The Bangladesh Railway has not been able to salvage the two wagons of a freight train carrying furnace oil which plunged into a Chittagong canal on June 19, even though six days have passed after the accident. The BR authorities said it might take a few more days before the wagons could be salvaged.…

Japan is beating out China in a race to build Bangladesh’s first deep-sea port as the region’s powers jostle for a foothold in the Indian Ocean, reports Bloomberg. Construction of the 18-meter-deep port at Matarbari on Bangladesh’s southeast coast is set to start by January, Japan…

A batch of 41 Bangladeshis earlier trafficked into Thailand by sea arrived in Dhaka yesterday, reports UNB.  A flight of Biman Bangladesh airlines carrying them landed at Hazrat Shahjalal Int’l Airport at 7:30pm, said an official.  Among the returnees, 13 hail from Cox’s Bazar,…

A Narayanganj court yesterday sentenced Nagarik Andalan leader Rafiur Rabbi to one year in prison and fined him Tk 2.10 crore in a cheque fraud case. Rabbi was present at the courtroom when Additional District and Session Judge Md Mamunur Rashid passed the order. The cheque fraud case was filed by one…

Bangladesh have moved up one place to seventh in the Reliance ICC ODI Team Rankings following its series win against India in Mirpur yesterday, says the world cricket apex body. The 2-1 series has put Bangladesh on 93 ratings points – five behind sixth-ranked England and five ahead of eighth-ranked…