An attempt to solemnise marriage of a 12-year-old girl with a 30-year-old man at Dickdair village in Sonatola upazila was foiled on Friday night with the help of local administration. Sonatola Upazila Nirbahi Officer Habibur Rahman with a team of police stopped  the marriage of Sabli Khatun, a…

BNP Chairperson Khaleda Zia will sit in an emergency meeting with leaders of the 20-party alliance today. "The meeting of the 20-party alliance will be held at BNP chairperson's Gulshan office around 7:30pm," BNP chairperson's media wing member Sayrul Kabir Khan told UNB last night.…

Before their Australia test, Bangladesh football team yesterday posted a goalless draw with Malaysia in a FIFA international friendly match at Shah Alam Stadium in Kuala Lumpur. The match would surely work as a booster for the Bangladesh team before their game against Australia as the footballers made…

Police yesterday arrested two alleged rapists in connection with Wednesday’s ‘gang rape’ of a housewife at Nandipara under the capital’s Sobujbagh Police Station. The arrestees were identified as Manir Hossain, 30, a fish trader, and Zafar Ali, 32, a poacher. They are residents…

A human chain programme of BNP in Chittagong to protest the price hike of essentials was foiled yesterday by the police. Police officials claimed that the BNP did not obtain any permission for holding the human chain in the port city. BNP Chittagong city unit organised the human chain on the Chittagong…

Speakers at a protest rally of the Communist Party of Bangladesh yesterday said that the hike of gas and power prices has come as an electric shock for the mass people of the country, reports UNB. “This is noting but an electric shock to the people,” said eminent columnist Syed Abul Maksud…

A Dhaka court yesterday placed each of the five people, arrested in connection with a case filed against them for their alleged involvement with an international human organ trafficking syndicate, on a three-day remand. Dhaka Metropolitan Magistrate Hasibul Haq passed the order after Detective Branch…

A student-run organisation named ‘Podium’ has been established at Dhaka University to create a ‘free- speaking’ platform for the students where they can share innovative ideas and thoughts and disseminate them to the greater mass to carry out social change, reports UNB. The vision…

Ten people were killed in separate road accidents in Savar, Jamalpur, Noakhali, Bogra and Tangail yesterday. In Savar: Three garment workers were killed as a bus ran over them on Dhaka-Aricha highway in Ulail bus stand area  yesterday, reports UNB. The identities of the deceased could not be known…

Aiming to protect the globally endangered white-rumped vulture (Gyps bengalensis) from its imminent extinction, a vulture feeding station has been set up for the first time in Bangladesh, reports UNB. "Establishment of a community-based vulture feeding station is a unique move in the country to…

A man drowned and another went missing as a boat capsized in the Mahananda River at Bazrartek of Bholahat upazila yesterday. The deceased was identified as Biltu Sheikh, 55, a resident of Bazrartek village. Mohsin Ali, officer-in-charge of Bholahat police, said the boat carrying 7/8 labourers sank in…

A traditional boat race on the river Chitra was held yesterday in observance of 91st birth anniversary of painter SM Sultan. The programme was arranged jointly by SM Sultan Foundation and district administration in collaboration with Bangladesh Rowing Federation. At 2-30 pm, the boat race for women…

Dhaka City Awami League is scheduled to bring out a mourning procession in the capital today in observance of the National Mourning Day commemorating the 39th anniversary of martyrdom of Father of the Nation  Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, reports UNB. As part of the 40-day programme of the…

An attempt to solemnise marriage of a 12-year-old girl with a 30-year-old man at Dickdair village in Sonatola upazila was foiled on Friday night with the help of local administration. Sonatola Upazila Nirbahi Officer Habibur Rahman with a team of police stopped  the marriage of Sabli Khatun, a…

Police arrested three men from Khandar intersection area in Bogra town early yesterday in an arson attack case and recovered six machetes, 62 pieces of yaba tablets from their possession.  The arrestees are identified as Lahiripara union parishad Chairman Julfikar Abu Naser, 43, of Bhabaniganj…

NARAYANGANJ: A head-on collision between a covered van and a private car yesterday killed the car passenger and seriously injured its driver in Purinda area under Araihazar police station, police and family sources said, reports BSS. Officer-in-Charge of Araihazar police station Alamgir Hossain said,…