Category: Districts

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 420 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Yusufpur Padmarchar area under Charghat thana of the district on Saturday.

Robbers looted gold ornaments and cash worth Tk 65 lakh from a jewellery shop at Biharkole Bazar in Bagatipara upazila early Saturday.

Police recovered two crude bombs from Bahirgola area in the district town on Saturday.

Twenty-eight people have been sued over killing of two brothers by a gang of miscreants in Badamtola area of the port city on Friday night.

A mobile court on Saturday jailed four young men to one month’s imprisonment each for sexually harassing schoolgirls during a Scout rally at a school in the district town.

An alleged member of a terrorist gang was arrested after he was injured in a gunfight between police and his associates at Latifpur village under Chandraganj thana in Sadar upazila early Sunday.

Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank(RAKUB) distributed blankets among 250 distressed freedom fighters (FFs) and 10 physically challenged and ethnic community people here on Saturday afternoon.

A view-exchange meeting on safe “Faecal Sludge Management (FSM)” was held on Saturday at pourashava meeting room.

Admission tests in nine government high schools of the port city Chittagong began Sunday.

The Panchagarh Sugar Mills Ltd (PSML) in the sub-Himalayan district of Panchagarh today (Friday) launched crushing sugarcane for the 2014-2015 season to produce 5,950 tonnes sugar from 85,000 tonnes of sugarcane.

Two persons were killed and another one injured in a road accident in Kararchar area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway this morning.

A student of class five allegedly committed suicide at Nabinagar area under city’s Baizid thana this (Friday) morning.

A day-long free eye camp was organized on Chuadanga Alia Madrasa premises of the district on Thursday.

A local Jubo League leader was killed when a truck rammed into his motorbike in Mastar Bari area on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in the city on Wednesday midnight.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler in possession of four kilograms of hemp from Krishnagobindapur Pathanpara area in Sadar upazila on Wednesday.

A mobile court here sentenced an alleged fake doctor to two years’ imprisonment and his seven agents to one year’s jail each in the district town on Wednesday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two drug peddlers in possession of 100 grams of heroin worth Tk 20 lakh from Bangaler More area in the district town on Thursday morning.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 1,487 bottles of contraband phensidyl from Haravanga village under Gangni upazila of the district last night.

The special 40-day employment generation programme of the government for the hardcore and the seasonal unemployed people has been launched in the district very recently.

Faridpur district unit of Bangladesh Chattra League (BCL) staged a protest demonstration in the town yesterday against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for his nonsense uttering against the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in London on Monday…

Police conducted raids in different areas under nine police stations of the district for the last two days and arrested 34 persons on different charges.

A policeman and a miscreant were injured in a gunfight between the law enforcers and members of a criminal gang at Uttar Maguri area in Laxmipur Sadar upazila on Wednesday night.

A young housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her in-laws over a dowry-related feud at Dandpur village in Patkelghata upazila early Wednesday.

Police recovered the body of a microbus driver with the throat slashed from beside the Sylhet-Dhaka Highway in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj district on Tuesday, two days after he had going missing.

Robbers looted cash and valuables from 10 vehicles on the Banpara-Hatikumrul highway in Baraigram upazila early Wednesday.

A septuagenarian man was hacked to death by unknown miscreants at Raipur village in Mohammadpur upazila early Wednesday.

A truck driver was killed and another person injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Goalbazar under Osmani Nagar thana in the city on Wednesday morning.

A prisoner, who was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in a case under Narcotics Control Act, died at Sadar hospital on Tuesday evening.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-12 in a drive arrested three drug peddlers at Birpusia village under Tangail sadar upazila of the district on Monday late night.