Drastic fall in fish output in Chalan Beel for poor rainfall
Cattle graze in Chalan Beel as a vast area of the water body dried up this year due to poor rainfall, below, a number of fishermen's boats lie idle as there is not sufficient fish in the greatly reduced water body.Fish production in greater Chalan Beel area has reduced drastically this year due to inadequate rainfall, making around 20,000 fishermen along the water body jobless.
Print EditionSelf-confessed serial killer Rasu Khan was taken on four days fresh remand on Thursday. Earlier, CID police appealed to Chandpur Chief Judicial Magistrate Md Mozammel Haque's court for seven days remand for Rasu in a case filed in connection with killing of an unidentified woman at Haimchar. Investigation officer of the case CID sub-inspector (SI) Md Jamirul Islam said, Rasu raped and killed the woman in a dried up water body on the east side of Chowdhury Hat in the upazila about one and a half years ago. When police took Rasu to Haimchar on October 20, he showed police the killing spot. Later, Haimchar police on December 6, 2008 recovered the body of an unidentified woman from the spot.
Print EditionThe two-day annual urs of great saint Hazrat Shahjalal (RA) will begin at his shrine in Sylhet today. Devotees in thousands from different areas of the country have already arrived in the city to join the religious event. The 690th annual event is scheduled to start with placing of gilaf (cover) on the grave of the saint in the early hours of today. The other programmes include Qurankhwani, fateha khwani, discussion, milad mahfil etc. It will end through Ankheri munajat (concluding prayers) and through distribution of alms after the Faz'r prayers tomorrow. A three-day fair has also been arranged in the shrine area.
Print EditionJhenidah police have arrested a cadre of the outfit Biplobi Communist Party (ML-Janajuddha) from village Hazidanga in Jhenidah Sadar upazila on Friday night. Police also recovered a pipe gun and a bullet from the possession of arrestee Uzzal, 34. Matiar Rahman, officer in-charge (OC) of Jhenidah police station said, acting on a tip-off, police raided a house and nabbed the outlaw. Uzzal was wanted in several cases, the OC said.
Print EditionA court here on Thursday sentenced a young man to two years of imprisonment in a dowry case. Convict Arman, 30, son of Shawkat Ali of Dewbhog area in the town, was present on the dock when the judge pronounced the verdict. According to the prosecution, Arman married Jyostna Begum, daughter of Baset Prodhan of Gognagar in Sadar upazila on May 5, 2006. But after a few days, he started torturing her for bringing Tk 1 lakh as dowry from her parents. Later, Jyostna filed a case on August 20, the same year, against her husband. After examining the records and witnesses, Judge Mohammed Bazlur Rahman of Senior Judicial Magistrate court handed down the verdict.
Print EditionCriminals killed a man and took away his motorbike near Kamdia bazaar in Gobindaganj upazila on Tuesday. Police said, a gang swooped on Abdul Quddus, 47, while he was returning home from the bazaar by a motorbike at dead of night and took away his bike after killing him on the spot. On information, police recovered the body on Wednesday morning and sent it to hospital morgue for autopsy. Police later recovered the motorcycle from nearby Khamarpara village but could not arrest anybody in connection with the incident.
Print EditionRapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Thursday recovered a touchstone statue of Hindu goddess Swaraswati from a passenger bus. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Rab-12 led by its deputy assistant director Hafiz Uddin raided a Dhaka-bound passenger bus coming from Pabna at the eastern end of Jamuna bridge and recovered the statue weighing about 2.5kg. The statue was found in a jute sack in an abandoned state. The touchstone statute is worth around Tk 2.5 crore, Rab officials said.
Print EditionFive local leaders of opposition BNP, accused in a case, were granted bail for three months by the High Court Tuesday. A high court bench comprising justice AFM Abdur Rahman and justice Mohammad Imdadul Haque Azad granted the bail after the hearing in presence of the five leaders. They are pourashava and town BNP president Jahangir Alam, pourashava panel mayor and general secretary of town Jubo Dal Maksudul Alam Khondoker Khorshed, poura BNP organising secretary Hasan Ahmed, Sadar upazila Jubo Dal vice president Moazzem Hossain Monti and No 7 ward Jubo Dal leader Shakhawat Hossain Shova. Nurul Islam Sarder, who was defeated in last pourashava mayoral election on October 25 filed a case with Sadar police station accusing the five of ransacking office and attempting to murder.
Print EditionCustoms officials seized musk worth Tk 1 crore from the bag of a man on Wednesday evening. Customs sources said they found the musk while searching the bag of Tarek Hossain of Chittagong district. Tarek was returning from neighbouring India with a valid passport. A case was filed.
Print EditionLocals caught red-handed two robbers along with firearms at Kaujani village on Thursday night. Police said, a gang of robbers entered Molla Bari house and tried to loot valuables at dead of night. As the inmates raised a hue and cry, locals rushed to the spot and caught two of the fleeing robbers - Rubel Sheikh, 22, of Uttar Char Paturia village and Majnu Molla, 30, of Tenapacha village. A shutter-gun, four bullets and a sharp knife were recovered from their possession.
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Threatened by the accused in a case for looting roadside trees, the complainant and a witness of the case are staying away from their houses at Monorom village of Mohendranagar union under Lalmonirhat Sadar upazila about one and a half months.
Print EditionBogra Deputy Commissioner (DC) Md Iftekharul Islam Khan has sent a letter to Dupchanchia Police Station asking them to file cases against two journalists and a member of a school managing committee allegedly to retaliate publication of a news item.
Print EditionAn activist of Parbatya Chattagram Jana Sanghati Samity (PCJSS) was kidnapped on Friday night allegedly by the armed cadres of anti-peace treaty United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) from his house at Uluchhari in the town.
Print EditionExport-import activities through Benapole land port came to a halt yesterday morning due to by-polls of Bidhan Sabha (Legislative Assembly) in West Bengal.
Print EditionFour women were killed allegedly by their husbands, three of them for dowry, in three districts in the last five days.
Print EditionThe four-day border conference of Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) and Indian Border Security Force (BSF) concluded here yesterday.
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A college girl was killed allegedly for dowry in Barguna district town yesterday morning.
Print EditionInternal feud in Magura BNP remains unresolved as district unit Convener Kabir Murad, who is leading a faction, did not attend the meeting convened by the central committee at party's Nayapaltan office on Wednesday.
Print EditionFifteen people were injured as pro-Awami League (AL) and pro-Jatiya Party (JP) workers clashed at local supply depot (LSD) on Friday.
Print EditionSeveral hundred people of Tungipara on Thursday formed a human chain at local bus stand to press their demand for upgrading the upazila to a district.
Print EditionAbout 100 leaders and activists of ruling Awami League (AL) and its front organisations were sued on Friday night on charge of ransacking and setting fire to Barisal BNP office.
Print EditionIslami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) cadres threatened two Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) men with death on Rajshahi University (RU) campus yesterday.
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