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A school boy was crushed under the wheels of a truck on Bogra-Rangpur highway in Gokul area of Sadar upazila on Monday morning.

Six officials of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) including  students affairs advisor Prof Dr Md Zahirul Haque Khandoker and  proctor Prof Dr Md Harun-ur-Rashid on Sunday resigned from their posts as a part of their protest against Vice-Chancellor’s alleged involvement in sexual…

A schoolboy was killed and two others injured in a road accident on  the Rupsha Khan Jahan Ali Bridge of the city on Monday morning.  

Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) and Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu inaugurated road carpeting works at a ceremony at Kamal Kachhna area in the city on Friday afternoon.

The government has distributed 100 bundle CI sheet and Taka three lakh among the 100 river eroded and poor families of Sadar upazila of the district on Friday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested 21 people including eight women and three children while going to India illegally through Putkhali border here on Friday night.

A drug addict youth was rescued from a container while it was being unloaded at Mongla port on Thursday night.

A woman was killed and seven others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Mymensing highway at Salna on Thursday morning.

Shooter Samedur Rahman alias Mithu Biswas, the younger brother of BNP chairperson Khaleda Zia’s special assistant Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas, was released early Thursday, hours after he was picked up by people masquerading as detectives.

In accordance with national population census, the total population of Gaibandha district is 23,79,255 — 11, 69, 127 males and 12, 10, 128 females-, BBS sources said here on Tuesday.

The 27th meeting of Town Level Coordination Committee (TLCC) of Faridpur pourashava was held yesterday at Ambica Memorial Hall.

Some 45 poor and distressed women were imparted skill development training for improving their living and livelihood training through income-generating activities.

An Awami League leader was injured as miscreants hurled crude bombs at the ruling party’s office on the KDA Avenue of the city on Saturday night, the 75th day of the non-stop nationwide blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

Most of the growers have become happy over expected yield of lentil as they cultivated high yielding varieties of the cereal crop in the region including the vast barind tract this year.

Two people were killed in separate incidents in Pagla and Jalkuri areas of the city on Saturday.

Construction work of much awaited Fire Service and Civil Defense Station (FSCDS) has begun at Shaghata upazila headquarters in the district on Friday amid much enthusiasm to the locals.

Mayor of Rangpur City and valiant freedom fighter Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu launched construction works of a drainage system in Gomostapara area in the city this afternoon.

In terms of the existing social and family structure, maximum five percent parents, particularly the mothers, share the adolescence related changed issues with their teenage sons and daughters that lead slash negative physical, emotional and social consequences for young people.

Speakers here at a workshop here have stressed for ensuring time- befitting quality education for building an enlightened society, ideal and dignified nation to make Independence meaningful for every citizen.

Members of the country’s biggest volunteer organisation of Ansar-VDP have been accelerating national development for building a middle income Bangladesh, speakers said here on Thursday afternoon.

Due to favourable weather potato production in the district has exceeded the production target in the current Robi season.