Tag: Districts

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in a drive arrested an alleged mugger on the Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Rampura Rastar Matha area of the town on Friday night.

Khulna City Corporation (KCC) will set up a cattle market in Zoragate area here ahead of Eid-ul-Azha.

A meeting to celebrate the Sharadiya Durga Puja, the biggest religious festival of the Hindu Community, was held in the conference room of deputy commissioner (DC) here on Thursday.

Speakers at an advocacy meeting here have stressed for united efforts of all concerned including transport sectors leaders and workers in turning the public transports completely free from smoking in Rangpur.

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in two separate drives arrested five persons and seized ganja plants and phensidyl from their possessions here on Wednesday, RAB and police sources said.

Police here on Wednesday morning recovered the body of a young girl from a drain near Uttara Community Centre in Alim Uddin Road area of the town.

Police in separate drives early Thursday arrested two young men from Rail Road and Kismat Nawapara areas of Sadar upazila.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in two separate drive seized Indian Phensidyl syrup, liquor, sex stimulating tablets and other illegal goods worth Tk6 lakh in the district on Tuesday.

A housewife was killed allegedly by her husband at Char Daserbari village in Sarishabari upazila on Tuesday afternoon.

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) of Utholi BGB camp seized 600 bottles of Indian smuggled phensidyl from Goeshpur village under Sadar upazila on Tuesday.

Jessore, A man was chopped to death by some miscreants at Jagonnathpur village under Chowgacha upazila of the district last night.

A mobile court here on Monday sentenced two young men to six months’ imprisonment each for taking and peddling drugs.

Two courts here in two separate cases on Monday sentenced a man to 15 years’ rigorous imprisonment for keeping firearm and two others to five years in jail each for carrying drugs.

Two people, including a newly married woman, drowned in separate incidents in Sadar and Ramganj upazilas on Monday.

A mobile court on Monday night sentenced two primary school teachers for involving scuffle during school hours in Uzirpur upazila of Barisal.

A hanging dead body of a house wife was recovered from a Babla tree in a sugarcane field at Namochakpara under Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district this afternoon.

Chairman of Bangladesh Technical Education Board Professor Abul Kashem said there is no alternative to technical education for the development of the country.

Police recovered strangled body of a young man from Bezore area of the town on Sunday night.

A two-day-long income tax fair was ended in Moulvibazar town on Sunday.

Barisal: Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) has called half-day hartal for Monday at Hijla upazila of the district in protest against the attack on BNP leasers.

At least two people were killed and four others injured as a small RCC bridge collapsed at north Shialkathi village in Bhandaria upazila on Sunday morning.

Indian Border Security Force (BSF) troops picked up a Bangladeshi teenager from Jamalpur border in Daulatpur upazila Sunday morning.

A Union Parishad member and a local Swechchasebok League leader were injured in an attack allegedly by some Jamaat-Shibir activists at Dhopadanga intersection in Debhata upazila on Saturday night.

Students and interns of Rangpur Medical College and Hospital blocked the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway in the city on Saturday protesting the death of a physician of the hospital in a road accident on Thursday.

Construction work of the upgraded 50-bed Nageswari Upazila Health Complex at Taka 9,93,15,416 has begun at Nageswari upazila town in Kurigram after upgradation from its previous 30-bed capacity.

Three children, including two siblings, drowned in a pond at Faridpur in Charghat upazila Saturday noon.

An electrical worker died after he fell from an electric pole at Bhartokhala in Dakkhin Surma area on Friday.

The local administration on Friday imposed Section 144 at Hataliabadghat in Sadar upazila as Awami League and BNP called separate meetings at the same venue and same time for the day.

A case was filed against 150 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir  early Thursday for unleashing violence during Wednesday’s hartal in Kadamtala area in the outskirt of the town.

Two workers were killed in a boiler explosion in a rice mill at Narayanpur Trimohoni in sadar upazila on Thursday night.