Presiding Officer Dipankar Karmakar told Prothom Alo that the turnout has decreased due to drizzle in the area since morning. The number of voters will increase as the elections progress. There are a total of 2780 votes at the male polling station of Asmot Ali Khan Public School and College. Till 9:30 am, only 106…
There are designated bus stops on the expressway, yet buses pick up and drop passengers elsewhere. There are at least eight such 'bus stops' between Jazeera and Bhanga. On Wednesday, buses were seen loading and unloading passengers in Ramanakanda, Surjanagar, Pachhar and Naodoba areas. Buses stopped for 5-10 minutes in Pachhar Circle and Bhanga toll…
At least 10 people were injured in a bomb attack on the victory procession of victorious independent candidate Tehmina Begum in Kalkini, Madaripur on Monday. The incident took place at Fasiyata market in Kalkini upazila around 11 am. Seven of the injured were Imrat Sardar, 40, and Akel Ali Sardar, 40, of Kaligar area of…
On Tuesday, Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina officially inaugurated the 82-km Dhaka-Bhanga railway line running over the Padma Bridge. Passenger trains will start operating on this new railway soon. According to sources close to the project, within the framework of the Padma Bridge Rail Link Project, a new railway line of 172 kilometers is being constructed…
The 14-member committee, headed by Additional Deputy Commissioner Pallab Kumar Hazra, submitted the probe report to Deputy Commissioner (DC) Rahima Khatoon on Wednesday morning. Along with identifying the causes, the committee made 14 recommendations to avoid accidents on the expressway in future.
DMCH Police Station Inspector Bachchu Miya told Pratham Aalo that the bodies have been kept in the mortuary of the Medical College. He told that seven people injured in the accident are undergoing treatment in this hospital. A Hameem (55), Sheikh Faisal Ahmed (40), Badruddoja (30), Pankaj Kanti Ghosh (50), Jhuma Akhtar (34), Mohd Enamul…
At least 14 people were killed when a bus fell into a gorge at Qutubpur in Madaripur’s Shibchar upazila on Sunday morning. The bus met with an accident near Pachchar area of the approach road to Padma Bridge. Officer-in-Charge (OC) of Shibchar Highway Police Station Abu Naeem Mofazzal Haque confirmed this to Prothom Alo.
One person died after a car collided with a rickshaw van in Rajoir Upazila of Madaripur. According to Inspector Ghulam Rasool Molla of Mustafapur Highway Police Station, two others were injured in the incident which took place on the Dhaka-Barisal Highway at Sanerpar in the early hours of Monday. The deceased has been identified as…
The driver, identified as Shaukat Ali Sheikh, 45, a resident of Kotalipara in Gopalganj, died instantly in the accident. Police believe that he lost control of his vehicle due to dense fog. Inspector Ghulam said the body has been sent to a local hospital for post-mortem.