Category: Districts

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troops picked up a Bangladeshi teenager from Jamalpur border in Daulatpur upazila Sunday morning.

A Union Parishad member and a local Swechchasebok League leader were injured in an attack allegedly by some Jamaat-Shibir activists at Dhopadanga intersection in Debhata upazila on Saturday night.

Students and interns of Rangpur Medical College and Hospital blocked the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in the city on Saturday protesting the death of a physician of the hospital in a road accident on Thursday.

Construction work of the upgraded 50-bed Nageswari Upazila Health Complex at Taka 9,93,15,416 has begun at Nageswari upazila town in Kurigram after upgradation from its previous 30-bed capacity.

Three children, including two siblings, drowned in a pond at Faridpur in Charghat upazila Saturday noon.

An electrical worker died after he fell from an electric pole at Bhartokhala in Dakkhin Surma area on Friday.

The local administration on Friday imposed Section 144 at Hataliabadghat in Sadar upazila as Awami League and BNP called separate meetings at the same venue and same time for the day.

A case was filed against 150 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir  early Thursday for unleashing violence during Wednesday’s hartal in Kadamtala area in the outskirt of the town.

Two workers were killed in a boiler explosion in a rice mill at Narayanpur Trimohoni in sadar upazila on Thursday night.

Two children were drowned in a pond at Durgapur union under Ulipur upazila in Kurigram district at noon on Thursday.

A day labourer was killed  as a tree fall on him while he was cutting a tree at Ulipur upazila in Kurigram district  at noon on Thursday.

A court in Netrakona Wednesday sentenced four persons to suffer life term imprisonment for killing a man at Rupchandrapur village under Atpara upazila of the district in 2001.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested a woman heroin peddler in possession of 20 grams of heroin from Kauria village in Jhikargachha upazila on Wednesday.

Speakers at separate discussions have said the government has been working relentlessly to achieve cent percent literacy to free the country from illiteracy by 2014 in the process of building an educated nation.

Flood situation in Chapainawabganj has marked a slight improvement while the lowlying areas of the district still remain under flood water.

Police recovered strangulated body of a boy from near Chapa Jhuri Bridge in Nakla upazila early Monday, two days after he had been kidnapped by a gang from Narayanganj district for ransom.

Speakers at a function on Monday stressed the need for improving standard of primary education in a bid to help students achieve brilliant results.

A schoolboy died after falling from a bench at Nimtala village in Sadar upazila of the district on Monday.

At least seven timber shops were burnt down by a fire which broke out at Shankardipar in Rajoir upazila early Monday.

Mohammed Humayan Kabir Khondaker, Deputy Commissioner of Feni, has cancelled the licence of “Bilash Boarding,” a residential Hotel, located at Gulshan Market by the side of Trunk Road, Feni, on September 5, it has been reliably learnt on Monday.

Officer-in-Charge of Kotwali Model Thana Ahmed Nasir Uddin Mohammad has been withdrawn for his failure to maintain law and order.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered one pistol and two magazines from Khaserhat Chamarbazar area of Shibganj upazila on Monday.

Plainclothes police on Saturday evening arrested a man for his suspected involvement in a robbery incident at Dharan Bazar in Chhatak upazila.

A day labourer was slaughtered by some unidentified criminals at Ramnagar village in Damurhuda upazila on Saturday night.

A man drowned as a boat capsized in the Jamuna river in Saghata upazila during storm on Saturday noon.

Police recovered a body of an unidentified person from Pagla River of Naldubi frontier area of Shabajpur union under Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district on Saturday noon.

A young man was stabbed to death by his rival over drug business at Radhanagar in the municipality area on Friday.  The deceased was identified as Abul Bashar, 28, a resident of the area.

Kurigram town has virtually become a safe haven for both drug dealers and addicts, thanks to lax monitoring by the law enforcing agencies.

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by taking poison at Binodpur village in Mohammadpur upazila on Friday.