Stipends were distributed among 1,401 meritorious students of class VIII, IX & X of 81 schools on Chowbari Islamia High School ground in Kamarkhanda…

Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) in Kushtia filed a corruption case yesterday with Gangni police station against Gangni Municipal Mayor Ahmmed Ali and Ibrahim Adel Rumel, Proprietor of Masers Apollo Construction, on charge of fund embezzlement. Shahidul Islam Morol, deputy director of ACC in Kushtia…

Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken an  extensive plan to cultivate winter vegetables in all the seven upazilas in the district during the current season, reports BSS. DAE office sources said at least 6,500 hectares of land would be brought under the cultivation programme this year…

A court here on Sunday sent six leaders of BNP, including Jessore municipality mayor Maruful Islam, to jail after rejecting their bail petitions in a case for subversive activities. The BNP leaders are Jessore municipality mayor and the district unit BNP president Maruful Islam, its vice-president Rafiqur…

Highway police seized 500 square feet of teak from a covered van parked in bypass road area on Dhaka-Chittagong highway on Sunday night. Sources at the…

A SSC candidate committed suicide by hanging himself on Sunday night in Pirojpur town. The deceased was identified as Md Moshiur Rahman Molla, 16, son of Abdus Sattar Molla of College road in Sadar upazila of the district. He was a student of local Town Hall School. Victim’s family sources said…

The people of two chars (shoals) in Bhola live in dilemma over status of their land due to a long-drawn delimitation problem with neighbouring Patuakhali district. Sources said the boundary line dispute has been continuing over the past 65 years among the Char Motaher and Char Nulin of Mujib Nagar union…

Police arrested 40 Jamaat-Shibir activists in five districts on charges of subversive activities. In Pirojpur, police arrested eleven leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami during raids in Pirojpur Sadar, Kawkhali, Nazirpur, Nesarabad and Bhandaria upazilas yesterday. Md Walid Hossain, superintendent…