Day: November 26, 2014

A mobile court here on Tuesday sentenced a person to one and a half years’ imprisonment and another to six moths’ jail for selling expired medicine in the district town.

A man was killed and 10 people were injured as a truck hit a human hauler on the Dhaka-Khulna highway at Sreedam Datta Para in Goalanda upazila on Tuesday evening.

Six Bangladeshis, who were arrested by Indian Border Security Force (BSFDistricts) while they were trying to enter Indian territory through Petrapole border illegally, returned home through Benapole check post on Tuesday night.

Members of a joint force have rescued three forest officials, who were reputedly kidnapped by miscreants from Harikata of Langadu upazila, from Naniachar of the upazila 19 days after the incident.

Four warehouses burnt down in a jute mill at Odhirnagar in Bera upazila on Tuesday as a fire erupted from an oil tank blast at the factory.

An old man drowned when a trawler capsized in the river Meghna at Hijla upazila of the district last night.

Speakers said at a discussion that the retailers and other vendors concerned should abide by the law of the tobacco control to protect the public health from bad effect of both smoke and smokeless tobacco products.

Speakers at a rally have underscored the need for creating mass public awareness and police-people cooperation to launch a vigorous social movement in building a drug-free society.

Ensuring equal rights for the women members in reserved seats in Union Parishad is very important for their empowerment and congenial working atmosphere, some women public representatives at a press conference here said today.