Traffic on the Dhaka-Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge highway has now slowed over following excessive vehicle pressure and disruption of the toll collection at Bangabandhu Bridge on Friday night. According to media reports, the situation has been particularly severe on the 13-kilometer

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in different operations in the last 24 hours till 6 am Saturday (June 15) arrested 20 persons for their alleged involvement in selling and consuming drugs. Being informed, the DMP’s police and detective units conducted the anti-drug campaign in

Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) has established a central control room for removing sacrificial animals’ waste and coordinating management activities of cattle markets.   On the occasion of the forthcoming holy Eid-ul-Azha, the central control room has been opened at

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) has intensified surveillance to prevent untoward incidents in the cattle markets ahead of the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha, the second largest festival of the Muslim. “The RAB is trying to prevent all sorts of unlawful activities . . .  A number of

A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident after being hit by a pickup van on the Sylhet-Tamabil highway in Chiknagul Panichara area under Jaintapur  upazila of the district in the early hours of today (June 14). The deceased was identified as Moinul Hossain Ayani, 55, son of

Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) today (June 14) predicted light to moderate rainfall or thundershowers with temporary gusty wind and moderately heavy to heavy falls at different places over the country in the next 24 hours commencing 9 am today. According to the BMD weather

Three people including two of a family were killed and four others injured in a collision between a private car and a cattle laden truck in Kalihati upazila of the district last night. The accident occurred at around 2:30 am in front of Bangabandhu Textile Engineering College at

A 20km tailback was created on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway as apparel workers put blockade in Chandina upazila of Cumilla Friday, demanding their wages and bonuses ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.  Thousands of homebound people, transport workers, and cattle traders suffered due to the

Security analyst Major General (retd) Abdur Rashid passed away at a hospital in the capital on Friday (June 14). Abdur Rashid, 70, died around 5:30am while undergoing treatment at Dhaka Cantonment Combined Military Hospital (CMH). His namaz-e-janaza will be held at the Mirpur DOHS

Members of Rapid Action Battalion-3 (RAB) in a drive arrested at least 12 people of train ticket black marketing gang.  RAB-3 arrested the alleged black marketers in connection to acquiring of around 500 train tickets for the next 10 days using National Identity Card (NID) of

After cyclone gales tore down his home in 2007, Bangladeshi fisherman Abdul Aziz packed up what was left of his belongings and moved about half a kilometre inland, further away from storm surge waves. A year later, the sea swallowed the area where his old home had been. Now,

The Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in different operations in the last 24 hours till 6 am Friday (June 14) arrested 21 persons for their alleged involvement in selling and consuming drugs. Being informed, the DMP’s police and detective units conducted the anti-drug campaign in

Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd. (DMTCL) authorities on Thursday (June 13) said as like other years there will be no metro rail service on Eid-Ul-Azha day. MAN Siddique, managing director of Dhaka Mass Transit Company Ltd said while talking to journalists in the capital. The Metro

The National Directorate of Consumer Rights on Thursday (June 13) in a raid fined Shyamoli NR Travels Tk 20,000 for charging extra fare from the homegoers at Syedabad Bus Terminal in the capital. The raid was headed by the Assistant Director (Metro) of Dhaka Divisional Office of

A total of three people, including an Indian national, were killed in separate road accidents in Satkhira on Wednesday (June 12) night. The deceased Shahin Mandal, 20, hailed from Basirhat in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, India; Zulfikar Ali, 45, a resident of Gurugram

A Dhaka court has issued an arrest warrant against popular content creator Iftekhar Rafsan alias Rafsan thechotobhai for marketing unauthorized blue drinks. Judge Alaul Akbar of Pure Food Court passed the order on Thursday (June 13). Authorized Food Inspector of Safe Food Authority

A Dhaka court on Thursday (June 13) imposed a travel ban on Waheeda Rahman Choudhury, former commissioner of the Large Taxpayer Unit of Value Added Tax, of National Board of Revenue (NBR). The court imposed ban on Waheeda in connection with a case filed over providing illegal benefits

A Dhaka court has placed Jhenidah district Awami League general secretary Saidul Karim Mintu on a 8-day remand for questioning in lawmaker Anwarul Azim Anar murder case. Earlier on Thursday, police sought 10-day remand for question to arrested Mintu in the case after producing him

Two people were killed and another was injured in a head-on collision between a Laguna and a  bus on the Sylhet-Sunamganj highway  adjacent to Sahebnagar point, west of Sirajpur Kazibari in Lamakazi area  under Bishwanath upazila of Sylhet today (June 13). The deceased

Biman Bangladesh Airlines has declared 29 additional flights to its domestic destinations across the country on the occasion of the upcoming holy Eid-ul-Azha. The national carrier has decided to operate 20 additional flights before Eid that started from June 7 and continue till June