‘Gunfight’ kills youth in Jessore
Jessore Correspondent
Kotwali police recovered the bullet-ridden body of an unidentified youth after a ‘gunfight between two groups of miscreants’ at Kholadanga in Jessore town at around 4am on Saturday. AKM Azmal Huda, officer in-charge, Kotwali police station told that the unidentified youth was declared dead by the attending doctor at Jessore General Hospital after he was rushed there by the police after a ‘gunfight between two groups of miscreants’ at Kholadanga in Jessore town at around 4am. Earlier, the miscreants fled the scene sensing presence of the police. The police claimed that the police recovered a revolver, one round of bullet, 5 crude bombs and three sharp weapons from the spot.
SME Confce held in Nilphamari
Saidpur(Nilphamari) Correspondent
Small and Middle Entrepreneur (SME) Foundation arranged a conference with entrepreneurs, bankers and civil society to promote the entrepreneurs at Shilpa Kala Academy in Nilphamari district on Saturday. The programme was inaugurated by Cultural Affairs Minister Asadduzzaman Noor MP as Chief Guest . Presided over by the Deputy Commissioner , Nilphamari Md. Zakir Hossain Managing Director of SME Foundation Md Shafiqul Islam, Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank, Rangpur Branch Md Golam Mostafa, President of Chamber of Commerce, Nilphamari Maruf ZamanKoel, Upazila Chairman of Nilphamari Sadar Upazila Md. AbujarRahman, Mayor of Nilphamari Municipality, Dewan Kamal Ahmed, General Secretary of District Awami League Adv Momtazul Haque were present on the occasion .
BCL leader convicted for entering into exam centre
Barisal Correspondent
A mobile court on Saturday sentenced a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League, student organ of ruling Awami League, for illegally entering inside a HSC examination center at Gournadi upazila town. The sentenced BCL leader was Sujon Haoladar, BCL unit president of Gournadi Government College. Firoj Kabir, officer in charge of Gournadi police station, acknowledging the facts said accused BCL leader on Saturday noon entered inside the Gournadi Girls School and College center of HSC examination about 12:00 noon. Then police detaining him produced before a mobile court. Mahbub Alam, upazila nirbahi officer and magistrate of the court, on Saturday afternoon examining witnesses fined the accused BCL leader Tk 1,000 as he acknowledged his crime and cautioned him not to repeat the offence again.
6 HSC examinees expelled in Jhenaidah
Jhenaidah Correspondent
Six examinees of the higher secondary certificate education were expelled from a centre in Moheshpur upazila of the district on Saturday. Upazila nirbahi officer, also an executive magistrate of Jhenaidah Ashafur Rahman expelled vocational section examinees Biplab Kumar, Safiuzzaman, Jahurul Islam, Tamal Biswas, Saiful Islam and Tarequzzaman from Kathgara high school HSC examination centre while they were allegedly adopting unfair means in the examination hall. The examinees were appearing in the second paper examination of English, Ashafur Rahman said.
Netrakona inhabitants demonstrate against avoidable losses
Netrakona: Netrakona Unnayan Nagorik Andolon staged a demonstration in the district town on Saturday to have several demands met, including immediate declaration of the haor regions of Netrakona as poverty-stricken areas.
The demands include the compensation and rehabilitation of the affected farmers whose boro paddy were inundated after damage to flood-control dams, and the punishment of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) officials and its contractors for constructing weak dam. Witnesses said Unnayan Nagorik Andolon leaders and activists along with different political parties’ activists and people from different professions formed a human chain in front of Netrakona municipality office around 11am, reports UNB.
They also demanded introducing a rationing system for the farmers, providing agricultural inputs without fees, debt waiver on bank and NGO loans and soft loans in agriculture.
Netrakona Unnayan Nagorik Andolon president Sadir Uddin Ahmed, its in-effect president Aminul Islam Bhuiyan and chief adviser Lt. Col. (retd) Abdur Nur Khan, among others, spoke at the programme.
