The government has initiated drilling to a depth of nearly 6,000 metres to extract gas in a bid to resolve the ongoing energy crisis. Initially, four wells in four gas fields will be drilled, which are estimated to contain potential gas reserves of 1.5 to 2 trillion cubic feet (TCF).
A total of six people, including three members of the same family, have been killed in two separate road accidents in Sunamganj district on Monday, May 4.
Five people have been killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a CNG-run autorickshaw on the Sylhet-Sunamganj highway. One of the deceased has been identified as Yusuf Ali of Tahirpur upazila in Sunamganj. The identities of the other four could not be known immediately.
There have been allegations that Awami League-backed lawyers were prevented from collecting their nomination papers in the Chattogram Bar Association elections. Pro-BNP and pro-Awami League lawyers raised slogans against each other over the incident.
A Rohingya child has died with measles symptoms in the Ukhiya Rohingya camp in Cox's Bazar. The name of the deceased child was not known at the time of filing the report.
A huge amount of drugs and foreign firearms worth about 300 million taka have been recovered in a special operation by the Bangladesh Navy in Teknaf, Cox's Bazar. At the same time, the accused in several cases have been arrested.