Category: Districts

Police rounded up four members of bomb-making team belongs to Islami Chhatra Shibir, student-wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e Islami, in the cityon Sunday night.

Substantial and sustainable uses of organic and compost fertilizer in the farming fields can help protecting the soil nutrients from further declining trend for the sake of upholding the soil productivity, agricultural researchers and others concerned here said.

Chittagong Metropolitan Police in separate raids detained 45 persons after raiding Darul Ulum Alia Madrasa and Agrabad Deverpar area for hurling bombs on police and Power Development Board (PDB) office Saturday noon.

Miscreants set fire to two buses in Syedpur area of Burichong upazila early Sunday, hours before the start of the BNP-led 20-party alliance’s 72-hour countrywide hartal.

The handloom industry in Sirajganj district has received a shattering blow due to the ongoing countrywide non-stop transport blockade and repeated hartals sponsored by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

Three week long Jasim Pollimela (village fair) coinciding the 112th birth anniversary of the immortal folk poet Jasimuddin concluded last evening here at the Mela premises of poet’s ancestral home located at Gobindapur in the suburb of the town.

A week long Rashimoni fair started on Saturday on the premises of Rashimoni memorial monument at Baheratoli village under Durgapur upazila of the district.

Briquette, a hard block made from coal dust, is gradually getting popularity among the city dwellers as an alternative fuel, for its relatively lower price, for household as well as commercial cooking.

A market for the women was opened at Kalirbazaar under Fulchhari upazila of the district recently to enhance the access of the women to the market.

Businessmen in port city Chittagong today announced to take to the street against all kinds of political violence including blockade and strike.

Police arrested 11 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from different parts of the district in 24 hours ending on Saturday morning on charge of violence in the name of the blockade.

An anti-smuggling squad of Bangladesh Navy in a drive seized 30,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from a boat at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port early Saturday.

Detectives in a drive arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 44 kilograms of hemp at Amertal of Kathalbari area in the district town early Saturday.

Police arrested a young man in possession of 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from SK Khal area of the Naf River in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.

More than 30,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis.

Regional members of Anti Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) have expressed their grave concern over gross violation of tobacco control law in Rajshahi region and urged the authorities concerned to take punitive measures to resist the violation.

Chittagong district police detained 10 activists of BNP-Jamaat-Shibir from different upazilas of the district on Thursday night.

Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from Sridharpur in Biswanath upazila on Tuesday noon.

Police in a drive arrested six leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir from a mess at Kumargaon in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.

Police have arrested 22 persons including a BNP activist for carrying out subversive activities in Sunamganj during the ongoing blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

RM Manjurul Alam Tutul, Editor of Jessore- based Bangla daily Runner died of massive cardiac arrest at around 9:30am on Wednesday

No arrest has been made yet in the case filed for an attack on the residence of the principal of Sylhet Polytechnic Institute and staff quarters in the city by Bangladesh Chhatra League men on Sunday night.

Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at the residence of municipality mayor Afzal Hossain in Dakter Patti area of the municipality on Sunday night.

Members of the Detective Branch of police arrested a man along with 300 bottles of contraband phensidyl syrup from Bakal area of Sadar upazila on Sunday afternoon.

Two people were injured as miscreants hurled five crude bombs at two buses on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in front of Dairy Gate of Jahangirnagar University on Monday morning during the 36-hour nationwide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

Hundreds of people of Hindu community, particularly students, celebrated Swaraswati Puja before a 40 feet tall Swaraswati, Hindu Goddess of wisdom, installed at Ambari village under Kotalipara upazila of the district on Sunday.

A policeman was killed and four others injured in a road crash in Fouzdarhat area of the city early Monday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested five fake RAB persons including three women from Meherchandi area under Motiher Police Station in the city last night.

Police arrested Islami Chhatra Shibir’s district (south) unit president Tareq Hossain at a police check post in Shah Amanat Bridge area of the port city on Sunday.

Export-import through Hili land port has been suspended for one day on the occasion of the Republic Day of India on Monday.