Protesters in Cumilla’s Adarsha Sadar upazila staged a demonstration, surrounding to Cumilla Kotwali Model Police Station, demanding the release of a local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP).
Flash floods triggered by heavy rainfall upstream in India’s Meghalaya have inundated vast croplands in Durgapur upazila of Netrakona, leaving farmers struggling to salvage ripening Boro paddy.
At least eight people were killed and 12 others injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup van in southern Sylhet early Sunday (May 3).
Continuous heavy rainfall from Friday night through Saturday morning has inundated all 33 wards of Rangpur city, leaving at least 3,000 families waterlogged and disrupting daily life across low-lying areas.
A farmer from Brahmanbaria died after seeing his paddy submerged in heavy rain. The incident took place in the haor area of Rampur village in Goalnagar union of Nasirnagar upazila on Saturday morning.
Police outposts have been operating in classrooms at Laxmikhali Government Primary School in Jiudhara Union of Morelganj Upazila of Bagerhat for 17 consecutive years while students are being taught in a cattle shelter or a cowshed.