TANGAIL: The rail communication of North Bengal with Dhaka and other parts of the country was halted as rail track misplaced due to heavy rain in Kalihati Upazila on Saturday noon. Sources said that torrential rain misplaced rail lines near Analia Bridge No. 9 in the upazila at 11:45am.

FROM AGARGAON: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, joined in a view-exchange meeting at city’s Agargaon on Saturday morning. ICT Division and Access to Information (a2i) Programme of Prime Minister's Office organized the programme at Bangladesh Computer Council

CHITTAGONG: A man was killed and three others were injured as a wall collapsed during massive rainfall in Rahmatnagar residential area under Panchlaish Thana in the district on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Aslam, 30.  Fire services sources said that a brick made

GAZIPUR: A dacoit was killed and five others were injured in a clash with locals in Dumni village of Prahaladpur union under Sreepur Upazila of the district on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Sohel, 25.  Locals said that a gang of robbers went to the house of Dr Rebuti

NAOGAON: two people were killed after falling from a running bus in Dhamoirhat upazila of the district early Saturday. The identity of the deceased could not be known immediately. Sources said that the victims fell down from a bus carrying bridal party around 12:30am, leaving the duo

NARAYANGANJ: Six members of a family were injured as a fire broke out at a house in Baroibhog area under Fatulla Thana of the district on Saturday morning. The injured are- Tariran Begum, 60, her husband Azizar, 65, daughters Tania, 16, Tanni, 12, son Takiron, 9, and grand daughter

DHAKA: The Election Commission (EC) has approved a compensation proposal of Tk 48 lakhs approximately to some 135 people who became victims of violence during observing their duties of the 10th general elections. The commission on Thursday ordered to issue an allowance letter in this

SAVAR: A fire broke out at the ZA Apparels, a readymade garment factory, in Kuturia area of the upazila, outskirt of the capital, on Friday evening. On information, six units of EPZ Fire Services and Dhamrai Fire Services rushed to the spot and brought the blaze under control after two

RAJBARI: Two motorcyclists were killed and another person was injured in a road accident at Kalukhali upazila of the district here on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Abul Kalam, son of a Keyamuddin, and Tayeb Ali, son of Rajab Ali of Arkandi village of the upazila.

TANGAIL: Two brothers were electrocuted in Sakhipur upazila of the district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Bahez, 45 and Azmot, 40, sons of one Ismail Hossain, resident of Ramkha village of the upazila. Locals said that the siblings were electrocuted while repairing the

CHITTAGONG: Two persons, including a teenager, were electrocuted in Bayezid Thana and Patia Upazila of the port city on Friday. The deceased were identified as Nazrul Islam, 20, son of a Sher Ahmed, resident of Kelishahar Adarsha Gram in Patia upazila and Abu Siddique, 16, son of a Jamal

DHAKA: Sajeeb Wazed Joy, son of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and also her Advisor on IT Affairs, arrived in Dhaka with his family on Friday morning. Sources said Joy alongside his wife Christine Overmeyer and daughter Sophia landed at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on a Qatar

NATORE: Cultural Affairs Secretary Ranjit Kumar Biswas has been admitted to Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) on Friday night. Earlier in the day, a special helicopter brought the Secretary Ranjit along with his bodyguard and driver to Hazrat Shahjalal International

RIYADH: Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh has been consistently failing to provide the machine readable passport (MRP) to the Bangladeshi expatriates due to shortages of manpower and machineries. The embassy published an urgent advertisement on May 27 asking all the expatriates in KSA to

DHAKA: A two-day long international workshop for Parliamentary Secretaries (PS) and officials of four countries under Asia Regional Association of Public Accounts Committees (ARAPAC) has started on Friday. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan and Maldives’s PS and officials are participating

CHITTAGONG: The heavy downpour submerged most of the parts of the port city in knee-deep to waist-deep water causing immense misery for dwellers on Friday. Many roads and houses went under knee-deep water due to excessive rainfall, resulting immense sufferings to the people living in

DHAKA: Several departments of Bangladesh including Executive and Judicial department became the puppet of a person. This said in a report sent in Dhaka after attending a seminar titled ‘Awareness and Warning about Bangladesh” organized by the Honorable Society of Linkins-in on

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi Metropolitan Police arrested fugitive War Crime accused Khan Mohammad Akram Hossain from Paba upazila of the district early Friday. Police sources said that team of Morelganj thana of Khulna, Rajpara Thana of Rajshahi and detective branch of metropolitan police led a

DHAKA: A number of refugees, asylum-seekers, and internally displaced people worldwide have, for the first time in the post-World War II era exceeded 50 million people, UNHCR reported on World Refugee Day.  The UN refugee agency said it in annual report which is based on data compiled

New York: United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon stressed that the organisation do not support election boycott in democracy, rather problems can be solved through dialogue. The top UN official Ban Ki-Moon told this to visiting Bangladesh President Abdul Hamid in a bilateral