Category: Districts

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued eight people, including a woman, from Putkhali border area in Benapole town while they were being trafficked to India on Sunday night.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) members recovered 17 crude bombs from outside a college in Joypurhat town on Saturday night, Rab headquarters sources said.

A devastating fire gutted at least 30 shanties and 15 furniture shops at Askar Dighirpar in the city on Sunday.

A Swechhasebak Dal leader was killed and 11 others were injured, three with bullets, in a clash between police and hartal supporters in the early hours of the opposition’s 60-hour hartal in Nagarkanda upazila headquarters on Sunday.

At least 15 shops were gutted by a fire that broke out at Natun Bazar in Matlab (North) Upazila on Friday.

Six shops were gutted in a fire incident at Boro Bazar in the district town early Saturday.

The 48-hour strike enforced by the District Truck Workers Union protesting attack on its president Bala Mia by Detective Branch (DB) of police is being observed peacefully in the district on its first day Monday.

A young man was crushed to death by a train at Tughuria in Monohorganj upazila on Sunday morning.

One person was killed and eight others were injured in a clash over a land-related dispute between two groups at Shaharapara village in Ramganj upazila on Sunday night.

At least 45 people, among them a few policemen, were injured in a clash between BNP activists and police in Baro Bazar area of the district town on Sunday.

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) picked up a Bangladeshi cattle trader from Dharmagarh border area of Ranishankail upazila early Friday.

One person was killed and three others were injured in a head-on collision between two locally made vehicles at Balaipur bazar under Alamdanga upazila of the district on Thursday night.

Panchagarh – Farmers field day on harvesting of BU paddy-1 was held in Sarkarpara village under sadar upazila of the district.

The local administration has imposed section 144 in Boda upazila as two rival groups of BNP called their programmes at the same venue and time for Friday.

A court here on Wednesday sentenced 11 people to life term imprisonment for snatching a microbus killing its driver in Srimangal upazila of Moulvibazar district in 2010.

Hilsa netting resumes Thursday after an 11-day restriction imposed by the directorate of fisheries on catching Hilsa enforced from October 13 ended on October 23 to ensure safe spawning as well as proper breeding environment and shelter the mother fish…

Human chain and rally held on Tuesday protesting arrangements of gambling and obscene cultural shows in different parts of the city and adjacent areas of Barisal.

Police recovered throat-slit body of a man from a paddy field at Dharampara in Kumarkhali upazila on Wednesday morning.

Department of Public Health and Engineering (DPHE) has decided to set up 85 wash blocks at a cost of over Taka three crore in different primary schools of the district here this year.

Police recovered the body of a young man from Chandkhali village in Laxmipur Sadar upazila on Monday morning.

At least 15 hardware shops including a go down and a house were burnt to ashes at Kurigram bazzar under Kurigram municipality at dead of night on Tuesday.

At least eight including two cops were injured in a clash over love affairs between two neighboring rival family members at Shibpasa area of Raipasha-Karapur union under Barisal Airport police station on Monday noon.

At least 45 people, among them a few policemen, were injured in a clash between BNP activists and police in Baro Bazar area of the district town on Sunday.

One person was killed and eight others were injured in a clash over a land-related dispute between two groups at Shaharapara village in Ramganj upazila on Sunday night.

A man was killed and 30 others were injured as a bus overturned on the Dhaka-Mawa Highway in Louhajang upazila on Monday morning.

A young man was crushed to death by a train at Tughuria in Monohorganj upazila on Sunday morning.

The 48-hour strike enforced by the District Truck Workers Union protesting attack on its president Bala Mia by Detective Branch (DB) of police is being observed peacefully in the district on its first day Monday.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified youth from MC college campus here on Saturday.

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard and officials of Fisheries department in their overnight drives seized 21,000 meters of current nets from Baleshwar river in Sharankhola uapzila and Pashur river in Mongla upazila on Saturday.