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.
A dacoity was committed on a fleet of 50 fishing trawlers in the Bay of Bengal, adjacent to Eastern Division of Sundarban forest by armed pirates belonging to Shirsa Bahini from the morning of Thursday to till the night of…
Around 50 houses of indigenous families were reportedly set on fire by some miscreants in Matiranga upazila here on Saturday.
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.
A fierce battle took place between the 2 rival groups of jungle pirates at Charputia under Chandpai forest range in the Eastern Division of Sundarban forest in order to establish supremacy over each other in the forest, according to a…
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.
A Bangladeshi boy, who was picked up by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) personnel from Medenipur border in Jibannagar upazila on Friday morning, was released three hours later.
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.
A British mother has been hacked to death during a violent robbery in Bangladesh.
Jumatul Wida, the last Friday of Ramadan, was observed across the country on Friday with religious fervour and sanctity.
International Al-Quds Day has been observed yesterday with humble respect on Muslim Ummah worldwide.
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 recovered decomposed body of a housewife from a maize field at Dayarampur village in Sadar upazila on Wednesday.
One person was killed in RAB shootout in the early hour of Wednesday July 31 at the Helipad area of Narail town.
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.
A mentally retarded boy was beaten to death by locals suspecting him to be a thief at Khanebari village in Titas upazila on Tuesday.
At least 40 people were injured in a clash between two rival groups at Paikraj village in Goainghat upazila on Tuesday.
SM Faisal Babu, 29, Kedarpur union Chhatra League president and son of Nurul Islam Howladar of Bhuterdia village in Kedarpur union under Babuganj upazila, committed suicide hanging himself from the roof of his home.
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.
Three children including two siblings drowned in a pond in Toragar village under Hajiganj Upazila of the district.
The head of Pakistan’s election commission says lawmakers have elected ruling party candidate Mamnoon Hussain as the country’s new president.
Forest robbers kidnapped four shrimp enclosure owners for ransom from Golakhali area of Shyamnagar upazila of the district early Tuesday.
A factory worker of Shyampur Sugar Mills Ltd (SSML) was killed following gas explosion while he was welding an old oil barrel inside the mill campus under Badarganj upazila on Monday, local and sources in SSML said.