Shoilkupa police on Thursday arrested a leader of the Jatiyatabadi Juba Dal from Shoilkupa municipal area. The arrested was Forhad, 34, of Bijulia village in the same upazila. Police said he was a listed criminal. Officer in charge of Shoilkupa police MA Hashem Khan, said acting on a tip off, a contingent…

At least four people were killed and forty seven others injured in separate road accidents in Mymensingh and Khagracharri districts on Thursday and yesterday. Of the dead, three were killed in Mymensingh and one in Khgarachhari. In Mymensingh, at least eleven bus passengers were injured when a Mymensingh-bound…

A staff of a textile mills at Jamirdia in Bhaluka upazila here allegedly committed suicide jumping from the roof of factory building yesterday. The victim has been identified as Shamsul Arefin Dipu, a staff of Badsha Textiles Ltd. But police could not confirm his position. Quoting factory sources, sub-inspector…

Kotwali  police arrested bus supervisor Nurul Islam, 45, an inhabitant of Mirja pur village in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira district, on Thursday night on charge of smuggling heroin. Kotwali police said acting on a tip-off, they raided a Dhaka-bound  Satkhira express passenger bus at about…

The monthly allowances for a total of 573 freedom fighters [FF] of the district have been suspended, said District Muktijoddhah Commander M A Wadud  According to sources at the district Social Welfare Office, the move has been taken on the basis of some anomalies found in the records of these freedom…

A house maid was allegedly tortured and strangulated to death by her master at Choto-Godairchar village in Narsingdi sadar upazila on Thursday.  The deceased was identified as Farjana Akter Setu, daughter of Habi Uddin of Laukhai village in Netrokona district. She has been working as maid from…