Tag: Districts

At least four timber shops were gutted in fire in Shah Amanullah residential area under Chandgaon thana in the city on Tuesday night.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB)-9 in a drive recovered three foreign made pistols, six magazines and 12 round bullets from Kaliganj village under Shibganj upazila of the district early this morning.

Police on Wednesday arrested a local leader of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) in connection with the attack on convoy of the then opposition leader Sheikh Hasina in Kolaroa upazila on August 30, 2002.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered three pistols, six magazines and 12 rounds of bullet from Kaliganj area at Mankasha border point in Shibganj upazila early Wednesday.

A Bangladeshi young man was shot by members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) at Gazipur border point in Sadar upazila early Wednesday.

A local leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) was stabbed by his rivals over constructing a shop at Sipahipara in Sadar upazila on Tuesday night.

A woman was hacked to death allegedly by her co-wife at Nodakandar village in Bagmara upazila on Tuesday.

December 3 is a red letter day in the history of Thakurgaon. On December 3 Thakurgaon was liberated from the clutches of the Pakistan occupation Army through a valiant freedom struggle.

A mobile court sentenced four people to six months’ imprisonment for their involvement in drug peddling in Sharsha upazila on Sunday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion(RAB)-8 stationed at Faridpur yesterday(Monday) recovered 1,205 pieces of banned Yaba tablets from two places of Nagarkanda upazilla and arrested two drug peddlers in this connection.

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives seized smuggled goods and drugs worth about Taka 17,74,065 from different areas of Joypurhat frontier in the last 24 hours ending this morning.

Two motorcyclists were killed in a road accident at Gobindapur under Rajoir upazila of the district this morning.

An army man was killed and four people were injured when a truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Bateshwar Talerpar area in the city on the Sylhet-Tamabil Road on Tuesday morning.

Ferry services on the Shimulia-Kawrakandi route in the Padma river resumed after four hours’ disruption caused by dense fog on Tuesday early morning.

A special tribunal here on Monday afternoon sentenced two people to 20 years’ imprisonment each for possessing firearms.

An old man was beaten to death allegedly by his grandson over a land-related dispute at Baro Dharmapur village in Sadar (South) upazila on Monday.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a young man along with 96 bottles of Indian Phensidyl Syrup in Bashbari Government Primary School area in Saidpur upazila on Monday.

Police recovered the body of a battery-run three-wheeler Easy-bike driver from a water body (baor) in Dashpakia area of Chowgacha upazila Monday afternoon.

A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with the ceiling of her room at Gazirchar in Wazirpur upazila on Monday The deceased was identified as Sharmin Aktar, a class-VII student of Gazirchar High School and daughter of Abul Hossain…

A new passport office was opened at district Collectorate Building here on Sunday amid much enthusiasm of the people.

The Barguna district administration has stepped up efforts to release 35 Bangladeshi fishermen from Indian jails with the help of Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

A student was killed and another critically injured in a road accident at Defola crossing on Melandah-Islampur road under Melandah upazila of the district this morning.

Speakers said at a fair-cum-discussion that the women representatives in the local government institutions should acquire competence and leadership for their active participation to the peoples welfare activities.

A youth was killed and five others were injured in a road accident at Jagla village on Jessore-Magura highway under Sadar upazila this morning.

The battle of Chandhat in the War of Liberation in 1971 in Nagarkanda thana of the district between the Mukti Bahini and the Pakistani occupation army is a glorious event in the annals of our great liberation history.

A motorcyclist was crushed to death under a truck on the Jamalpur-Dewanganj highway in Melandah upazila on Monday morning.

Police in a drive arrested a young man from City Gate area on Monday morning.

Eleven days into her marriage, a woman was beaten to death allegedly by her husband and in-laws over a dowry-related feud in Kharki area of Jessore town on Sunday night.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified youth from Joksin Bazar area in Sadar upazila on Monday morning.  Local people spotted the blood-stained body lying along the side of a road in the area and informed police.

Police recovered the body of an elderly man from a crop field at Gogar-Majhtola village in Ranishangkail upazila on Saturday.