Category: Districts

Miscreants set afire a truck leaving its helper dead and driver injured inside at Bamrail in Wazirpur upazila early Sunday, as the BNP-lead 20-party alliance’s countywide non-stop blockade entered 13th day.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered one lakh pieces of Yaba tablet from Golar Char area of Shah Parir Dwip in Teknaf upazila early Saturday.

Police arrested three leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir while they were holding a ‘clandestine meeting’ at no.1 Koyra in Koyra upazila on Friday night.

Two Bangladeshi young men were injured in firing by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Putkhali border here early Saturday.

Police in separate drives arrested 10 alleged members of an inter-district robber gang from Dhaka, Narayanganj, Manikganj, Chittagong and Gazipur districts in the last 24 hours on Saturday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion seized 33.7 kilograms of gunpowder from Jahurpur border point in sadar upazila on Saturday.

A goods-laden truck was set on fire at Kanta on the Gobindaganj-Hili Road in Gobindaganj upazila early Saturday, during the countrywide indefinite transport blockade.

A rice trader, whom a gang of frauds made unconscious by applying sedative to snatch his belongings, died at Satkhira sadar hospital here on Friday.

Fulchhari upazila of Gaibandha district has been brought under School Feeding Programme (SFP) this year aimed at making the primary education a success.

Kotwali police arrested listed top terrorist and killer Khatibar Rahman, 25, with illegal arms and ammunitions from Jamtola Keranipara area in the city this afternoon, police sources said.

The members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a raid seized a double barrel rifle and 135 bottles of phensidyl syrup from Nangla villege under Devhata upazila of the district on Friday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-3, in several anti-smuggling drives, seized a huge quantity of smuggled Indian goods worth about Taka over 24 lakh from different areas of the district last night.

A housewife was allegedly killed by her husband over a family matter at Sonatunia village under Rampal upazila of the district last night.

Speakers at a function here Wednesday said the integrated efforts of all could prevent the ongoing terrorism, violence and sabotage of the miscreants on the Bogra-Rangpur Highway under Palashbari upazila of the district.

Chandraganj Thana Police in a drive arrested two alleged drug peddler with yaba tablets and phensidyl from Chandraganj Bazaar under Sadar upazila last night.

A Bangladeshi young man, who sustained injuries while crossing Chandahar border in Pirganj upazila into India on January 12, died at a hospital of that country on Wednesday.

Police in separate drives arrested 55 people, including 11 leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, from different upazilas of the district early Thursday.

A shoe factory worker was killed allegedly by his fellow for making ‘distasteful remarks’ about the latter’s wife at Shyambokshi in Sadar Dakkhin upazila on Wednesday evening.

Police recovered hacked bodies of two young men from Dhopadi beel (water body) in Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore district on Thursday morning.

A man was crushed under the wheels of a truck in Chhatni Bazar area of Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning.

Members of Border Guard (BGB) in a drive seized 526 goat rawhides foiling a smuggling bid at Putkhali border point on Wednesday morning.

Three motorcyclists were killed and three others injured as a truck rammed two motorcycles on Jessore-Keshabpur road at Begaritola in Manirampur upazila on Wednesday.

Speakers at the concluding ceremony of a month-long training course on Tuesday called upon the unemployed and poor rural women for producing duck chicks using modern technologies to achieve self-reliance.

Joypurhat Sugar Mill (JSM), one of the largest state owned enterprises, has produced 3,000 tonnes of sugar by crushing 45,000 tonnes of sugarcane in 32 days ignoring blockade.

The farmers in the district are passing busy time sowing Boro seeds in their farm lands since the first week of the current month.

Ferry service on Shimulia-Kawrakandi route has resumed at 10 am after suspension of seven and half hours due to thick fog in the area.

RDRS Bangladesh distributed 6,660 pieces of quality blankets among the cold- hit poor and distressed people, including women and children, of all eight districts in Rangpur division during this winter season.

Police arrested Sylhet city unit Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ehsanul Mahbub Jubayer from Zindabazar area in the city on Tuesday morning.

Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route in the Padma river resumed on Tuesday morning after seven and a half hours’ disruption due to dense fog.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 25 people while they were going to India illegally through Boro Achra border here on Monday night.