Sajek Gonoadhikar Raksha Committee and Sajek Karbari Association have announced an indefinite blockade of the Sajek tourism road again from Thursday, as their three-point demands have not been met. The programme was announced over various demands, including the removal of members of the JSS Santu group from the Sajek area.
Three tourists have died while bathing at Himchhari beach in Cox's Bazar. One person has been rescued alive, while two others are still missing. The incident took place on the beach adjacent to the museum of Marina Resort in Himchhari on Wednesday evening.
A bullet has been found inside the skull of slain Juba Dal leader Shaker Hossain, 39, at the Royal Transport counter in the central bus terminal of Magura Municipality. Doctors and multiple police sources confirmed this information to the media after the post-mortem on Wednesday afternoon. Doctors are primarily assuming that he die
Prime Minister Tarique Rahman today provided Tk 12 crore in incentives to 38,970 sugarcane farmers in the Rajshahi region to support sugarcane cultivation.
Sweetie Akter, from Tangail, went to Saudi Arabia nearly four years ago. For the first five months, she sent money home. Then, one day, she called her family and told them she had been taken to prison. She remained in regular contact with them afterwards. Even just 15 days before reports emerged that her death sentence had been carried out, Sweetie called home from prison. Her family says she did not mention anything about a death sentence during that conversation.
Ten of the 14 people killed in a head-on collision between a passenger bus and a sand-laden truck in Baraigram, Natore, have been identified. A seven-member probe committee has been formed to look into the cause. At least 30 others were injured. The dead include the drivers of both the bus and the truck.