Rajshahi: Seven people were killed as a sand-laden truck crashed into a rickshaw van at Malipara Tebbaria in Puthia upazila yesterday afternoon, reports UNB. Five of the deceased were identified as Sumi, 28, wife of Bimal Thakur of Dasmaria, their son Roudra, 5, and niece Puja, 10, Bidyut, 35, and his…

Police held two men along with Tk 1.34 crore from a private car in Soydabad intersection area, western side of Bangabandhu Jamuna Multipurpose Bridge in Sirajganj ysterday afternoon. The arrestees were identified as Babu Islam, 28, driver of the private car  and Abdur Razzaque, 29. Acting on a…

Police superintendent of Manikganj Mahfuzur Rahaman stressed on more active participation of community members and strengthening the community policing system to check different types of criminal activities and maintaining law and order in the society. He said this yesterday at a co-ordination meeting…

A Chandpur court yesterday sent three local BNP leaders to jail after rejecting their bail prayers in a case filed for arson attack on a truck that left four people killed in sadar  upazila on March 18 during the hartal called by BNP-led alliance. They are Sheikh Farid Ahmed Manik, district unit…

High Yielding Variety (HYV) Thai guava is becoming popular in Kotchandpur upazila, where farmers are being solvent by growing the vitamin-enriched summer fruit. Sources at the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) in Jhenidah said this season various fruits have been cultivated on over 11,000 hectares…

Debut author Zia Haider Rahman has won Britain's oldest literary awards, the James Tait Black Prize for his novel "In the Light of What We Know", his publishers said yesterday. The Bangladesh-origin author joins a distinguished list of writers like D H Lawrence, Graham Greene, Angela Carter…

The complication in issuance of e-visa for hajj pilgrims has been resolved giving a sigh of relief to the hajj performers at the Ashkona hajj camp. The Saudi Embassy in Dhaka has started issuing visas for the hajj pilgrims normally since Monday night after the removal of technical faults, particularly…

Locals confined two armed members of Border Security Force (BSF) at Shuvanagar village in South Sadar upazila yesterday morning. The BSF members were identified as Robiul and Mukesh of BSF battalion-145, reports UNB. Local union parishad Chairman Johirul Islam said the two BSF members entered Bangladesh…

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regularity Committee (BTRC) is looking to undertake a holistic initiative to form a central organization comprising law enforcers, detective branches and security agencies in order to curb cyber crime in the country and to increase cyber security, reports UNB. A proposal…

A local Juba League leader suffered bullet injuries in an attack by miscreants in the city’s Wari area yesterday night, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Abdul Mannan, 30, general secretary of ward-31 unit of Juba League, the youth wing of ruling Awami League. Sources at Dhaka Medical…