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Huge drugs seized in Habiganj

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has recovered a large amount of drugs, including 169 bottles of liquor and 32 kilogram of cannabis in Habiganj district. They were recovered the drugs suring several drives on Sunday night. It said that a BGB team conducted a raid at the Teliapara tea garden in Madhabpur upazila at 9:00 PM on Sunday night, recovering 62 ...

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5 killed in Sylhet road crash

Five individuals, including a child, were killed when a truck rammed into a private car on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway at Osmaninagar upazila of Sylhet district on Sunday. The accident occured around 7.30 AM at Unishmile area of the upazila. Four of the deceased were identified as Sohel, 40, Shamima, 40, Ety Begum, 35, and Ayan, 7, while the identity of ...

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Shafiqur calls for holding trial of those involved in genocide 

Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Dr Shafiqur Rahman today called for holding trial of those involved in genocide. “Those who committed genocide must be tried to free the human society from stigma. Persons involved in forcibly disappearing people should be tried on priority basis,” he said while addressing the Jamaat workers’ conference at Sunamganj Government Jubilee High School ground here as chief guest. ...

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Brick kiln fined Tk 50,000 in Moulvibazar

A brick kiln was fined Tk 50,000 for damaging a road by carrying bricks at Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar district on Friday morning. The upazila administration conducted a drive, led by the Assistant Commissioner (land) and Upazila Nirbahi Magistrate Shah Jahrul Hossain, in the Duloipara area in the upazila and fined Surma Brikfiled. Shah Jahrul Hossain said that the fine ...

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Moulvibazar UP member alleged of embezzlement

An allegation has been received against Debashish Chakrabarty Shipon, member of Madhabpur Union Parishad’s ward no-7 under Kamalganj upazila in Moulvibazar district, for taking money from local people in pretext of providing government houses to them. The victim, Rekha Chouhan, a resident of the union, lodged a written complaint with Kamalganj Upazila Nirbahi Officer and Officer-in-Charge of Kamalganj Police Station ...

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4 held with 40 smuggled cows in Sunamganj

Police have arrested four alleged smugglers and seized 40 cows while smuggling to Bangladesh through Someshwari River in Sunamganj district on Sunday. Acting on a tip-off, a law enforcers team, led by Madhyanagar Police Station officer-in-charge (OC) Md Sajib Rahman and the Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Uzzal Roy, conducted a drive on the river ghat of Chamardani union on Sunday ...

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Indian national held for intrusion in Moulvibazar

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) have detained an Indian national from Juri upazila in Moulvibazar district on Monday, for illegally enter into Bangladesh. The arrested is identified as Mohammad Rahul Uddin, from Bhagyapur village no 5 under Dharmanagar Police Station Jurisdiction in Tripura, India. Being tipped-off a BGB team raided the residence of a Bangladeshi citizen approximately 100 yards inside Bangladesh’s ...

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Illegal goods worth around Tk 5.22cr recovered in Sylhet-Sunamganj

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) seized smuggled goods worth over Taka 5.22 crore during several raids in the Sylhet and Sunamganj border areas on Friday. Sylhet Battalion (48 BGB) Commander Lt. Col. Md Hafizur Rahman said a huge amount of smuggled goods including Indian RJ power batteries, sugar, cows, buffaloes, Clop G cream, chocolate, cumin, winter blankets, oranges, Quaker oats, fuchka, ...

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Newly appointed Habiganj SP meets journalists

The newly appointed Superintendent of Police (SP) of Habiganj held a meeting with local journalists on Wednesday. The event took place around 3 PM in the afternoon at the SP conference room. During the discussion meeting, several print and electronic media journalists greeted the newly appointed SP ANM Sajidur Rahman. Sazidur Rahman shared his future visions and assured that this ...

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Man ‘kills’ daughter in Habiganj over mobile addiction

A man reportedly stabbed his daughter to death at his house in Madhabpur upazila of Habiganj on Wednesday over mobile addiction. The deceased was Ranu Begum, 15, a resident of Ghanashyampur village of the district. Victim’s mother Saheda Begum said Ranu often found talking on mobile phone. Her husband returned home at around 2.30PM on Wednesday and saw his daughter ...

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