Tag: Districts

Two people were killed and six others injured in a head on collision between a human hauler and a pick-up van on the Pabna-Dhaka highway in Sholabaria area of Santhia upazila on Monday morning.

Members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-9 in a drive arrested a woman drug peddler with 6-kg ganja from Badeswari village under Chatak thana here on Saturday.

Kabirul Islam Siddiky, editor of a local vernacular daily and Md. Hasanuzzaman, Correspondent of Daily Shomokal and Channel24 TV were re-elected as president and secretary of Faridpur press club for the year 2015.

A boy died through suffocation after a piece of meat got stuck in his throat at Jhumjhumpur in Jessore district on Saturday night.

A young housewife, who attempted to kill herself on December 22, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Saturday afternoon.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 50,000 pieces of Yaba tablet from Shabrah area in Teknaf upazila on Friday night.

Police recovered the body of a housewife with the throat slashed from her house at Katakhali village in Sadar upazila on Saturday morning.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 200 pieces of Yaba tablet from a sweetmeat shop at Jhaudanga Bazar in Sadar upazila on Friday midnight.

A man was hacked to death allegedly by his son-in-law over a family feud at Baneshwar Raghurampur village in Puthia upazila early Saturday.

A dawn-to-dusk hartal enforced by Gazipur district unit of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) is underway in the district.

Police in separate drives arrested a local leader and three activists of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) from Mirjaganj and Baufal upazilas early Saturday.

Police arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Swechchhasebak Dal from Pathantula point in the city on Friday evening.

Ferry services on the Daulatdia-Paturia route in the Padma River resumed early Saturday after a nine-hour disruption due to dense fog.

Farmers and other officials concerned are very much hopeful about cherished potato production in the region as overall climatic condition remains favorable towards the farming since its initial stage.

A 40-day special employment generation programme of the government for the hardcore and the seasonal unemployed people has been progressing fast in the district for last couple of weeks.

Employment generating programme for hard-core poor, seasonal unemployed and destitute people, began in the district this month.

Police seized 171 pieces of costly Indian smuggled in saris from a Dhaka bound bus at Baliakandi under Gazaria Upzila of the district and arrested three persons in this connection on Friday.

Detective Branch (DB) of police seized 600 bottles of Indian smuggled phensidyl from a truck at Kedarganj bazar area of Chuadanga town and arrested two persons in this connection last night.

Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) has distributed 200 blankets among the cold- hit distressed Freedom Fighters and ethnic people in Rajshahi city today (Friday).

Normal life in the city and its adjacent areas has been affected due to mild cold weather coupled with chilly wind and dense fog for the last couple of days.

A young man was arrested for damaging images of Hindu Goddess Durga, Lakkhi and Ganesh at a temple in Kharaikhali village under Morelganj upazila early this morning.

Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident at Kumri Bottala area on Sherpur-Lolitabari road under sadar upzila last night.

Robbers looted valuables worth Tk 8 lakh from a house at Sultanpur in the district town early Thursday.

Police recovered the body of a cloth trader from Bhawal National Park in the district on Wednesday three days after his going missing.

Ten persons were injured in a clash between two groups of villagers at Birgaon village under Roypura upazila of the district this afternoon.

A Junior School Certificate (JSC) examination candidate was shot to death and four other people, including his father and two brothers, were injured in an attack by miscreants at Uttar Satirpara in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.

Faridpur district Muktijoddhya command council organized a protest rally and formed a human chain yesterday in the city against Tareque’s derogatory remarks over the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Shaikh Mujibur Rahman recently in London.

Police arrested a suspected militant from in front of Jessore Medical College Hospital in Jessore district town on Monday night.