Category: Districts

Five Bangladeshis, who were arrested by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday afternoon while entering India through Lalghat border point in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj district, returned home at night.

Police recovered the slaughtered body of a man from Dehan village under Sadar upazila here this morning.

The members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two persons with 200 bottles of contraband phensidyl from Chak Gopinathpur village last night.

Speakers at a training course have said the flourishing dairy sector has been changing rural economy and meeting nutritional demand of the growing population in building a healthier nation.

The Asrayan Prokalpo has been running successfully to make 1,830 river-eroded and natural disaster-hit destitute families self-reliant through various income generation activities in the district in recent years.

Police recovered the body of a man with the throat slashed from Dehan village in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning.

A bus helper was killed in a road accident in bus stand area of Bhandaria upazila on Thursday morning.

At least 35 people, including a policeman, were injured in a clash between two groups of BNP in Dakhhin Sunamganj sadar upazila on Wednesday afternoon.

Police arrested a young man in possession of 1,760 ampules of Indian sedative injections from Mundamala municipality area in Tanor upazila on Tuesday.

A suspected burglar was killed in a lynch-mob attack while fleeing after stealing goods from a house at Boro Koibarto Khali village in Rajapur upazila early Wednesday.

A local court on Tuesday placed a leader and two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its Azizul Haque College unit president, on a one-day remand in connection with a case filed under the Explosives…

A mobile court sentenced a schoolteacher to three months’ imprisonment for sexually harassing a female student in the city on Tuesday.

Police in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 250 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup at Parnaduali village in the district town on Tuesday morning.

Police in an overnight drive on Tuesday arrested 98 people on various charges from five upazilas of the district.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-8 in a raid arrested a drug peddler from Faridpur railway station area yesterday.

Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here have called upon all concerned stakeholders for extending necessary legal assistance to ensure justice for the physically disabled people to ensure their universal human rights.

A young man, suspected to be a thief, was killed in lynch-mob attack while fleeing with stolen goods from a house at Chhoto Koibarto Khali village under Rajapur upazila early this morning.

There is no alternative to meeting optimal requirement of nutrition for ensuring normal mental, physical and psychological growths of the children, experts said at a daylong nutrition fair on Tuesday.

Police arrested three alleged terrorists in possession of one foreign-made pistol, two magazines and two rounds of bullet from in front of Karonation Government Primary School in the district town on Tuesday night.

A schoolboy was crushed under the wheels of a bus on the Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning.

A minor girl was killed as she was knocked down by a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Kalugari in Palashbari upazila on Tuesday morning.

A centenarian woman was burnt to death in a fire that broke out at Khantarhat in Sandwip upazila early Tuesday.

The seasonal lean period of ‘monga’ passed off from Rangpur region without any bite for the sixth consecutive time this year following huge change in the overall socioeconomic condition of the common people.

Conservation of natural resources has become an urgent task for addressing the adverse impacts of climate change that has been acknowledged as a major threat to the region in the present context, scientists and researchers say.

Two minor boys drowned at Kaptai lake of Vandaripara area under Borkal upazila of the district on Sunday evening.

Police recovered the slaughtered body of a man from Bahirmallika-Khalpara village under Salikha upazila of the district this morning.

Police arrested a woman drug paddler with 205 bottles of contraband phensidyl syrups at a raid in Parnandhuli area under Magura town this morning.

A case has been filed against Shibnath Kumar Saha, inspector of Sirajganj Narcotics Control Department, for extortion and bribery on Sunday.

A court here on Sunday sent 43 local leaders and activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and its affiliates, including BNP’s district unit acting president, to jail rejecting their bail prayers in two cases filed for attacking police and explosives.