Category: Districts

An alleged drug peddler was chopped to death by some criminals over drug trading at Alipur in the district town on Saturday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested two jail guards along with pistol and bullets in Faridpur Medical College Hospital area in the town on Saturday.

A fisherman died from snakebite at Bakultala village in Sharankhola upazila on Friday.

Thousands of people from all walks of life thronged the Digital Innovation Fair-2013 at Independence Square of the town here on Thursday and Friday.

Former president of Jhenidah Krishak League, Abdullah-Al Baki, 55 , was killed in a road accident in Bejpara area on Kaliganj-Jhenidah Highway under Kaliganj upazila of the district on Friday.

Robbers looted cash and gold ornaments worth over Tk 10 lakh from an expatriate’s house at Korotol village in Rajnagar upazila early Friday.

Members of Detective Branch of Police in a drive arrested a top terror and his two accomplices along with arms after a gunfight at Kagajpukur village here early Saturday.

Two children drowned in a pond at Baghhasla in Ishurdi upazila on Friday evening.

Police recovered the body of a schoolboy from a dustbin at Chandra Bazar in Faridganj upazila on Friday, three days after his abduction.

A court Thursday sentenced a person to death and fined him Taka 20,000 for killing his wife for dowry in Nilphamari eleven years ago, court sources said.

An unidentified man was crushed under the wheels of an intercity train at Jamalpur railway station last evening.

A minor boy, who fell sick after taking poison-mixed food mistakenly,died at Sirajganj General Hospital on Tuesday.

Eight shops were burnt to ashes in a devastating fire at a market in Kathalia upazila of the district early Wednesday.

A housewife has been found dead in her husband’s house at Shimulia village in Gazaria upazila of the district.

Some eight people were injured in an attack by a gang of robbers in a house at Saheber Char village in Naria upazila of the district early Wednesday.

A mobile court here on Wednesday sentenced a young man to six months’ imprisonment for sexually harassing a college girl in Haripur upazila the day before.

A daring dacoity was committed in the village Choto Badura within Hoglabunia union under Morrelganj Upazila in the district on the night of Sunday, according to a delayed report received here. Police already arrested 2 persons of the same village…

Housewife Selina Akter, 27,  was killed by unknown miscreants at Boiragbhita in Sadar upazila on Wednesday night.

Police in a drive arrested two alleged terrorists along with two light guns and bullets from Duttapara area in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.

A housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband over a family feud at Gumkanda village in Purbadhala upazila of the district on Monday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested three terrorists along with pistol and bullets from Palli Bidyut area of Monirampur upazila on Tuesday noon.

96 UP chairmen killed in 3 decades; accused mostly out of dragnet Lives of the elected public representatives in the south-western region are under threat of terrorist attack, annihilating them at any moment.

A gang of armed robbers looted gold ornaments and other valuables worth about Tk10 lakh from the house of a local Awami League (AL) leader at Takipur village in Chhatak upazila on Monday night.

A schoolboy was crushed under the wheels of a truck at Fakir More in Bera upazila on Tuesday morning.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested an alleged smuggler along with a pistol, several rounds of bullet and other goods in Narayanjot border area of Tentulia upazila early Tuesday.

Robbers looted Tk2 lakh from some cattle traders after beating them in Halgarh area of Sreebardi upazila early Monday.

On Monday night Ferdosh Hossain has beaten to death his cousin with an iron bar at Arpara village of Kaligonj upazila town in Jhenidah.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members seized 168 bottles of Indian liquor worth Tk 2 lakh from Chatlapur area in Kulaura upazila on Saturday night.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh in separate drives seized Indian goods worth Tk 2 lakh from Darshana and Kusumpur borders in Damurhuda upazila on Sunday.