Category: Districts

Detective Branch (DB) of police seized 600 bottles of Indian smuggled phensidyl from a truck at Kedarganj bazar area of Chuadanga town and arrested two persons in this connection last night.

Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has distributed 200 blankets among the cold- hit distressed Freedom Fighters and ethnic people in Rajshahi city today (Friday).

Normal life in the city and its adjacent areas has been affected due to mild cold weather coupled with chilly wind and dense fog for the last couple of days.

A young man was arrested for damaging images of Hindu Goddess Durga, Lakkhi and Ganesh at a temple in Kharaikhali village under Morelganj upazila early this morning.

Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident at Kumri Bottala area on Sherpur-Lolitabari road under sadar upzila last night.

Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 8 lakh from a house at Sultanpur in the district town early Thursday.

Police recovered the body of a cloth trader from Bhawal National Park in the district on Wednesday three days after his going missing.

Ten persons were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Birgaon village under Roypura upazila of the district this afternoon.

A Junior School Certificate (JSC) examination candidate was shot to death and four other people, including his father and two brothers, were injured in an attack by miscreants at Uttar Satirpara in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.

Faridpur district Muktijoddhya command council organized a protest rally and formed a human chain yesterday in the city against Tareque’s derogatory remarks over the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Shaikh Mujibur Rahman recently in London.

Police arrested a suspected militant from in front of Jessore Medical College Hospital in Jessore district town on Monday night.

Two people were killed and 10 others injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Rangpur-Borra highway in Kelamu bridge area of Pirganj upazila early Tuesday morning.

Police in separate drives arrested five suspected activists of the banned Islamic militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Fulbaria upazila on Monday.

Police in separates drives arrested 56 people, including an upazila unit ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami, from ten upazilas of the district on Sunday.

A man was killed in a clash between two groups of villagers over a trifling matter at Tarchuka village in Chhatak upazila on Sunday.

Police recovered four crude bombs and 500 gram gunpowder from Harichandar Mor area in Kolaroa upazila on Monday morning.

A member of a robber gang allegedly killed in a gunfight with police on the Magura-Satruzitpur road at Mandartala in Sadar upazila early Monday.

A dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by an ‘action committee’ formed by local people demanding arrest of the killers of Oliar Rahman, councillor of Noapara municipality and also joint secretary of the Abhaynagar upazila unit of Awami League, is going on peacefully…

A worker was killed and 22 others injured in separate road accidents in the district on Sunday.

A man was killed and six others injured a gang of robbers opened fire at them while fleeing after committing robbery at Ambaria village in Kalukhali upazila early Monday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested a young man along with 500 pieces of Yaba tablets from in front of Pathshala Academy at Chairmanpara in Nachole upazila on Sunday.

Detective Branch (DB) of police in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler and recovered 600 pieces of yaba tablets from Amtoly area in the district town last night.

A bumper production of cotton is expected this season as harvesting of the cash crops has begun in six upazilas of the district.

The yellow mustard fields, which are now in full bloom in the vast tracts of land in the district, have already worn an eye-catching look.

At least 25 people were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Jahanpur village in Dhakkhin Sunamganj upazila here on Friday over land dispute.

The Ashulia police have recovered a hanging body of a studio businessman from his studio at Kathgora bazaar in Ashulia, on the outskirts of the capital yesterday afternoon.

Dead body of a young man (32) was recovered from a paddy filed in the village Hariaghop under Chitalmari Upazila in the district on Friday in the morning. His hands and legs were tied with rope and his neck was…

A man committed suicide after killing his second wife at Kasta village under Kesabpur upazila in Jessore early Saturday.