Minor boy drowns in Netrakona pond
Netrakona Correspondent
A minor boy drowned in a pond at Bishampur village in Kalmakanda upazila on Thursday. Rubel Bhuiya, chairman of Koilathi Union Parishad, said Mahfuz, 7, son of Ferdous Mia, fell into the pond while playing on its bank in the afternoon. Later, family members recovered his body floating in the pond.
Hawkers’ leader held for vandalising SCC building
Sylhet Bureau
Sylhet City Hawkers’ Welfare Association president and the city unit Hawkers’ League leader Abdur Rakib was arrested on early Wednesday in connection with a case filed against him and more than a hundred unnamed hawkers for reportedly attacking and vandalising the Sylhet City Corporation building. The Kotwali police officer-in-charge Gausul Hossain confirmed New Age that Rakib was arrested at Bandarbazar area at about 1:00am on Wednesday. Earlier on Tuesday, Sylhet City Corporation’s legal assistant Shyamal Ranjan Dev filed the case after a group of street vendors launched an attack on the building and pelted it with stones on Monday afternoon. At least three city corporation employees were hurt at the attack that was triggered by a city corporation move to evict roadside shops and hawkers from the city.
OC Gausul Hossain said Rakib was placed before the metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday afternoon and the court sent him to judicial custody.
Man held with 60 gold bars at Sylhet airport
A joint team of customs intelligence and armed police battalion (APBN) arrested a man along with 60 gold bars weighing around 10kg from Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Friday morning. The arrestee is Iqbal Hossain, 26, son of Sheikh Ahmed, a resident Madhyam Kanchan area in Sajkani village in Chattogram. Joynal Abedin, additional superintendent of APBN Sylhet-7, said that a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines BG-222 from Mascot in Oman landed here around 10:05 am. On suspicion, the team searched the luggage of Iqbal, a passenger of the flight, and recovered the gold bars worth Tk 3.86 crore.
‘Imams can help building drug-free society’
GAIBANDHA: Speakers at a function here on Thursday observed that imam and khatibs of mosques could play a vital role in creating mass awareness about the bad impacts of narcotics and building a drug free society. “The young generation should be protected from the menace of the narcotics so that they could not derail from the right track of life creating manifold problems in families and society as well,” they said. They made the comments while addressing an anti-narcotics mass awareness meeting in the hall room of Islamic Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) here. District Narcotics Control Office (DNCO) under the Department of Narcotics Control arranged the function under its routine programme. Deputy director (DD) of IFB M. Alamgir Sikder addressed the meeting as the chief guest and Assistant Director M. Shafiqul Islam was present as the special guest. A total of 150 imams and khatibs coming from far-flung areas of the district took part in the meeting, reports BSS.
Worker killed in Faridpur wall collapse
FARIDPUR: A worker was killed and two others were injured as a wall of an under-construction building collapsed on them at Purba Hasamdia in Bhanga municipality area on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Aynal Fakir, 30. Miraz Hosain, inspector (investigation) of Bhanga Police station, said wall fell on the workers while they were digging a hole for a septic tank around 10am, leaving Aynal dead on the spot and two others injured, reports UNB.
Netrakona Correspondent
A minor boy drowned in a pond at Bishampur village in Kalmakanda upazila on Thursday. Rubel Bhuiya, chairman of Koilathi Union Parishad, said Mahfuz, 7, son of Ferdous Mia, fell into the pond while playing on its bank in the afternoon. Later, family members recovered his body floating in the pond.
Hawkers’ leader held for vandalising SCC building
Sylhet Bureau
Sylhet City Hawkers’ Welfare Association president and the city unit Hawkers’ League leader Abdur Rakib was arrested on early Wednesday in connection with a case filed against him and more than a hundred unnamed hawkers for reportedly attacking and vandalising the Sylhet City Corporation building. The Kotwali police officer-in-charge Gausul Hossain confirmed New Age that Rakib was arrested at Bandarbazar area at about 1:00am on Wednesday. Earlier on Tuesday, Sylhet City Corporation’s legal assistant Shyamal Ranjan Dev filed the case after a group of street vendors launched an attack on the building and pelted it with stones on Monday afternoon. At least three city corporation employees were hurt at the attack that was triggered by a city corporation move to evict roadside shops and hawkers from the city.
OC Gausul Hossain said Rakib was placed before the metropolitan magistrate court on Wednesday afternoon and the court sent him to judicial custody.
Man held with 60 gold bars at Sylhet airport
A joint team of customs intelligence and armed police battalion (APBN) arrested a man along with 60 gold bars weighing around 10kg from Sylhet Osmani International Airport on Friday morning. The arrestee is Iqbal Hossain, 26, son of Sheikh Ahmed, a resident Madhyam Kanchan area in Sajkani village in Chattogram. Joynal Abedin, additional superintendent of APBN Sylhet-7, said that a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines BG-222 from Mascot in Oman landed here around 10:05 am. On suspicion, the team searched the luggage of Iqbal, a passenger of the flight, and recovered the gold bars worth Tk 3.86 crore.
‘Imams can help building drug-free society’
GAIBANDHA: Speakers at a function here on Thursday observed that imam and khatibs of mosques could play a vital role in creating mass awareness about the bad impacts of narcotics and building a drug free society. “The young generation should be protected from the menace of the narcotics so that they could not derail from the right track of life creating manifold problems in families and society as well,” they said. They made the comments while addressing an anti-narcotics mass awareness meeting in the hall room of Islamic Foundation Bangladesh (IFB) here. District Narcotics Control Office (DNCO) under the Department of Narcotics Control arranged the function under its routine programme. Deputy director (DD) of IFB M. Alamgir Sikder addressed the meeting as the chief guest and Assistant Director M. Shafiqul Islam was present as the special guest. A total of 150 imams and khatibs coming from far-flung areas of the district took part in the meeting, reports BSS.
Worker killed in Faridpur wall collapse
FARIDPUR: A worker was killed and two others were injured as a wall of an under-construction building collapsed on them at Purba Hasamdia in Bhanga municipality area on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Aynal Fakir, 30. Miraz Hosain, inspector (investigation) of Bhanga Police station, said wall fell on the workers while they were digging a hole for a septic tank around 10am, leaving Aynal dead on the spot and two others injured, reports UNB.
