Tag: Districts

A total of 245 voting centres in five upazilas of the district have been identified vulnerable as all things are set for holding of the second phase upazila election tomorrow (Thursday).

Three local leaders of the ruling Awami League (AL) and Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) were expelled from their parties on Tuesday for contesting the upazila elections going against the parties’ decision.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man with bullet wounds from Char area nearby Munshiganj Forest Department office in Shyamnagar upazila on Tuesday morning.

Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested an alleged drug peddler along with 57 packs of hemp from Nijnanduali village in the district town on Tuesday afternoon.

Robbers looted valuables worth Tk10 lakh from an expatriate’s house at Bagbain village in Chhatak upazila early Tuesday.

Satkhira–Police recovered the body of an unidentified young man with bullet wounds from Char area nearby Munshiganj Forest Department office in Shyamnagar upazila on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said locals noticed the body with bullet wounds in the head in the…

A Panchagarh court on Monday afternoon sentenced two brothers to life term rigorous imprisonment and fined them Taka 20,000 each, or in default, to suffer another six month jail term each, for murdering a man.

Ornaments, donation box and puja materials were stolen from Sree Sree Anandamayee temple at Gopalpur upazila under Tangail district early Sunday. Chittaranjan Shaha, president of the managing committee of Anandamayee Mandir, said a gang of thieves entered into the temple…

District Women and Child Repression Prevention Tribunal Court here on Monday sentenced a man to ten years jail for taking attempt to violate an adolescent girl in 2006.

Police recovered the body of a young man from Babnakandi village in Bahubal upazila on Monday.

An engineer of the Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) was assaulted allegedly by activists of the ruling Awami League (AL) and its associate bodies in Digholia upazila on Monday following an altercation over tender submission for construction works in six…

Police recovered the body of a local Awami League leader from Bashagari area in Nagarkanda upazila on Monday night.

Police recovered the body of an expatriate with the throat slashed from Champaknagar village in sadar upazila here on Tuesday.

A court here on Monday sent 11 BNP leaders and activists to jail in a case filed for arson attack.

A special court here on Monday sentenced a man to 10 years’ imprisonment in an arms case.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive seized single firearms along with two rounds of bullet from the house of an alleged arms trader at Batopota village in Benapole of Jessore on Tuesday.

BNP-supported candidate Nur Mohammad Mondal was elected chairman of Pirganj upazila in the upazila parishad polls on Monday.

BNP-backed candidate Nur Mohammad Mondal has taken a lead in the battle of ballots in the polls in Pirganj upazila held on Monday as shown in the latest results. According to the latest results, Nur bagged 52,203 votes in 63…

A Rajshashi court has sent 36 BNP activists to prison — among them the city’s mayor Mosaddek Hossain Bulbul and the party’s Joint Secretary General Mizanur Rahman Minu. They were charged in two cases over the killing of a policeman…

Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here have stressed for ensuring socio-political and voting rights of the persons with disabilities for ensuring their overall development and equal human rights.

The three-day book fair organized by the district administration in observance of Ekushey February and International Mother Language Day ended here on Sunday evening on the premises of Zila Parishad office.

Robbers looted cash money, gold ornaments and other valuables from three houses at Thalna village in Kaliganj upazila early Monday.

A minor schoolgirl was raped by a youth at Satbaria in Puthia upazila on Sunday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive arrested four people along with Tk21.50 lakh of hundi money from Chachra area of the town on Sunday. The arrestees–Abdur Rahim, Mona, Matiar Rahman and Rahmat–hail from different villages of Sharsha…

Border outposts in Bangladesh have been put on red alert to prevent the convicted Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) militants, snatched from a police prison van at Trishal, from fleeing the country. In a truly filmy style hold-up, a large group…

A ringleader of forest robbers was killed in a ‘gunfight’ between his cohorts and police in Pakhimara area in Shyamnagar upazila early Sunday morning.

Police recovered the body of an unidentified woman from the Buriganga river here on Saturday.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered two pistols, three magazines and 10 rounds of bullet from Kiranganj border in Shibganj upazila early Saturday.

Police arrested two BNP activists, who are siblings, from Dhopakhali village in Kachua upazila early Friday for their alleged involvement in torching a Hindu temple.

At least five shops were gutted by a fire at Abura village in Sadar upazila on Friday.