The government has constituted a committee to take necessary steps to demolish or relocate unauthorised religious structures built on riverbanks across the country, reports UNB. The convening committee was formed at a meeting on ‘eviction of illegal structures from riverbanks’ held at the…

The overall flood situation in the northern region may improve in the next 48 hours, as the Brahmaputra-Jamuna, that caused havoc in the downstream districts of Kurigram, Sirajganj and Bogra, has started falling. However, there is a new menace. The river has begun eroding areas which came under flooding,…

Police recovered the body of a schoolboy with the throat slashed and his legs, hands were tied with ropes from a jute field at Char Kathakhali in Sariakandi upazila of Bogra district yesterday morning. The deceased was identified as Sohag, 8, son of Mohidul Islam Nukur of the area. He was also a student…

Leaders of National Committee to Protect Oil, Gas, Mineral Resources, Power and Ports yesterday threatened to go for a yearlong agitation if their decade-old…

The Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) will sit with the Ministry of Power, Energy and Mineral Resources today to fix the tariffs on fuel oil, power and gas transmission charges at the bulk and consumer levels. BERC secretary Monwar Hossain Akand told The Independent that the Prime Minister’s…

The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has accused the government of falsely implicating party chairperson Khaleda Zia and senior vice chairman Tarique Rahman as the masterminds in sabotage cases. “Government agents had carried out acts of terror and sabotage during the previous movements of the…

The family of a minor girl, allegedly raped on August 7, was ‘obstructed’ to file a case by some local headmen and journalists in association with some influential people of Saturia upazila in Manikganj district. Family members of the victim and lawyers alleged that a syndicate did it only…

Pabna: A case has been filed against some 3,000 people in connection with the killing of three cattle traders in a lynch-mob-attack in Santhia upazila on Tuesday suspecting them as kidnappers, reports UNB. Police said Rana, brother of victim Alauddin alias Alal, a former UP member of sadar upazila in…

Bagerhat: A court yesterday sent 14 Indian fishermen, who were arrested from Fairway Buoy area of the Bay of Bengal on Monday for illegal intrusion in the Bangladesh maritime boundary, to jail, reports UNB. Judge of the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court passed the order when police produced them before…

Comilla:  A man was stabbed to death allegedly by his drug addict teenage son at Joag village in Barura upazila of the district on Tuesday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Abdur Rob, 65, of the village. Quoting locals, police said Jewel, 15, used to seek money from his parents…

A man was hit by bullets while 15 others fishermen were injured while a gang of robbers attacked them at a fishing trawler in the Meghna River near Monpura upazila on Tuesday night. Police said the fishing trawler of Abdul Kader Majhi came under attack by a gang of robbers in the river Meghna while…

Marking the 91st birth anniversary of artist SM Sultan a four-day long ‘Sultan Utsab’ (Sultan festival) organised by SM Sultan Shishu Charu O Karukala Founda­tion has been launched yesterday at the Sultan Manch premises of the district town.The programmes include art competition for…