Category: Districts

Eight shops were gutted in a fire at Sakhipur Station Bazaar under Vedhorganj upazila of the district early this morning.

Five people, including Jhinaigati upazila Awami League (AL) convener Warez Nayeem, were injured in an attack on the local Awami League office by position-deprived party men in Jhinaigati upazila on Friday night.

A security guard was found dead in Old Bus Stand area of sadar upazila on Saturday.

Despite having all facilities, the Victim Support Centre (VSC) of police in Khulna can hardly come to the use of those for whom it is meant, mainly due to people’s ignorance of such a centre existing.

Police in a drive arrested a man along with 50 answer sheets of Junior Dakhil Certificate (JDC) examinations in Jhikargachha upazila of Jessore district on Friday night.

A young housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband and in-laws over a dowry-related feud at Muslimpur Tolghar village in Shibganj upazila early Friday.

Police in a drive arrested a young man along with 25 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Bidirpurhat border camp area in Godagari upazila on Wednesday night.

A mobile court here sentenced a fake dental surgeon to three months jail for failing to show his valid degree certificate to the court at Tobalchari area of the district town today.

An Awami League local office and three shops were gutted as a fire broke out in Lamakazi Bazar area in Bishwanathpur upazila early Thursday morning.

Police arrested a young man along with a pistol and a magazine from Chakpara village in Naldanga upazila early Wednesday.

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been implementing an integrated development project in greater Rajshahi division aims at improving overall living and livelihood condition of the rural people in general.

Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) and valiant freedom fighter Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has said the city administration would ensure better services for the citizens ensuring transparency and accountability.

At least seven people, including four policemen, were injured in a gunfight between police and a terrorist group at Uttar Joypur in Sadar upazila early Thursday.

Speakers at a training course today stressed for enhanced participation of the organisations of small and marginal farmers in food security governance to ensure food security of the extremely poor rural people.

A mobile court convicted and sentenced a young man to six months’ imprisonment for sexually harassing a schoolgirl in Fatullah Pilot School area of Sadar upazila on Wednesday.

A middle-aged man, who suffered injuries in a road accident in Jessore town, died at Jessore 250-Bed Hospital on Wednesday night.

A court here on Wednesday sentenced three people to death and five more to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Phulpur upazila in 2002.

A mobile court here on Tuesday sentenced a person to one and a half years’ imprisonment and another to six moths’ jail for selling expired medicine in the district town.

A man was killed and 10 people were injured as a truck hit a human hauler on the Dhaka-Khulna highway at Sreedam Datta Para in Goalanda upazila on Tuesday evening.

Six Bangladeshis, who were arrested by Indian Border Security Force (BSFDistricts) while they were trying to enter Indian territory through Petrapole border illegally, returned home through Benapole check post on Tuesday night.

Members of a joint force have rescued three forest officials, who were reputedly kidnapped by miscreants from Harikata of Langadu upazila, from Naniachar of the upazila 19 days after the incident.

Four warehouses burnt down in a jute mill at Odhirnagar in Bera upazila on Tuesday as a fire erupted from an oil tank blast at the factory.

An old man drowned when a trawler capsized in the river Meghna at Hijla upazila of the district last night.

Speakers said at a discussion that the retailers and other vendors concerned should abide by the law of the tobacco control to protect the public health from bad effect of both smoke and smokeless tobacco products.

Speakers at a rally have underscored the need for creating mass public awareness and police-people cooperation to launch a vigorous social movement in building a drug-free society.

Ensuring equal rights for the women members in reserved seats in Union Parishad is very important for their empowerment and congenial working atmosphere, some women public representatives at a press conference here said today.

Speakers at a rally here have stressed for engaging comprehensive efforts of all concerned, involving the people from all walks in life, for building a peaceful society free from drug abuse, corruption and terrorism.

Chairman of Bangladesh Press Council (BPC)Justice Muhammed Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed here on Monday urged the media men to project objective news upholding the spirit of the War of Liberation as it is the true foundation of democracy in the country.

Farmers in the Hard Barind area comprising Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainwabgonj districts need time-fitting training and motivation on how to cultivate more less-irrigated crops to lessen the existing pressure on groundwater, speakers at a training session said.