A suspected robber was shot dead in a gunfight between two groups of robbers in Berirmatha area of Laxmipur district early yesterday, police sources said. The deceased was identified as Jabed Mintu, member of inter-district robbery gang and son of Hossian Ahmed, a resident of Itkhola village of the…

SATKHIRA: A schoolboy was allegedly beaten to death by rivals at Bokchara intersection in Sadar upazila following dispute over a trifling matter on Tuesday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Shakib Hossain, 16, a class-X student of Satkhira Police Lines School and son of Nazrul Islam,…

COX’S BAZAR: Two people, including woman, were killed in a gas cylinder blast at Adinath Temple in Moheshkhali upazila yesterday morning, reports UNB. Identities of the deceased could not be known immediately. The duo was selling gas balloons in front of the temple where a 7-day fair was being…

MAGURA: Department of Environment (DoE) in drives with district administration on Tuesday fined at least 13 brick kilns Tk 6.5 lakh for illegally burning woods, reports UNB. Ilias Hossain, officer-in-charge of Magura Sadar Police Station, said a team of DoE led by Khulna DoE executive magistrate Iqbal…

One to die for killing woman SHERPUR: A court here yesterday sentenced a man to death for killing a woman in Nalitabari upazila of the district in 2011, reports BSS. District Additional and Session judge Md Moslem Uddin handed down the verdict in presence of the convicted person. The convicted is Md…