About 22 officers and employees of Monpura upazila, an island on the Meghna River close to the Bay of Bengal, have been living in the dilapidated and vulnerable dormitory for a long time. Sources said the two-storey dormitory building was constructed in 1984 by the Local Government and Engineering Department…

Police in a drive recovered 10 petrol bombs and 12 crude bombs from Jhikra area in Nachole upazila on Tuesday, reports UNB. Acting on a tip-off, a team of police conducted a raid at a room used for irrigation, near a crop field in the area and recovered the bombs around 10 am, said Tarikul Islam, officer-in-charge…

A mobile court here on Monday night sentenced four teenage boys to three months’ jail each for teasing some young girls at Ashkamta village in Sadar Dakkhin upazila, reports UNB. The identities of the convicts could not be known yet. Prashanta Kumar Pal, officer-in-charge of Sadar Dakkhin police…

Erosion has taken a serious turn along the two-kilometre  river bank of the  Meghna, close to Ilisha ferry terminal, since the day of Eid-ul-Fitr. About 200 metres of river bank has already been devoured by the river.  People of South Rajapur villages and traders of adjacent Ilisha Johnson…

Md Abdul Momin, an associate professor of the Farm Power and Machinery Department under the Agricultural Engineering and Technology Faculty of   Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh has been given the Japanese Society of Agricultural Machinery and Food Engineers (JSAM) Young…

A man was crushed under the wheels of a passenger bus at Jolfoitoli area on Dhaka-Kishorgonj highway in Kapasia upazila of Gazipur district yesterday morning. The deceased has been identified as Nazrul Islam, 45, of Kitonia village in the upazila. Officer-in-charge of Kapasia police station Ahsan Ullah…