Habiganj

Govt’s cash aid programme: lists of 3 unions in Habiganj cancelled for irregularities

The lists of poor families for the government’s cash assistance programme in three unions of Habiganj’s Lakhai upazila have been cancelled following irregularities.
Habiganj DC tests Covid-19 positive, placed in home quarantine

Deputy commissioner of Habiganj district tests positive for Covid-19 and is placed in home quarantine.
Health complex in Habiganj closed after doctor, nurses test Covid-19 positive

Habiganj's Lakhai Upazila Health Complex was declared closed after a doctor and two nurses of the hospital tested positive with coronavirus.
Student pushed off bus, killed

A student of Sylhet Agricultural University died after he was pushed off a bus by the helper and crushed under the rear wheels in Nabiganj upazila of Habiganj yesterday evening.
Lightning kills 5 in Habiganj, Kishoreganj

Five people, including four farmers, are killed in separate lightning strikes in Habiganj and Kishoreganj districts.
5 ‘JMB millitants’ held in Habiganj

Law enforcers claim to arrest five alleged members of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Habiganj Sadar upazila.
4 killed as boat capsizes in Habiganj

Four people including three women and a child are killed as a boat capsizes in the Khowai river of Habiganj district.
'Terror financier' held in Habiganj

The Criminal Investigation Department yesterday claimed to have arrested a "terror financier" at Habiganj.
3 get death for killing 4 kids

A Sylhet court yesterday sentenced three people to death in a case filed over the killing of four schoolboys in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj in February last year.
Madhabpur tea workers starving, unpaid for 13 weeks

Workers of a tea garden in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj are left starving as they are not getting paid their wages or receiving their rations for the last 13 weeks.
3 brothers convicted

The war crimes tribunal yesterday convicted three brothers from Habiganj of crimes against humanity and handed down death penalty to one of them and jail until death to the others.
War crimes: Death for Habiganj man, jail for his 2 brothers

A special tribunal has found three brothers from Habiganj guilty of all the four charges brought against them and handed one death for war crimes. Two of his brothers have been given jail till death.
ICT reading out summary verdict on 3 Habiganj ‘war criminals’

A tribunal in Dhaka starts reading out the summary verdict in a case filed against three war criminal suspects from Habiganj on charges of crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
War crimes: Arrest warrants issued for 2 men

A war crimes tribunal issues arrest warrants against two men, including a former leader of Habiganj chapter Awami League, over crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
2 killed as pick-up van hits truck in Habiganj

Two people are killed when a pick-up van hit a stationary truck from behind at a filling station in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj today.
War crimes: Verdict on 3 Habiganj men any day

A tribunal in Dhaka will deliver its verdict any day in the case against three Habiganj men who are facing four charges of crimes against humanity they allegedly committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
Charges pressed against 2 ‘war criminals’

The prosecution presses seven specific charges against two men including a former leader of Habiganj Awami League for their alleged involved in crimes committed during the Liberation War in 1971.
Lightning kills 3 in Habiganj

Three people, including a local Jubo League leader, are killed in separate incidents of lightning strike during storm in Sadar and Lakhai upazilas in Habiganj.
9 charged with killing 4 kids in Habiganj

Police press charges against nine persons including the prime accused in a case filed for killing four schoolboys in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj.
Jubo Sanghati activist found dead in Habiganj

An activist of Jubo Sanghati, the youth wing of Jatiya Party, was found dead in Habiganj.
6 workers burnt in Habiganj factory fire

Six workers of a factory are burnt in a fire triggered by a gas cylinder explosion in Sadar upazila of Habiganj.
Accused killed in 'gunfight'

An accused in the Habiganj four-kid murder case was killed in a "gunfight" with the Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in the district's Chunarughat upazila early yesterday, eight days after law enforcers allegedly picked him up. The dead, Bachchu Mia, was a CNG-run auto-rickshaw driver who had been traceless since being “detained by plainclothes officials” on February 17, according to his family members.
4-kid murder: Body formed to see cop’s negligence

A Habiganj court places two accused on remand each over the murder of four children in Habiganj’s Bahubol upazila.
More than 7 involved

More than seven people were involved in the killing of the four children at Sundartiki of Bahubal in Habiganj, said accused Jewel Mia in his confessional statement before a magistrate yesterday.
Another held over Habiganj 4-kid murder

Police arrest another person for his alleged link to the killing of four schoolboys, who had gone missing from Sundrateki village in Bahubal upazila on February 12.
Killers of 4 Habiganj kids to be tried at special tribunal: Minister

The trial of those accused in the killing of four kids in Habiganj two days ago will be held at the special tribunal, State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki says.
All they want is justice

Minara Begum could hardly speak to anyone since villagers dug her son's body out of a sand pile on Wednesday. Shell-shocked, she just shed tears silently, holding the boy's clothes tight.
4 Habiganj kids strangled, says doctor after autopsy

The four children whose bodies were found buried under sand in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj yesterday are strangulated to death, says a doctor.
Four kids murdered

Five days ago, four children went out to a nearby playground, telling their parents they would return before sundown. Little did the parents know that it would be their kids' last outing. As the four did not come back home, families mounted a search that night at Sundrateki village in Bahubal upazila of Habiganj. But they found no trace of the children.
Bodies of 4 missing children found in Habiganj

Bodies of four children are found from Bahubal upazila of Habiganj, five days after they went missing.