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National Board of Revenue (NBR) Chairman Abu Hena Md. Rahmatul Muneem visited an industrial park of country’s leading business conglomerate PRAN-RFL Group in Habiganj yesterday. Ahsan Khan Chowdhury, chairman and chief executive officer at PRAN-RFL Group, Choudhury Atiur Rasul, director (Accounts) and Kamruzzaman Kamal, director (Marketing) welcomed the NBR Chairman at Habiganj Industrial Park. Muneem visited various manufacturing units of ...

Members of Rapid Action Battalion arrested the prime accused in the Sonia Akter murder case in a drive at the Sayedabad bus stand area in Dhaka yesterday. The arrestee is Md Sojib, 25, of Sharifnagar village in Habiganj’s Ajmiriganj. He is the victim’s cousin. “Since the murder, Rab started a shadow investigation and located the prime suspect in Dhaka. Based ...

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a college student from her home in Khuliatula area of Sylhet on Sunday afternoon. The deceased was Sonia Begum, 18, daughter of Selim Mia of Sylhet’s Zakiganj upazila and a student of Dakshin Surma Degree College. Azbahar Ali Sheikh, additional deputy commissioner (north) of Sylhet Metropolitan Police, said Sonia was living with her family ...

Two people, including a woman, were killed and three others injured as a CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a truck on-Sylhet-Bianibazar road at Golapganj in Sylhet on Sunday. The identities of the deceased and injured could not be known immediately. Officer-in-charge Rafiqul Islam of Golapganj Model Police Station said a Sylhet-bound CNG-run auto-rickshaw collided head-on with a speedy truck coming ...

Nurul Huda Mukut and Noman Bakht Palin have been made president and general secretary of Awami League’s Sunamganj district unit respectively. Awami League Central General Secretary Obaidul Quader announced the new committee after the triennial council of the unit this afternoon. He also announced former general secretary Enamul Kabir Imon as a member of the national committee. Currently, Nurul Huda ...

BNP’s mass movement has been seriously damaged at the Gopalganj cow market, quipped Awami League general secretary Obaidul Quader. He said, “People, and even horses, laugh at the pace of BNP’s movement. In their injured state, they speak in scared tones about their march. Find out just in how many unions were their marches held. BNP’s movement is a dead ...

Moulvibazar Correspondent : The body of an unidentified woman has been recovered from Sadar upazila of Moulvibazar district. Police said farmers spotted the body at night in Uluail village while working in paddy fields on Thursday. Moulvibazar Sadar Police Station OC Mohammad Harunur Rashid Chowdhury said they recovered the body on Thursday morning. Details of the deceased could not be ...

SUST Correspondent : A student of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology allegedly committed suicide at his residence in Jashore district early Thursday. The dead was Minhajul Abedin, son of Faruk Uddin, a resident of Salamatpur village under Monirampur upazila of the district. He was a student in the 2016-17 session of the Mathematics Department at the university. Mathematics Department ...

Sunamganj Correspondent : Three drug peddlers have been arrested by police along with foreign liquor at Madhyanagar Upazila in Sunamganj district. The arrested were Waz Kuruni, 27, Mufazzol, 20, and Shakil, 20. Madhyanagar Police station officer-in-charge Jahidul Islam said acting on a tip-off, they conducted a drive at Dupaghat village of the upazila on Tuesday at about 10:45 pm and ...

Habiganj Correspondent : Ashraful Hossain alias Hero Alam has been fined as his car exceeded the speed. Shayestaganj Habiganj highway police on Tuesday fined him Tk 2500 as he was heading to Habiganj to collect his gift car. Shayesthaganj highway police station officer-in-charge Saleh Ahmed confirmed this and said Hero Alam has been fined at Shayesthaganj area of Dhaka-Sylhet highway ...