Category: Districts

December 17 is a red letter day for Khulna people as the Pakistani occupation forces surrendered to the allied forces comprising freedom fighters and Indian armed forces on this day in 1971, a day after liberation of the rest of…

An elderly woman Shefali Begum, 60, was killed and two others injured when a speedy truck crashed them at Majra village area under Kashiani upazila of the district this evening.

Six persons were killed and 11 others injured this morning in a road accident at Sutang here on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway.

Miscreants murdered a couple along with their two minor daughters at Labonkata village under Bhaluka Upazila of the district last night.

Police seized 700 bottles of contraband Indian phensidyl syrup from a coal laden truck in Atapara area under Panchbibi Upazila of the district on Sunday.

Robbers looted valuables from the house of a former union parishad chairman in Katia Sarkar Para of the district town early Monday.

A mobile court on Sunday sealed off two current net factories in Muktarpur BSCIC Industrial Town here and fined the owners for producing and marketing the contraband product.

Miscreants looted valuables worth Tk 5 lakh from a house after doping five members of a family at Ganganandapur village in Jhikorgacha upazila on Sunday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged drug peddler in possession of 980 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Chamagram area in Shibganj upazila early Monday.

The farmers have been taking preparations with huge enthusiasm to start transplantation of Boro seedlings from January next in the northern region, officials in the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a young man in possession of 200 pieces of Yaba tablets from Bhaberber village on Sunday night.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) distributed 2,000 blankets among the cold-hit distressed people of all ages in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram yesterday, a press release said here this evening.

A mobile court on December 9 convicted one person and awarded six months simple imprisonment for trading huge quantity of hemp (Ganja) in Sadar upazilla of this district.

Some 200 river eroded people of Singria village under Udakhali union of Fulchhari upazila got blankets from two non-governmental organizations on Tuesday.

A farmer was found dead in a crop field at Salamar village in Singra upazila on Wednesday morning, one month after his going missing.

A freedom fighter was hacked to death and another person injured in an attack by a group of miscreants at Ayapur village in Patnitala upazila on Tuesday midnight.

A truck driver and his helper were killed in a head-on collision between two trucks at Sutang in Sadar upazila of Habiganj district early Wednesday.

Ferry services on the Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma river resumed after 12 and a half hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Wednesday morning.

Police arrested an activist of Islami Chhatra Shibir along with firearms and bullets and his associate from Achua Koshaipara area of Godagari upazila on Tuesday.

Ferry services on the Shemulia-Kewrakandi route remained suspended for over 13 hours on Tuesday night due to dense fog.

A man was killed and five others were injured in a road accident on the Banghabandhu Bridge in Bhuapur upazila early Tuesday morning.

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her room in Bhatkhola area of Dakshin Surma upazila on Monday.

Four Bangladeshi teenagers have returned home from India after serving one year’s jail term for illegal stay in that country after intrusion.

A daylong hartal, enforced by ‘Santras O Chandabaji Protirodh Committee’ (A platform to resist terrorism and extortion) protesting rise in terrorist activities and extortion in the district is progressing peacefully here today.

A mobile court in Jessore on Monday night sentenced six young men to six months’ imprisonment each for taking and peddling drugs.

Police arrested five local leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD), student associate body of BNP, at Jagannathpur village in Sadar upazila on Monday afternoon over violence.

A man was killed and five others were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over a land-related dispute at Kapashpara village in Naria upazila on Monday.

A mobile court here on Monday sentenced a man to one and a half years in jail for running an unauthorized energy drink factory.

Harvest of transplanted (T) Aman paddy, a high valued crop, has been progressing fast in all seven upazilas of the district.