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So many murders, so many bodies in the rivers. What's fuelling Khulna's bloodbath?

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- Evening in Khulna now arrives with unease. In city streets and rural alleys alike, fear settles in. The discovery of bodies in rivers has become routine. Murders are no longer isolate... Read More


Mobile traders block road outside BTRC to protest phone registration rules

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- Mobile phone traders have blocked the road in front of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) headquarters in Dhaka to protest the government's decision to deac... Read More


Students stage sit-in outside Shikkha Bhaban to press for Dhaka Central University ordinance

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- Students have occupied the road in front of the Shikkha Bhaban in Dhaka to press for the issuance of the ordinance needed to establish proposed Dhaka Central University through the me... Read More


Acid ruins farming lands, yield decreases day by day

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- Farmer Md Sujan of Cumilla Sadar Upazila cultivates radishes as an early winter crop. But when he harvested his yield, he found that all the radishes had turned black and had cracks o... Read More


Police get 5 more weeks to file report in Salman Shah murder probe

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- A Dhaka court has granted police five more weeks to submit the investigation report in the murder case relating to the 1996 death of beloved film star Salman Shah. The report was due... Read More


Three Bangladeshi sailors returning home, one still on MT Kairos in Black Sea

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- Three Bangladeshi sailors are returning home after a Ukrainian naval drone attack left the crude oil tanker MT Kairos severely damaged in the Black Sea. They are expected to arrive i... Read More


Throat-slit bodies of freedom fighter, his wife found in Rangpur

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- A freedom fighter and his wife have been found dead with their throats slashed in Rangpur's Taragonj Upazila. Police recovered the two bodies from a home in Khiarpara village in Kurs... Read More


Fire at Narsingdi thread factory under control after one hour

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- The Fire Service has brought the fire at a thread factory in Narsingdi's Silmandi under control after one hour. The fire had broken out at around 10pm on Saturday at NR Spinning Mill... Read More


Zubaida back at Evercare as medical board meets over Khaleda's care

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- After spending the night at her parents' home in Dhanmondi, Zubaida Rahman has returned to Evercare Hospital, where her ailing mother-in-law and BNP chief Khaleda Zia has been receivi... Read More


CID begins identification of July Uprising activists' bodies under international protocols

Dhaka, Dec. 7 -- The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) has said the identification of the July Uprising activists buried near the Martyred Intellectuals Memorial will begin in line with internat... Read More