A couple died and three other family members suffered injuries when an air-conditioner exploded at a house in Rajapur upazila of Jhalakathi district early today.
Fire Service and Civil Defence members recovered one more body from the Gajaria river of Barishal's Mehendiganj upazila today, taking the death toll in the launch capsize to three.
School authorities handed over new textbooks to students yesterday, the first day of the academic year, though many authorities could not give full sets of secondary textbooks.
Students of Amtali Shishu Kalyan Primary School in Barguna’s Amtali upazila had been attending classes in a dilapidated tin-shed house of Ebatedai Madrasa for long but it collapsed on Wednesday and since then they have been attending classes under the open sky.