The upazila nirbahi officer (UNO) of Trishal in Mymensingh dies and a staff is seriously injured in a road accident in Boilor area on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in the upazila.

Five people are injured when security guards of a steel mill allegedly opened gunfire during a demonstration following a death in a road crash in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong.

Fire damaged valuables of eight houses and eight shops in separate incidents in Chittagong city early yesterday.

Detectives claim detention of six members of a dope gang from Darussalam area of Dhaka.

A farmer died from electrocution in Khansama upazila yesterday.

BNP yesterday blamed the Election Commission for the killings and violence during the Union Parishad election's first phase on Tuesday, demanding that the chief election commissioner (CEC) and his deputies resign on accepting that they failed to do their duty.

At least three people are burnt as fire broke out at a shoe manufacturing factory in Bangshal area of Dhaka.

Six people were killed and two others injured in road accidents in three districts yesterday and on Tuesday.

Fire destroyed around 700 betel leaf gardens on 300 bighas of land at Fakirabad, Baggaripur, Bahadurpur, Parankhali and Jamalpur areas in Kushtia's Bheramara upazila on Tuesday evening.

Bangladesh and India take a stride into bilateral relationship with the exchange of internet bandwidth and electricity in the warm ambiance of Holi. In exchange for 10 GBPS internet bandwidth from Bangladesh, India will supply 100MW electricity.

Three labourers were killed by lightning at Maghdail in Maheshkhali upazila of the district yesterday. Of the deceased, two were identified

An Ansar member was killed by a bullet fired accidentally from his own gun while performing duty at a polling centre in Bisharkandi union

The Department of Environment (DoE) seized a tonne of banned polythene bags from a polythene factory in Purba Bakalia area of Chittagong city yesterday.

Nine teachers jointly submitted a letter resigning from administrative posts at AFM Kamal Uddin Hall of Jahangirnagar University (JU) yesterday just hours after some resident students handed over a memorandum demanding that the provost quit.

Rapid Action Battalion yesterday afternoon arrested a person with 10,000 Yaba pills, worth Tk 40 lakh from the parking lot of a restuarent

At least four people are killed and 12 injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Shibganj upazila of Bogra.

A three-wheeler driver was killed when he fell on the Satkhira-Khulna highway after a bus hit his vehicle in Ahsan Nagar area of Satkhira yesterday.

Four houses were gutted in a fire at Mehedi Mahal village in Rajnagar upazila of the district on Friday night. Mofiz Uddin, an officer at

Economist Prof Dr Abul Barkat in a seminar yesterday said communalism and fundamental militancy must be

A cargo vessel carrying coal capsizes at Shela river in Chandpai range of the Sundarbans in Bagerhat.