Eight people were killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup van in Sylhet on Sunday morning, according to local police. The accident took place at around 6:00 am in the Talibazar area of South Surma, Sylhet. All those killed were construction workers travelling in the pickup van, although their identities had […]

A Bangladeshi farmer collapsed and died in his own waterlogged paddy field after witnessing the devastation of his ripened rice crop submerged by floodwaters, in a heartbreaking incident in the Nasirnagar upazila of Brahmanbaria district. The deceased, 55-year-old Ahad Miah, a resident of Rampur village under Goalgon Union, had gone to his six-bigha rice field […]

A Union Parishad (UP) member and his associates have been accused of illegally cutting down over a hundred trees from both sides of an irrigation canal under the Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) in Harinakundu upazila of Jhenaidah district. Following the incident, the BWDB authorities have lodged a formal complaint at the local police station, […]

Police in Chandpur’s Hajiganj upazila have recovered the body of a man found with his hands and feet bound, in what authorities suspect to be a premeditated killing linked to a robbery incident in a neighbouring district. The deceased, identified as Farid (43), son of Shahjahan from Miji Bari in Begumganj upazila of Noakhali, was […]

Bangladesh has recorded the lowest proportion of minimally qualified teachers among South Asian countries, according to the latest UNESCO Global Education Statistics. The findings present a comparatively weak position for the country in terms of teacher preparedness at the secondary education level. The data indicate that, on average, only 55 per cent of secondary school […]

A sudden and unexplained incident involving the deaths of four members of the same family in Mumbai, India, has prompted an ongoing police investigation and forensic examination, with early findings challenging initial assumptions that the cause was food-related poisoning. According to reports, including those published by NDTV, the incident occurred after a family gathering at […]

United States President Donald Trump has drawn attention after making a remark suggesting that Cuba could be “taken over very quickly”, delivered in a joking tone during a public event in Florida. According to a report by Fox News, the comments were made on Friday while Trump was speaking at the Forum Club in Palm […]

Two people have been killed in a road traffic collision on the Dhaka–Chattogram highway in Sonargaon upazila of Narayanganj. The incident occurred at approximately 2:00am on Thursday in the Tipordi area while vehicles were travelling on the Dhaka-bound carriageway. The deceased have been identified as Mohammad Ali (35), from Basabo-Adarshapur in Kotwali upazila of Barishal, […]