Three persons were killed in two separate road accidents in Perojpur and Munshiganj today.Two persons including a school teacher were killed and three others injured when two motorcycles collided head on at Dona area on Bagerhat-Morolganj highway this morning.
Rice procurement programme began in Sadar upazila food godown of the district today.Sadar upazila Chairman Anwar Sadath Shamrat along with Sadar Upazila Nirbahi Officer Laila Muntazeri Dina formally inaugurated the purchase programme by cutting ribbon.
The ruling Awami League (AL) and its front organizations today celebrated ‘Victory Day for Democracy’ through various programmes.Hundreds of leaders and activists of AL and its front organizations gathered at city’s Shahid Minar premises marking the second anniversary of January-5…
A garments factory official was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in Zhinu Market area of Tongi upazila on Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, sewing in-charge of “Zaber and Zubayer Garments” in Pagar area of the upazila.
A young man was stabbed to death by miscreants in Halpara area of district town on Wednesday night.The deceased was identified as Anup Agarwal, 30, son of Shyam Sundor Agarwal, resident of the area.
A mobile court here sentenced three labourers to seven days’ imprisonment for lifting sand illegally from the Dhopajan river in sadar upazila on Wednesday afternoon.The convicts were identified as Shafiq Miah, 30, son of Zohu Miah, Ekhlas Miah, son of…
A case has been filed in connection with the killing of a constable of Sreepur camp of industrial police at Baraipara in Ashulia.Azharul Islam, sub-inspector of Ashulia Police Station, filed the case with the police station around 2am on Thursday…
Intern doctors at Sylhet MAG Osmani Medical College Hospital (OMCH) went on an indefinite work abstention on Wednesday night protesting assault on their two fellows and called off the strike next morning.They joined works withdrawing the strike around 8am as…
Police recovered the body of a man from Pirujali village in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Moniruzzaman, a construction contractor by profession and a resident of the village.
Police arrested an employee of Chittagong Port Authority (CPA) from Pahartali railway station area of the city along with two pistols, four magazines and six rounds of bullet early Thursday.The arrestee was identified as Mozammel Hossain, 35, son of Tofazzal…
Chittagong district police arrested a top leader of Chittagong South District unit of Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) from Chunuti area Lohagara upazila of the district on Wednesday.The arrested was identified as Kafil Uddin Bhutto, 22.
An angry mob beat up mercilessly six suspected criminals as they allegedly attempted to raise toll from some shops forcibly in Baluchar area of Sylhet city on Saturday evening. Among the six was a leader of the ruling party’s student…
At least 25 people, including four policemen, were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers over a trifling matter at Syedtula village in Sarail upazila on Sunday morning.Ali Arshad, officer-in-charge of Sarail Police Station, said a rickshaw van…
At least 50 people were injured as supporters of two groups of the local unit of Awami League village locked in a clash in Raypura upazila of the district on Sunday morning.Officer-in-charge of Raypura Police Station Azharul Islam said two…
A warehouse of jute and rice was gutted by a fire that broke out at Bodhkhana village in Jhikargachha upazila of Jessore district on Saturday night.Witnesses said the fire erupted in the warehouse of one Emdadul Haque around 10:30pm.On information,…
A man reportedly killed himself over family feud by setting fire to his body at Basantapur village in Sharsha upazila on Saturday evening.The deceased was identified as Alamgir Hossain,38, son of Aiyub Hossain of Kathshakra village.
Indian Border Security Force (BSF) handed over 29 Bangladeshi nationals, including four children and eight women, to Border Guard Bangldesh (BGB) through Benapole Check post on Saturday night.Subedar Abdul Hamid of 26 BGB Battalion of Benapole camp said members of…
The daylong blockade enforced by Parbatya Chhatragram Janasanghati Samity (PCJSS-Santu Larma) in Rangamati district protesting the rigging in municipality polls is going on peacefully today (Sunday).No vehicular movement was seen anywhere in the district nor was reported any major violence…
One person was killed and four others injured when an auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a human hauler in Kasiadanga area on Rajshahi-Kakonhat road under Rajpara Police Station in the city today, police and hospital sources said.The deceased was identified as…
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 in a drive arrested an alleged arms trader and recovered two foreign made pistols, four magazines and 11 bullets from Kaliganj village under Shibganj upazila of the district last night. The arrested was identified…
Police in a drive arrested two alleged drug traders with 81 pieces of contraband yaba tablets and 100 gram of ganja from Fulbadhina village under Naragati upazila of the district last night.The arrested persons were identified as Anis, 40, and…
Police in a drive recovered 150-kg ganja from Chandaikona Bus-stand under Raiganj upazila of the district last night. On a tip-off, a team of the police conducted a drive in the area and recovered the ganja from a microbus, said…
A young man was hacked to death allegedly by his friend over a trifling matter at Mirzapur village in Dharmapasha upazila on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Tofail Ahmed Chanchal, 32, a resident of the village.
Two minor children drowned in a water body at Chandra village in Keshabpur upazila of Jessore district on Friday. The deceased were identified as Siam, 5, son of Khokon Gazi, and Samir Hossain, 4, son of Abdul Alim, a resident…
Police in a drive arrested a fugitive convict in a case filed under the Narcotics Control Act from Hazardighi area in Shibganj upazila on Friday.The arrestee was identified as Masud, 28, son of Riyadul Islam of the village.
Seven suspected cattle lifters were injured in a lynch-mob attack at Jamjami village in Alamdanga upazila early Saturday.The injured were identified as Intajul,25, Khaksar Mandal,55, Abul Kalam, 45, Saheb Ali,45, Gaffar Ali, 30, Shamim,35, and Milon,38.
Police recovered the body of man cut into two pieces from two separate places in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Feroz Pramanik, son of late Gias Uddin Pramanik of Purba Abdulpur village under Islami University…
At least 30 shanties were gutted by a fire that took place in a slum at Railway Colony in the city’s Sadarghat area on Saturday.Fire Service sources said the fire broke out at a shanty in the slum at Ice…
More than 150 eucalyptus trees beside a road in Manda upazila have been cut down allegedly by a local Jubo League leader recently without permission from the authorities concerned.The trees, worth over Tk 10 lakh, had been planted under the…
Police in a drive arrested a suspected member of banned militant outfit Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) from Nizampur area in Nachole upazila on Saturday morning.The arrestee was identified as Masum, 25 , son of Abdul Gafur, a resident of Nizampur railway…