Category: Districts

Police in a drive arrested a young man along with a revolver and seven rounds of bullet from Mahisher Depot area of the district town on Wednesday evening.

Members of fire service recovered the body of a man from an abandoned well after 20 hours of his falling into it in Tartipur area of Shibganj upazila on Thursday.

The Water Development Board (WDB) has identified 26 points on seven rivers as vulnerable to river erosion during the current monsoon.The cost for stabilizing the river banks is estimated to be Taka 460 crore.

Police in a drive arrested two people including a Jubo League leader along with 670 pieces of Yaba tablets from Huikhali area of Santhia upazila on Sunday afternoon.

Police arrested 24 Jamaat-e-Islami female leaders and activists at Koyra upazila in Khulna today on charges of planning subversive activities.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh arrested a woman along with a pistol and one round of bullet from Pagla Dewan border area of Sadar upazila on Monday morning.

A youth died this morning as he fell from a jackfruit tree at Janata Degree College premises under Dimla upazila of the district.

A convicted prisoner, who had been serving jail term at the district jail in a drug case, died at Narayanganj General Hospital on Saturday afternoon.

A schoolteacher died from electrocution at Patkelpota in Paikgachha upazila on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Nurul Huda,55, headmaster of Patkelpota Government Primary School and a resident of Daramari village in Mirpur upazila of Kushtia district.

A girl went missing and two other people were injured as a pickup van plunged into a river breaking railing of a bridge on the Cox’s Bazar-Chittagong highway in Chandanaish upazila early Sunday.The missing girl was identified as Hanifa Begum,…

A female madrasa student allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with a tree at Bhitar village in Jaintapur upazila on Wednesday.

An anti-adulteration mobile court on Sunday fined eight businessmen TK 45 thousand for different reasons.

A mobile court here on Friday sentenced three men to different jail terms for cutting government trees illegally in Panchbibi upazila.The convicts are Abdul Kader, 36, of Sararpara village, Abdul Gaffar, 35, of Baropukuria village and Azizur Rahman, 42, of…

Police arrested an alleged arms trader in possession of one foreign made pistol, two magazines and five rounds of bullet from Tarapur Bazar area in Shibganj upazila on Friday night.The arrestee was identified as Mahbub Alam,29, son of Emran Alam,…

Police in a drive arrested three alleged members of an inter-district motorcycle lifters’ syndicate from a house at Borhanuddin Bhuiya Road in the town early Saturday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 41 Bangladeshi nationals while entering the country through Gatipara border point here on Wednesday, after going to India illegally. The arrestees hail from different areas of Barisal and Jhalakati districts.

An elderly man was killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw ran over him at Amtali on the Habiganj-Shayestaganj road in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Hirendra Chandra Gop, 75, a resident of Shialdaria village of the upazila.

A mobile court sealed off the factory of ‘Ali Baba Sweets’ in the city on Tuesday afternoon.

An elderly woman was burnt to death and three others suffered injuries as a fire broke out at a house in Uposhahar area of the district town early Monday.

Inspector General of Police (IGP) AKM Shahidul Hoque today said that none will be spared if found involved in trading drug and human trafficking.“The culprits who are mastermind behind these crimes will be brought to book and given exemplary punishment.…

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified youth from Madandanga village under Sadar upazila this morning.

Indian Haridaspur immigration police arrested two Kashmir citizens along with 46 gold bars, weighing 4.6 kilograms, in Petrapole check post of India opposite Benapole check post on Saturday night. Identities of the arrestees could not be known yet.

A young housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband in Panchghariakandi area of the district town early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Mariam Akter Nishi,18, wife of Al Amin of the area.

Contract Growers Office, a wing of Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC), has procured 603 tonnes of Aman paddy seeds from the farmers of the district during the 2014-15 season.

A construction worker was killed when the roof of a security check-post room collapsed on him in Chabagan area of the city on Tuesday morning.Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately.

Manikganj Shilpakala Academy for the first time awarded five local artistes for exceptional performance in the fields drama, dance and music for the year 2013.The awarded persons are Kadam Ali Boyati for folk song, Shunil Kumar Chakraborty for vocal song, Karabi Ahmed…

A young man was stabbed to death and two others were injured in an attack by some miscreants over a trifling matter at Khalder Road in the district town on the night of holy Shab-e-Barat (early Wednesday).

A child was shot to death by some extortionists at Mohammadpur under Panchlaish Police Station in the city on Tuesday night.

An elderly man allegedly committed suicide by jumping under the wheels of a speeding train on the Gaibandha-Lalmonirhat rail route at Panchjumma village in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning.