A bomb explosion has occurred in the bedroom of an imam of a mosque in Madaripur Sadar upazila. The tin fence of the room was damaged in the incident but no casualties have been reported. Panic spread among the locals over the incident.
Three separate programmes were organised by different factions of Faridganj upazila BNP in Chandpur on the occasion of the party’s 48th founding anniversary instead of a single event. A BNP leader died of a stroke while participating in a rally in one of the programmes held in the upazila town on Tuesday (September 1).
Police have recovered the bodies of a father and his two minor children from a house in Sharsha upazila of Jashore on Tuesday afternoon. Police initially believe the father killed the two children and then took his own life out of mental depression arising from family dispute.
Crown Automobile Services, a Dhaka-based importer, has again been found involved in the same strategy of importing luxury cars in pieces by declaring them as old car parts, this time at Chattogram Port. A similar consignment under the same importer’s name was seized at Mongla Port a few days ago.
Brent Christensen, US Ambassador to Dhaka, has expressed excitement over his first train journey experience after assuming responsibilities in Bangladesh. He inspected Bangladesh Railway’s Central Locomotive Workshop in Parbatipur of Dinajpur and then travelled by train to Saidpur Railway Station in Nilphamari on Tuesday (September 1).
Campus students have detained a student named Morshed Alam alias Adib, 20, on charges of making indecent comments about female students of the residential hostel of Feni Polytechnic Institute on Facebook and handed him over to police. Later he was released on bond as the institute authorities did not file any written complaint.