PM returns home Oct 7
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, now on an official visit to the United States, would return home on October 7.
Comilla bus plunge leaves seven dead
At least seven people were killed and 15 others injured as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Nuritola area of Chandina in Comilla on Sunday. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately.
Ashura observed recalling Karbala tragedy
The Muslims in Bangladesh as elsewhere in the world observed the Ashura on Sunday marking the 10th day of Muharram with due religious solemnity and in a befitting manner.
Rain comes to Tigers’ rescue
South African fast bowler Morne Morkel took two wickets for no runs in the first over of Bangladesh's second innings before an injury to the fast bowler and a thunderstorm hit South Africa's hopes of an early win on the fourth day of the first Test on Sunday.
Aid groups call for access to Myanmar conflict zone
International aid groups in Myanmar have urged the government to allow free access to Rakhine State, where an army offensive has sent 480,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh but hundreds of thousands remain cut off from food, shelter and medical care.
Fire at six-storey building in Gulshan doused
A fire broke out at an office in city's Gulshan area on Thursday.Ataur Rahman, duty officer of Fire Service and Civil Defence control room, said the fire broke out at the 4th floor of a six-storey building around 8:25am.
PM undergoes successful gall bladder surgery in Washington
Prime minister Sheikh Hasina, now in the United States in connection with the 72nd United Nations National Assembly session, underwent a gall bladder operation in Washington on September 25 night (Washington time).
Govt not making sincere efforts over Rohingya crisis: Fakhrul
Bangladesh Nationalist Party secretary general Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir on Tuesday complained that the government was not making sincere efforts to resolve the Rohingya crisis.
City bus kills rickshaw-puller in Bangla Motor crossing
A young rickshaw-puller was killed and several other people were injured in a road accident in Bangla Motor crossing in Dhaka on Tuesday night
WRONG LANE DRIVING Cases filed against govt vehicles, motorcycles
Traffic department of Dhaka Metropolitan Police on Tuesday filed 58 cases against drivers of motorcycles and other vehicles for wrong lane driving at Bijoy Sarani crossing and Hare Road
