Category: Districts

The implementation of 368 schemes under test relief programme in four upazilas of the district is nearing completion at a cost of 691 metric tons of rice.

Police in separate drives arrested seven local leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies from different places of sadar upazila on Wednesday night in connection with torching a truck in the night before.

Miscreants set afire a bus at Charmtha Bhaber Bazar on the Dhaka-Bogra highway in the district town on Wednesday night.

Miscreants torched a local land office at Radhanagar in Chhagalnaiya upazila early Thursday, 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.

Police arrested a local leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir from Nachole Bazar in Nachole upazila on Thursday morning in two cases over vandalism.

A court here on Thursday convicted nine people and sentenced them to life imprisonment in a case for murdering a freedom fighter in Mouchak area of Siddhirganj upazila of the district 13 years ago.

Police in an overnight drive arrested 25 persons including three activists of BNP and Jamaat from different parts of the district on various charges.

Directorate of Khulna District Women Affairs today distributed cheques amounting Taka 15.55 lakh among 82 women voluntary social welfare organizations at the deputy commissioners conference room through a ceremony.

Police on Wednesday night recovered four live bombs from Gangni Upazila here.

Speakers at a union level Ansar-VDP rally have said members of the volunteer organisation have become the national lifeline to speed up rural uplift and establish peace in the society through rooting out crimes.

A team of Joypurhat thana police seized 740 bottles of contraband phensidyl syrup from a rice laden truck at Baniapara area on Joypurhat-Bogra road and arrested two persons in this connection last evening.

Police in a drive arrested three alleged gold smugglers and recovered 12 gold bars worth about Taka 40 lakh from Karmokarpatti area on the Kalibari road under Mirzapur upazila of the district last night.

A college girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room at Ramkrishnapur village in sadar upazila of Jessore district on Tuesday night.

Four persons, including two motorcyclists, were killed in separate road accidents at different places in Rangpur and Thakurgaon districts today, police sources said.

Police recovered the body of a minor boy, who had been abducted on Saturday, at Birab in Rupganj upazila on Tuesday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an absconding accused from Goaldi Musria area of the town under Airport Thana last night.

About 135 families of five villages under Niamatpur upazila in the district have been brought under rural electrification network by Naogaon Palli Bidyut Samity (NPBS) on Wednesday.

More than 500 poor patients have been provided with medical treatment and medicines free of cost on Saturday at a medical camp held at Moglabazar in Sylhet on Wednesday.

Peasants Day in the field for disseminating nutritional messages through cultivating Vegetables and Orange Flesh Sweet Potato (OFSP) held on Tuesday at Karmullakathi under Dehergati union of Babuganj upazila in Barisal district.

Four quarry workers were killed in a landslide while extracting stones at Bholaganj in Companyganj upazila on Sunday night.

The Pir (religious leader) of Charmonai and head of Islami Andolon Bangladesh on Tuesday afternoon in the opening ceremony of the three-day long yearly Mahfil (religious gathering) at Charmonai Darbar Sharif, about four miles far from Barisal city, said results…

Assailants shot dead Mosharraf Hossain, 61, chairman of Ichhali union council and also union unit general secretary of the ruling party under Jessore sadar upazila at around 10:30am on Tuesday.

A crime suspected was killed in a ‘gunfight’ with law enforcers at Rudrapara village in Srinagar upazila on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Shahin. Further details about the victim could not be known yet. Tipped off that a group…

Miscreants set a vegetable-laden truck ablaze by hurling a petrol bomb in Gokul area on the Bogra-Rangpur Highway on Monday night.

Robbers looted valuables from a house after injuring its four inmates at Ghoshpara in the district town early Tuesday.

Miscreants set fire to the district fishery office in BISIC area of the district town early Tuesday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained nine Bangladeshi nationals, including two children, while going to India illegally through Sadipur border here on Tuesday.

A mobile court fined the owners of 11 brick kilns Tk18 lakh for different irregular and illegal activities, including firing wood instead of coal, in Moheshpur upazila on Monday.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized a foreign origin pistol with six rounds live bullets and two magazines from Monirampur border under Birampur upazila in Dinajpur today, BGB sources said.

For the greater interests of mutual benefits coupled with boosting farm outputs, emphasis should be given on establishing cordial relation between bankers and farmers.