Category: Districts

A day-long view exchange meeting on improvement of the life style of the slum dwellers organized jointly by Practical Action, Bangladesh and Society for the Urban Poor (SUP) was held yesterday at local Ambica Memorial hall.

The members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two women drug paddlers with 7 kilograms cannabis in a raid at BSCIC industrial town area of Munshiganj on Thursday.

A team of Narcotics Control Department arrested a constable of Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police in possession of 500 pieces of Yaba tablet from Shiddhirganj area of the city.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 100 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Nimtala Farikpara area in the district town on Wednesday.

Police arrested three alleged muggers in possession of one pistol, five rounds of bullet, cash Tk16,000 and a motorcycle while fleeing after snatching valuables from a businessman at Sripur Bazar in Sripur upazila on Wednesday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested two alleged drug traders and seized 100 bottles of phensidyl from their possession at Nimtala of Chapainawabganj town last evening.

A constable of traffic police was killed as a truck crashed into him on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in the district town on Thursday morning.

Local people here on Wednesday rescued an old man who had been abducted seven months back from Kushabari village in Magura Sadar upazila.

Dhk-Sylhet and Dhk-Ctg rail links snapped Nine construction workers were injured as a relief train hit a crane at Methikanda Railway Station in Raipur upazila on Thursday morning.

The body of Dr Shamarukh Mahjabin Shama, who was found dead at her residence in the city’s Dhanmondi on November 13, was exhumed from Karbala Graveyard in Jessore district on Thursday noon 19 days after the burial.

Speakers at a post rally discussion here on Wednesday underlined the need for establishing a friendly atmosphere for the disabled to ensure a dignified position for them in society.

A farmer was killed over land dispute at village Saniapara in Gouripur upazila here yesterday afternoon.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in two separate drives recovered 30,000 pieces of Yaba tablet and arrested one person in this connection from Baraitali of Teknaf upazila on Tuesday night and early Wednesday.

A motorcyclist was killed and two others were injured in a road accident at Dudhsar area on the Jhenidah-Kushtia highway under Shailkupa upazila of the district this morning.

At least four timber shops were gutted in fire in Shah Amanullah residential area under Chandgaon thana in the city on Tuesday night.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-9 in a drive recovered three foreign made pistols, six magazines and 12 round bullets from Kaliganj village under Shibganj upazila of the district early this morning.

Police on Wednesday arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in connection with the attack on convoy of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Kolaroa upazila on August 30, 2002.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered three pistols, six magazines and 12 rounds of bullet from Kaliganj area at Mankasha border point in Shibganj upazila early Wednesday.

A Bangladeshi young man was shot by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Gazipur border point in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed by his rivals over constructing a shop at Sipahipara in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.

A woman was hacked to death allegedly by her co-wife at Nodakandar village in Bagmara upazila on Tuesday.

December 3 is a red letter day in the history of Thakurgaon. On December 3 Thakurgaon was liberated from the clutches of the Pakistan occupation Army through a valiant freedom struggle.

A mobile court sentenced four people to six months’ imprisonment for their involvement in drug peddling in Sharsha upazila on Sunday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion(RAB)-8 stationed at Faridpur yesterday(Monday) recovered 1,205 pieces of banned Yaba tablets from two places of Nagarkanda upazilla and arrested two drug peddlers in this connection.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives seized smuggled goods and drugs worth about Taka 17,74,065 from different areas of Joypurhat frontier in the last 24 hours ending this morning.

Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident at Gobindapur under Rajoir upazila of the district this morning.

An army man was killed and four people were injured when a truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Bateshwar Talerpar area in the city on the Sylhet-Tamabil Road on Tuesday morning.

Ferry services on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in the Padma river resumed after four hours’ disruption caused by dense fog on Tuesday early morning.

A special tribunal here on Monday afternoon sentenced two people to 20 years’ imprisonment each for possessing firearms.