Five people including a minor boy suffered severe burn injuries after the gas cylinder of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw exploded at Bahaddarhat in Chattogram city yesterday. The injured were identified as Md Farid, 40, the driver of the CNG auto-rickshaw, and its passengers Naznin Akter, 25, her son Mohammad…

China’s state news agency Xinhua this week introduced the newest members of its newsroom: AI anchors who will report “tirelessly” all day every day, from anywhere in the country. Chinese viewers were greeted with a digital version of a regular Xinhua news anchor named Qiu Hao. The…

A Bangladeshi cattle trader who was shot reportedly by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) along Jahurpur Tek border in Sadar upazila on Wednesday died at a Rajshahi hospital yesterday. The deceased was identified as Fatik, 30, son of Abdul Latif of Sundarpur Bogdanga village in the upazila. Victim's…

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has said China will continue supporting Bangladesh's various economic development and infrastructure projects. He conveyed this to Bangladesh's Foreign Secretary M Shahidul Haque at a meeting in Beijing, said the Foreign Ministry yesterday. Shahidul Haque led…

A team of experts from Singapore-based Excelerate Energy arrived yesterday to examine and fix an underwater valve of the country’s first LNG terminal that malfunctioned at Maheshkhali, sources at the Petrobangla said. The experts have already completed a primary examination of the valve located…

Two separate probe bodies of three-member each have been formed over Wednesday's fire incident that killed eight people in Aramnagar area of the district. Deputy Commissioner Md Jakir Hossain formed the three-member committee headed by Additional District Magistrate Sonia Binte Tabib while superintendent…

A member of Parbatiya Chattogram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS-MN Larma) was shot dead by miscreants at Baradam Bandartala in Longdu upazila yesterday. The victim was identified as Bhaijja Gola Chakma alias Raja, an activist of the PCJSS-MN Larma reformist group and son of Dhirendra Chakma of Baradam…