Category: Districts

Three people who were kidnapped from Dhaka on Tuesday rescued from a residential hotel in the district town on Wednesday afternoon.

An activist of the local unit of Jubo League was beaten to death by miscreants at Laxmipur Bazar in Monoharganj upazila on Wednesday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) recovered 25 Molotov cocktails from Boalia area in Gobindaganj upazila on Wednesday morning.

Police recovered the body of a young man with the throat slashed from a hillock at Lamashyampur in Jaintapur upazila on Wednesday morning.

A girl allegedly committed suicide at Char Rampur village in Faridganj upazila on Tuesday as she could not pass this year’s Junior School Certificate (JSC) examination.

Prospects of boosting additional around one lakh metric tons of lentil output is bright in the region including the vast barind tract.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) – 8 stationed at Faridpur recovered huge quantity of various types of drugs from two places of this district yesterday.

15 shops were gutted as gas cylinders exploded in Tarabo-Hatipara area under Rupganj upazila Sunday night.

Police arrested a man along with a home-made pistol from Maylapota intersection of the city on Monday morning.

Police recovered the body of a man from a field at Kolishakundu village in Harinakunda upazila on Sunday morning.

A man was killed in an elephant attack at Kamarkhali village in Durgapur upazila of the district on Sunday morning.

Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here have stressed for reaching the available government services to the grassroots level male and female farm-labourers easily in a hassle-free manner to improve their livelihoods.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive recovered 7 shrapnel-laced bottle bombs from Binodpur area in the city early Monday.

Two people were killed and six others injured in a head on collision between a human hauler and a pick-up van on the Pabna-Dhaka highway in Sholabaria area of Santhia upazila on Monday morning.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-9 in a drive arrested a woman drug peddler with 6-kg ganja from Badeswari village under Chatak thana here on Saturday.

Kabirul Islam Siddiky, editor of a local vernacular daily and Md. Hasanuzzaman, Correspondent of Daily Shomokal and Channel24 TV were re-elected as president and secretary of Faridpur press club for the year 2015.

A boy died through suffocation after a piece of meat got stuck in his throat at Jhumjhumpur in Jessore district on Saturday night.

A young housewife, who attempted to kill herself on December 22, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Saturday afternoon.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from Shabrah area in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.

Police recovered the body of a housewife with the throat slashed from her house at Katakhali village in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 200 pieces of Yaba tablet from a sweetmeat shop at Jhaudanga Bazar in Sadar upazila on Friday midnight.

A man was hacked to death allegedly by his son-in-law over a family feud at Baneshwar Raghurampur village in Puthia upazila early Saturday.

A dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Gazipur district unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is underway in the district.

Police in separate drives arrested a local leader and three activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from Mirjaganj and Baufal upazilas early Saturday.

Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal from Pathantula point in the city on Friday evening.

Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route in the Padma River resumed early Saturday after a nine-hour disruption due to dense fog.

Farmers and other officials concerned are very much hopeful about cherished potato production in the region as overall climatic condition remains favorable towards the farming since its initial stage.

A 40-day special employment generation programme of the government for the hardcore and the seasonal unemployed people has been progressing fast in the district for last couple of weeks.

Employment generating programme for hard-core poor, seasonal unemployed and destitute people, began in the district this month.

Police seized 171 pieces of costly Indian smuggled in saris from a Dhaka bound bus at Baliakandi under Gazaria Upzila of the district and arrested three persons in this connection on Friday.