Category: Districts

A housewife and a girl were killed in two separate incidents of drowning at two villages in Shahjadpur upazila on Tuesday.

A mobile court on Tuesday convicted four persons and sentenced them to different jail terms on charge of taking drugs and gambling.

A minor girl drowned in a pond in Ramganj Bilashi village under Debiganj upazila of Panchagarh district on Tuesday.

A day labourer was electrocuted at Nandibari village under Muktagacha upazila of the district on Tuesday.

Police recovered the body of a grocer from a ditch in Bholakot union of Ramgonj upazila on Monday morning.

Although routine surgeries remain suspended at the operation theatre (OT) of Khulna Medical College Hospital (KMCH) for the last four months, taking medicines from the store continues as usual.

A farmer drowned in a pond at Baimail village in Singair upazila on Monday.

An octogenarian man was chopped to death allegedly by his three sons for land in Monoharganj Upazila early Monday.

The Mahadebpur-Porsha Road in the district lies in a shabby state hampering movement of both vehicles and pedestrians.

At least four suspected pirates were killed in a gunfight with police at Uttar Dhal Char in Monpura upazila early Sunday.

A former Union Parishad (UP) member was shot dead by some criminals at Kolimohor union in Pangsha upazila on Saturday night.

A motorcyclist was killed and his co-rider critically injured in a road accident at Poura bus stand in Sadar upazila on Saturday evening.

Miscreants set fire to a Hindu temple after vandalising it, presumably as a sequel to a dispute between two local groups of the Hindu community over the ownership of its land, at Madarganj village in Sadar upazila on Wednesday night.

A court here on Thursday convicted two brothers and  sentenced them to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2009.

The locomaster of a Dhaka-bound train was injured in an attack by some unruly youths over boarding the train illegally at Brahmanbaria Railway Station on Thursday night.

A team of Manikganj Necrotic Department arrested a woman with 60 yaba tablets  from Hrisipara village under Singair Upazila in Manikganj district on Thursday noon.

Some unidentified miscreants severed the tendons of a hand and a leg of SM Touhid Al Hossain Tuhin, General Secretary of Rajshahi University (RU) Chhatra League unit on Thursday night.

Horticulture office, a wing of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), sold seedlings and grafts of various trees worth about Tk.10. 67 lakh this year.

Bangladesh Red Crescent Society (BDRCS) provided free medicare services to the backward people of Najirdigar Community-1 under its community development initiatives (CDI) programme here yesterday.

A mobile court here on Wednesday sentenced a young man to four months’ imprisonment for teasing three madrasa girls at Shimultala village in Nalitabari upazila.

A case was filed against the district primary education officer (DPEO) of Magura on Wednesday on charge of demanding bribe from a woman for job.

A housewife was beaten and strangulated to death by unknown miscreants in Basudebpur rail gate area in Naldanga upazila early Thursday.

A man was killed in a road accident at Muslimpur on the Chapainawabganj-Sona Masjid port highway in Shibganj upazila on Wednesday.

Burglars took away valuables worth Tk 4 lakh, including gold, cash and mobile phone cards, entering five shops at Banglabazar in Raipur upazila early Tuesday.

Police recovered the body of a housewife from Char Tofazzal village in Charfashion upazila on Wednesday morning.

A man and his eight-year-old son were killed and six others injured in a road accident on the Shailakupa-Hatfazilpur road at Bhandripara in Shailakupa upazila on Monday.

A young man was chopped to death by his rivals over a land dispute at Ashutoshpur village in Sadar upazila on Monday night.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified girl at Goalhat in Sadar upazila on Monday.

A man was killed and four others were injured as the rooftop of a boat on cruise collapsed and fell on its passengers at Halti beel (water body) in Naldanga upazila on Monday.