Category: Districts

Coast guard personnel and Ramgati upazila fisheries office in a joint drive seized 10 lakh shrimp fries from three markets of the upazila on Tuesday.

Liaquqt Ali, a veteran Freedom Fighter (FF) and retired Superintendent of Manikganj District Accounts Office, died of a cardiac arrest at his residence in the district town this afternoon.

Two people were killed and another was injured as a truck rammed into a rickshaw van at Bagachara on the Naogaon-Rajshahi Highway in Mohavebpur upazila on Wednesday morning.

At least 15 shops were gutted as a fire broke out at Charfashion Bazar in Charfashion upazila on Tuesday night.

A housewife was killed as she fell under the wheels of a truck in Noapara municipality area in Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore district on Tuesday night.

Miscreants torched a local land office in Sadar upazila early Wednesday, the fifth day of the fresh 120-hour nationwide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade.

Some 15 shops were gutted as a fire broke out at Kachari Bazar in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized 200 kilograms of jatka (hilsa fry less than 10 centimetres in length), 80 kilograms of hilsa fish and 4,20,000 metres of current net from two launches in the Meghna River here on Tuesday morning.

A young man was hacked to death by miscreants at west Maizdi village of Sadar upazila on Sunday night.

A man and his son were killed as a truck hit their bicycle in Khulakathi area at Anantobala village in Shibganj upazila of the district on Sunday.

AL leaders and activists holding rally on Sunday evening at Babuganj upazila Sadar gave ultimatum to withdraw officer in charge of local police station and the case lodge against 24 AL leaders and activists for ransacking Workers Party office and…

The two-month total ban on fishing in 340 kilometers areas on five major rivers in six districts of the southern region imposed by the fishing directorate starts on Sunday without any propagation and compensative subsidy.

Border Guard Bangladesh men on Saturday noon seized a tot of 715 grams of gold bars and arrested a woman raiding an area at Ghiba frontier under Benapole port police station while the border guard men seized two foreign made…

Police recovered the body of a woman from Kandirpar area adjacent to Mawa ferry ghat in Munshiganj district on Saturday evening.

Two persons were killed and 15 others injured in a road accident on Habiganj-Shaestaganj zonal road in the district here today.

Joint forces in a drive arrested two young men along with a home-made firearm at Kanungopara in Panchhari upazila on Saturday afternoon.

Media to help strengthen democracy Md. Mosabbir Ali.

Female workers in Rangpur district are facing discrimination as they get much less wage than their male counterparts for the same type of work.

Muggers snatched away Tk6 lakh after shooting a cattle trader in Setai area of Sharsha upazila on Saturday night.

Miscreants torched a pickup van and vandalised eight CNG-run auto- rickshaws in Dalal Bazar area of sadar upazila on Saturday night on the eve of another spell of 72-hour hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

A bus helper suffered burn injuries as miscreants torched his vehicle at a bus stand in Akkelpur upazila early Sunday.

The government has imposed a two months’ ban on catching, selling and transportation of all types of fish from the Padma and Meghna rivers from Sunday to ensure safe spawning and protecting of fish resources.

Members of Bangladesh Border Guard in a drive arrested a woman in possession of 8920 coins of Tk 1 denomination each from Putkhali border area on Saturday night.

Miscreants torched the municipal office of the district on Saturday night by pouring petrol, burning down some documents and papers.

The Ansar-VDP members have been playing the pioneering role in launching social movement to accelerate rural uplift in the process of building a middle income country, speakers at a rally said here on Thursday.

Police arrested listed top terrorist Joynal Mirja, 28, accused in 22 criminal cases, including two sensational murders, from Radhaballov area in the city this afternoon, police said.