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A team of Detective Branch police arrested two alleged frauds with foreign currencies at Gorea village in sadar upazila yesterday. The arrestees are Tohiruddin, 45, son of late Mohimuddin of Gopalpur village under Sadar upazila and Nadira Hasan, 25, daughter of Abdul Barek of Kotbulpur village under Rajshahi Rajpara police station. Earlier, on information a police team led by Assistant Superintendent of Police AKM Shahin Ahmed raided the village and recovered 206 US dollars, 100 bahts and other currencies of different countries from Tohiruddin's house and arrested them.

Police recovered the decomposed body of a woman from Kathaltola canal in Sadar upazila yesterday morning. The identity of the woman, aged about 35, could not be known immediately. Mujibur Rahman, OC (investigation) of Sadar PS said, being informed by the locals, police recovered the body from the canal at about 10:30am.

Sudhijan Pathagar, one of the oldest libraries in the district, handed over '12th Hossain Jamal Memorial Award' to Mayan Uddin on Friday. Mayan has been serving as the honorary librarian at Nazrul Public Library in Gopalganj for over the last six decades. Fazle Rabbi, founder secretary of Sudhijan Pathagar handed over the certificate and a cheque for Tk 50,000 to Mayan Uddin. Library secretary Asjadul Kibria, Ishaque and Kasem Jamal, executive members of the library among others addressed the programme while director of the library presided it. Cultural secretary Afzal Hossain moderated the award giving ceremony. Sudhijan Pathagar will organise various programmes throughout the month to celebrate its 48th founding anniversary and 60 years of Language Movement.