Category: Districts

Two children died in two separate in incidents in Barisal district Tuesday. 

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel seized 1073 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from a truck at Bankhur in sadar upazila of the district on Monday.

A man was killed in a clash between two groups of villagers over a land related dispute at Niamatpur village in Doarabazar upazila on Monday evening.

A day long awareness workshop on national skills development policy-2011 was held at Narsingdi Polytechnic Institute here Yesterday Monday.

Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 46 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Mongla port bus terminal area on Monday afternoon.

A drug peddler named Faruk (30) was arrested with five Kg. ganja on Sunday at Borhanuddin upazila in  Bhola district.

The recovery of the body of an elderly man from Shatrujitpur village in Sadar upazila on Sunday morning has caused police to guess something abnormal behind the death.

Police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 500 grams of hemp from Majhail village in Sreepur upazila on Saturday night.

Police recovered the body of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver from beside a road at Hasondi village in Sadar upazila on Sunday.

At least 35 houses were gutted in a fire that broke out at Boiragirchala in Sripur upazila on Sunday.

Two people were killed when a bus slammed into a motorcycle on the Joypurhat-Hili road at Nauda in Panchbibi upazila on Sunday.

An alleged notorious gambler of a gambling den of Raychand under Ramaganj union at Lalmohan upazila in Bhola district along with his three collaborators were arrested on Wednesday by the police .

A woman was killed allegedly by her husband and in-laws at Canada Bazar in Sadar upazila on Friday night.

livestock departmentShortage of manpower has almost crippled the Livestock Department in the district, which could not achieve even 50 percent of its targets.

The Sreemangol Police arrested a drug peddler with twenty bottles of Phensidyl from Utarshur Gaveer more intersection areas in Sreemangal Upazila of the district on July 27. 

One person was killed in a head-on collision between a truck and a pickup van on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Kaichutti area of Chauddagram upazila on Friday.

At least four people were killed and three others injured in a road accident in Satgaon area under Sreemangal Upazila of the district at 12:00pm Monday.

An Iftar Mahfil was arranged by Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited in honour of journalists, businessmen and clients of the bank at its office on July 22.

Robbers looted valuables worth about TK 13 lakh from a physician’s house of Lohagara Bazar area of the district on early hours of Thursday, July 25.

With the slogan “Helping hands, empowering lives”  A Caravan of Peace (ACP); a volunteer organisation of the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), Sylhet has formed its 4th executive committee on the 23rd of July, Tuesday.

Islamic Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) at a meeting with noted Olamaye-Mashaekhs here yesterday afternoon fixed Taka 65 as Fitra per head for the people of the district this year.

Police have arrested four people at Sharsuna Bazar in Shalikha upazila and recovered seven bullets and hemp from their possession.

‘A schoolboy drowned in the Kulik River near Ranisankail upazila on Tuesday.

At least 35 people were injured including 23 with bullets in a clash between rival groups at Kamarkhal village in Jagannathpur upazila on Wednesday evening.

Two siblings have been killed in a lightning strike at Pachim Korer Mati village in Kanaighat upazila.

A housewife was strangulated to death allegedly by her husband at Adabaria village in Daulatpur upazila early Tuesday.

Police recovered the body of a young man from a jute field at Hazratpur village in Mithapakur upazila on Tuesday, four days after he went missing.