Police arrested a youth along with seven gold bars weighing 783.50 grams worth around Tk 7 million from a bus in the city on Thursday. The arrested was identified as Abul Kalam, 34, hailed from Ramnagar Laxipur village under Boalmari upazila in Faridpur. Officer-in Charge of Labanchara Police Sta
Two autorickshaw passengers have died and four others suffered injuries after the vehicle collided head-on with a bus in Mymensingh Sadar Upazila. The incident occurred on the Mymensingh-Sherpur road in the Upazila’s Alalpur area around 11am on Saturday, Kotwali Model Police Stat
Intermittent rains since Thursday morning brought respite to Chattogram city dwellers from the scorching heat that has been prevailing across the country for the last several days. Rain and thunderstorms started around 9:30 am in different parts of the port city, according to a UNB report. Md Abd
At least five people were killed by lightning strikes in Rangamati and Cox’s Bazar districts on Thursday. In Rangamati, three people were killed and seven others injured when thunderbolts struck them in separate places in the morning. The deceased were identified as Najir Ahmed, 50, a resid
Five people, including a woman, were killed in a head-on collision between a microbus and truck on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj district early Thursday. The deceased were identified as Md Jamal (40), his wife Kamrunnahar (35), their son Ananta (11), Jamal’s younger b
Police have detained as many as 20 members of Jamaat-e-Islami and its students wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in Natore. They were detained on Tuesday night while holding a 'secret meeting' at the house of local Jamaat leader Ainul Haque in Shivnagar village of Lalpur upazila, according to Lalpu
A municipality-level leader of the ruling Awami League (AL) was gunned down by miscreants in Gopalpur municipality under Lalpur upazila of Natore Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Md Manjur Rahman Manju, 45, vice president of the municipality unit of the AL and son of Abdul Mannan of B
At least twelve shops were gutted in a major fire that broke out at a market in Chandpur's Sadar upazila in the small hours of Wednesday. At least 10 people suffered minor injuries while trying to tame the blaze, reports UNB. The identities of the injured could not be known immediately. Locals s
Vegetable fields are being turned dry and grey for lack of rainwater in Chandpur amid the scorching heat, leaving farmers in trouble. Farmers fear that they may suffer a huge loss from their vegetable cultivation for the ongoing sweltering heat. This information came while this correspondent talk
Boro farmers in Sylhet region are not getting the fair prices of their produce thanks to market manipulation by the middlemen and wholesalers. The growers are frustrated as the middlemen and wholesalers are buying newly-harvested paddy from the fields as well as the local markets at low prices by
A man died of heat stroke while picking up maize from a field at Naldanga upazila of Natore on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Khairul Islam (50) from Khajura Ujanpara village of the upazila, as per UNB reports. According to the locals, Khairul, an expatriate returnee, went to collect mai
Two people were killed in a head-on collision between a pickup van and a truck on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Thugli in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj district on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as pickup driver Hridoy Mia (26) of Baliari village of Chunarughat upazila and helper Ripon Mia
KHULNA, Apr 29: The current hot spell entire Bangladesh now reels under is wrecking massive havoc to the fisheries, agricultural sectors of the southwestern region. Insiders said the prevailing heatwave has brought those involved in the two sectors to their knees causing a staggering loss of Tk 10
