Category: Nation

The Ameer of Islami Andolan Bangladesh and Pir Shaheb of Charmonai Mufti Syed Rezaul Karim has said that the government should discard its ‘anti-Islam stance and work with all including the opposition to build the country.

The dawn-to-dusk road blockade, enforced by United People’s Democratic Front (UPDF), an anti-peace treaty organisation, protesting an arson attack in which around 50 houses of indigenous families were burnt in Matiranga upazila on Saturday, is being observed peacefully in the…

Digital land survey has become an urgent need for substantial and sustainable reduction of the existing land-related corruption and litigation, speakers a discussion said here on Sunday afternoon.

Authorities have directed the owner of an unauthorised cotton factory that has been a nuisance for some 5,000 people in Phultala upazila either to relocate it or close it down.

Five members including women of a minority family were injured, 3 seriously when they were attacked by their opponents in the village Rajapur under SharankholaUpazila in the district on Thursday.

Limon Hossain maimed by RAB shooting on March 23, 2011, just fortnight before appearing HSC exam 2011, passed HSC with GPA-4 this year and want to be a barrister to fight for justice.

A group of children, human and political right activists at a dialogue on Saturday urged all political parties to refrain from using children for political purposes and ensure that children are protected from all possible violence.

A five-year-old boy who was kidnapped from Sylhet was rescued in the capital on Friday evening, a day after his kidnapping.

Police arrested a couple along with 76 bottles of Indian phensidyl syrup from Chandpur bus stand area in Kalukhali upazila of the district on Friday.

The government has allocated 1,751.11 tonnes of rice for the distressed and ultra poor including flood and disaster affected people of the district on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr under Vulnerable Group Feeding (VGF) programme.

Members of BGB arrested one person with 85 grams of heroin worth Tk. 1,70,000 from a residential hotel in Chapainawabganj town in the early hours of Friday.

Police in a drive arrested four alleged drug peddlers along with 72 packs of heroin from Kalengabazar area in Kamalganj upazila early Tuesday.

A mobile court in Chilmari upazila on Tuesday sentenced a young man to two months’ imprisonment for sexually harassing a girl.

Police recovered the bodies of two young men in Sadar and Matiranga upazila of the district early Tuesday.

Activists of Lal-Sabuj, the only monthly children-juvenile magazine in the region, initiated ‘Project Eider Hasi (smile of Eid)’ to purchase new Eid clothes for the street children in Barisal.

A youth was sentenced to one and a half years of imprisonment on Monday by a mobile court in Safipur village under Bamna Sadar upazila of the district for eve-teasing a schoolgirl.

Political empowerment of women has become an essence of the time for sustainable advancement of the society to build discrimination-free society with equal rights of the womenfolk.

A mobile court here on Sunday realised Tk 31,000 in fine from seven diagnostic centres and seven women brokers in the district town for drawing patients from public hospital with false promises of medical tests.

Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) personnel arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 11,695 pieces of Yaba tablets from the city’s Shah Amanat Bridge area early Monday.

A six-year old girl Taslima Jahan Mim, abducted from Savar of Dhaka, was recovered from Sakokathi village under Gournadi upazila of Barisal after four days of abduction.

A five-month-old girl died allegedly after taking date expired polio vaccine at Sonapur village under Singra upazila in the district on Saturday.

Speakers in a discussion meeting said, the Hijras should be educated and provided with jobs so that they can be taken into the mainstream.

At least 15 persons were injured in a clash between two rival groups in Juri upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday Midnight.

A landslide triggered by heavy rain left a woman and her daughter dead in Lalkhan Bazar area of the port city early Sunday morning.

The Historic Nazirpur Day was observed here on Friday in a befitting manner.

A garment worker was stabbed to death allegedly by one of his co-workers in Kasipur Bangla Bazar area under Fatullah police station on Friday night.

Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested five alleged drug peddlers along with 60 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup, chocolates and 48 pieces crackers from Chanchra check post area on Friday afternoon.

The present government has put maximum importance on enhancing female education to attain sustainable national development through empowering the womenfolk at all levels, speakers said here yesterday.