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  At least six people including a woman were killed and 24 injured as a freight lorry rammed a train at Inland Container Terminal of Kamalapur Railway Station in Dhaka this afternoon. Death toll may rise Railway minister apologises Probe committee formed Two died on the spot while the four others succumbed to their injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). Of the deceased, three were identified as Majibur Rahman, 60, of Mirpur in the capital, Alamgir Hossain, 45, and Nayem while identities of the three others could not be known immediately. The incident took place around 12:45pm, Abdul Mazid, officer-in-charge of Dhaka Railway Police Station told The Daily Star Online. As the passenger train from Narayanganj, 219-Narayangaj Local, was coming to Dhaka, the lorry of ...

  Four-year-old Jihad who fell hundreds of feet down into an unsealed abandoned deep tube well in Dhaka’s Shahjahanpur area died of drowning, doctors said today. After performing autopsy, Professor Dr Habibuzzaman Chowdhury, head of Dhaka Medical College Hospital’s forensic department, made the revelation this morning. “The death is due to drowning. We performed tests and ascertained that Jihad had all symptoms of drowning” he told reporters at a press conference at the hospital premises. “Jihad had marks on his head. But he drowned before the head injury could prove fatal.” According to the doctor, the boy survived in the depths of the well, more than 250 feet, for about an hour after he fell down the well around 4:00pm on Friday. “Jihad died around 5:00pm-5:30pm on Friday,” ...

  There was no Bangladeshi citizen on board the missing Air Asia flight carrying 155 people from Indonesia, which lost contact with air traffic control today. Flight QZ 8501, an Airbus 320-200, lost contact with the Jakarta air traffic control tower at 6:17 am (2317 GMT), Indonesian Transport Ministry official Hadi Mustofa told media. Indonesian media said 156 Indonesians, three people from Korea, and one each from Singapore, Franch and Malaysia were on board, according to BBC.

Habiganj Municipality Mayor Golam Kibria Gaus sent to jail hours after he surrendered before a court in connection with former finance minister SAMS Kibria murder case. Gaus, general secretary of district BNP, surrendered before the Court of Senior Judicial Magistrate Rokeya Akter of Habiganj in the morning. Earlier on December 21, a Habiganj court issued arrest warrants against 11 people, including BNP leaders Gaus, Harris Chowdhury, and Sylhet City Corporation Mayor Ariful Haque Chowdhury in the case. SAMS Kibria, then an opposition lawmaker, was assassinated in a grenade attack while addressing a rally in Habiganj on January 27, 2005. The blast also killed Kibria's nephew Shah Manzur Huda, local AL leader Abdur Rahim and two others. Apart from Ariful and former premier Khaleda Zia...

They left the port with an entire vessel without sufficient knowledge of sea navigation and suffered the consequences with the cost of three lives and the cargo-laden ship! The captain and the chief engineer, both from Bangladesh, of the sunken Cambodian cargo vessel “Ming Guang” were taken to Tokyo after they were rescued from northern Japan coast where the ship capsized with scrap metals on its way to South Korea. Mostofa Kamal, the captain, hailing from Bagerhat, was a labourer in Mongla port. His academic education is extended up to grade three in a primary school, Mohammed Nore-Alam, the counsellor at Bangladesh embassy in Tokyo, told The Daily Star over phone. Meanwhile, the “chief engineer” of the ship, Moniruzzaman, passed intermediate examinations and was also a labourer of t...

    Twenty-three hours into his fall, body of four-year-old boy Jihad was recovered from a deep well shaft at Shahjahanpur in Dhaka despite the authorities' repeated expression of doubt that there was anyone inside. Doctors to Dhaka Medical College Hospital confirmed the child was "brought dead" around 3:30pm. Three volunteers made the recovery over 12 hours into announcement by State Minister for Home Asaduzaman Khan Kamal and Director General of Fire Service that no human being was found in the shaft. The volunteers, who worked at the collapsed Rana Plaza, used a locally developed metal-rod cage to pull the child. There are marks of injury in his body and the child was not moving when he was pulled out of the well shaft, our correspondent reports from the spot. Angry o...

    World’s 10 most expensive shopping locations Where in the world is officially the most expensive place to shop? Real Estate advisors Cushman & Wakefield have revealed the top 10 most expensive shopping locations in the world. Find out which cities made the top 10...

Gazipur district administration today imposed Section 144 in the district as both BNP and Bangladesh Chhatra League, student front of ruling Awami League, have crossed swords centring Saturday’s rally at Bhawal Bodr-E-Alam Government College ground in the Sadar upazila. The section 144 was imposed banning all sorts of political activities like rally, demonstration and mass gathering  in the district and it will remain active until farther direction, our Gazipur Correspondent reports quoting Harun-ur-Rashid, superintendent of police in Gazipur. He was talking to reporters at a press briefing held at the meeting venue of Bhawal Bodr-E-Alam Government College ground this afternoon. The Gazipur district administration came up with the decision after a closed-door meeting held between i...

Christmas Day online shoppers are predicted to set a new spending record splashing out an estimated £636m today. Shoppers are expected to make 142 million visits to retail sites today - a 25% increase on last year. Research by Experian and online retailing trade association IMRG found Britons will spend around £441,000 a minute. "The ease of shopping online via connected devices raises the prospect of a very large amount of shopping activity on Christmas Day itself," said Experian general manager of consumer insight Giles Longhurst. Dominic Trigg, managing director for Europe of digital advertising technology company Rocket Fuel, said: "Shopping online on Christmas Day is now a normal part of UK consumers' holiday experiences every year. "It is clear that UK consumers now see shoppi...

Facebook Inc must face a class action lawsuit accusing it of violating its users' privacy by scanning the content of messages they send to other users for advertising purposes, a US judge has ruled. US District Judge Phyllis Hamilton in Oakland, California, on Tuesday dismissed some state-law claims against the social media company but largely denied Facebook's bid to dismiss the lawsuit. Facebook had argued that the alleged scanning of its users' messages was covered by an exception under the federal Electronic Communications Privacy Act for interceptions by service providers occurring in the ordinary course of business. But Hamilton said Facebook had "not offered a sufficient explanation of how the challenged practice falls within the ordinary course of its business." Neither Faceb...