A 20-year-old man who was arrested in Chittagong city's Amin Colony field on Sunday night says police deliberately shot him in the calf muscle from a close range just hours later while law enforcers claim the pellets were shot by his cohorts during an exchange of gunfire with police.

A state-owned filling station in the capital's Poribagh was shut down for several hours yesterday after consumers laid siege to it alleging that the petrol pumps had been tampered with and were providing less than what the consumers were paying for.

Several hundred people locked the divisional headquarters of Water Development Board (WDB) in Rajshahi city yesterday demanding that the authorities concerned ensure protection of the district from bank erosion of Padma.

Transport workers' blockade on the first Buriganga Bridge protesting a steep rise in toll rates and demanding an immediate revision of the new charges continued for the third consecutive day yesterday.

The government ban on three-wheelers and slow-moving vehicles on highways effective from yesterday brought enormous sufferings on people as transport owners and drivers put barricades at different points protesting the ban. Parts of Dhaka-Chittagong, Dhaka-Khulna, Dhaka-Sylhet, Dhaka-Barisal, Dhaka-Tangail and Dhaka-Mymensingh highways were blocked by agitated transport workers, causing tailbacks on both sides of the roads.

Health and Family Welfare Minister Mohammad Nasim yesterday asked the promoted doctors to remain prepared to work at district-level.

Workers of Chandpur Tea Garden in Habiganj yesterday threatened that they would rather die than give up their ancestral land chosen

“If you are brave, then take away the land-grabbers' land. Only then we will accept that this is a brave state.”

Every day long queues are seen in front of the seven toilets for 6,000 female students at Dhaka University's Arts Building, revealing an appalling condition of its sanitation facilities.

Traffic gridlock on airport road in Uttara area became acute due to heavy rain and pressure of the Dhaka-bound vehicles from different adjoining districts.

After two consecutive dry monsoons, the country this year experiences 25 percent more rainfall than usual, hampering daily life and

Teachers sometimes fail to deliver English lessons in the expected manner due to a lack of good techniques and experience, said

Hundreds of three-wheeler auto-rickshaw drivers and locals who use non-motorised transports blocked for the second time in eight

For the low-lying parts of Chittagong waterlogging is a serious problem especially during the monsoon, but in the city's Agrabad CDA

A Dubai-Sylhet flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines narrowly escaped an accident after a bird ended up inside the plane's engine during

Hundreds of drivers and workers of truck, mini-truck, covered-van and tank-lorry yesterday formed a human chain protesting the

State Minister for Fisheries and Animal Resources Narayan Chandra Chanda asked the field level officials concerned and other dairy and

Prestigious publishing house in Japan, The Ashahi Shoten Publishers, has published “The Unfinished Memoirs” of Father of the Nation

The events of March 24, 2011 are still vivid in Shahjahan Sheikh's mind.

Two more lives perished, around two lakh people were marooned and hundreds of houses damaged as the weakened tropical storm