Two major units of the Ashuganj Power Station Company Limited in Brahmanbaria went offline on Friday afternoon following a fault in the national grid line, reducing electricity supply by about 500 megawatts.
A team of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested another suspect in the killing of Ruplal Das and Pradeep Lal, who were beaten to death on suspicion of stealing a van at Taraganj in Rangpur.
Nine of the same family, who were killed in a road accident in Rampal Upazil, laid to rest side by side in Mongla following Friday prayers.
Water Resources Minister and Joint Secretary General of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) Shahid Uddin Chowdhury Anee has said the current government has to deal with problems accumulated over the past 17 years.
The funeral and burial of bride Marzia Akhtar Mitu, her sister Lamia, and her grandmother Rashida Begum, who were killed in a road accident in Rampal, Bagerhat, have been completed. Their funeral prayers were held at 9:30 am on Friday, March 13, at a field near their home in Naksha village, Koyra upazila, Khulna. They were later buried in the family graveyard.
Marzia Akhtar Mitu had left her father's house with the wedding procession, wearing the brown Benarasi saree from her wedding night, mehendi still fresh on her hands, jewellery adorning her, and dreams of a new life. But before she could reach her husband's home, all her dreams came to a halt on the Khulna-Mongla highway. She lost her life in a head-on collision between a microbus and a navy bus, and her husband Ahadur Rahman Sabbir also perished in the accident.