmanbaria railway station -- closed down about 12 weeks ago when a mob of activists belonging to Hefajat-e-Islam rampaged through it -- are scheduled to resume today.
14 June 2021, 18:00 PM
A nightmare 668 metres long
People and transports are facing immense sufferings moving through the intersection of four separate roads due to lack of repair works in a small stretch in Sagardighi Bazar area of Tangail’s Ghatail upazila.
14 June 2021, 18:00 PM
6 die of diarrhoea in Bandarban
In a span of only 72 hours between this Thursday and Saturday, six people from indigenous communities in remote Kurukpata area of Alikadom upazila died of diarrhoea and at least 200 others were infected with the disease in the same areas.
14 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Many wards in Kurigram municipality to go into 7-day lockdown tomorrow
Authorities have decided to impose a seven-day lockdown in several wards under Kurigram municipality from tomorrow in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus infection.
14 June 2021, 17:00 PM
Workers Party’s Menon, BNP’s Rumeen criticise bureaucrats for corruption, harassing public
Two lawmakers, Workers Party’s Rashed Khan Menon and BNP’s Rumeen Farhana, in parliament today came down heavily on a section of bureaucrats for their involvement in corruption and harassing common people and journalists on different occasions.
14 June 2021, 16:16 PM
3 injured in clash at Moulvibazar tea garden, police deployed
At least three people were injured today when two rival groups of tea workers clashed at National Tea Company's Patrokhola Tea Garden in Kamolganj upazila of Moulvibazar.
14 June 2021, 15:18 PM
Woman gang-raped in Tangail
A case was filed yesterday with Sakhipur Police Station against three men over raping of a 40-year-old woman from Koch community.
13 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Natore court issues suo moto rule
The Natore Senior Judicial Magistrate’s Court of Abu Sayeed has ordered a suo moto action to launch an inquiry into the reports published on print and electronic media regarding a breach of contract in the digging of holes beside the Natore-Bogra highway (N-502).
13 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Patuakhali remote island finally gets power
About 23,000 consumers of Charkajal and Charbiswas in Rangabali upazila, an isolated island in Patuakhali, are elated to have finally gotten electricity in their homes, 50 years after Bangladesh gained independence.
13 June 2021, 18:00 PM
2 killed in separate road accidents in Cox’s Bazar and Natore
Two women were killed in separate road accidents in Cox’s Bazar and Natore today. They were both hit by trucks, our local correspondents report quoting police.
13 June 2021, 11:39 AM
16 held for violating fishing ban in Bay
Kuakata naval police during a raid in Char Bijay area of Kuakata on Friday detained 16 people and seized four fishing trawlers for violating the ongoing ban on fishing in the Bay of Bengal.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Slit-throat body recovered in Dinajpur
A throat-slit body of a battery-run easy bike driver was recovered in Birampur upazila of Dinajpur on Saturday morning.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
Ferry shortage cripples Pabna-Aricha route
Over five hundred vehicles, mostly trucks loaded with goods, have been stranded near Kazirhaat ferry terminal in Pabna’s Bera upazila and Aricha ferry terminal in Manikganj over the past several days.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
2-yr deadline over, crucial road still incomplete
The deadline to finish construction of a six-kilometre road in Pirojpur Sadar upazila expires this June 30, but there is hardly any progress visible on the site.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
On the road to collective turnaround
Bithi Akter, a housewife from Doyakandi village under Deulabari union in Tangail’s Ghatail upazila, was struggling to maintain the five-member family with a meagre income of her day labourer husband during the Covid-19 situation.
12 June 2021, 18:00 PM
MP supporters block 39km of Ctg-Cox's Bazar highway
Supporters of Cox's Bazar-01 lawmaker Jafar Alam blocked the Chattogram-Cox's Bazar highway protesting the decision to expel him from his Cox's Bazar district Awami League presidential post.
10 June 2021, 18:33 PM