Tourists pack Cox's Bazar during Eid holidays

Thousands of holidaymakers have thronged Cox's Bazar, a popular tourist destination, to spend some blissful time during the holiday of Eid-ul-Azha.Tourists started arriving in the city since Sunday morning, while the beach is now too crowded to move. There are no empty rooms in any of the 500 hotels and...

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School building collapses into Jamuna in Manikganj

MANIKGANJ, June 10 (UNB): The three-storey building of Bharanga Government Primary School in Manikganj has collapsed into the Jamuna River due to severe erosion caused by strong river currents. Md Khorshed Alam, Executive Engineer at the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Manikganj, said the school disappeared into the mighty...

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Father, son swept away by waves in Cox's Bazar

COX'S BAZAR, June 10 (UNB): A father and his son were washed away while bathing in Cox's Bazar sea beach on Monday afternoon. With this, four people drowned in the past two days in the sea.The victims were Shahinur Rahmanm, 60, and his son Mohammad Sifat, 20, of Rajshahi Sadar.Executive...

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