Category: Districts

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 39,000 pieces of Senegra tablets and 692 bottles of contraband Phensidyl worth Tk 1.20 crore from Daulatpur border point here on Sunday night.

A man was killed in an accident at Mohajon Potty area in city on Sunday night.

Robbers looted valuables worth TK 7 lakh including gold, cash, laptop and mobile sets from an expatriate’s house at Gopsohor area in Dakkin Surma upazila early Monday.

A man was killed as he was allegedly beaten  and chopped by the robbers when he tried to resist the dacoits of village Provakorpara in Chatmohar upazila of Pabna early Sunday.

Assailants shot dead Mollah Oliar Rahman, 59, Nawapara bureau chief; Khulna based Daily Janmabhumi, councilor, ward number 7, joint secretary, Abhaynagar upazila Awami League and also president, a co-ordination committee of different labour organization at around 7am on Sunday.

More than six thousand examinees absent in PSC examination in Barisal division started from Sunday.

Two assistant proctors of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) tendered their resignations on Sunday, three days into the killing of a student in Bangladesh Chchatra League (BCL) infighting on the campus on Thursday.

A youth died falling from a tree at Churmonkati village in Sadar upazila on Sunday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 993 bottles of contraband phensidyl from Jamtala area in Sadar upazila on Sunday.

A fire broke out at Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) office in Bhadughar area of the district town on Monday morning.

Police recovered the throat-slit bodies of a woman and her son from their house at Deulia village in Bagmara upazila on Monday morning.

A court here on Monday sentenced two people to death and another one to life term imprisonment for killing a businessman in 2011.

A sexagenarian woman was crushed to death under the wheels of train in Dry-ice Factory area in Rajbari sadar on Sunday.

Police arrested a young man from Abhaynagar upazila in Jessore district on Sunday evening for his alleged involvement in the killing of Oliar Rahman, councillor of Noapara municipality and also joint general secretary of the Abhaynagar upazila unit of Awami…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 10 people, including two women and a child, while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border point in Jessore on Sunday night.

Beans cultivation has become an effective means of bringing fortune for many farmers in the vast Barind tract comprising Rajshahi, Chapainawabgonj and Naogaon districts.

The landless char people, small, marginal and riverside farmers have been cultivating various Rabi crops now on vast tact’s of the dried-up riverbeds and char lands in the riverine areas of the northern districts.

Students of Madhupur Salehia Darus Sunnat Dakhil Madrasa and Kazirhat High School under Badarganj upazila here have vowed for launching social movement to eradicate child marriage and repression on women.

A mother and son were slaughtered reportedly by some unidentified miscreants at Dewlia village under Bagmara Upazila of the district last night, police sources said.

Two Perlis Immigration officers were tentatively charged in the Magistrate’s Court in Kangar town in Malaysia on Friday with murdering a Bangladeshi detainee on October 29.

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man from a field near Kukragari Notunpara graveyard in Chatmohar upazila Friday morning.

Pangsha upazila vice chairman and Krishak League president Munshi Nader Hossain was injured in a gun attack at Kacharipara village in Pangsha upazila on Friday morning.

Four cops, including a sub-inspector, of Bandar Police Station in the district were suspended on Friday for their alleged involvement in drug peddling.

An Awami League (AL) activist was killed and five others were injured in a clash between two factions of the ruling party over establishing supremacy at Kolakandi village in Titas upazila Friday noon.

A fire broke out at a paper mill in Kalurghat BSCIC Industrial Area here on Friday.

Two children received injuries as a crude bomb they were playing with mistaking it for a toy went off at Chand Mituani village in Belkuchi upazila on Thursday.

A moderate earthquake shook different parts of the country, including capital Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, on Thursday midnight.