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…
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…
Husband sentenced to death for beating wife to death in Lalmonirhat
A court has sentenced husband Md Atikul Islam to death in a case over brutally beating his wife to death in Lalmonirhat. At the same time, he has been fined Tk 20,000, in default of which he will have to serve six more months of simple imprisonment. In…
Kurigram’s ‘Mayer Doa’ boat now at Manikganj’s Beutha ghat
A boat race will be held tomorrow, Saturday, on the Kaliganga river in the traditional Beutha area of Manikganj. On this occasion, competitors have begun arriving with boats from different areas of the country. Already the khella boat named ‘Mayer…
Son’s voice cloned with AI, money extorted from father by fake police; 2 arrested
Special Response Battalion (SRB)-13 has arrested two people, including the ringleader of a fraud gang, in Gobindaganj of Gaibandha on charges of swindling money from a father by posing as police and cloning his son’s voice with AI technology.…
Housewife murder in Rangpur: five accused including husband arrested
SRB has arrested five people including prime accused Shamim Mia in a case over the murder of a housewife by strangulation in Rangpur. The arrestees are the deceased housewife’s husband Shamim Mia, 24, Saju Mia, 50, Afroza Begum, 46, Sathi Begum,…
Divisional youth gathering held in Rangpur to stop violence against women
With the slogan ‘Let violence against women end, let women get the respect they deserve’, a divisional youth gathering has been held in Rangpur with the aim of raising awareness on preventing violence against women and exchanging youth-led…
33 border youths get house wiring training at BGB’s initiative in Panchagarh
Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has given basic electrical house wiring training to 33 people with the aim of skill development and self-employment of unemployed youths in the district’s bordering areas. At the end of the training, certificates were…