Tag: Districts

A local Jubo League leader was killed when a truck rammed into his motorbike in Mastar Bari area on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in the city on Wednesday midnight.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged drug peddler in possession of four kilograms of hemp from Krishnagobindapur Pathanpara area in Sadar upazila on Wednesday.

A mobile court here sentenced an alleged fake doctor to two years’ imprisonment and his seven agents to one year’s jail each in the district town on Wednesday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two drug peddlers in possession of 100 grams of heroin worth Tk 20 lakh from Bangaler More area in the district town on Thursday morning.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized 1,487 bottles of contraband phensidyl from Haravanga village under Gangni upazila of the district last night.

The special 40-day employment generation programme of the government for the hardcore and the seasonal unemployed people has been launched in the district very recently.

Faridpur district unit of Bangladesh Chattra League (BCL) staged a protest demonstration in the town yesterday against BNP senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman for his nonsense uttering against the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in London on Monday…

Police conducted raids in different areas under nine police stations of the district for the last two days and arrested 34 persons on different charges.

A policeman and a miscreant were injured in a gunfight between the law enforcers and members of a criminal gang at Uttar Maguri area in Laxmipur Sadar upazila on Wednesday night.

A young housewife was beaten to death allegedly by her in-laws over a dowry-related feud at Dandpur village in Patkelghata upazila early Wednesday.

Police recovered the body of a microbus driver with the throat slashed from beside the Sylhet-Dhaka Highway in Shayestaganj upazila of Habiganj district on Tuesday, two days after he had going missing.

Robbers looted cash and valuables from 10 vehicles on the Banpara-Hatikumrul highway in Baraigram upazila early Wednesday.

A septuagenarian man was hacked to death by unknown miscreants at Raipur village in Mohammadpur upazila early Wednesday.

A truck driver was killed and another person injured in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Goalbazar under Osmani Nagar thana in the city on Wednesday morning.

A prisoner, who was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment in a case under Narcotics Control Act, died at Sadar hospital on Tuesday evening.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-12 in a drive arrested three drug peddlers at Birpusia village under Tangail sadar upazila of the district on Monday late night.

December 17 is a red letter day for Khulna people as the Pakistani occupation forces surrendered to the allied forces comprising freedom fighters and Indian armed forces on this day in 1971, a day after liberation of the rest of…

An elderly woman Shefali Begum, 60, was killed and two others injured when a speedy truck crashed them at Majra village area under Kashiani upazila of the district this evening.

Six persons were killed and 11 others injured this morning in a road accident at Sutang here on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway.

Miscreants murdered a couple along with their two minor daughters at Labonkata village under Bhaluka Upazila of the district last night.

Police seized 700 bottles of contraband Indian phensidyl syrup from a coal laden truck in Atapara area under Panchbibi Upazila of the district on Sunday.

Robbers looted valuables from the house of a former union parishad chairman in Katia Sarkar Para of the district town early Monday.

A mobile court on Sunday sealed off two current net factories in Muktarpur BSCIC Industrial Town here and fined the owners for producing and marketing the contraband product.

Miscreants looted valuables worth Tk 5 lakh from a house after doping five members of a family at Ganganandapur village in Jhikorgacha upazila on Sunday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested an alleged drug peddler in possession of 980 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Chamagram area in Shibganj upazila early Monday.

The farmers have been taking preparations with huge enthusiasm to start transplantation of Boro seedlings from January next in the northern region, officials in the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested a young man in possession of 200 pieces of Yaba tablets from Bhaberber village on Sunday night.

The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bangladesh (ICAB) distributed 2,000 blankets among the cold-hit distressed people of all ages in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram yesterday, a press release said here this evening.

A mobile court on December 9 convicted one person and awarded six months simple imprisonment for trading huge quantity of hemp (Ganja) in Sadar upazilla of this district.

Some 200 river eroded people of Singria village under Udakhali union of Fulchhari upazila got blankets from two non-governmental organizations on Tuesday.