GAIBANDHA: Overall flood situation in chars and Brahmaputra river basin areas including the low lying areas of the main land of four upazilas of the district deteriorated further as the river marked rise more till 9 am yesterday, reports BSS. The officials of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB)…

Sylhet: Law enforcers in a joint drive arrested 31 people, including 22 activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and its student front Islami Chhatra Shibir, for their suspected militant involvement from several places in Jakiganj upazila of the district early yesterday, reports UNB. Additional Superin-tendent…

RANGPUR: Three persons, including two farm labourers and a college student, were killed and two others injured by lightning amid inclement weather in Rangpur and Lalmonirhat districts yesterday, police sources said, reports BSS. In Rangpur, two farm labourers were killed and two others injured in village…

Sylhet: A madrasah student has reportedly remained missing from Osmaninagar upazila since Friday afternoon, reports UNB. The missing student was identified as Emon Ahmad, 15, Hefz-ul-Ulum student of Abdul Bari Shahidunnesa Academy and son of late Jahir Ali of Bajitpur village of the upazila. Family…

Gazipur: Two schoolgirls drowned in a water body while taking bath at Brahmangaon village in Kaliganj upazila on Wednesday, reports UNB. Atikur Rahman Akand, local UP chairman, said Tanha, 7, a class II student and daughter of Abul Kalam Munshi, a Singapore expatriate, and Maria Akter, 7, a class I…

Our correspondent, Jessore The jawans of 26 battalion of BGB in Jessore seized illegal goods worth about Tk 2,10,18,000 after conducting a drive at Amragachi Checkpost on Jessore-Benapole highway under Sarsha police station in the district on Wednesday night. Acting on a tip-off  a team of BGB…

Comilla: Police arrested three female students of Comilla Victoria Government College for their suspected link to militancy from a college dormitory at Dharmapur here early Thursday, reports UNB. One of the arrestees was identified as Kaniz Fatema, master’s final year student of the Accounting…

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested an alleged arms trader with a foreign made pistol, two magazines and four rounds of bullets from Dadanchak Khajanchipara village in Shibganj upazila of the district on Wednesday, reports BSS. The arrested person was identified as Imam…

Bogra: A court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to death and five others to life term imprisonment for killing a microbus driver in 2008, reports UNB.The condemned convict was identified as Zinnat Hossain alias Jewel, 33, son of Khairuzzaman Khoka, while the lifers were identified as Sohel Rana, 19,…