Six people were killed and several others injured after a passenger bus ran over an easybike in Madaripur. The accident occurred around 5:30 pm on Sunday, January 18, at the Mostafapur Millgate area on the Dhaka–Barishal highway.
Police have recovered two more burnt bodies from an abandoned community centre in Savar. Preliminary observations suggest that the bodies may belong to a woman and a male child.
Intern doctors at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital have withdrawn their work stoppage.
A young man was beaten to death in public in Kabirhat upazila of Noakhali on Saturday night after being suspected of robbery. The incident occurred around 10:00 pm on a road adjacent to Kalirhat Bazar in Narottampur Union.
The Bangladesh Nationalist Party has dissolved the Galachipa and Dashmina upazila BNP committees in Patuakhali-3, Galachipa–Dashmina, the constituency where Gono Odhikar Parishad president Nurul Haque Nur is contesting with BNP support.
Tahmina Jaman Shraboni, who submitted her nomination as an independent candidate in the Netrokona-4 (Madan–Mohanganj–Khaliajuri) constituency, has applied to withdraw her candidacy. She is the wife of BNP-nominated candidate and former state minister for home affairs, Lutfuzzaman Babar.