THE death of four people and the clash that caused the death after a faction of the Tabligh Jamaat had attacked another faction said to have occupied the Bishwa Ijtema ground on the bank of the River Turag in Gazipur are shocking and unfortunate. Whilst a hospital in Gazipur reports three people, wounded with sharp weapons in the clash, to have died..
The police and the Border Guard Bangladesh recovered the dead bodies of three Bangladeshis from three separate spots along the border with India near the Ichhamati River under Sharsha and Benapole port police in Jashore on Wednesday...
Dhaka Metropolitan Police has imposed a ban on all forms of rallies, processions, demonstrations, and gatherings at Kamarpur, Abdullahpur, Uttara Sector-10, and adjacent areas along the southern and western banks of the River Turag...
At least 12 people were injured on Tuesday when transport workers attacked CNG-powered three-wheeler drivers in Rajshahi city, following a feud between the two groups over a prior incident, said police...
The Teknaf upazila administration relaxed the ban on passenger vessels鈥� operation in the River Naf after Friday night鈥檚 discussion between the administration and the trawler owners on the security situation...
Ferry services on Aricha-Kazirhat and Paturia-Daulatdia routes in Manikganj resumed on Thursday morning after seven and ten hours of suspension respectively due to dense fog...
Ferry services on the Aricha-Kazirhat route in the Jamuna River and the Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River were suspended for around 10 hours and seven hours on Thursday due to dense fog...
Ferry services on the Aricha-Kazirhat route in the Jamuna River and the Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River were suspended for around eight hours on Wednesday due to dense fog...
The government on Tuesday published a primary list of 1,156 rivers across the country to finalise rivers鈥� list by the next Bengali New Year after necessary verification...
A group of truck workers blocked the road at Dhaka鈥檚 Satrasta intersection in the Tejgaon Industrial Area for over an hour on Tuesday protesting at the reported arrest of Bangladesh Truck-Covered Van Drivers Union president Talukder Mohammed Monir...
The death toll from the speedboat capsize in the Kirtankhola River in Barishal rose to four with recovery of three more bodies from the river on Sunday...
A whale weighing about 50 maunds (1 maund equals 37.32kg) was released into the Meghna River on Thursday after it was washed ashore on the island of Hatiya in Noakhali...
A group of fisheries department officials came under attack on Tuesday morning while conducting an operation to recover illegal nets in the River Meghna at Kathir Matha area in Bhola Sadar upazila.
The High Court on Tuesday issued a contempt of court rule against Chittogong Port Authority chairman SM Moniruzzaman, additional secretary Mohammad Habibur Rahman, and deputy manager Md Shihab Uddin for allegedly violating a 2016 court directive by leasing out a piece of land belonging to the Karnaphuli River...
THE Naf River is a natural marvel, both magnificent and strategic, forming a vital boundary between Bangladesh and Myanmar鈥檚 Arakan State. As it runs from the fall of Khayaparir Tong to the...
Two trains ran on trial basis on the under-construction Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Railway Bridge over the River Jamuna for the first time on Tuesday...
The work to develop a road by the Payra Port Authority is threatening to evict 136 landless families, who made part of the embankment along Andharmanik River at Tiakhali of Patuakhali鈥檚 Kolapra their home two decades ago...
The Bangladesh Bridge Authority has planned to lease out a luxury guest house to international hotel management companies in a desperate bid to reduce the loss incurred from the operation of the newly built tunnel under the River Karnaphuli in Chattogram...
Jahangirnagar University鈥檚 security officials handed over a battery-run rickshaw driver to police on Monday, following allegations of reckless driving that caused the death of a first-year student on November 19...
Politicians, academics and water experts on Saturday at a seminar in Dhaka stressed the need for integrated initiatives to get justified share of water from 54 common rivers flowing between Bangladesh and India.
Battery-run rickshaw drivers on Saturday announced to hold a sit-in programme in front of the National Press Club in the capital today for realising their demand to scrap the High Court鈥檚 November 19 order to stop plying of battery-run rickshaws on Dhaka city roads...
A microbus driver was hacked to death allegedly by rivals over a piece of land at Naogaon sadar upazila on Wednesday...
Battery-run rickshaw drivers blocked several roads in the capital demanding access to the main roads of the city on Wednesday, a day after the High Court ordered a ban on battery-run rickshaws on Dhaka streets...
The much-awaited double line dual gauge railway bridge over the River Jamuna is expected to open in the second week of January, 2025.
Unidentified miscreants murdered an auto-rickshaw driver before stealing his vehicle at Sirajdikhan upazila of Munshiganj district on Saturday...
A fire broke out in the 鈥榝oam type plastic floater鈥� of a dredger kept on the bank of the Jamuna River in front of the Dredger Beige office in the Aricha port area at 鈥嬧�婼hibalay upazila in Manikganj...
Speakers at a discussion in Brahmanbaria have urged the youths to take effective measures to protect the rivers and water bodies of the country...
THE relocation of tanneries from Hazaribagh to Dhaka鈥檚 outskirts of Savar had been in discussions until the relocation was somewhat complete a few years ago, with some prickly issues such as pollution still rearing the head. The relocation project began in 2003 on a High Court order of 2001 to save the moribund River Buriganga. The tannery units...
Shipping adviser Brigadier General (retired) M Sakhawat Hossain on Monday said that Bhairob聽river port would be upgraded into an international-standard port with the financial assistance of the World Bank.
Eight members of the fisheries department were injured in the early hours of Wednesday when they were attacked by a group during a hilsa conservation drive near Babur Char on the Padma River in Jazira upazila...