Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader yesterday said around 50 percent overall progress in the much-awaited Padma Bridge construction has already been achieved. He also said the second span of the bridge is likely to be installed by mid-January next as the government has still the target…

Audience remained captivated as they were showered with lofty performances one after another during the second night of Bengal Classical Music Festival…

The High Court yesterday said Biroda Rani Roy, assistant commissioner (land) of Bhurungamari upazila in Kurigram, misused her power by sentencing a lawyer through a mobile court in Dinajpur district, reports UNB. The HC bench comprising Justice Md Habibul Gani and Justice KM Kamrul Kader came up with…

A suspected robber was killed in a ‘gunfight’ at a graveyard at Bhalaipur village in Alamdanga upazila of Chuadanga early yesterday. The deceased was identified as Ketu Ahmed, 30, of Akandabaria village in Chuadanga sadar upazila.  According to Chuadanga Sadar Police Station, Ketu was…

Huge raw jute were burnt down in a fire that broke out at two warehouses of a jute mill by Bhatpara-Bejerdanga road in Phultala upazila early yesterday, reports UNB.  Witnesses said the fire originated at a female shed of 'Ahyan Jute Mills Ltd' around 6:30am and it soon spread to the two…

Six municipalities and 37 Union Parishads of different districts will go to polls today, reports UNB. The voting will open at 8am and continue till 4pm without any break. Besides, by-polls to the chairman posts of six Union Parishads and election of a polling station of a Union Parishad, which was earlier…

Abu Sama, 45, the prime suspect in a gang-rape case arrested on Tuesday, gave a confessional statement before a Chittagong court yesterday in connection with the incident in which four women were raped in a house in Chittagong. The Police Bureau of Investigation (PBI) yesterday (Wednesday) produced…