Category: Districts

Police arrested a local leader of BNP from Chanda Alir More in the district town on Friday night in connection with several cases.

A local leader of Awami League and an activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) were injured in attacks by miscreants at separate places in the district town on Friday night.

A joint meeting of district Awami League (AL) and its associate organisations was organised at Panchagarh district AL office last night to resist blockade, hartal and violence in the name of political movements.

Police in this northwestern town today arrested five alleged saboteurs after an accidental explosion of bombs which they were manufacturing at Puspwapara area here.

Cultivation of fruits on commercial basis has been continuing to increase bringing fortune to thousands of the common people, small and marginal farmers in recent years in the northern districts.

A Rajshahi University Chattra Shibir leader was killed in a gunfight with the police here last night.

The Triennial council of the district Awami League will be held tomorrow at Shaheed Abdur Razzaque Park here.

Chittagong district police in a series of drives detained 29 activists of BNP-Jamaat-Shibir from different upazilas of the district on Wednesday night and today.

The SSC and equivalent examinations began today in Rajshahi and its adjacent districts amid tight security as the indefinite blockade called by the BNP-led 20-party alliance continues.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 70,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from the Naf River at Leda in Teknaf upazila early Thursday.

Police arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 28 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Amtala intersection in the district town on Thursday morning.

Police arrested three leaders of Islami Chhatra Shibir from the municipality area here on Wednesday.

Miscreants set a truck ablaze by hurling a petrol bomb at Ahmadpur Bridge in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning.

A motorcyclist was killed and his two co-riders were injured in a road accident at Shemolgachhi in Sharsha upazila on Wednesday noon.

Chittagong district police in a series of drives detained 25 activists of BNP-Jamaat-Shibir from different upazilas of the district on Wednesday night and today.

Police arrested a leader of the city unit BNP on charge of attack and vandalism at Sylhet Polytechnic Institute principal’s house from Kadamtali area in the city on Wednesday night.

Leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) at a blanket distribution ceremony here today called upon the affluent citizens to stand beside the cold-hit poor and distressed people for mitigating their sufferings.

A hand bomb went off inside the Border Guard Battalion (BGB) camp in Jhumjhumpur area beside the Jessore-Narail Road in Jessore district on Wednesday night.

Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami on charge of violence from Keramatnagar area in Barlekha upazila early Thursday.

The present government has been implementing massive programmes for enhanced participation of unemployed womenfolk in economic activities to make them self-reliant through their development and empowerment.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a young man in possession of 1,480 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from a truck in Octroymore area in the district town on Tuesday night.

Speakers at a mass rally here have deplored killing of innocent people by hurling petrol bombs, anarchy, violence, destroying the academic life of the SSC examinees and national economy in the name of blockade and hartal.

At least three BNP-led 20 party alliance leaders were arrested by police in Kishoreganj Sader and Pakundia on Tuesday .

One person was killed and 50 others including 10 police men were injured and 20 shops damaged following a clash between two rival groups at Bus Stand in Bajipur town over gambling money and supremacy on Tuesday afternoon.

Police arrested two Shibir activists along with two petrol bombs and two crude bombs from Napiter Pole area in the district town on Monday morning.

Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) disbursed Taka 28 crore as different loans through its 19 branches in the district during the last six months of the current fiscal year.

Local Mohila Parishad unit distributed blankets among the 500 distressed people of Sadar and Fulchhari upazilas on Sunday.

Police on Sunday filed a case was filed against 59 leaders and activists of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami for torching vehicles on the Jessore-Benapole highway on Saturday.

Police rescued four women while they were being trafficked to India illegally from Putkhali frontier here on Sunday night.