Dhaka – An auto rickshaw driver and a passenger were killed and five other passengers were injured as a bus hit the vehicle on Pabna-Ishwardi highway in Tentultola area of Ishwardi upazila in Pabna on Thursday noon.
Category: Districts
3 including minor killed in Laxmipur road mishap
Dhaka – At least three people including a child were killed and three others injured as a tractor collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw on Fajumiarhat-Kamalnagar road near Mohammadia Madrassah in the district on Wednesday.
Two suspected robbers lynched in N’ganj
Dhaka -Two suspected robbers were beaten to death in Baliganj village in Narayanganj early Wednesday.The identities of the deceased were not available immediately.
BGB seized Tk. 1217 cr. smuggled goods in 2017
Dhaka – Border Guards Bangladesh (BGB) in its countrywide drive seized smuggled goods and contraband items, including yaba pills and phensidyle, worth around Tk. 1217.55 crore in 2017, which is Tk. 331 crore higher compared to previous year 2016.Sources at…
Four bodies of a family recovered in Cox’s Bazar
Dhaka – Police recovered four bodies of a family from their residence at Goledighirpar of Cox’s Bazar municipality on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Suman Chowdhury, 40, a cosmetics shop owner of the area, his wife Baby Chowdhury and…
Woman to die for killing husband in Pabna
Dhaka -A court here on Tuesday sentenced a woman and two others to death for killing her husband in 2011 over an extramarital affair in Pabna sadar upazila.The convicts are; Kulsum Nahar alias Beuty, 46, daughter of Golam Mohammad of…
‘Murder accused’ killed in B’baria ‘gunfight’
Dhaka – An accused in a case filed over the killing of a child after abduction was killed in a reported gunfight with police at Bahadurpur in Ashuganj upazila early Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Solaiman, 22, son of Ansar…
Ctg schoolboy stabbed dead by ‘friends’
Dhaka – A schoolboy was stabbed to death allegedly by his friends over a trivial matter in Chittagong on Tuesday.The deceased is Adnan Isfar, 15, a Class-IX student of Chittagong Collegiate School and College.
Truck hits auto-rickshaw killing 3 passengers Chandpur
Dhaka, Jan 16 – Three passengers of a CNG-run auto-rickshaw were killed and the driver was injured as a truck hit the vehicle at Panchani village of Matlab Uttar upazila on Tuesday morning.
Fog halts Paturia-Daulatdia ferry services
Dhaka – Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River have remained suspended due to poor visibility caused by dense fog on Tuesday morning.
2 bus drivers, 2 helpers held with Yaba in Khulna
Dhaka – Police arrested two drivers and their two helpers along with 2,200 pieces of Yaba tablets from their buses in Sonadanga bus terminal of the city on Monday night.The arrestees were identified as the bus drivers Raihan and Riad…
40 Sundarbans robbers to surrender Tuesday
Dhaka – Some 40 members of three more robber gangs active in the Sundarbans, including their ringleaders, are going to surrender to law enforcers in Bagerhat on Tuesday in a bid to return to normal life.They will surrender at the…
3 BCL leaders at BAU ask for money detaining motorbike
Mymensingh, 14 Jan – Three leaders of Bangladesh Chhatra league (BCL) asked for subscription allegedly by detaining a motorbike of a university employees.
2 held with 85,000 Yaba pills in Ctg
Dhaka – Detectives of Chittagong Metropolitan Police (CMP) arrested two young men along with 85,000 Yaba tablets from a bus counter in Colonel Hat area of the port city on Sunday morning.The arrestees were identified as Md Ehsan Prokash Nurul…
2 youth stabbed dead in Kushtia
Kushtia, Jan 14 (UNB) – Two young men allegedly stabbed each other to death in Choudash Kalabagan area of the district town on Sunday over a trifling matter.The deceased were identified as Shamim Islam, 23, and Sohan, 21, of the…
3 get life in prison for abducting Ctg minor boy
Dhaka – A court here on Sunday sentenced three people, including an ayah of Chittagong Medical College Hospital, to life imprisonment in an abduction case.The convicts are Haradhan Nath, 58, Mohammad Abdul Aziz, 54, and ayah Shefali Begum, 45. Of…
Minor twins drown in Pabna
Dhaka – A pair of minor twins drowned in a pond of Dashuria Collegepara village in Ishwardi upazila on Sunday afternoon.The deceased were identified as Adib Hossain and Arafat Hossain, aged around one and half years, sons of Biplab Hossain…
‘Drug peddler’ held with liquor in Sylhet
Dhaka – Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested a suspected drug peddler from Subid Bazar in the city on Saturday afternoon.
Fog halts Paturia-Daulatdia, Shimulia-Kathalbari ferry services
Dhaka – Ferry services on the two key routes in Paturia-Daulatdia and Shimulia-Kathalbari in the Padma River remained suspended since early Sunday due to dense fog.In Manikganj, “To avoid any untoward incident, the ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route were kept…
4.2 lakh yaba tablets recovered from Teknaf
Dhaka – Members of Coast Guard in a drive recovered 4.20 lakh pieces of yaba worth of Tk. 21 crore from an engine boat at Bay of Bengal in St. Martin of Teknaf on early Saturday.
3 held with 494 turtles in Khulna
Dhaka- The Forest Department and Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a joint drive arrested three people along with 494 turtles of rare species at the Zero Point of the city early Saturday while those were being smuggled to India.
2 die after ‘taking liquor’ in Sirajganj
Dhaka – Two people, including a local Jubo League leader, have died and three others fallen sick allegedly after taking liquor at Soydabad of Sadar upazila.
Abducted in Chapainawabganj, found in Lalmonirhat
Dhaka – Police rescued a 9-year-old boy from a house in Kanchshar village of Kaliganj upazila in Lalmonirhat on Saturday, five days after being abducted from Chapainawabganj.The rescued boy was identified as Jaynal Abedin Jihadi, son of Abul Hayat hailing…
Clash kills 1, hurts 5 in Kutupalong Camp
Dhaka- A Rohingya man was killed and five others were injured in a clash between two groups of the forcibly displaced Myanmar citizens at Kutupalong Rohingya Camp in Ukhia upazila on Saturday afternoon.
Weeklong Drama Festival begins in Rajshahi
Rajshahi, 12 Jan – A Week-long Child-Youth Drama Festival-2018 has begun in Rajshahi. Reputed Short-story writer of Bangladesh Professor Dr. Hasan Azizul Haque inaugurated the programme at the Barendra Child Theatre of the city on Thursday night.
Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route resume
Dhaka – Ferry services on Paturia-Daulatdia route in the Padma River resumed after seven hours of disruption caused by dense fog on Friday morning.
Singer Nokul Kumar’s 2 co-artistes killed in road crash
Dhaka – Two co-artistes of singer Nokul Kumar Biswas were killed and three other people were injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Brahmanpara area of Bhanga upazila in Faridpur on Friday morning.The deceased were identified as Wahid…
Three killed at Nakhalpara ‘militant den’
Dhaka – Three alleged militants were killed and two members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) injured after the law enforcers carried out a drive at a suspected militant hideout at West Nakhalpara in the city early Friday.
Jubo League leader killed in Gopalganj road crash
Dhaka – A local Jubo League leader was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Khulna highway at Sonakur in Sadar upazila on Friday noon.
3 kids among 4 Rohingyas killed in Cox’s Bazar fire
Dhaka – Four Rohingyas, including three children and a woman, were killed in a fire at a transit camp in Kutupalong of Ukhia upazila early Friday.The deceased were identified as Nur Saba, 25, wife of Abdur Rahim, her daughter Dilshan…