Category: Districts

Muggers wounded a man and snatched Tk 15 lakh from him at Uchhlapur in Kulaura upazila on Sunday afternoon.

At least forty shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at a local market in Mithamoin upazila on Sunday morning.

Customs officials seized 10 gold bars weighing 1.16 kg and worth Tk 50 lakh from the luggage of a passenger at Shah Amanat International Airport in the city on Sunday

Two members of a family were killed as a truck skidded rammed their roadside house at Rajpat in Kashiani upazila on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Rashida, 60, and Laila, 7.

At least 30 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups over a road construction work in Bajnamahal area of Chatok municipal town Sunday afternoon.

Robbers looted cash, motorbike, gold ornaments and other valuables from two houses at Dhandia village in Patkelghata on Sunday.

A man serving imprisonment in Satkhira jail in narcotics case died on the way to jail hospital on Sunday.

A local Swechchhasebak League leader and his younger brother were hacked to death by unidentified miscreants at Durgapur in Sadar upazila early Monday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 in a drive arrested an alleged arms trader with a foreign made pistol and two magazines from Durlavpur village under Shibganj upazila of the district on Saturday evening.

Police in a drive arrested a hemp trader with 47-kg hemp from Boubazar-Balasul area under Srinagar upazila of the district last night.

Members of Detective Branch (DB) of police detained two leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) for quizzing in the Tangail district Awami League leader Faruk Ahmed killing case on Saturday night.

Police recovered the body of a saloon owner with the throat slashed from a mango orchard at Ballavpur village in Mujibnagar upazila on Sunday morning.

An activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed in an attack by his rivals in Pathantula area of the city on Saturday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested a young man in possession of a foreign-made pistol and two magazines at Durlobhpur village in Shibganj upazila on Saturday.

Police arrested six leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, including its east district president S M Monwar Hossain, from a house in the city’s residential area on Saturday night.

A man was killed as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw ran over him in Kusumbagh area on the Moulvibazar-Sylhet Highway in the district town on Saturday afternoon.

At least 12 dwelling houses were gutted in a devastating fire on Friday at Balargati village under Tungipara upazila of the district.

A rural road network project is being implemented with the main thrust of removing physical bottlenecks for improving rural accessibility, upgrading quality and enhancing sustainability of rural transport and market services in the project area.

A college girl was killed and two others were injured by a gang of robbers during a robbery incident at Islamabad village of Noagaon union under Sarail upazila here early today.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized Indian contraband worth Tk 33.52 lakh from Amrakhali border point early Saturday morning.

Police arrested two kidnappers and rescued a cattle trader from a house at Putkhali here on Friday, eight hours of his abduction.

Police arrested eight activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its Azizul Haque College unit president, from Satmatha area of the district town on Saturday morning.

Police arrested a charge-sheeted accused in a case for torching a bus in South Surma upazila in 2011 from Temukhi area under Moglabazar thana of the city on Friday night.

At least 50 people, including women and children, were injured in a clash between two warring influential clans over establishing supremacy at Charkoijhuri village in Shahjadpur upazila on Friday.

Police in a drive arrested a woman drug peddler along with 200 pieces of Yaba tablet at Chanchra Raypara area of the upazila on Friday night.

Robbers looted valuables from a house at Tirashi village in Dakkhin Surma upazila on Friday.

A minor boy died after he fell down from the rooftop of a two-storey under-construction building at Rajashan in the municipality area on Friday evening.

Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested three alleged drug peddlers in possession of 147 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup at Sitarampur Bhanga Bridge in Sadar upazila on Friday.

Police recovered the hanging body of a female garment worker from her rented house at Purba Kalemshwarer in the city on Friday.