A pick-up van driver was dead and at least six people were injured in a collision between two ferries – Begum Rokeya and Sufia Kamal – on Shimulia-Majhikandi route in the river Padma in Shariatpur’s Jajira upazila early today.

A worker of the Padma bridge project was arrested in Shariatpur allegedly for making TikTok videos and spreading propaganda against the bridge.

A 35-year-old man in Shariatpur reportedly fled his house after his samples were collected to test for Covid-19, three days before his test results comes back positive for the virus.

Shariatpur district will be under lockdown for an indefinite period from 6:00pm today to contain the spread of coronavirus.

A 34-year-old man dies from breathing complication while undergoing treatment at the isolation ward of Shariatpur Sadar Hospital.

A local Jubo League leader is hacked to death by miscreants in Naria upazila of Shariatpur.

At least 25 people were injured, 25 shops damaged and a hospital vandalised in separate clashes involving Awami League men in Shariatpur and Laxmipur in the last two days.

Twenty-eight students fell ill and were traumatised as a schoolteacher reportedly forced them to drink drain water as punishment at Zajira in Shariatpur on Wednesday.

The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam yesterday secured bail in two defamation cases in Shariatpur.

The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam today secured bail in two defamation cases in Shariatpur.

A special tribunal accepts the charges against two war crimes suspects of Shariatpur for their alleged involvement in war crimes during the country’s Liberation War.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina inaugurates construction work of the much-expected Padma Bridge at Mawa in Munshiganj. Earlier, she inaugurated river training work at Jajira point in Shariatpur.

Prosecution pressed four charges against two war crimes suspects of Shariatpur district for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity during the country’s Liberation War in 1971.

Shariatpur police arrested a war crimes suspect, hours after a war crimes tribunal issued arrest warrant against him for his alleged involvement in war-times crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.