Cox’s Bazar: Police arrested three women, including two from the Rohingya  community, with 50,000 pieces of yaba tablets from Najirpara village of the bank of Naf River in Teknaf upazila early yesterday, reports UNB. The arrested were identified as Nasima Akter, 20, a resident of the village,…

An Acid Crimes Control Tribunal here yesterday convicted five people and sentenced them to life imprisonment for throwing acid on a housewife and her two daughters on May 19, 2007.The convicts are Bacchu Miah, 30, Hanif Miah, 22, Rukku Miah, 25, Jamal Hossain, 60 and Buruj Ali, 25, all residents of…

JAMALPUR: Disaster Management and Relief Ministry allocated Tk about 20.18 crore for ultra poor people under its Employment Generating Programme in the district, reports BSS. The work of second phase of the programme will be completed this month. District Relief and Rehabilitation office sources said…

The authorities of Bangladesh Agricultural University (BAU) in Mymensingh suspended two students for one semester (six months) for staying illegally at night in a dormitory on the campus recently. The suspended students are Jibon Roy, a master’s student of the Aquaculture Department and Fatema…

Two people were shot dead and 10 others injured as a group of people, led by local influentials, attacked people of ethnic minority community in Akbarpur union of Patnitola upazila in Naogaon yesterday morning, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Mithun Oraon and Hafizul. According to witnesses,…

As the people of haor regions have completed harvesting of Boro paddy and find no other crops to grow on flooded swamps in the rainy season they have started making fish traps to earn money. Villagers are busy making fish traps, locally called ‘Chai’ in Hazarikanda, Daspara, Imanpara, and…

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested three people and seized Indian and Bangladeshi fake currency notes worth to Tk 10,500 in Shibganj area of Chapainawabganj on Sunday. In a separate drive, the RAB also seized 400 grams of hemp from the same area. RAB sources said a team of RAB from Chapainawabganj…