A lighter vessel got stuck in a shoal near Meher Ali Char in the Bay of Bengal in Bagerhat yesterday.

Qulkhwani of former foreign secretary Syed Muazzem Ali was held after Asr prayers at Gulshan Azad Mosque in the capital yesterday.

Brig Gen Sanwar Huda, psc (retd), passed away at his residence on Wednesday. He was 72.

The country’s Hindu community yesterday decided to celebrate the Saraswati Puja on January 30, which is coinciding with the two Dhaka city corporations polls day.

Widespread use of expired gas cylinders in vehicles ignoring official directives is leading to a high number of accidents across Laxmipur district but the administration is doing little to address the problem, according to locals.

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) Additional Commissioner Monirul Islam yesterday said punishment is not enough to dissuade youths from getting involved in extremism.

The Department of Environment (DoE) in Barishal demolished four illegal brick kilns on the banks of Arial Kha on Thursday afternoon.

The first death anniversary of former general secretary of Awami League and public administration minister Syed Ashraful Islam was observed with due solemnity yesterday.

Journalists in Tangail demonstrated in Bhuapur upazila yesterday, protesting an incident at Govindasi area where four local journalists were attacked by gamblers.

“Overcrowded” will likely be an understatement for the Narayanganj District Jail, which is currently holding inmates six times its capacity.

Former lawmaker of Awami League from reserved seat, Advocate Fazilatun Nasa Bappy, was laid to eternal rest at the Mirpur Martyred Intellectuals’ Graveyard on Thursday evening.

A total of 22 accidents occurred in 2019 in around 500km area of the Dhaka-Chattogram-Sylhet section of Bangladesh Railway’s East Zone.

Rab yesterday arrested a man with 992 bottles of phensedyl from the capital’s Uttara. The arrestee is Md Sabbir (23).

Cumilla Medical College Hospital is unable to provide necessary medical services to patients due to a lack of manpower and equipment, causing sufferings to low-income people who largely depend on this public hospital.

An 11-year-old girl was reportedly raped by an unidentified youth in Ambagan area near Jahangirnagar University on Thursday, a day after her family had moved there from Kishoreganj.

It is a common fallacy that most birds seen here in winter are migratory species. In fact, of the 700 bird species seen in Bangladesh, only about 260 are winter visitors.

On their way to attend a relative’s burial, siblings Anwara and Jaharul tragically died in a road accident in Nilphamari yesterday morning. They died after a night-coach collided head-on with the microbus carrying them, reports our Nilphamari correspondent.

Some 1,000 patients have been selected for free cataract operation at Dr Muqtadir Eye Hospital in Mymensingh.

A Dhaka court sends a police official to jail after he was arrested and produced before the court in connection with a rape case.

Awami League General Secretary and Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader says former AL General Secretary Syed Ashraful Islam was an idol for the country’s politicians and his sacrifice and contributions to the nation will be remembered forever.