Wednesday, 26 Jun, 2024

National

5 killed, 15 injured in bus-truck collision in Faridpur

Faridpur: A truck and a bus collided head-on on the Dhaka-Khulna highway in Majkandi area under Sadar upazila on Sunday morning, killing both the drivers and three others. Police said 15 passengers of the bus were also injured in the fatal accident.Sources said a Dhaka-bound timber-laden

Police foils Shibir program in Comilla

Comilla: Police foiled the SSC and Dakhil-passed students’ reception organized by Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of the embroiled Jamaat, on Sunday morning at Rajanigondha Community Center in the town for not informing the district administration.Police obstructed

UP heads demand separate allocation

DHAKA: Bangladesh Union Parishad Forum (BUPF) Sunday demanded separate allocation for the local government and grading up the honorarium of the UP chairman and members in the upcoming budget.The demand came from a press conference organized by the forum at Dhaka Reporters Unity in the

Police halts Jamaat procession in Faridpur: 7 injured

Faridpur: At least seven leaders and activists of the beleaguered Jamaat-e-Islami were injured as police charged baton to disperse their procession in the district town Sunday. Witnesses said the Jamaat activists brought out a procession from Chwakbazar Jam-e-masjid at about 9am. As the

Nation mourns Nimtoli tragedy

DHAKA: Struck speechless by a procession of dead bodies, the entire nation is mourning Saturday Thursday night’ s Nimtoli tragedy that left at least 120 people roasted alive and around 150 others in the torment of burns. The national flag has been lowered half-mast in government,

Concord Tower cracks in DhakaÔÇÖs Shantinagar

Dhaka: While the nation mourning successive building collapse and house-fire tragedies in the capital, a high-rise in the city’s Shantinagar area Saturday exposed cracks and sent inmates into scrambles for exit.“Panicked at the sight of the breaches on some floors of the Concord Grand

Concord Tower cracks in DhakaÔÇÖs Shantinagar

Dhaka: While the nation mourning successive building collapse and house-fire tragedies in the capital, a high-rise in the city’s Shantinagar area Saturday exposed cracks and sent inmates into scrambles for exit.“Panicked at the sight of the breaches on some floors of the Concord Grand

Cocktail found at RU

Rajshshi: Police Saturday recovered an unexploded cocktail from Rajshshi University campus, recently ravaged by violence.Motihar thana officer- in-charge Abul Khair said students saw an abandoned bag around 8 am while going to Ismail Hossain Siraji building to attend class. The university

Rajuk rises to rueful reality of buildings falling into ruin

DHAKA:  Rising to a rueful reality of jerrybuilt buildings falling into catastrophic ruin, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha (Rajuk) is going to sit on June 8 trying to execute the action plan against some 5,000 delinquent buildings constructed sans its permission.Sheikh Abdul Mannan, Rajuk

Old Dhaka Fire

Dhaka: The three-member probe committee formed for investigating the fire havoc in old Dhaka collected clues from witnesses and local panchaet committee on Saturday morning, trying to get at the root cause of the big blaze.After visiting the spot, Iqbal Khan Chowdhury, chief of the probe

Another city building cracks in Gendaria

Dhaka: Yet another city building came on the verge of imploding under the weight of its inbuilt faults on KP Road in Gendaria area at around 1:30pm, one and a half hours after a high-rise cracked at Shantinagar.Witnesses and inmates of the 6-story building told banglanews24.com.bd

Flashflood floods low-lying areas in Lalmonirhat

LALMONIRHAT: Flashfloods triggered by incessant rain for the last three days and onrush of hill waters flooded 40 villages in four upazilas of the northern frontier district, leaving about 15,000 people virtually marooned.Standing crops on a vast tract of land in Hatibandha, Kaliganj,

Grenade attack on police: attacker remanded

DHAKA: A Dhaka court Saturday placed Saikat alias Babu on a four-day remand in a case filed against him for throwing grenade on Gendaria police patrols.Magistrate Abdullah Al Mamun of the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Court granted the remand as investigating officer (IO) of the case SI

Lightening kills three, injures four in Ctg, Patuakhali

Dhaka: Three people, including a woman, were killed and four injured in lightning strikes in Chittagong and Patuakhali districts on Friday night, as the weather remained inclement.In Chittagong, two people were killed and another two injured as lightning struck them at village Mirzakhil

Alleged outlaw killed in Jhenidah shootout

Jhenidah: An outlawed party leader was killed in a ‘shootout’ between his supporters and police at Kamalnagar village in Shailakupa upazila early Saturday, official sources said. Police said Nasirul Islam alias Suknal, 50, the chief of his own underground group styled Suknal bahini,

Nimtali inferno: PM visits DMCH to see survivors

Dhaka: Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Friday directed the authorities concerned to provide best treatment to the people who survived Thursday night’s old-Dhaka inferno with severe burns.While visiting the injured at Dhaka Medical College Hospital in the morning after the nightmare that

Infernal fire claims over 100 lives

Dhaka: The nation will observe a day of mourning Saturday for the victims of Thursday night`s devastating house fire in Old Dhaka`s Nimtali area that left piles of charred dead bodies and scores in agonies of burn injuries.Officials and witnesses said after an overnight haul of around a

Another high-rise building leans in Begunbari

Dhaka: A seven-story building tilted to one side at Uttar Begunbari area Friday, only three days after a house collapsed in the same area of the capital, and when the nation is fighting a grim fire tragedy in the city.A fire unit and a team from RAJUK rushed to the spot and evacuated the

Go voting on a vacation

DHAKA: The government announced general holiday for June 17 in Chittagong City Corporation area to facilitate voting by the Chittagonians in a vacationing mood. “All government, semi-government, autonomous and non-government offices, organizations and agencies as well as the government

Go voting on a vacation

DHAKA: The government announced general holiday for June 17 in Chittagong City Corporation area to facilitate voting by the Chittagonians in a vacationing mood. “All government, semi-government, autonomous and non-government offices, organizations and agencies as well as the government