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20 Bangladeshi girls return after serving jail in India
Benapole: Some 20 Bangladeshi teenaged girls returned home on Wednesday night through Benapole check post after serving one and half years languishing in an Indian prison, reports UNB.
Indian police handed them over to Benapole immigration Police. They are hailing from Khulna and Narail districts.
Omor Sharif, officer-in-charge of Benapole check post immigration police said 20 teenage girls illegally entered Indian territory two years ago without valid documents through border crossings in Jessore searching for good jobs. Later, Indian police arrested them from Mumbai during a periodic crackdown on illegal immigration.
A case was filed against them and an Indian court sentenced them one and half years imprisonment each for illegally crossing the border without valid documents and them Mombai central Jail.
On completion of the jail terms, Indian government returned them through an initiative of the two countries Home Ministries.
Alamgir Hossain, officer in charge of Benapole Port Police Station said they handed the returnees over to their respective families.
Road crash kills 3 in Noakhali
Our correspondent, Noakhali
Three people were killed and 18 others injured in a head-on collision between two buses at Tinpukuria in Shenbagh upazila yesterday.
The identities of the deceased are yet to be known.
Harunur Rashid, officer-in-charge of Shenbagh Police Station, said the accident took place around 9:30 am when a Laxmipur-bound Jamuna Paribahan bus from Feni collided head-on with a Chittagong-bound bus, leaving three people dead on the spot and 18 others injured.
Newly wed woman kills self
Chandpur: A young woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping off the rooftop of a four-storey building at Khan Road in the district town on Wednesday night, reports UNB.
Rahi Akter, daughter of Md Momin Bhuiyan of Toragarh area in Hajiganj municipality, was married to Mamun Patwari, son of Taher Patwari of Bottola Khan Road area 22 days ago.
Taher Patwari, father in-law of the deceased, said he, his wife and Rahi were residing in their house in the town while his son, who works in a travels agency, lives in Dhaka.
He found Rahi lying on the ground outside the house with severe injuries around 9:30pm while he was retuning home after offering Isha prayers at nearby mosque, he aadded.
Later, she was taken to Chandpur General Hospital where doctor declared her dead.
Nure Alam, a physician of the hospital, said blood was found in her nose and the body got smashed.
Local councilor DM Shahjahan said neither Rahis father not her father-in -law knew nothing about what provoked her to commit suicide.
Sub Inspector Mamun of Chandpur Model police station said on information, police recovered body and sent it to morgue for an autopsy.
Tk 2.29cr incentive for 19,710 farmers in Jamalpur
JAMALPUR: Agriculture department has taken a post flood incentive programme in Kharif and Rabi season in the district this year, reports BSS.
Local Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources said a total of 19,710 small and marginal farmers will get the incentive for cultivating six cropsblack gram, wheat, maize, mustard, BT-Brinjal and sesame.
Under the programme, a farmer will get incentive for cultivating one bigha of land. DAE sources said Tk 2.29 has been allocated to implement the programme.
Deputy Director of DAE, Md Abu Hanif, said in phases the incentive programme will be implemented.
He said this Kharif season-2 farmers will get incentive on black gram while next Rabi season on wheat, maize, mustard and BT-Brinjal and kharif-1 season for sesame cultivation.
Lightning strike kills fisherman
Our Correspondent, Kishoreganj
A fisherman was killed by lightning in sadar upazila of Kishoreganj district yesterday.
The deceased was Md Nizam Uddin, 40, son of Akter Ali of Bhaskorkhila village in Kishoreganj sadar.
Local sources said thunder bolt struck him when he went for fishing nearby Bhaskorkhila Beel in the rain around 6.30am. He died on the spot.
Khandaker Showkat Jahan, officer-in-charge of Kishoreganj sadar model police station said on information, police rushed to the spot and handed over the body to his family members.
31 arrested in Dinajpur
DINAJPUR: Police, in special drives from Wednesday night to this morning, arrested 31 peoples including three drug traders and recovered 600 liters of locally made liquor and 200 bottles Phensidyl from 11 upazilas of the district, reports BSS.
Police said they were picked up from different areas of the district.
During the drives, Dinajpur Sadar police arrested five persons, Khansama Thana police arrested two, Bochaganj Thana police two, Hakimpur Thana police arrested three, Birampur police arrested two, Ghoraghat police arrested two, Birganj Thana police arrested three, Phulbari Thana police arrested two, Parbatipur Thana police three, Biral Thana police arrested four persons including three drug traders with 600 liters of locally made liquor and Chirirbandar Thana police arrested three accused.
Meanwhile, members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in a drive recovered 200 bottles Phensidyl from Hili railway station in Hakimpur upazila in an abandoned condition during the period. Several cases, including charges of subversive activities, are pending with different police stations against the arrested persons, the sources added.
The arrested people were sent to jail.
