Category: Districts

December 9, 1971 has turned out to be a red-letter day for the people of Netrakona as they were liberated and their soil was freed from the occupation of Pakistani military forces.

Family members of several Liberation War martyrs have demanded steps for protection and proper maintenance of Babla Bon mass grave site in Rajshahi city so that people can pay homage to the great sons of the soil, who were buried…

The biennial district council of district unit of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was held at Town Hall auditorium in the city yesterday amid huge enthusiasm and festivity among the leaders and workers of the organisation.

At least 30 shops and some garment rag warehouses were gutted as a market caught fire in the city’s Konabari area early Tuesday.

The Gaibandha Liberation Day- 2014 was observed here today through daylong programmes in the district town amid huge festivity and enthusiasm among the people from all walks in life.

Ministry of Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives has suspended Faridpur Pourashava Mayor Shaikh Mahatab Ali Methu from his post on various charges of corruption and irregularities.

A member of a terror group was arrested after he was injured in a gunfight between police and his group at Latifpur village in Sadar upazila early Monday.

A tourist was killed and nine others injured as a microbus plunged into a roadside ditch in Shoiloprapat area in the district early Monday.

Two people were killed and 20 others injured in a head on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Khulna highways in Wapda area in Shreepur upazila on Monday morning.

A local Juba League leader, who was injured in an attack by miscreants at Nabharan Bazar in Sharsha Upazila of Jessore district on Sunday night, succumbed to his injuries at 250-Bed Jessore Sadar Hospital on Monday morning.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested five alleged pirates from Kanchikata area in Sunderban on Sunday.

At least 17 people including two women were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over land-related dispute at Kumajpur village in Salanga upazila on Sunday.

Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route in the Padma River resumed on Monday morning after a six-hour disruption due to dense fog.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged arms trader in possession of one pistol, one magazine and three rounds of bullets from Alidanga area in Shibganj upazila on Sunday night.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from a char in Chowhali upazila on Sunday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) held a man in possession of 1,935 pieces of Yaba tablet from Naitongpara village in Teknaf upazila on Saturday night.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 735 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Johurpur border area in Sadar upazila of the district early Sunday.

A mobile court in Jessore on Saturday night sentenced two young men to six months’ imprisonment each for takingand peddling drugs.

A teenage girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with the ceiling of her room at Alir village in Goainghat upazila on Saturday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized huge Indian goods worth Tk87.50 lakh from Amrakhali area here on Saturday night.

A man was beaten to death allegedly by his elder brother following a quarrel over a land-related dispute at Gutpo Munshi village in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 12 people while they were going to India illegally through Putkhali border here on Saturday night.

A regional leader of the outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) was killed in a gunfight with police at Bhanga Battala in Mirpur upazila early Sunday.

A housewife was killed when a truck ran over her at Itegachha Hater More in the town early Friday.

Robbers looted valuables worth Tk30 lakh from the house of a Saudi expatriate at Palpur village in Chhatak upazila of Sunamganj district early Thursday.

A touch stone statue of Lord Bishnu, weighing about four maunds, was seized by police from Dakhin Kazi Kasba village under Sadar upazila on Thursday.

A young man was found buried in a mustard field at Darikandi village in Titash upazila on Thursday, 20 days after he had gone missing.

Hospitals see influx of child patients in Khulna Early season cold is playing havoc with public health in Khulna amid outbreak of different types of disease when the winter has just set in.

The ringleader of a pirate gang was slaughtered at Mahespur village in Begumganj upazila here on Thursday night.