A dairy trader was killed and a pick-up driver seriously injured after a truck collided head-on with their vehicle in Ullapara, Sirajganj, early on Tuesday morning. The accident occurred at around 4am on 18 August near Patdhari Bazar on the Dhaka-Pabna highway. The deceased was identified as Saddam Hossain, son of Sadek Ali, from Goal […]

A nine-year-old third-grade pupil was killed after being run over by a passenger bus while walking to school with her mother in Fulbari, Dinajpur, on Tuesday morning. The victim, Shipa Moni, was struck in the Basstand-Bottoli area of Fulbari municipal town at around 7.45am. Her death prompted angry local residents to block the Dinajpur-Dhaka regional […]

Selim Al Deen remains one of the most influential figures in the history of modern Bengali theatre, celebrated for his determined search for a theatrical language rooted in the soil, people and cultural memory of Bengal. He was not merely a playwright. He was a researcher, theatre theorist, director, organiser and teacher who devoted his […]

A Japanese expatriate groom reportedly left his bride’s home without completing the marriage ceremony after objecting to the absence of mutton in a traditional wedding dish known locally as ‘Khadore’ in Akhaura, Brahmanbaria. The incident took place on Monday afternoon, 17 August, in Tolatala village of Dharkhar Union in Akhaura upazila. The groom, identified as […]

The body of a 15-year-old schoolgirl who went missing after entering the Payra River for a bath in Barguna was recovered after nearly 33 hours, bringing an end to an extensive search operation. The body of Jui, a Class 10 student from Mirpur in Dhaka, was found floating near the bank of the Payra River […]