Category: Districts

A Bangladeshi cattle trader was shot to death by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) in Ghagra bordering area of sadar upazila early Saturday.

A fake member of Rapid Action Battalion  (Rab) was arrested at Tepra Bazar in Shivalaya upazila on Friday.

The historic “Khapra Ward Day” was observed today at Rajshahi Central Jail and in the city paying rich tributes to seven detained communist political prisoners who were killed and taking fresh vow to continue movement to ensure trial of the…

A mobile court on Wednesday sentenced a young man to two months’ jail for selling venison in Mongla upazila.

A schoolboy was shot to death by miscreants at Baghadanga in Khoshalpur border area of Maheshpur upazila on Wednesday night.

A mobile court on Wednesday sentenced a young man to six months’ jail for teasing a schoolgirl in Tahirpur upazila. The convict was identified as Rafiqul alias Rabibul,27, son of late Oli Mamud of Mahtabpur village of the same upazila.

A total of 3,50,566 children would be fed blue and red color vitamin A capsule in all the seven upazilas of the district on April 25 to reduce the risk of child mortality.

The historic May Day, commemorating the first triumph of the world’s working class in their epical struggles was observed here today as elsewhere across world with a pledge to establish the rights of the workers.

Rail communications of Sylhet with Dhaka and Chittagong remained suspended for three and a half hours from early Wednesday as trees, uprooted by nor’wester, fell onto a rail line at Lawachhara in Kamalganj upazila.

A mobile court of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) evicted twenty illegally erected roadside shops on the footpaths on Monday afternoon from different areas in the city.

Speakers at an anti-corruption planning meeting have stressed for participation of the people from all walks in life in launching vigorous social movement for preventing corruption from the society.

A couple was hacked to death allegedly by their son-in-law over dowry at Kamranga village in Sadar upazila early Monday.

The Health Department will make the National vitamin A plus campaign on April 25 to feed vitamin A capsule to 3, 19, 052 children in the district.

By dint of diversified interventions, gardening around homesteads in both summer and winter seasons in the region including its vast Barind tract has been gaining popularity with production of different fruits and vegetables.

A young man drowned in a pond after being chased by police at Barshapara village in Kotalipara upazila on Saturday.

Miscreants killed Khursheda Begum,50, and injured her husband Anwar Hossain, 60, and daughter Aklima Akhter, 25, this morning.

A young man was killed by a lightning strike at Pulhat village in Birganj upazila on Saturday.

A college student allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Andolpota village in Sadar upazila on Saturday night.

Four persons received burn injuries and 17 shops were gutted when a devastating fire broke out at Phulertola Bazar under Kulawra upazila of the district today.

A couple was electrocuted at Parkasunda village under Atrai upazila of the district last night.

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC), Divisional and District administrations and other educational and socio-cultural organisations have chalked out elaborate programmes to celebrate the Pahela Baishakh, the Bengali New Year-1422 in a befitting manner in the city tomorrow.

A truck driver suffered burn injuries as miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at the vehicle in Gouripur area of Daudkandi upazila on early Monday.

Two people, including a minor girl, were killed in two separate road accidents on Magura-Jessore road in Sadar upazila on Sunday afternoon.

Police in an overnight drive arrested 39 people, including 10 Jamaat-Shibir activists, from different areas of the district.

More than 10,500 households from the extreme poor and underprivileged communities have got the path of eradicating their long-lasting poverty through self-managed savings and credit activities to some extent in Naogaon town.

All Preparations have been completed to welcome the Pahela Boishakh, the first day of Bangla New Year-1422, with much enthusiasm and traditional festivities as elsewhere in the country.