Four people were killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Tangail's Kalihati Link Road on the Dhaka-Tangail highway. 10 more people were injured in this. The condition of three of them is critical.

The accident occurred on Friday (October 4) morning. The identity of the victims were not known immediately.

In charge of Elenga Highway Police Outpost Nannu Khan said that a bus bound for Jamalpur collided head-on with a truck loaded with furniture coming from the opposite direction while crossing Kalihati Link Road in the morning. 4 people were killed. The body will be handed over to the family after legal proceedings.

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is coming to Dhaka on the invitation of Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Muhammad Yunus, Chief Adviser of the Interim Government.

He will reach Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport on Friday. After almost 11 years since his arrival in Bangladesh, a Malaysian Prime Minister is going to visit Bangladesh. According to diplomatic sources, political, economic and labor market issues will be important in Anwar Ibrahim's current visit.

This information is known from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Bangladesh High Commission in Kuala Lumpur. An official of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the Prime Minister of Malaysia will stay in Bangladesh for a very short visit of only two and a half hours.

According to information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Malaysia, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim is visiting Islamabad from Wednesday to Friday. After taking over as Prime Minister in November 2022, he went to Islamabad for the first time on a state visit. There he had a bilateral meeting with Pakistan Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif.

According to the information of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Bangladesh, the Prime Minister of Malaysia will come to Dhaka from Islamabad on Friday. He will sit in a bilateral meeting with the Chief Adviser of the interim government. A joint press conference will be held after the meeting of the two top leaders. Apart from this, Anwar Ibrahim will also have a courtesy meeting with the President of Bangladesh Mohammad Sahabuddin.

Recently, Foreign Affairs Adviser Touhid Hossain said in a press conference that Bangladesh will seek Malaysia's assistance in dealing with the ongoing Rohingya crisis. It is also expected to advance the aspirations of becoming a 'Sectoral Dialogue Partner' within the ASEAN framework.

A joint statement will be issued later as per the itinerary. According to the schedule, the Prime Minister of Malaysia at the Banga Bhavan will meet Mohammad Sahabuddin. Anwar Ibrahim is the first head of government to congratulate the interim government after assuming office. The Malaysian Prime Minister is scheduled to leave Dhaka around 6 pm after completing his one-day visit.

After the fall of the Awami League government on August 5 in the coup of the students this will be the first high-level visit by a foreign head of government since the interim government led by Dr. Muhammad Yunus took power.

Former Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumdar has been arrested by the Detective Branch (DB) of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP).

Deputy Commissioner (DC) of Media and Public Relations Department of DMP Muhammad Talebur Rahman gave this information on Thursday (October 3).

He was arrested that night from Bhatara in the capital.

Former Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Mujamdar was a Member of Parliament from Naogaon-1 Constituency. Sadhan Chandra Majumder was elected as a Member of Parliament in the Naogaon-1 parliamentary constituency consisting of Sapahar, Porsha and Niamatpur in the 2008, 2014, 2018 and last 2024 national elections. He was the Minister of Food from 2018 to 2024. 

Police have arrested the murderer's wife in connection with the stabbing death of her husband at a residential hotel in the capital's Dakshinkhan. The name of the arrested woman is Hajera Akhter alias Noor. She was arrested from the Keraniganj Goppar area of Dhaka on Wednesday afternoon.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (DC) Muhammad Talebur Rahman of DMP Media Department informed this information on Thursday (October 3) night.

He said that on September 29, victim Shakhawat Hossain Sharif and his wife Hajera Akhter alias Noor rented a room on the ground floor of the Haji Hotel International Residential Hotel in the capital's Dakshinkhan area. The next evening, the police recovered the body of Shakhawat Hossain Sharif on the information of the hotel authorities.

Later, the body of Shakhawat Hossain Sharif was identified with the help of CID forensic team and PBI. On hearing the news, Saiful Islam, the deceased's father, lodged a complaint with the Dakshinkhan Police Station on Wednesday.

A special team of Dakshinkhan police station conducted 86 raids in different places of Gazipur and Dhaka districts to catch the killer. At one point, the victim's wife Hajera Akhtar Noor was arrested from the Goppar area of Keraniganj police station in Dhaka district. The knife used in the murder was also recovered.

In the accuser’s confession about the reason for killing her husband, the killer told the police that there was a quarrel and a fight between the husband and wife due to a marital dispute in the hotel room. During the scuffle, wife Hajera Akhter alias Noor stabbed her husband in multiple places with a knife. As a result her husband died. The next morning Hajera managed to escape around 5 o'clock. This officer of the media department said that she has given a confessional statement to the court, admitting her responsibility for the murder.