Mymensingh, Bangladesh News

The national level 113th birth anniversary celebration of National Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam has kicked off in Trishal.

Police recovered the decomposed bodies of a van driver and his assistant from the vehicle abandoned on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Bhangamil in Narsingdi early yesterday, three days after the van was hijacked.

The firm that mainly does business in poultry, tea and horticulture, set up three plants to generate a total 475 kilowatts of electricity a year.

Beggars in the capital who are being rehabilitated by the government under a social safety net programme will not be identified as beggars.

Marking the 151st birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, Rabindra Sangeet Sammilon Parishad's Mymensingh unit organised a programme yesterday at Baishakhi Mancha of Shaheed Quarter Park of the town.

The dead body of Brac official Mohammad Mohiuddin, who was killed in a Taliban attack in Afghanistan, arrived in Bangladesh on Sunday morning.

A Bangladeshi Brac official was shot dead during an attack on a Brac provincial office at Ghor of Afghanistan Thursday morning.

Yesterday marked the 83rd birth anniversary of writer and social activist Jahanara Imam.

Photo: STAR The BNP-led 18-party alliance enforced a two-day dawn-to-dusk countrywide hartal for the government's 'failure to return' missing BNP leader M Ilias Ali.

Five people died when a bus collided head-on with a human haulier in the district's Trishal upazila on Saturday.