Category: Districts

The government has fixed a target of producing over 20.81 lakh bales of jute from over 1.93 lakh hectares of land during the current 2015-2016 seasons in the northern Bangladesh, officials sources said.

A man committed suicide by hanging himself from the ceiling of his house at Bulunpur in Razpara area in the city on Friday.

Twenty people were injured when a speedy passengers’ bus fell into a roadside ditch at the turning point of Shimulia Ghat on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway under Lohajang Thana here this afternoon.

Two persons, including a truck driver’s helper, were killed in separate incidents in the city’s Madarbari and Karnaphuli areas on Friday.

Three suspected robbers were killed in a mass beating at Rajapur village under Sadar upazila early this morning.

Police arrested two people in possession of 31,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from Oliabad area near the Naf River in Teknaf upazila early Wednesday.

Unidentified miscreants killed former central vice president of Bastuhara League Monzur Rashid ,50, at Khaldar road in Jessore town this afternoon. During the killing Monzur was returning home by an easy bike.The miscreants opened fire on him when his bike…

An alleged terrorist was killed and two others injured in a gunfight between two gangs of criminals at Ganeshshyampur in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.

Mentionable Supreme Court upheld the death penalty of condemned war criminal Muhammad Kamaruzzaman for killing 144 villagers at Sohagpur village in Sherpur during the 1971 Liberation War.

Speakers at a discussion in Rajshahi city have unequivocally called for forging social resistance against all sorts of violence so that the country can go forward successfully.

A mobile court here on Monday fined and jailed two drug peddlers for possessing hemp.

A younger brother has reportedly killed his brother and sister and injured four other family members at Kadirgonj area in Rajshahi city as sequel to a land-related previous enmity in early hours today.

Two members of a family were killed and four others injured in a clash over a land-related dispute in Kadirganj area of the city yesterday morning.

Two women were killed as a hailstorm swept through the district early Monday.

A woman was crushed under the wheels of a bus in Madam Bridge area of the district town on Sunday morning.

Renovation work of Rangamati District Shishu Academy began today involving Taka 10 million.

A man was killed and others injured in a land related clash between two rival groups at Fulhar village in Gobindoganj upazila on Saturday.

A policeman was killed as a truck crashed into him at Bhatiari Imamnagar Taltala bridge on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Sitakund upazila early Saturday.

Three members of a family, including a woman and her son and daughter, sustained burn injuries when a fire broke out at a house in Mirer Maidan area of the city on Friday night.

Three people were injured following a collision between a private car and Chittagong-bound ‘Mahanagar Express’ near Kodda in Brahmanbaria on Thursday night.

A member of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was trampled to death by a herd of wild elephants at Himchari Hill in Ramu upazila early Thursday.

Preventing corruption has become an essence of the time through launching vigorous social movement, involving the young generations, to accelerate national development, speakers said here last night.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-26 in a drive seized 798 bottles of contraband phensidyl and 38- bottle wine from Sadipur-Boroachra frontier area under Benapole thana of the district this morning.

Three persons were killed and another one injured by lightning in Sadar and Shibganj upazilas of the district this evening.

Border Guard Bangladesh personnel in a drive recovered a total of 53 pieces of rare species tortoise from Durgapur frontier under Benapole port police station, Lt Col Mohammad Jahangir Hossain, commanding officer, 26 Border Guard Battalion said.

The government suspended the member of Doyamir union parishad in Osmani Nogor upazila under Sylhet district on Monday.

A team of Detective Branch of police (DB) of the district arrested a  drug peddler with 800 yaba tablets from Tinn Bhai Dokan area under sadar upazila on Sunday.

Detectives in a drive arrested four people along with 175 pieces of Yaba tablet from Laxmikandar in sadar upazila on Saturday.

A minor girl was burnt to death as a fire broke out at a house at Binerpota Basundhara village in Sadar upazila on Friday night.

A couple was killed in a lightning strike in Ranisankail upazila headquarters early Friday.