As the Bengali month of "Chaitra" entered its 14th day yesterda, the slow building up of heat, influenced by a westerly low pressure hanging over Sub-Himalayan West Bengal and its adjoining areas, may trigger rain with strong winds and hailstorms at isolated places today (Wednesday). The Met…

Water experts at a seminar in Dhaka yesterday said local body representatives need to be authorised to file cases against river polluters as the Bangladesh Environment Conservation Act, 1995 is absolutely ‘ineffective’ to prevent pollution, reports UNB. “It’s urgently needed…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is going to inaugurate and lay the foundation stones of 33 development projects in Faridpur today, reports BSS. During the visit, Sheikh Hasina, also the Awami League (AL) President, will address a public meeting to be orgainised by the district AL at Government Rajendra…

A two-month old boy was slaughtered allegedly by his mother at Digda village in Kapasia upazila early yesterday, reports UNB from Gazipur Family sources said Shahinur slaughtered his son Mihsan Sadit early in the morning when her husband Shariful Haque went out of the house for Fazr prayers. Hearing…

Four women drowned and 15 people went missing as a trawler, carrying some 100 passengers, capsized in the Panguchi River in Morelganj upazila yesterday morning, reports UNB from Bagerhat. The deceased were identified as Beauty, 38, wife of Mohsin Ali of Kalibari village and her mother, Seyar Banu, 50,…