Several influential BNP and Jammat leaders now in jail or on the run might contest the upcoming municipal polls. Party and family sources said they will run for the posts of mayor and councillor from the prison if they are not released ahead of the election. The election to nine Bogra municipalities…

Benapole: Police arrested three fake DB men from Rupdia Bazar of Sadar upazila in the district on Sunday night, reports UNB. The arrestees were identified as Asaduzzaman, 30, son of Nuruzzaman, a resident of Khrishnagar village; Imran Hossain, son of Arafat Mallick, a resident of Hariyadara village…

Police recovered the slaughtered body of a young man from the field of Chandganj College in Sadar upazila yesterday morning, reports UNB. The deceased could not be identified immediately. The age of victim was around 25. A K M Khalekuzzaman, officer in-charge of Kotwali police station, said locals spotted…

Moheshpur police arrested two extortionists from Belemath village in the district yesterday.  The arrestees have been identified as Ripon Ahmed Khokan, 32, of Bathangachi village and Tushar Ahmed, 21, of Belemath village in Moheshpur upazila. Officer-in-charge of Moheshpur police station Shahidul…

GM Saleh Uddin joined as the first divisional commissioner of Mymensingh, the newly created eighth division of the country, yesterday. Earlier, GM Saleh Uddin served as an additional secretary of Forest and Environment Ministry, sources said. He was a former student of Bangladesh Agricultural University…

On December 8 in 1971, Chandpur district (then sub–division) was freed from the clutches of the Pakistani occupation forces as the freedom fighters…