Speakers at a post-rally discussion here yesyerday underscored the need for curbing illicit tobacco trading for protecting the young generation from the curse of smoking, reports BSS. They clarified that the massive illicit tobacco trading is being adjudged as wide-ranging smoking aggression among the…

Comilla: A court here on Sunday sentenced a man to death and five people to life term imprisonment for killing a man in 2001, reports UNB. The condemned convict was identified as Jahangir Alam while the lifers are Foyez Ahmed, Shamimuzzaman Babu, Emdadul Haque, Nazmul Hossain and Rafiqul Islam, all…

Rangpur: Speakers at the concluding ceremony of a three-day training course yesterday said the importance of Life Skill Based Education (LSBE) for the adolescents is vital in taking decisions by them under adverse situations. Fulabri Area Development Programme of the World Vision Bangladesh (WVB) organised…

Hundreds of vehicles, including passenger buses, move in difficulties along about two-kilometer-long rundown approach road to Ilisha ferry terminal in Bhola.  Sources said the road has been in bad shape ever since a tidal surge played a havoc in the area along the Meghna River in the year 2013.…

Comilla: A man was chopped to death allegedly by his mother at Jhanora village in Barura upazila yesterday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Jasim Uddin, 35, a son of late Abdul Malek of the village. Locals said Jasim had been suffering from mental problems since long and he sometimes used…

Three people were killed in separate road accidents in Jessore and Rangpur districts. In Jessore, two motorcycle riders were killed in a road accident at Aladipur village under Bagarpara upazila in the district yesterday. The deceased were identified as Rafiq, 30, and Khair Biswas, 28. Officer-in-Charge…

Criminals cut tendon of left hand of a woman on Madrasa road in Kalapara municipality on Saturday. Tahmina Begum, 35, of Amirabad village in the upazila, came under attack while she was going on a rickshaw to a relative’s house. A gang of criminals intercepted her and stabbed her. At one stage,…

Kotwali police recovered a touchstone statue of lord Krishna, weighing about 3.25 kg worth Tk 3 crores, from the house of a van driver at village Kodalia in Jessore sadar yesterday. ASP of KA-Circle Bhaskar Saha said acting on a tip-off, police raided the house of one Anwar Hossain and recovered a touchstone…