The Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority is mulling over the relocation of the Banglabazar ferry terminal in Madaripur to another area as ferries continued to collide with the pillars of the under-construction Padma bridge.

Two students were killed in road accidents in two districts on Thursday, according to reports from our correspondents. In Dinajpur, a speeding truck fatally ran over a college student in Birganj upazila at night.

Dhaka’s rail communication with Sylhet and Chattogram has been suspended since this evening after an oxygen tanker hit a Chattogram-bound train at Mirerbazar Rail Crossing in Gazipur.

Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) has suspended ferry master and helmsman of Kakoli ferry for hitting pillar number 10 of the Padma Bridge.

There will be an investigation to find out whether there is any conspiracy behind the repeated instances of ferries hitting the Padma bridge’s pillars, Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader said today.

Road Transport and Bridges Minister Obaidul Quader is on his way to inspect the Padma Bridge today after its pillars were hit by ferries for the fourth time within a month, including this morning.

There is indifference in abiding to instructions issued to avoid hitting pillars of Padma Bridge, State Minister for Shipping Khalid Mahmud Chowdhury said today.

Five upazilas of Bogura and Naogaon were left without electricity early today due to a fire at a power substation in Kathaltali area of ​​Naogaon city.

A ferry hit pillar number 10 of the Padma Bridge today.

A cleaner in Shariatpur’s Bhedarganj upazila parishad died after falling from the upazila parishad building yesterday.

A motorcyclist was killed after his motorbike collided with a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Singair upazila of Manikganj today.

An assistant sub-inspector of Armed Police Battalion (APBn) died in a road accident in Sholoshahar area in Chattogram city today.

A man died after a lorry hit his motorcycle in Dhaka's Mohammadpur area early today. 

The government’s factory inspection department has been negligent in monitoring safety measures, found a government probe body formed after the devastating Hashem Food and Beverage factory fire in Narayanganj.

A ferry bound for Munshiganj’s Shimulia ghat hit pillar no. 10 of the Padma bridge this evening, damaging the pillar’s pile cap.

For the onlookers watching from down below, it was a horrific few hours as they saw a person standing at the very corner of a fourth floor cornice.

Six people died and five others were injured after a mini-truck fell into a roadside ditch on the Bonpara-Hatikumrul highway under Natore’s Gurudaspur upazila yesterday.

On Thursday morning, an 18-year-old boy was poised precariously on the fourth-floor cornice of a building, causing onlookers to fear that he might fall to his death at any time. 

Six people died and five were injured as a small truck fell into a roadside ditch in Gurudaspur upazila of Natore today.

An alleged mugger died after being hit by a covered-van, while fleeing after a mugging incident, in Dhaka’s Chawk Bazar area last night.