Category: Districts

Police arrested BNP city unit member secretary Badruzzaman Selim from Topkhana area in the city on Monday.

A young man was strangulated to death by unknown miscreants at Matipukur village in Sharsha upazila early Monday.

Police recovered four cocktail-like objects from the court building on Monday morning.

The curfew, which was imposed by the local administration in the district town following a clash between Bengalee settlers and indigenous people, has been eased from 12pm to 5pm on Monday.

Immigration police arrested a union parishad chairman in Debhata upazila from Bhomra immigration checkpost on Sunday afternoon.

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room in Samandhakathi village of Sharsha upazila on Sunday night.

A suspected leader of a forest robber gang was allegedly killed in a gunfight between his cohorts and police at Garaikhali Kumkhali Char in Payekgachha upazila early Monday.

Winter clothes were distributed among freedom fighters at Mehendiganj upazila health complex in the district yesterday.

Thousands hectares of char land lying on the river bed of the Brahmaputra and Teesta have been brought under different crops and vegetables cultivation during the current Robi season with an expectation of desired production.

Speakers at a post-rally training workshop have stressed for ensuring safer use of roads, building adequate awareness and professional skill of the drivers to reduce road accidents for saving thousands of lives annually.

The lifestyle and socioeconomic condition of the isolated people living in the remote and hardly reachable char areas on the Brahmaputra basin has been changing fast by virtue of solar power.

Thakurgaon Sugar Mills (TSM), a state owned enterprise, has produced 1,230 tonnes of sugar so far by crushing 21,740 tonnes of sugarcanes during the current season starting on December 19.

Police in a drive arrested an alleged terrorists and recovered a nine MM pistol and a magazine from Laharhat area under Sadar upazila of the district last night.

An alleged robber was killed in a gunfight with his rivals at Charandeep in Chakaria upazila over taking control of shrimp enclosures in the area early Thursday The deceased was identified as Jahed, 23, a resident of the same village.

Eight shops were gutted by a fire that broke out in Bakali Potti area in front of Pourosuper Market in the district town on Wednesday night.

A court here on Wednesday placed eight Jamaat-Shibir men on a two-day remand each in a case filed for attacking police in Shalbagan area of the city on Tuesday.

Police arrested three leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, including its district unit president Alamgir Hossain, from Basila Dakhil Madrasa in Noldanga upazila on Tuesday night.

A motorcyclist was killed and four passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway at Mirsarai bazar here on Wednesday.

A young man was killed after falling from the roof of a running train at the North Outer Signal of Fulbari rail station under Fulabri upazila in Dinajpur district today, police and local sources said.

Brisk preparations are afoot to hold the fortnight long pollimela (village fair) under the style of Jasim Pollimela commemorating the 112th birth anniversary of great folklore poet Jasimuddin will begin here on January 10 at village Gobindapur on the bank…

A housewife was found dead at Bakshabaid village in Sribardi upazila on Tuesday morning.

A mobile court yesterday (Monday) evening convicted one drug peddler and awarded one year rigorous imprisonment for possessing 4.800 kg of hemp (Ganja) in Shovarampur area adjacent to this town.

Janata Bank DistrictsLimited (JBL) distributed blankets to the people with disability and the distressed of the town here last few days to mitigate their sufferings caused by cold wave.

Commercial farming of strawberry has started gaining momentum in Rajshahi region as its cultivation is easier and highly profitable.

Duttapara police last night rescued a schoolboy, after two days of his abduction, from Sobhanpur area under Chatkhali upazila in Noakhali district.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two Myanmarese nationals and recovered 70,000 pieces of Yaba tablets from their possession at Teknaf in Cox’s Bazaar early Tuesday.

Police arrested three suspected members of a robber gang after a ‘gunfight’ with them at Choigharia on the Satkhira-Jessore highway in Sadar upazila early Monday.

A tribunal here on Monday sentenced three men to death for raping a female health worker of a non-government organisation (NGO) in 2005. 

At least ten Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) activists were injured in a clash between two factions of its Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU) unit over occupying hall seats on Sunday night.

At least 35 houses were gutted as a fire broke out near the Public Health Department in the district headquarters on Monday morning.