Families of newborns get saplings as gifts in Kalkini
The upazila administration in Kalkini of Madaripur has taken an exceptional initiative by handing over tree saplings to the families of newborns. Keeping in front the slogan ‘Today’s child is the life of tomorrow, a sapling is new life for…
‘Keep our own yard clean’: Cleaning Day in DSCC ward no. 50
A ‘Cleaning Day’ programme has been observed in ward no. 50 of Dhaka South City Corporation (DSCC) with the theme ‘Let us keep our own yard clean, build a clean city’. The event was organised on Saturday (19 September) to involve…
Over 200 checkposts in capital after crude bomb blasts and bus arson
Law enforcers have beefed up security after incidents of crude bomb explosions and buses being set on fire in different areas of the capital from noon to midnight on Friday (18 September). More than two hundred checkposts have been set up on important…
145 drives in 24 hours in Rajshahi Range, 175 arrested
A total of 175 people have been arrested in police drives in Rajshahi Range. Police of different districts in the range arrested them for various offences in the last 24 hours. This information was given in a press release sent from the media cell of the…
Body of unidentified elderly man found on footpath beside Ramna Park
Police have recovered the body of an unidentified vagrant man, 65, from the footpath beside Ramna Park in the capital. Ramna Police Station Sub-Inspector (SI) Tanvir Hasan said that, on receiving information, the man’s body was recovered at around…
Attacks on two women in five days spread panic in Madaripur’s Kalikapur
Panic has spread in Madaripur following violent incidents involving two women in the same area within a span of five days. First, a young woman named Ivy Akter, 18, was hacked to death with a sharp weapon by assailants who entered her home. Five days…
Three-day boat race on the Padma ends, Syedpur’s New Shapla champion
The curtain has come down on the three-day boat race competition and rural fair in Kalukhali of Rajbari. The final round of the race was held on Wednesday towards evening in the Padma river adjacent to Mahendrapur ferry ghat in Ratandia union of the…
Over 3 lakh illegal foreign cigarettes recovered from two secret warehouses in Mohammadpur
Two preventive teams of the Value Added Tax Audit, Intelligence and Investigation Directorate, Dhaka, have seized 316,400 sticks of foreign cigarettes in raids on secret warehouses in two residential buildings in the capital’s Mohammadpur. The…
546 arrested in DMP drives in Dhaka in 24 hours
A total of 546 people have been arrested in the capital in the last 24 hours in regular drives of the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP). During this time, 61 cases were filed. Md Aktar Hossain, deputy commissioner of police of the DMP’s Media and…
All kinds of waste in Gazipur to be cleared within three months to tackle dengue, DC announces
A large-scale cleanliness programme has begun in Gazipur from Saturday with the aim of tackling dengue and keeping the environment beautiful