A devastating fire destroyed historic Jhalmhal Cinema Hall and around 20 adjoining business establishments in Gauripur municipality of Mymensingh midnight Tuesday. The fire broke started around 2:15am apparently from a LPG gas cylinder warehouse near the cinema hall, said Fire Service and Civil Defence Assistant Director Purna Chandra Mutsuddi.
The bodies of former union parishad chairman Selim Khan and his son, actor Shanto Khan, were exhumed from their graves on Wednesday (October 7), more than two years after their deaths, for post-mortem examinations following a court order.
An incident of hanging a garland of shoes on the half-constructed sculpture of Birshreshtha Hamidur Rahman conserved in the central bus terminal area of Jhenaidah town has taken place. Discussion and criticism started after photos of the state of the garland of shoes hanging on the head part of the sculpture spread on social media on Tuesday morning. Later it was removed by sending people from the side of the Muktijoddha Sangsad. However, it could not be known immediately who caused this incident.
Four new subjects will be introduced in the Class Six curriculum from 2027 to broaden students’ learning beyond traditional academic studies, Education Minister A N M Ehsanul Haque Milan said on Tuesday (October 6).
A two-year-old boy drowned in a pond in Pekua upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Tuesday morning (October 6).
An assistant sub-inspector (ASI) of Chunarughat Police Station in Habiganj has been withdrawn and attached to the district police lines after a video surfaced on social media in which he appeared to justify taking bribes openly.