News in Brief
Trader shot dead in Savar
Our Correspondent, Savar
Unidentified miscreants shot dead a trader at Ghoshpara in Savar, on the outskirts of the capital, last night.
The victim, AKM Azad Rashid, 48, son of Md Abdur Rashid, of Savar Dokkhin Para, was a land businessman.
Md Safiqul Islam, assistant superintendent of Savar Model Police Station, said the culprits attacked Rashid while he was returning home via Ghoshpara road. The miscreants fled and Rashid was declared dead at Enam Medical College and Hospital, he said.
Govt determined to close down illegal brick kilns: Manju
Staff Correspondent
The government is determined to close down those brick kilns, which is run in municipal and city corporation areas defying the brick kiln act, from July 1, said Environment and Forests Minister Anwar Hossain Manju.
While talking to the Brick Kilns Owners' Association in the ministry, Manju also directed the owners to follow environment friendly technologies for building new kilns and assured of loans from a fund created by that Bangladesh Bank and Asian Development Bank have created a fund to give them loans.
Rajendra president, Mojibur GS of Mukta Sramik Federation
Staff Correspondent
Rajendra Prashad Boonarjee and Mojibur Rahman Bhuiyan have been elected as the president and general secretary respectively of Bangladesh Mukta Sramik Federation at its biannual general meeting at Bangladesh Institute of Management auditorium in the capital on Saturday, said a press release.
Ctg hill-slope residents directed to move to safer grounds
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
Chittagong district administration yesterday directed the hill-slope residents in the city to immediately move to safer grounds to avoid the risk of landslides.
The direction came at 2:00pm after the first spell of monsoon downpour started from Saturday midnight.
Around 2,500 families are living on the risky hill slopes in Batalihill, Motijharna and Lal Khan Bazar areas.
Three submit nomination papers for Barisal-5 by-election
Our Correspondent, Barisal
Two candidates of the ruling Awami League and newly registered party Bangladesh Nationalists Front (BNF) and one independent candidate yesterday submitted nomination papers to the election commission for Barisal-5 constituency by-election.
The candidates are AL-backed Jebunnessa Afroj, wife of former lawmaker Shawkat Hossain Hiron, who died on April 9 leaving the constituency vacant, BNF-backed Saiful Islam Liton and independent candidate Syed Mozzam Hossain, said Barisal regional election officer.
The by-poll is scheduled for June 12.
20 Jamaat-Shibir men held in Ctg
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
Police yesterday arrested 20 Jamaat-Shibir men from different upazilas of Chittagong.
In Sitakunda, Lohagara and Satkania, 18 Jamaat-Shibir men were detained during several overnight drives following cases filed over subversive activities.
In Fatikchhari, Abdur Rashid and his son Hannan Uddin were held with two Light Guns, one pistol, 11 cartridges and 42 crude bombs from their house in Kanchannagar area.
Two die while cleaning septic tank
Our Correspondent, Savar
Two people died while cleaning a septic tank at Narashinhapur of Ashulia in Dhaka yesterday morning.
Kismat Ali of Jamalpur and Abu Hanif Khan of Mymensingh might have died of suffocation, said fire officials.
One of them went into the 50-feet deep tank and did not come back. Later, another went there to check the reason and did not return, they added.
Two die from electrocution
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
Two people died from electrocution in Firingi Bazar area of Chittagong city yesterday.
Imtiaz Hasan, 15, a class-IX student, got electrocuted when he touched an electric pole before his school around 1:30pm.
Gopi Dutta, 35, a resident of the area, was electrocuted when he tried to save Imtiaz.
They were rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital where doctors declared them dead.
Man found dead in Ctg
Staff Correspondent, Ctg
A man, aged around 40, was found dead beside the rail tracks in Latifpur area of Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong yesterday noon.
Police said Md Helal, hailed from Barguna, might have been crushed under the wheels of a train anytime after 11:00pm on Saturday.
Helal, a mason by profession, resided in the area.
Girl's body recovered in capital
Staff Correspondent
Police recovered a suitcase carrying the decomposed body of a girl from a pond at Kalo Nagar in the capital's Hazaribagh yesterday.
Identity of the girl, aged around 12, in a red and white kameez, could not be known immediately, police said.
Police suspect that she might have been killed about five days ago.
The body was sent to Sir Salimullah Medical College Morgue for an autopsy.
Comments