Cox’s Bazar: Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 80,000 pieces of yaba tablets from Jalia Dwip area near the Naf River in Teknaf upazila of Coc’s Bazar on Wednesday night, reports UNB. Major Abdul Hannan, acting commander of BGB Battalion-42, said tipped off that a boat carrying…

A court in Pirojpur sentenced a woman to life term imprisonment yesterday for killing her husband in 2007.  The same punishment was also handed down on her brother-in-law in the murder case. The convicted are Nasima Akter, 27, wife of slain Kabil Howlader and her brother-in-law (husband’s…

People are building bamboo bridges across the villages of Lalua union in Kalapara upazila. They have been forced to take up the job on their own seeing the inertness of the authorities in repairing the damaged culverts and iron bridges. The flood control embankment,  which is designed to protect…

Students and teachers of Dukhi Mahmud Degree College of Shekhpara along with locals of Mohishgari village in Shailkupa upazila form a human chain in front of DM College yesterday morning demanding immediate arrest of the accused in Shila murder case. The human chain continued for an hour from 12pm.…

A traditional boat race was held with much enthusiasm at remote Bagahata village in Baniachong upazila of Habiganj district on Wednesday. It was organised on a haor [large shallow water body], near Bagahata village, 10 km away from Baniachong upazila headquarters and 25 km from Habiganj town. A large…

Police seized a truck load of Indian smuggled cloth and saree worth more than Tk 25 lakh yesterday morning from a road at Amjhupi in Meherpur Sadar upazila. Smugglers managed to flee the place leaving behind the truck. Hamidul Alam, superintendent of police, said a truck bearing no Dhaka Metro TA-16-8890…

3 BNB, Jamaat leaders jailed Jhalakati: A court here on Wednesday sent three leaders of BNP and Jamaat-e-Islami to jail in a case filed in connection with an arson attack, reports UNB. Jhalakati Special Tribunal Judge S M Solaiman passed the order rejecting their bail petitions when they surrendered…