The law enforcers in the city have taken tight security measures during the Eid vacation to ensure smooth law and order. Barisal Metropolitan Police also started their 10 days Eid security from Friday to September 18 with a total 750 members team. The team including three Deputy Commissioners, one Additional…

Detective Branch (DB) of Police, in its separate drives in the capital’s Mohammadpur and Baridhara areas, arrested eight members of a fraud gang, including three Nigerian nationals, for their alleged involvement in cheating people with fake lottery, reports BSS. Masudur Rahman, Deputy Commissioner…

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday visited versatile writer and poet Syed Shamsul Haque at the United Hospital at Gulshan in the capital. “The…

Passengers Welfare Association of Bangladesh (PWAB) yesterday demanded unfit vehicles be taken off highways and river routes to avoid accidents during the journeys of home-goers ahead of Eid-ul-Azha, reports UNB. The passenger-rights body came up with the demand at a press conference held at Dhaka Reporters…

The Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two suspected members of banned militant outfit Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT) from Chowrasta area in Gazipur district early Saturday, reports UNB. Among the arrestees, one was identified as Rashedul Islam alias Swapan, 24, chief coordinator of Gazipur district…

GAZIPUR: At least five people were killed and seven others injured in two separate road accidents on the Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in the district yesterday morning, reports BSS. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. Officer-in-charge (OC) of Sreepur Mawna Highway Police Station…

Blacksmiths in Rajshahi are busy on the eve of Eid-ul-Azha, making knives, machetes and choppers for sacrificing animals and cutting their flesh. For more than 200 blacksmiths in different parts of the district, it is ancestral profession. Ibrahim Hossain, a blacksmith of Sagarpara Bottola in the city,…

Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) members and a team of Rapid Action Battalion ( RAB-1) in separate drives seized 4, 24,000 pieces of yaba tablet from Chittagong…

RAJSHAHI: Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) authority has fervently urged the city dwellers to sacrifice their animals only in the selected places for proper waste disposal, reports BSS. “We have fixed 254 places for slaughtering sacrificial animals during Eid-ul Azha in 30 Wards of the city,”…

An unidentified motorcycle lifter, age about 30, was killed in mass assault at Sakta union under Keraniganj, the outskirt of the capital city on Friday night, reports BSS. Earlier, the motorcycle thief injured the rider of the two-wheeler, Nurul Amin, by knife. Nurul Amin said he is working as a pharmacist…

RAJSHAHI: With only two days left for the Eid-ul-Azha, sacrificial animal sale reached peak amid record supply following surplus production in cattle markets of Rajshahi division, reports BSS. The cattle markets have been witnessing plenty supply of locally reared sacrificial animals following remarkable…

CHITTAGONG: Around 259 Eid congregations are scheduled to be held this year at the traditional and temporary venues in the city under the supervision of Chittagong Central Eid Jamaat Committee (CCEJC) and the Chittagong City Corporation (CCC) on the occasion of Eid-Ul-Azha, reports BSS. The two grand…

Youth hacked dead A young man was hacked to death by some unidentified miscreants at Mandail in Keraniganj upazila on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Rubel, 24, son of Rabiullah, a resident of Najarganj village in the upazila. Sub-inspector Oliar Rahman of Keraniganj Model Police Station…