Md. Yousuf Ali On account of the celebration of the new year 1423, preparation and technical meeting was held in Dinajpur. The meeting took place on April 11 at 11 am at DC office room 2. The meeting was held under the presidency of committee convener and additional deputy commissioner Abu Raihan Mia. Senior district…
BSS A mother and her 18-month old son drowned in a pond at Chandukhali village under Taltoli upazila of the district on Wednesday. The deceased were Hosneara Begum, 35 wife of Forkan Miah and her son Sarwar, resident of the same area. Local sources said physically challenged Hosneara with her son fell in the pond…
UNB Two people were killed and three others injured as a lorry rammed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Garadoho on the Bogra-Nagarbari highway in Shahajadpur upazila on Tuesday noon. The deceased were identified as freedom fighter Chan Miah, 70, a resident of Rambari and Abdul Mannan, 65. Officer-in-charge of Hatikumrul highway police station Abdul Quader Zilani…
UNB An elderly man was killed and five others were injured in a clash over a land-related dispute at Kachua village in Nasirnagar upazila on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Shahidullah, 55, a resident of the village. Officer-in-charge of Nasirnagar police station Abdul Quader said, two groups of people — one led by…
UNB Police arrested two people along with four pistols, eight magazines, 20 rounds of bullet and 731 bottles of Indian Phensidyl syrup from Koylabari truck terminal area in Shibganj upazila early Wednesday. Officer-in-charge of Shibganj Police Station MM Moynul Islam said tipped off, a team of police conducted a raid in the terminal area and…
UNB A labourer was killed and another injured as a timber-laden truck plunged into a roadside ditch at Banshbaria on the Chingra-Trimohoni road in Keshabpur upazila on Wednesday noon. The deceased was identified as Abdul Moral, 42, son of late Mosaddi Moral, a resident of Maddhakul village in Keshabpur upazila.
AP, New Delhi Tiny bone fragments carry a world of significance and perhaps closure for at least one American family who lost a loved one over the mountains of India in World War II. During a solemn ceremony Wednesday, U.S. military members paid final respects to what they believe may be the remains of one…
AP, Multan A head-on collision between a passenger bus and truck killed at least 19 passengers, including women and children, in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province on Wednesday, a rescue official said. Several people were also injured in the accident near the city of Faisalabad in Punjab province, said the official, Mohammad Naseem. “We have transported…
AP, Damascus Syrians in government-controlled areas headed to polling stations Wednesday to elect a new 250-member parliament that is expected to serve as a rubber stamp for President Bashar Assad. Voters began turning up shortly after the stations opened at 7 a.m. (0400 GMT). Around 3,500 government-approved candidates are competing after more than 7,000 others…
AP, Panama City Organized crime prosecutors raided the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm Tuesday looking for evidence of money laundering and financing terrorism following a leak of documents about tax havens it set up for wealthy international clients. Soon after news reports based on a trove of documents from the firm began emerging…