• Housewife tortured for dowry

    A housewife was tortured by her husband and in-laws allegedly for dowry in Joypurhat’s Kalai upazila.

  • Lalmonirhat

    23 held for illegally entering Bangladesh, now put in quarantine

    Twenty-three people, who illegally entered Bangladesh through Dahagram land port in Lalmonirhat district, have been detained and put in mandatory 14-day quarantine at Dahagram Hospital.

  • Abducted girl rescued, 2 arrested

    Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-12) in a drive early yesterday rescued a minor girl, abducted from Sirajganj’s Tarash upazila on May 12, and arrested two people for their alleged involvement in the abduction.

  • Addict kills wife

    A pregnant housewife was strangled to death allegedly by her husband at Shibnathpur Baropota village under Benapole Port Police Station on Sunday.

  • No salaries, Eid bonus for teachers, staffers of a college

    The Eid festival of 41 teachers and staffers of a college in Chirirbandar upazila of Dinajpur has been somber for the non-payment of salaries and festival bonus as the chairman of the college’s managing committee did not sign the documents on time.

  • Export, import hampered as bridge lies damaged

    A worn-out Bailey bridge in ​​Batuli Customs Station and Immigration Check Post area of Juri upazila lies useless for long, badly hampering the export and import business activities.

  • Land ‘illegally handed over to fake landless’

    At least two land office employees of Roumari Sadar union and Roumari upazila in Kurigram have been accused of helping some people illegally occupy a piece of land that belongs to Jadurchar Union Parishad of the upazila.

  • Body recovered

    2 killed in separate road accidents

    Two persons were killed in two separate road accidents in Manikganj and Kishoreganj yesterday.

  • Demra massacre: How far is the state recognition of the martyrs?

    It was May 14 in 1971, when residents of Demra village and traders of Demrahaat (one of the leading rural markets during that time) were closing their daily works in the evening, suddenly Pakistani occupation troops cordoned off Demra and adjoining villages Rupshi and Baushgari in Pabna and started firing on unarmed villagers.

  • Tk 114-crore excavation work washed back in river

    About Tk 114 crore was spent only last year to excavate a 80-kilometre stretch of Nilphamari’s second largest river Charalkantha. But most of the excavated earth, piled up on its side, has already made it back to the river and shrunk it to a mere channel at most places.

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