Jessore Correspondent
Kotwali police recovered the bullet-ridden body of an unidentified youth after a ‘gunfight between two groups of miscreants’ at Kholadanga in Jessore town at around 4am on Saturday. AKM Azmal Huda, officer in-charge, Kotwali police station told that the unidentified youth was declared dead by the attending doctor at Jessore General Hospital after he was rushed there by the police after a ‘gunfight between two groups of miscreants’ at Kholadanga in Jessore town at around 4am. Earlier, the miscreants fled the scene sensing presence of the police. The police claimed that the police recovered a revolver, one round of bullet, 5 crude bombs and three sharp weapons from the spot.
SME Confce held in Nilphamari
Saidpur(Nilphamari) Correspondent
Small and Middle Entrepreneur (SME) Foundation arranged a conference with entrepreneurs, bankers and civil society to promote the entrepreneurs at Shilpa Kala Academy in Nilphamari district on Saturday. The programme was inaugurated by Cultural Affairs Minister Asadduzzaman Noor MP as Chief Guest . Presided over by the Deputy Commissioner , Nilphamari Md. Zakir Hossain Managing Director of SME Foundation Md Shafiqul Islam, Executive Director of Bangladesh Bank, Rangpur Branch Md Golam Mostafa, President of Chamber of Commerce, Nilphamari Maruf ZamanKoel, Upazila Chairman of Nilphamari Sadar Upazila Md. AbujarRahman, Mayor of Nilphamari Municipality, Dewan Kamal Ahmed, General Secretary of District Awami League Adv Momtazul Haque were present on the occasion .
BCL leader convicted for entering into exam centre
Barisal Correspondent
A mobile court on Saturday sentenced a leader of Bangladesh Chhatra League, student organ of ruling Awami League, for illegally entering inside a HSC examination center at Gournadi upazila town. The sentenced BCL leader was Sujon Haoladar, BCL unit president of Gournadi Government College. Firoj Kabir, officer in charge of Gournadi police station, acknowledging the facts said accused BCL leader on Saturday noon entered inside the Gournadi Girls School and College center of HSC examination about 12:00 noon. Then police detaining him produced before a mobile court. Mahbub Alam, upazila nirbahi officer and magistrate of the court, on Saturday afternoon examining witnesses fined the accused BCL leader Tk 1,000 as he acknowledged his crime and cautioned him not to repeat the offence again.
6 HSC examinees expelled in Jhenaidah
Jhenaidah Correspondent
Six examinees of the higher secondary certificate education were expelled from a centre in Moheshpur upazila of the district on Saturday. Upazila nirbahi officer, also an executive magistrate of Jhenaidah Ashafur Rahman expelled vocational section examinees Biplab Kumar, Safiuzzaman, Jahurul Islam, Tamal Biswas, Saiful Islam and Tarequzzaman from Kathgara high school HSC examination centre while they were allegedly adopting unfair means in the examination hall. The examinees were appearing in the second paper examination of English, Ashafur Rahman said.
Netrakona inhabitants demonstrate against avoidable losses
Netrakona: Netrakona Unnayan Nagorik Andolon staged a demonstration in the district town on Saturday to have several demands met, including immediate declaration of the haor regions of Netrakona as poverty-stricken areas.
The demands include the compensation and rehabilitation of the affected farmers whose boro paddy were inundated after damage to flood-control dams, and the punishment of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) officials and its contractors for constructing weak dam. Witnesses said Unnayan Nagorik Andolon leaders and activists along with different political parties’ activists and people from different professions formed a human chain in front of Netrakona municipality office around 11am, reports UNB.
They also demanded introducing a rationing system for the farmers, providing agricultural inputs without fees, debt waiver on bank and NGO loans and soft loans in agriculture.
Netrakona Unnayan Nagorik Andolon president Sadir Uddin Ahmed, its in-effect president Aminul Islam Bhuiyan and chief adviser Lt. Col. (retd) Abdur Nur Khan, among others, spoke at the programme.
