Category: Districts

Some 295 adolescents and young women, who experienced traumatized lives after becoming victims of child marriage, dowry, sexual abuse, violence, repression and trafficking, have been rehabilitated in Rangpur division.

The government distributed blankets to 100 inmates of Gaibandha Government Shishu Paribar (Girls) on Tuesday.

Police in separate drives arrested five activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir in Sadar, Akkelpur and Kalai upazilas early Wednesday.

An elderly man was allegedly strangulated to death by unidentified miscreants at Dighalia upazila in the district last midnight.

Hundreds of poor people in 14 char unions of Narsingdi district attained self- reliance economically and changed their life style through various income generating activities by their own initiatives.

A man was killed by a gang of muggers at Battala in Sadar upazila on Monday night.

Three people were killed as a vegetable-laden truck plunged into a roadside ditch at north Sholabaria in Santhia upazila early Monday.

At least 30 people, including a police station officer-in-charge (OC), were injured in a clash between police and local activists of the main opposition BNP in the district town on Sunday night.

Unidentified miscreants torched the election office in Sadarupazila early Sunday.

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Dec 29, 2013 (BSS)- A man was slaughtered to death by some unidentified miscreants at Sonamasjid Koilabari area under Shibganjupazila of the district last night.

Three people were killed in two road accidents in Jessore Sadar upazila and the district town on Friday.

Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) and valiant freedom fighter Alhaj Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu has said Rangpur will become a traffic-jam free city with modern and eco-friendly road communication networks.

Speakers at a daylong workshop said formulation of effective plan of action has become an urgent need for freeing the poor and extreme poor communities and other slum dwellers in the city from poverty and hunger.

A local leader of Krishak League was chopped to death by miscreants in Monirampur upazila on Thursday afternoon.

Plainclothes police recovered a powerful time bomb from Chunkutia Madhyapara here on Thursday afternoon.

A three-day training for election officers for the 10th parliamentary polls began at Gobindaganj BL High School under Gobindaganj upazila on Tuesday here.

The professional groups could play vital role in launching vigorous social movement involving the people from all walks in the society to eradicate child marriage, speakers at a reception ceremony said Monday.

Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Alhaj Sharfuddin Ahmed Jhantu on Monday stressed for expansion of the highly effective ‘Urban Partnership Project for Reducing Poverty (UPPRP) in all 33 wards in the city.

A young man was chopped to death by miscreants at Machna-Khanpur village in Monirampur upazila of Jessore district yesterday.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over four Bangladeshi women, who languished in a jail for one year for intruding into India, to Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Bhomra border in Sadar upazila on Monday morning.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB-12) in a drive arrested a man and recovered a revolver and 12 round bullets from Vogendrapur village under Sadar upazila of the district last night.

The body of an unidentified young woman was recovered from Shankarpur area of the district town last night.