Tag: Districts

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-3, in several anti-smuggling drives, seized a huge quantity of smuggled Indian goods worth about Taka over 24 lakh from different areas of the district last night.

A housewife was allegedly killed by her husband over a family matter at Sonatunia village under Rampal upazila of the district last night.

Speakers at a function here Wednesday said the integrated efforts of all could prevent the ongoing terrorism, violence and sabotage of the miscreants on the Bogra-Rangpur Highway under Palashbari upazila of the district.

Chandraganj Thana Police in a drive arrested two alleged drug peddler with yaba tablets and phensidyl from Chandraganj Bazaar under Sadar upazila last night.

A Bangladeshi young man, who sustained injuries while crossing Chandahar border in Pirganj upazila into India on January 12, died at a hospital of that country on Wednesday.

Police in separate drives arrested 55 people, including 11 leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami, from different upazilas of the district early Thursday.

A shoe factory worker was killed allegedly by his fellow for making ‘distasteful remarks’ about the latter’s wife at Shyambokshi in Sadar Dakkhin upazila on Wednesday evening.

Police recovered hacked bodies of two young men from Dhopadi beel (water body) in Abhaynagar upazila of Jessore district on Thursday morning.

A man was crushed under the wheels of a truck in Chhatni Bazar area of Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning.

Members of Border Guard (BGB) in a drive seized 526 goat rawhides foiling a smuggling bid at Putkhali border point on Wednesday morning.

Three motorcyclists were killed and three others injured as a truck rammed two motorcycles on Jessore-Keshabpur road at Begaritola in Manirampur upazila on Wednesday.

Speakers at the concluding ceremony of a month-long training course on Tuesday called upon the unemployed and poor rural women for producing duck chicks using modern technologies to achieve self-reliance.

Joypurhat Sugar Mill (JSM), one of the largest state owned enterprises, has produced 3,000 tonnes of sugar by crushing 45,000 tonnes of sugarcane in 32 days ignoring blockade.

The farmers in the district are passing busy time sowing Boro seeds in their farm lands since the first week of the current month.

Ferry service on Shimulia-Kawrakandi route has resumed at 10 am after suspension of seven and half hours due to thick fog in the area.

RDRS Bangladesh distributed 6,660 pieces of quality blankets among the cold- hit poor and distressed people, including women and children, of all eight districts in Rangpur division during this winter season.

Police arrested Sylhet city unit Jamaat-e-Islami ameer Ehsanul Mahbub Jubayer from Zindabazar area in the city on Tuesday morning.

Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route in the Padma river resumed on Tuesday morning after seven and a half hours’ disruption due to dense fog.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested 25 people while they were going to India illegally through Boro Achra border here on Monday night.

Police arrested BNP city unit member secretary Badruzzaman Selim from Topkhana area in the city on Monday.

A young man was strangulated to death by unknown miscreants at Matipukur village in Sharsha upazila early Monday.

Police recovered four cocktail-like objects from the court building on Monday morning.

The curfew, which was imposed by the local administration in the district town following a clash between Bengalee settlers and indigenous people, has been eased from 12pm to 5pm on Monday.

Immigration police arrested a union parishad chairman in Debhata upazila from Bhomra immigration checkpost on Sunday afternoon.

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room in Samandhakathi village of Sharsha upazila on Sunday night.

A suspected leader of a forest robber gang was allegedly killed in a gunfight between his cohorts and police at Garaikhali Kumkhali Char in Payekgachha upazila early Monday.

Winter clothes were distributed among freedom fighters at Mehendiganj upazila health complex in the district yesterday.

Thousands hectares of char land lying on the river bed of the Brahmaputra and Teesta have been brought under different crops and vegetables cultivation during the current Robi season with an expectation of desired production.

Speakers at a post-rally training workshop have stressed for ensuring safer use of roads, building adequate awareness and professional skill of the drivers to reduce road accidents for saving thousands of lives annually.

The lifestyle and socioeconomic condition of the isolated people living in the remote and hardly reachable char areas on the Brahmaputra basin has been changing fast by virtue of solar power.