Tag: Districts

The two-month total ban on fishing in 340 kilometers areas on five major rivers in six districts of the southern region imposed by the fishing directorate starts on Sunday without any propagation and compensative subsidy.

Border Guard Bangladesh men on Saturday noon seized a tot of 715 grams of gold bars and arrested a woman raiding an area at Ghiba frontier under Benapole port police station while the border guard men seized two foreign made…

Police recovered the body of a woman from Kandirpar area adjacent to Mawa ferry ghat in Munshiganj district on Saturday evening.

Two persons were killed and 15 others injured in a road accident on Habiganj-Shaestaganj zonal road in the district here today.

Joint forces in a drive arrested two young men along with a home-made firearm at Kanungopara in Panchhari upazila on Saturday afternoon.

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Female workers in Rangpur district are facing discrimination as they get much less wage than their male counterparts for the same type of work.

Muggers snatched away Tk6 lakh after shooting a cattle trader in Setai area of Sharsha upazila on Saturday night.

Miscreants torched a pickup van and vandalised eight CNG-run auto- rickshaws in Dalal Bazar area of sadar upazila on Saturday night on the eve of another spell of 72-hour hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

A bus helper suffered burn injuries as miscreants torched his vehicle at a bus stand in Akkelpur upazila early Sunday.

The government has imposed a two months’ ban on catching, selling and transportation of all types of fish from the Padma and Meghna rivers from Sunday to ensure safe spawning and protecting of fish resources.

Members of Bangladesh Border Guard in a drive arrested a woman in possession of 8920 coins of Tk 1 denomination each from Putkhali border area on Saturday night.

Miscreants torched the municipal office of the district on Saturday night by pouring petrol, burning down some documents and papers.

The Ansar-VDP members have been playing the pioneering role in launching social movement to accelerate rural uplift in the process of building a middle income country, speakers at a rally said here on Thursday.

Police arrested listed top terrorist Joynal Mirja, 28, accused in 22 criminal cases, including two sensational murders, from Radhaballov area in the city this afternoon, police said.

The implementation of 368 schemes under test relief programme in four upazilas of the district is nearing completion at a cost of 691 metric tons of rice.

Police in separate drives arrested seven local leaders and activists of BNP and its associate bodies from different places of sadar upazila on Wednesday night in connection with torching a truck in the night before.

Miscreants set afire a bus at Charmtha Bhaber Bazar on the Dhaka-Bogra highway in the district town on Wednesday night.

Miscreants torched a local land office at Radhanagar in Chhagalnaiya upazila early Thursday, the fifth day of the fresh 120-hour nationwide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance alongside its ongoing countrywide indefinite transport blockade.

Police arrested a local leader of Islami Chhatra Shibir from Nachole Bazar in Nachole upazila on Thursday morning in two cases over vandalism.

A court here on Thursday convicted nine people and sentenced them to life imprisonment in a case for murdering a freedom fighter in Mouchak area of Siddhirganj upazila of the district 13 years ago.

Police in an overnight drive arrested 25 persons including three activists of BNP and Jamaat from different parts of the district on various charges.

Directorate of Khulna District Women Affairs today distributed cheques amounting Taka 15.55 lakh among 82 women voluntary social welfare organizations at the deputy commissioners conference room through a ceremony.

Police on Wednesday night recovered four live bombs from Gangni Upazila here.

Speakers at a union level Ansar-VDP rally have said members of the volunteer organisation have become the national lifeline to speed up rural uplift and establish peace in the society through rooting out crimes.

A team of Joypurhat thana police seized 740 bottles of contraband phensidyl syrup from a rice laden truck at Baniapara area on Joypurhat-Bogra road and arrested two persons in this connection last evening.

Police in a drive arrested three alleged gold smugglers and recovered 12 gold bars worth about Taka 40 lakh from Karmokarpatti area on the Kalibari road under Mirzapur upazila of the district last night.

A college girl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room at Ramkrishnapur village in sadar upazila of Jessore district on Tuesday night.

Four persons, including two motorcyclists, were killed in separate road accidents at different places in Rangpur and Thakurgaon districts today, police sources said.