Category: Districts

Damurhuda thana police in a drive recovered 21 Indian made air guns from Joyrampur village on the Darsana-Chuadanga road under Damurhuda upazila of the district last night.

Chittagong district police in a  night-long drive detained 12 activists of BNP-Jamaat-Shibir from  five upazilas of the district on Thursday night.

Police arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 150 pieces of Yaba tablets from Chanchra Raipara area in Jessore town on Wednesday night.

A mobile court here on Thursday sentenced two Jamaat-e-Islami leaders to two years’ imprisonment each on charge of carrying out subversive activities.

Ferry services on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in the Padma River resumed after nine hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Thursday morning.

A court here today convicted two people and sentenced to each of them 10 years rigorous imprisonment (RI) for engaging a minor girl at a brothel in the district.

Speakers at a meeting have stressed for innovation and adoption of community-based techniques and early preparedness with efficient emergency response management systems to reduce risk of natural disasters.

There is no fertilizer crisis in Chapainawabganj district for Boro cultivation in the current season, despite indefinite blockade enforced by the BNP led 20-party alliance across the country.

Robbers shot to death a villager and injured three others during a robbery incident at Bhadrasan village in Shibchar upazila early Thursday.

Miscreants set afire the district unit Awami League (AL) office on the Chandpur-Comilla Road in the district town early Thursday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 17 people while they were going to India illegally through Putkhali border here on Wednesday night.

A polytechnic institute student, who had been kidnapped from Baroghoria area of sadar upazila on Tuesday, was rescued from the bank of the Mahananda River in the upazila on Wednesday night.

A man was killed as a train ploughed through his bicycle on the Kalurghat rail bridge in the port city on Thursday morning.

Police arrested a woman drug trader with three kilograms of ganja at Kathaltala village under Moralganj upazila of the district on Tuesday.

‘Chars’ emerging in the river Padma are bringing fortune to many farmers in Paba, Godagari and Bagha upazilas of the district during the last few years.

A three-day long Digital Innovation Fair-2015 will begin on Independence Square of the town here from January 22 under Access to Information Programme of Prime Minster (PM) Office.

A young man committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling of his room in the city on Tuesday night.

Police recovered two pistols, one shutter gun and six rounds of bullet from a house at Kajla Kashibati village in Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday morning.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered three human skeletons from Schoolpara area under Rajpara thana in the city early Wednesday.

Health experts at a views-sharing meeting have asked the freedom fighters for creating awareness in indentifying tuberculosis patients and bringing them under cost free treatment facilities to eradicate the curable disease.

The charred body of truck helper Sohag Biswas, 19 who was the victim of hurling a petrol bomb Sunday in Barisal district was brought here in the afternoon and was laid to rest in village Sankarpasha under Nagarkanda upazilla of…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader from Arpin Nagar Eidgah Maydan area of the town on Sunday night.

A school teacher was reportedly killed by unknown miscreants at Rudrabaria village in Dhunat upazila early Monday.

A court here on Monday further turned down the bail plea of suspended Habiganj municipality mayor Golam Kibria Gaus, now in custody, in the former finance minister Kibria murder case.

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been implementing a big project aiming at enhancing the accessibility of the rural people to the markets and economic opportunities in the region.

Nearly two thousand families living in the inaccessible charland of this district are now enjoying the facilities of electricity originated from solar panels that brought huge change in their life style.

State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Alhaj Mashiur Rahman Ranga has said burning and killing of the innocent people through hurling petrol bombs cannot be political ideology.

A man was killed when a truck ran over him in Khulna Road Mor in the district down on Sunday.

Detectives arrested a local leader of Awami League (AL) in possession of forged Indian currency notes amounting to one lakh rupees from his house at Chandrapur village in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Saturday night.