Two women were killed as a truck hit a battery-run three-wheeler on Bogura-Nagarbari highway at Parkola in Sirajganj yesterday morning.

Many Awami League rebel candidates for Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) councillor race are determined to contest the polls, despite the party’s strict order of not doing so.

A teenage boy was found dead in a pond near his house in Gazaria upazila of Munshiganj yesterday, 18 days after he had reportedly gone missing.

Antigen testing for Covid-19 has started in Chattogram from Tuesday on a test basis. Initially, the service is limited only to Bangladesh Institute of Tropical and Infectious Diseases (BITID) laboratory at Fauzderhat, said officials of Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS).

Most days of the week, Jagannath University student Ayesha Nijhum is seen sitting in an open field near her house in Gazipur’s Kapasia. The second-year student of management attends online classes on her cellphone for about two hours and prefers the field over her house due to the better signal reception in the open area.

Over a century ago, in late 1913, Teddy Roosevelt went on an expedition in Brazil to navigate the mysterious and uncharted river called the River of Doubt.

Fardin Iftekhar Dihan, the lone accused arrested in connection with a case filed over the rape and murder of an English medium school student, today gave his confessional statement to a Dhaka magistrate.

Police will seek a 10-day remand for Fardin Iftekhar Dihan in connection with the case filed over the murder of a 17-year-old after rape at a flat in Dhaka's Kalabagan area yesterday.

A case was filed against Fardin Iftekhar Dihan in connection with the murder of a 17-year-old after rape, at a flat in Dhaka's Kalabagan area yesterday.

A Dhaka court yesterday asked Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) again to submit by February 3 probe reports of two sedition cases filed against Hefajat-e-Islam chief Junayed Babunagari and two other leaders.

Family of M Farid Chowdhury, who went to take possession of anti-British revolutionary Jatindra Mohan Sengupta’s house after obtaining a “court order”, yesterday said they did not grab the house, rather they went to take possession of the property following legal procedures.

There were rumours that something shady was going on in the area but no one was sure about it.

Ten Supreme Court lawyers yesterday submitted an application to the Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) for taking appropriate legal action over the allegations against the Election Commission including the chief election commissioner (CEC) of causing a loss of Tk 7.47 crore of the state in the name of training allowance.

A decade since Felani Khatun was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force (BSF), but her family’s wait for justice is not over yet.

The government is planning population density zoning in the capital based on the size of an area and civic facilities, said LGRD Minister Md Tajul Islam yesterday.

Lawmakers at a meeting of the parliamentary standing committee on agriculture ministry yesterday expressed their indignation and doubt over the ministry’s claim that 4,390 “family nutrition gardens” have been set up at different unions across the country.

Zoom- probably this word this year is equivalent to what Facebook was back in 2012. Thanks to the pandemic, zoom call has become a household staple.

An O-level student has died after she was allegedly raped in Dhaka’s Kalabagan area this afternoon.

Administrator of Chattogram City Corporation Khursed Alam Sujan and his wife have tested positive for coronavirus today.

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