Unidentified miscreants broke into a house and beat a homemaker named Bina Rani Roy, 58, to death in Chandina, Cumilla. The incident occurred around 8:30pm at the Shil House in Barkait Dakshinpara under Barkait Union of the upazila on Monday . The deceased, Bina Rani Roy, was the wife of Dilip Kumar Roy, a resident of that village.
The central committee of Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chhatra Dal has dissolved the existing committee of its unit at Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU) following a clash between two factions on campus.
Allegations of irregularities and favouritism have surfaced in the selection of mosques for a government stipend programme for imams, muezzins and caretakers in Keshabpur of Jashore, with local residents accusing political leaders of replacing the names of actual mosque workers with those of Jamaat-e-Islami figures.
The officer-in-charge (OC) of Satkhira Sadar Police Station and two other officers have been transferred following controversy over a video recorded inside the station’s lock-up showing detained Awami League leaders and activists, according to police and related sources.
Three people were killed and at least 20 others injured after a passenger bus collided head-on with a dump truck in Gopalganj.
A fire broke out at a building in Companiganj, Noakhali, on Tuesday morning, August 18. Over 20 people took shelter on the roof of the building. Fire service personnel rescued 20 people from the roof and another 15 from inside, safely evacuating them .