Tag: Districts

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 17 people while they were going to India illegally through Putkhali border here on Wednesday night.

A polytechnic institute student, who had been kidnapped from Baroghoria area of sadar upazila on Tuesday, was rescued from the bank of the Mahananda River in the upazila on Wednesday night.

A man was killed as a train ploughed through his bicycle on the Kalurghat rail bridge in the port city on Thursday morning.

Police arrested a woman drug trader with three kilograms of ganja at Kathaltala village under Moralganj upazila of the district on Tuesday.

‘Chars’ emerging in the river Padma are bringing fortune to many farmers in Paba, Godagari and Bagha upazilas of the district during the last few years.

A three-day long Digital Innovation Fair-2015 will begin on Independence Square of the town here from January 22 under Access to Information Programme of Prime Minster (PM) Office.

A young man committed suicide by hanging himself with the ceiling of his room in the city on Tuesday night.

Police recovered two pistols, one shutter gun and six rounds of bullet from a house at Kajla Kashibati village in Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday morning.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered three human skeletons from Schoolpara area under Rajpara thana in the city early Wednesday.

Health experts at a views-sharing meeting have asked the freedom fighters for creating awareness in indentifying tuberculosis patients and bringing them under cost free treatment facilities to eradicate the curable disease.

The charred body of truck helper Sohag Biswas, 19 who was the victim of hurling a petrol bomb Sunday in Barisal district was brought here in the afternoon and was laid to rest in village Sankarpasha under Nagarkanda upazilla of…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) leader from Arpin Nagar Eidgah Maydan area of the town on Sunday night.

A school teacher was reportedly killed by unknown miscreants at Rudrabaria village in Dhunat upazila early Monday.

A court here on Monday further turned down the bail plea of suspended Habiganj municipality mayor Golam Kibria Gaus, now in custody, in the former finance minister Kibria murder case.

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) has been implementing a big project aiming at enhancing the accessibility of the rural people to the markets and economic opportunities in the region.

Nearly two thousand families living in the inaccessible charland of this district are now enjoying the facilities of electricity originated from solar panels that brought huge change in their life style.

State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives Alhaj Mashiur Rahman Ranga has said burning and killing of the innocent people through hurling petrol bombs cannot be political ideology.

A man was killed when a truck ran over him in Khulna Road Mor in the district down on Sunday.

Detectives arrested a local leader of Awami League (AL) in possession of forged Indian currency notes amounting to one lakh rupees from his house at Chandrapur village in Sharsha upazila of Jessore district on Saturday night.

Miscreants set afire a truck leaving its helper dead and driver injured inside at Bamrail in Wazirpur upazila early Sunday, as the BNP-lead 20-party alliance’s countywide non-stop blockade entered 13th day.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered one lakh pieces of Yaba tablet from Golar Char area of Shah Parir Dwip in Teknaf upazila early Saturday.

Police arrested three leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir while they were holding a ‘clandestine meeting’ at no.1 Koyra in Koyra upazila on Friday night.

Two Bangladeshi young men were injured in firing by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Putkhali border here early Saturday.

Police in separate drives arrested 10 alleged members of an inter-district robber gang from Dhaka, Narayanganj, Manikganj, Chittagong and Gazipur districts in the last 24 hours on Saturday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion seized 33.7 kilograms of gunpowder from Jahurpur border point in sadar upazila on Saturday.

A goods-laden truck was set on fire at Kanta on the Gobindaganj-Hili Road in Gobindaganj upazila early Saturday, during the countrywide indefinite transport blockade.

A rice trader, whom a gang of frauds made unconscious by applying sedative to snatch his belongings, died at Satkhira sadar hospital here on Friday.

Fulchhari upazila of Gaibandha district has been brought under School Feeding Programme (SFP) this year aimed at making the primary education a success.

Kotwali police arrested listed top terrorist and killer Khatibar Rahman, 25, with illegal arms and ammunitions from Jamtola Keranipara area in the city this afternoon, police sources said.

The members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a raid seized a double barrel rifle and 135 bottles of phensidyl syrup from Nangla villege under Devhata upazila of the district on Friday.