An unusual contest in Subarnachar
The upazila chairman election in Noakhali’s Subarnachar today is going to be a battle of ballots between a veteran Awami League leader and a young one.
7 May 2024, 18:00 PM
Release of MV Abdullah: Eid comes three days later for families of crewmen
Eid is about homecoming and family reunion. But this year’s Eid-ul-Fitr brought no such joy for the 23 crewmen of hijacked MV Abdullah.
15 April 2024, 18:00 PM
Two raped in subarnachar: AL leader tried to make it look like a burglary
Two people, including a local AL leader, were sent to jail yesterday in a case filed over the rape of a woman and her minor daughter in Char Wapda union of Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila early Tuesday.
7 February 2024, 18:00 PM
Govt land grabbed to ‘rehabilitate’ hawkers in Noakhali
A group of people under the banner of Khudra Hawkers Somobay Samity Limited have illegally occupied around 65 decimals of public land in Noakhali town and are now constructing a two-storied wooden structure on the land for making commercial shops.
22 September 2023, 18:00 PM
Soybean farmers in a hairy situation
Soybean growers in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali are deeply concerned about incurring heavy losses this year as their fields are being attacked by a surge of hairy caterpillars, locally known as bichha poka.
12 April 2022, 18:00 PM
Chaos in Companiganj: Businesses hit hard
In most restaurants of Companiganj’s Basurhat, an instruction is clearly written on the walls: “Conversations over politics are strictly prohibited.”
13 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Killed In Companiganj Violence: The 2 had nothing to do with politics
Two lives have been cut short, caught in the crossfire of gunfights between the two groups of the ruling Awami League in Noakhali’s Companiganj in recent weeks.
12 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Companiganj Al Infighting: Mirza’s rival held hrs after party warning
Hours after Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday warned of action against people involved in the deadly clashes in Noakhali’s Companiganj, men in plainclothes picked up Mizanur Rahman Badal, the rival of Obaidul’s brother Quader Mirza.
11 March 2021, 18:00 PM
Tribute to Munier Chy, education for children lost to land dispute
Land dispute has locked up, over two decades, a primary school that had been opened up, in 1972, to commemorate martyred intellectual Prof Munier Chowdhury.
15 December 2020, 18:00 PM
Local politicos behind his rise
Delwar Hossain, prime accused in the recent gang rape of a woman in Noakhali, engaged in various crimes under the patronage of local politicians from both the ruling Awami League and the BNP.
7 October 2020, 18:00 PM