Touchstone idol weighing 24.5kg seized in BGB drive on Thakurgaon border
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has seized a touchstone idol weighing 24 kilograms 450 grams in a drive in Thakurgaon. The Thakurgaon Battalion (50 BGB) conducted the drive late on Wednesday night. According to BGB, acting on its own intelligence last…
528 arrested in capital in DMP’s one-day drive, 53 cases filed
Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested 528 people in drives in the capital in the last 24 hours. During this time, 53 cases were filed. Md Aktar Hossain, deputy commissioner of DMP’s Media and Public Relations Division, gave this information…
Murder in the trap of friendship: teenager Rakib’s body taken to Nilphamari in a carton
Md Rakibul Islam, 17, had come to Dhaka from Tangail a month ago to prepare for university admission and moved into a mess in East Shewrapara. After getting a phone call from Abdullah Al Mamun, whom he had known earlier through Facebook, he went in front…
Thursday today: Which areas and markets in the capital are closed
Markets and shops in different areas of the capital remain closed on different days of the week. Often, after reaching the destination, one finds that the shops and markets of that area are closed that day. So, before going out, find out which…
39kg of ganja and yaba recovered, four detained in two SRB drives in Feni
SRB has recovered 39kg of ganja, 895 yaba tablets and 10 bottles of Eskuf syrup and detained four people along with a pickup in separate drives in the district’s Sadar and Parshuram upazilas. SRB-7 sources said a drive was conducted in the…
184 arrested, drugs recovered in 145 drives in Rajshahi Range in 24 hours
In drives by Rajshahi Range police, 184 people have been arrested and a huge quantity of narcotics recovered. Police of different districts under the range conducted drives in the last 24 hours and arrested them and recovered the narcotics. This…
Young man’s body found beside pond in Senbagh a day after he left home in a huff
Police have recovered the body of a young man named Md Maruf, 21, from the bank of a pond in Senbagh upazila of Noakhali, a day after he left home in a huff. The body was sent to the morgue of 250-bed Noakhali General Hospital for post-mortem examination…
Production halts again at Jamuna Fertiliser Factory two days after resuming
Fertiliser production at Jamuna Fertiliser Factory in Sarishabari of Jamalpur has stopped again due to a mechanical fault just two days after it resumed. A mechanical fault developed in the factory’s boiler plant on Wednesday night. The factory…
Tk 50 lakh extortion demand and cigarette looting: Prime accused in Chattogram case held in Sarail
A joint team of Special Response Battalion (SRB)-9 and SRB-7 has arrested from Brahmanbaria the prime accused in a case filed over allegations of demanding Tk 50 lakh in extortion from a businessman in Chattogram, beating and looting a huge quantity of…
Attempt to enter house by cutting tin: Villagers beat one of robber gang and hand him to police
In Manikganj, local people caught a man named Mamun (55) while he was trying to enter a house by cutting the tin, gave him a mass beating and handed him over to police. He was injured in this. Police later admitted him to hospital. The incident took…