UNB, Madaripur :A college student was burnt to death in a fire erupting form a laptop at Purba Puali village in Kalkini upazila early Thursday.The deceased was identified as Rony, 20, a class XI student of Abul Hossain University College in Kalkini upazila and son of Alam Bepari of the village. Local people said the fire originated from an electric short circuitform a laptop around 4:00am and it soon engulfed the room of the house. All the house inmates except...
BNP leaders’ house in Barisal raided by cops Barisal CorrespondentBarisal Metropolitan Police raided the houses of Advocate Mojibor Rahman Sarwar, lawmaker and city BNP president, Mezbahuddin Farhad, lawmaker and district (north) BNP president, Abul Hasan Limon, convener, Afroza Khanam Nasrin, joint convener of city JCD on early Saturday.From the house of Mezbahuddin Farhad, police arrested Dewan Md. Shahidul Huq, Hizla upazila BNP president and Altaf Hossain, Jubo Dal activist.Shakhawat Hossain, Kotwali police station in charge, claimed the drive was operated and...
UNB, Bagerhat :Miscreants set afire a temple of Hindu goddess Saraswati at North Chingrikhali in Morrelganj upazila early Thursday.Tarak Chakrabarti, president of Radhagobinda temple committee, said a group of miscreants torched the temple by pouring petrol at some time in the night after the guards on duty there left the place at about 1:00 am.Mohammad Shahidul Islam, assistant superintendent of police, visited the spot.Panic gripped the local Hindu community following the incident.Earlier, on January 8, miscreants set fire to a...
UNB, Narsingdi :Police in separate overnight drives on Wednesday arrested 11 suspected robbers from four districts in connection with a robbery incident at the staff quarters of Palli Bidyut Shamity-2 on the Dhaka-Sylhet Highway.The arrestees were identified as Mehedi Anik, 23, Rana Miah, 22, Jahid Hasan, 19, Kabir Sarkar, 22, Khalil Miah, 22, Raihan Pathan, 23, Mamun, 28, Emran, 25, Mahsin Member, 49, and Russel, 20, a microbus driver of sadar upazila in the district. Khandakar Mohiuddin, superintendent of police,...
Bagerhat Correspondent :Bagerehat district town and nine upazilas have been experiencing severe cold spell along with chili wind blowing from...
BSS, Rajshahi :One can hardly miss the festive mood spread in the air brought by the harvested tomatoes in Godagari upazila of the district.Farmers, labourers and traders in the Barind tract of Rajshahi pass busy days with their crops across the fields.Moving along the Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway and all other roads in the area, people are seen weighing and packing tomatoes in sacks and bamboo baskets, and separating the damaged ones. Some sew up the sacks and some replace the lids...
RU Correspondent :Even after a week since the 16 residential halls of Rajshahi University (RU) reopened following the winter vacation, a dining services have remained shut, causing immense suffering to residential students.After a 15-day winter vacation, the residential halls of the university reopened on 7th January while the institute’s regular operations resumed from 11th January.As a result, residential students are now forced to take their meals at local restaurants in Bindpur, Kazla, Station Bazar and other nearby areas, putting extra...