Demand to launch BRT within three to four months, protesters occupy highway at Bhogra against cancellation
Local residents formed a human chain, taking position on the Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in the city’s Bhogra Bypass area at 11am today (Thursday), demanding that Gazipur’s Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) be launched within three to four months. They…
Three including two policemen on 4-day remand over accused’s escape from prison van
A court has placed three accused, including two police personnel, on a four-day remand after they were arrested on charges of helping ‘Pichchi Raja’ alias Raja escape from a prison van on the way to Kashimpur Central Jail in Gazipur. Judge…
Drug trade under cover of private tutoring in Tongi, woman held with 15,000 yaba pills
The Department of Narcotics Control has detained a woman named Srabonti Akter in Tongi of Gazipur on charges of running a drug trade under the cover of private tutoring. The agency claims to have recovered 15,000 yaba tablets from her rented house. The…
Bodies of two children missing in Turag river recovered in Tongi
The bodies of two children have been recovered 22 hours after they went missing while going to catch fish in the Turag river at Tongi in Gazipur. A Fire Service diving team recovered their bodies from under the railway bridge on the river on Thursday (1…
Aprotim murder: two arrested teenagers sent to Tongi child development centre
Of the four accused arrested in the case over the murder of schoolboy Ishayat Shahriar Aprotim, 13, in Cumilla, the two underage teenagers have been brought to the Tongi Child Development Centre (Boys) in Gazipur. The other two accused have been sent to…
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