Occupied by illegal occupants, the river Chakirpashar in Rajarhat upazila of Kurigram became almost non-existent.

Rendered jobless due to the ongoing restrictions imposed to contain Covid-19, a good number of the less fortunate like Mujibur Rahman passed the Eid day this year without having any special meal.

A Netrakona court yesterday sent three people to jail in connection with a case for killing a teenager in Durgapur upazila on Monday.

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir today demanded the suspension and arrest of officials involved in the harassment of Prothom Alo’s Senior Reporter Rozina Islam, who was arrested on Monday in a case filed under the Official Secrets Act, 1923.

Water transport workers in Patuakhali today demonstrated demanding immediate resumption of launch services on domestic routes as well as all other routes across the country.

Three college girls, including two siblings, drowned in the Jamuna river near Kalurpara area in Gaibandha’s Saghata upazila yesterday.

A housewife was tortured by her husband and in-laws allegedly for dowry in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila.

Criminals killed a youth, who was also an accused in a murder case, in Gaibandha’s Saddullahpur upazila yesterday.

Unidentified miscreants have cut down and looted a 40-year-old mahogany tree worth Tk 50,00 from Barguna’s Amtali Upazila Parishad premises on Thursday night amid Eid vacation.

An eight-storey building was built for it at a cost of Tk 30.25 crore, but the 250-bed Habiganj Sadar Hospital has yet to start its operations after more than four years of its inauguration.

Twenty-three people, who illegally entered Bangladesh through Dahagram land port in Lalmonirhat district, have been detained and put in mandatory 14-day quarantine at Dahagram Hospital.

At least 11 people were killed in lightning strikes in Netrakona, Faridpur and Manikganj of the country today.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-12) in a drive early yesterday rescued a minor girl, abducted from Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila on May 12, and arrested two people for their alleged involvement in the abduction.

A pregnant housewife was strangled to death allegedly by her husband at Shibnathpur Baropota village under Benapole Port Police Station on Sunday.

The Eid festival of 41 teachers and staffers of a college in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur has been somber for the non-payment of salaries and festival bonus as the chairman of the college’s managing committee did not sign the documents on time.

A worn-out Bailey bridge in ​​Batuli Customs Station and Immigration Check Post area of Juri upazila lies useless for long, badly hampering the export and import business activities.

At least two land office employees of Roumari Sadar union and Roumari upazila in Kurigram have been accused of helping some people illegally occupy a piece of land that belongs to Jadurchar Union Parishad of the upazila.

Two persons were killed in two separate road accidents in Manikganj and Kishoreganj yesterday.

It was May 14 in 1971, when residents of Demra village and traders of Demrahaat (one of the leading rural markets during that time) were closing their daily works in the evening, suddenly Pakistani occupation troops cordoned off Demra and adjoining villages Rupshi and Baushgari in Pabna and started firing on unarmed villagers.

About Tk 114 crore was spent only last year to excavate a 80-kilometre stretch of Nilphamari’s second largest river Charalkantha. But most of the excavated earth, piled up on its side, has already made it back to the river and shrunk it to a mere channel at most places.