A small tea shop owner named Khokon Hasan from Bogura's Jahangirabad Fultola area found himself in crisis on Wednesday night, April 1, when he tried to buy an LPG cylinder. After visiting several shops, he could not find one. He was quoted Tk 1,900 for a 12kg cylinder, a price far beyond his means.
Two more infants have died with measles-like symptoms in Kushtia within an 18-hour span, raising the total number of such deaths in the district to four, health officials said on Friday (April 3).
BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has dismissed claims that the party opposes reforms, calling such statements false and misleading.
A 26-year-old woman was allegedly raped by a Dinajpur Upazila livestock officer at his office in Hakimpur on a weekly holiday, police said.
A dispute over the local soil trade led to an arson attack on the house of a Bangladesh Jatiotabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader at Sharshadi Union in Feni.
A Bangladeshi man detained by India’s Border Security Force (BSF) while cutting grass near the border has returned home as a body nearly 11 months later, officials said.