Tag: Districts

Police arrested 11 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami from different parts of the district in 24 hours ending on Saturday morning on charge of violence in the name of the blockade.

An anti-smuggling squad of Bangladesh Navy in a drive seized 30,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from a boat at the outer anchorage of Chittagong port early Saturday.

Detectives in a drive arrested two alleged drug peddlers along with 44 kilograms of hemp at Amertal of Kathalbari area in the district town early Saturday.

Police arrested a young man in possession of 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from SK Khal area of the Naf River in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.

More than 30,000 poor and slum households are enjoying sanitation facilities by dint of commissioning of 11,000 hygienic latrines in the metropolis.

Regional members of Anti Tobacco Media Alliance (ATMA) have expressed their grave concern over gross violation of tobacco control law in Rajshahi region and urged the authorities concerned to take punitive measures to resist the violation.

Chittagong district police detained 10 activists of BNP-Jamaat-Shibir from different upazilas of the district on Thursday night.

Police arrested a local leader of Jamaat-e-Islami from Sridharpur in Biswanath upazila on Tuesday noon.

Police in a drive arrested six leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir from a mess at Kumargaon in Sadar upazila early Tuesday.

Police have arrested 22 persons including a BNP activist for carrying out subversive activities in Sunamganj during the ongoing blockade enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

RM Manjurul Alam Tutul, Editor of Jessore- based Bangla daily Runner died of massive cardiac arrest at around 9:30am on Wednesday

No arrest has been made yet in the case filed for an attack on the residence of the principal of Sylhet Polytechnic Institute and staff quarters in the city by Bangladesh Chhatra League men on Sunday night.

Miscreants hurled a petrol bomb at the residence of municipality mayor Afzal Hossain in Dakter Patti area of the municipality on Sunday night.

Members of the Detective Branch of police arrested a man along with 300 bottles of contraband phensidyl syrup from Bakal area of Sadar upazila on Sunday afternoon.

Two people were injured as miscreants hurled five crude bombs at two buses on the Dhaka-Aricha highway in front of Dairy Gate of Jahangirnagar University on Monday morning during the 36-hour nationwide hartal enforced by the BNP-led 20-party alliance.

Hundreds of people of Hindu community, particularly students, celebrated Swaraswati Puja before a 40 feet tall Swaraswati, Hindu Goddess of wisdom, installed at Ambari village under Kotalipara upazila of the district on Sunday.

A policeman was killed and four others injured in a road crash in Fouzdarhat area of the city early Monday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) have arrested five fake RAB persons including three women from Meherchandi area under Motiher Police Station in the city last night.

Police arrested Islami Chhatra Shibir’s district (south) unit president Tareq Hossain at a police check post in Shah Amanat Bridge area of the port city on Sunday.

Export-import through Hili land port has been suspended for one day on the occasion of the Republic Day of India on Monday.

A young housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her husband and in-laws for dowry at Binsara village in Tarash upazila on Sunday.

A regional leader of an outlawed party was chopped to death allegedly by his rival party in Jugni village in Sadar upazila early Monday.

Police arrested three young men in connection with subversive activities from Umednagar area in Sadar upazila early Monday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh in a drive arrested four people, including a human trafficker, from Koikhali Beribandh area in Shyamnagar upazila on Monday for entering Bangladesh territory illegally.

Two passengers of a bus sustained injuries in a petrol bomb attack on their vehicle at Sukhia in Pakundia upazila on Saturday night.

A mobile court here on Sunday sentenced a suspected member of banned Islamist militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to one year’s imprisonment for carrying out sabotage in Sadar upazila.

Islamic Foundation has been implementing a number of socio economic development programmes in the district to alleviate poverty of the people.

Police recovered the slaughtered body of a farmer from Paturia village under Sadar upazila last night.

A four-month pregnant woman was allegedly beaten to death by her husband and in-laws at Charmonsha in Sadar upazila on Saturday.