Panic haunts around 600 families belonging to the Hindu community at eight villages of Bawra and Jongra unions in Patgram upazila under the district as Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing Islami Chhatra Shibir launched several attacks on the minority community…
A bank staff and an expatriate were murdered in the city yesterday and the day before. Criminals stabbed to death Dilip Kumer Bonik, 31, field officer of Grameen Bank in Jagannathpur union in the city’s Sujanagar area yesterday noon. Eyewitnesses…
Locals destroyed two houses that were being used for selling illegal drugs at Khochabari Linerpar in Lalmonirhat town yesterday. Over 1,000 people of the area launched the attack on the houses of drug peddlers Golam Rabbani, 44, and Mazidul Islam,…
Thakurgaon Sugar Mills suspended cane crushing yesterday for disruption in supply of sugarcanes due to the ongoing BNP-led 18-party sponsored 72-hour blockade. Despite good production of sugarcane, the mill authorities can not collect raw materials from their 49 purchase centres…
At least ten people were injured in a clash between two factions of Jatiya Party (JP-Ershad) in Rangpur city yesterday. The clash erupted when the JP men led by Moshiur Rahman Ranga, former president of the district unit, swooped on…
People of Pabna and Rajshahi districts got the taste of freedom on this day in 1971, two days after the nation’s final victory. On December 18, the valiant freedom fighters of Pabna declared the district free by hoisting the national…
Police in a drive arrested 12 people from Kolatali area in Sadar Upazila on Monday night while they were preparing to leave for Malaysia by a boat. All of the arrestees were from different places of Narsingdi and Jessore districts.…
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) on Monday exchanged a Bangladeshi and two Indians following a company commander level flag meeting. The hour-long meeting was held on the zero line on Dharmagarh border under Ranishankoil upazila…
A local seed trader, who was abducted on Friday, was found murdered at Bairagipara village in Gobindaganj upazila yesterday. The deceased is Monirul Islam, 45, of Mojitpur village in Satkhira district. He stayed at a rented house in the upazila…
