Tag: Districts

The landless char people, small, marginal and riverside farmers have been cultivating various Rabi crops now on vast tact’s of the dried-up riverbeds and char lands in the riverine areas of the northern districts.

Students of Madhupur Salehia Darus Sunnat Dakhil Madrasa and Kazirhat High School under Badarganj upazila here have vowed for launching social movement to eradicate child marriage and repression on women.

A mother and son were slaughtered reportedly by some unidentified miscreants at Dewlia village under Bagmara Upazila of the district last night, police sources said.

Two Perlis Immigration officers were tentatively charged in the Magistrate’s Court in Kangar town in Malaysia on Friday with murdering a Bangladeshi detainee on October 29.

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man from a field near Kukragari Notunpara graveyard in Chatmohar upazila Friday morning.

Pangsha upazila vice chairman and Krishak League president Munshi Nader Hossain was injured in a gun attack at Kacharipara village in Pangsha upazila on Friday morning.

Four cops, including a sub-inspector, of Bandar Police Station in the district were suspended on Friday for their alleged involvement in drug peddling.

An Awami League (AL) activist was killed and five others were injured in a clash between two factions of the ruling party over establishing supremacy at Kolakandi village in Titas upazila Friday noon.

A fire broke out at a paper mill in Kalurghat BSCIC Industrial Area here on Friday.

Two children received injuries as a crude bomb they were playing with mistaking it for a toy went off at Chand Mituani village in Belkuchi upazila on Thursday.

A moderate earthquake shook different parts of the country, including capital Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet, on Thursday midnight.

Five Bangladeshis, who were arrested by Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Wednesday afternoon while entering India through Lalghat border point in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj district, returned home at night.

Police recovered the slaughtered body of a man from Dehan village under Sadar upazila here this morning.

The members of the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two persons with 200 bottles of contraband phensidyl from Chak Gopinathpur village last night.

Speakers at a training course have said the flourishing dairy sector has been changing rural economy and meeting nutritional demand of the growing population in building a healthier nation.

The Asrayan Prokalpo has been running successfully to make 1,830 river-eroded and natural disaster-hit destitute families self-reliant through various income generation activities in the district in recent years.

Police recovered the body of a man with the throat slashed from Dehan village in Sadar upazila on Thursday morning.

A bus helper was killed in a road accident in bus stand area of Bhandaria upazila on Thursday morning.

At least 35 people, including a policeman, were injured in a clash between two groups of BNP in Dakhhin Sunamganj sadar upazila on Wednesday afternoon.

Police arrested a young man in possession of 1,760 ampules of Indian sedative injections from Mundamala municipality area in Tanor upazila on Tuesday.

A suspected burglar was killed in a lynch-mob attack while fleeing after stealing goods from a house at Boro Koibarto Khali village in Rajapur upazila early Wednesday.

A local court on Tuesday placed a leader and two activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir, the student wing of Jamaat-e-Islami, including its Azizul Haque College unit president, on a one-day remand in connection with a case filed under the Explosives…

A mobile court sentenced a schoolteacher to three months’ imprisonment for sexually harassing a female student in the city on Tuesday.

Police in a drive arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 250 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup at Parnaduali village in the district town on Tuesday morning.

Police in an overnight drive on Tuesday arrested 98 people on various charges from five upazilas of the district.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-8 in a raid arrested a drug peddler from Faridpur railway station area yesterday.

Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here have called upon all concerned stakeholders for extending necessary legal assistance to ensure justice for the physically disabled people to ensure their universal human rights.

A young man, suspected to be a thief, was killed in lynch-mob attack while fleeing with stolen goods from a house at Chhoto Koibarto Khali village under Rajapur upazila early this morning.

There is no alternative to meeting optimal requirement of nutrition for ensuring normal mental, physical and psychological growths of the children, experts said at a daylong nutrition fair on Tuesday.

Police arrested three alleged terrorists in possession of one foreign-made pistol, two magazines and two rounds of bullet from in front of Karonation Government Primary School in the district town on Tuesday night.