Chuadanga: A court here yesterday sentenced five people, including three siblings, to life term imprisonment for killing a farmer in Damurhuda upazila in 2014, reports UNB. The lifers are Joynur, 45, Waaz, 48, Choto Buro, 44, son of Nur Box, Kuddus, 38, son of Mawla Box and Latif, 40, son of Moslem,…

A three-day ‘Baisabi Utsab’, the biggest traditional festival of ethnic minority people in Chittagong Hill Tracts marking the new year, began in Rangamati through floating flowers in the Kaptai Lake at Rajbari ghat early yesterday The first day of the festival is called 'Phulbijhu'…

Police arrested a union parishad (UP) chairman for allegedly violating a housewife in Fulgazi Upazila in Feni district early yesterday. The arrested was identified as Nurul Islam, chairman of Fulgazi sadar union parishad also joint general secretary of upazila unit Awami League. Humayun Kabir, officer-in-charge…

NILPHAMARI: A woman allegedly committed suicide by jumping under a train at Belaichandi in sadar upazila on Thursday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Begum, 35, wife of Maksud and mother of two children of Belaichandi area. Begum had been suffering from different diseases and leading a miserable…