A physician was burnt to death while his wife sustained serious burn injuries at a house in Khulshi area of the city yesterday morning. The physician Imtiaz Karim, 50, died while undergoing treatment at Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) and his wife Sabrina Selina, 45, has been shifted to Dhaka…

Reckless driving from the opposite direction on one-way roads in Hatirjheel has become a menace. What was built as one-way roads along two sides of the lake providing short-cuts to Gulshan and Rampura or Badda areas of the city, avoiding the congested Kazi Nazrul Islam Avenue or Moghbazar, have become…

Md Kamrul Hasan Selim, director of Barisal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital has been made officer on special duty (OSD), without citing any allegation against him. The authorities in this regard issued a letter on Thursday afternoon along with a transfer order for him.  He was replaced by…

A minor girl drowned in a pit filled with rainwater near her house on the Kathalbagan-Kalabagan Road in the capital’s Kathalbagan area yesterday, reports UNB. The deceased was Meem Akter, 7, daughter of Ismail Hossain, a tea seller and a resident of the area. Quoting Mizanur Rahman, paternal uncle…

Some unscrupulous staff of Bangladesh Railway are collecting money illegally from passengers travelling without tickets in intercity and container trains. The railway staff involved in this racket is allegedly helped by the Railway Police and Traffic Inspector Commercial (TIC), who share the money,…

SYLHET: Two students of an educational institute were stabbed alleged by two other students of the same institution in Baluchar area of the city on Thursday night as they had refused to join a faction of local Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) unit, reports UNB. The victims were Jahan, 14, and Shayek,…

A falcon of a rare species was rescued from Gariar Par area of the city on Thursday noon. But the bird at present lies debilitated due to over bleeding resulting from injury suspected to have from gunshot on its wing.   Hedayet Hossain, a teacher of a school run by Underprivileged Children’s…

A team of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) seized a total of 7,64,100 pieces of banned drugs from a pharmaceutical factory in the city yesterday. RAB-8 sources said that they were informed that Barisal Indo-Bangla Pharma had been continuing production and marketing of some types of drugs that were banned…

CHITTAGONG: A worker died in workplace accident in Madunaghat area of Hathazari upazila of the city yesterday. The deceased was Mohammad Manik, 20, hailed from Purbadhala upazila of Netrokona district. Pankaj Barua, Nayak, Chittagong Medical College Hospital (CMCH) police outpost, told The Independent…