GAIBANDHA: A human chain to raise awareness among the people about the prevention of child and early marriage was formed in the district yesterday morning. According to sources the district administration took an initiative to make Gaibandha early marriage free district this year at the directives of…

A mobile court of Titas Gas Transmission and Distribution Company Ltd disconnected 32,000 illegal gas connections to households in 18 villages in Narsingdi Sadar upazila and Narayanganj’s Araihazar upazila on Tuesday and Sunday. Executive Magistrate Kabirul Islam Khan disconnected lines at Madhabdi,…

MYMENSINGH: Police recovered the body of a college girl from her house in Seed-store Bazar area in Bhaluka upazila yesterday morning, reports BSS. She was identified as Munni Akhter, 18, first year HSC student at Abdul Awal Degree College in Bhaluka and daughter of Mohor Ali of the area.  Quoting…

RANGPUR: Jatiya Party Chairman Hussein Muhammad Ershad yesterday said Islam always teaches and preaches the message of peace and brotherhood, reports BSS. “We must bring out our country from the wrong notion of equaling Islam with militancy,” Ershad said at a ceremony before laying the foundation…

Sherpur: A local Awami League leader was stabbed to death by a youth following an altercation at Charbhabna village in Nakla upazila of the district yesterday morning, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Khorshedul Alam, 45, of the village.  He was the former president of ward-9 unit of…

Gas pipeline under river leaks Our correspondent, Tangail A leak was detected on an underwater gas pipeline of Titas Gas adjacent to Tangail-Bangabandhu Bridge highway in Kalihati upazila yesterday morning. Kafil Uddin, station manager of Tangail Fire Station, said local people spotted an irregular…