Tag: Districts

A middle-aged man, who suffered injuries in a road accident in Jessore town, died at Jessore 250-Bed Hospital on Wednesday night.

A court here on Wednesday sentenced three people to death and five more to life term imprisonment for killing a man in Phulpur upazila in 2002.

A mobile court here on Tuesday sentenced a person to one and a half years’ imprisonment and another to six moths’ jail for selling expired medicine in the district town.

A man was killed and 10 people were injured as a truck hit a human hauler on the Dhaka-Khulna highway at Sreedam Datta Para in Goalanda upazila on Tuesday evening.

Six Bangladeshis, who were arrested by Indian Border Security Force (BSFDistricts) while they were trying to enter Indian territory through Petrapole border illegally, returned home through Benapole check post on Tuesday night.

Members of a joint force have rescued three forest officials, who were reputedly kidnapped by miscreants from Harikata of Langadu upazila, from Naniachar of the upazila 19 days after the incident.

Four warehouses burnt down in a jute mill at Odhirnagar in Bera upazila on Tuesday as a fire erupted from an oil tank blast at the factory.

An old man drowned when a trawler capsized in the river Meghna at Hijla upazila of the district last night.

Speakers said at a discussion that the retailers and other vendors concerned should abide by the law of the tobacco control to protect the public health from bad effect of both smoke and smokeless tobacco products.

Speakers at a rally have underscored the need for creating mass public awareness and police-people cooperation to launch a vigorous social movement in building a drug-free society.

Ensuring equal rights for the women members in reserved seats in Union Parishad is very important for their empowerment and congenial working atmosphere, some women public representatives at a press conference here said today.

Speakers at a rally here have stressed for engaging comprehensive efforts of all concerned, involving the people from all walks in life, for building a peaceful society free from drug abuse, corruption and terrorism.

Chairman of Bangladesh Press Council (BPC)Justice Muhammed Mamtaz Uddin Ahmed here on Monday urged the media men to project objective news upholding the spirit of the War of Liberation as it is the true foundation of democracy in the country.

Farmers in the Hard Barind area comprising Rajshahi, Naogaon and Chapainwabgonj districts need time-fitting training and motivation on how to cultivate more less-irrigated crops to lessen the existing pressure on groundwater, speakers at a training session said.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized 39,000 pieces of Senegra tablets and 692 bottles of contraband Phensidyl worth Tk 1.20 crore from Daulatpur border point here on Sunday night.

A man was killed in an accident at Mohajon Potty area in city on Sunday night.

Robbers looted valuables worth TK 7 lakh including gold, cash, laptop and mobile sets from an expatriate’s house at Gopsohor area in Dakkin Surma upazila early Monday.

A man was killed as he was allegedly beaten  and chopped by the robbers when he tried to resist the dacoits of village Provakorpara in Chatmohar upazila of Pabna early Sunday.

Assailants shot dead Mollah Oliar Rahman, 59, Nawapara bureau chief; Khulna based Daily Janmabhumi, councilor, ward number 7, joint secretary, Abhaynagar upazila Awami League and also president, a co-ordination committee of different labour organization at around 7am on Sunday.

More than six thousand examinees absent in PSC examination in Barisal division started from Sunday.

Two assistant proctors of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST) tendered their resignations on Sunday, three days into the killing of a student in Bangladesh Chchatra League (BCL) infighting on the campus on Thursday.

A youth died falling from a tree at Churmonkati village in Sadar upazila on Sunday night.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) arrested two alleged drug peddlers in possession of 993 bottles of contraband phensidyl from Jamtala area in Sadar upazila on Sunday.

A fire broke out at Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Ltd (BTCL) office in Bhadughar area of the district town on Monday morning.

Police recovered the throat-slit bodies of a woman and her son from their house at Deulia village in Bagmara upazila on Monday morning.

A court here on Monday sentenced two people to death and another one to life term imprisonment for killing a businessman in 2011.

A sexagenarian woman was crushed to death under the wheels of train in Dry-ice Factory area in Rajbari sadar on Sunday.

Police arrested a young man from Abhaynagar upazila in Jessore district on Sunday evening for his alleged involvement in the killing of Oliar Rahman, councillor of Noapara municipality and also joint general secretary of the Abhaynagar upazila unit of Awami…

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) rescued 10 people, including two women and a child, while they were being trafficked to India through Putkhali border point in Jessore on Sunday night.

Beans cultivation has become an effective means of bringing fortune for many farmers in the vast Barind tract comprising Rajshahi, Chapainawabgonj and Naogaon districts.