Five members of the same family fell ill after eating tipa or puffer fish in Satkhira's Ashashuni upazila. Among them, grocery trader Md Azharul Islam (50) died while undergoing treatment. The incident occurred in the upazila's Bardal village on Monday, September 14. The deceased, Azharul Islam, was the son of the late Majid Gazi of that village and ran a grocery shop at Bardal Bazar.
District BNP President Mirza Faisal Amin has collected a nomination form as a BNP nomination aspirant for the by-election to the vacant Thakurgaon-1 (Sadar) constituency. He is the younger brother of former BNP Secretary General and former President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir.
Sixty-three foreign nationals arrested on allegations of involvement in online scamming has been placed on a two-day remand.
President Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has travelled to Sylhet for the first time since assuming office. He arrived in Sylhet, the sacred land of 360 saints associated with the memories of Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) and Hazrat Shahparan (RA), at 11:27am on Tuesday.
Authorities have formed a five-member investigation committee to look into the fire at the lift of the new building of Mymensingh Medical College Hospital. The committee has been asked to submit its report within the next three working days.
Two people have been killed in a head-on collision between a speedboat and a steel bulkhead in the Bemalia River in Nasirnagar, Brahmanbaria. Another person was injured in the incident.