District
Man sentenced to death for raping, burning girl
A court here on Wednesday sentenced a man to death for setting a teenage girl on fire after raping her in Daulatpur upazila in 2018.
Coronavirus: Expatriates fined for violating home quarantine rules
A number of expatriates were fined on Wednesday for breaching home quarantine rules in various districts including Kushtia, Tangail, Cumilla, Sunamganj, Moulvibazar, Madaripur and Chattogram.
Coronavirus: 25,000 people attend Laxmipur prayer
Ignoring a government restriction on mass gatherings to prevent the spread of coronavirus, at least 25,000 people gathered at Haidarganj of Raipur upazila on Wednesday to pray for relieve from Covid-19.
Death-row convict arrested in child killing case
Police on Wednesday arrested a death-row convict from Gazipur Boubazar area in Dhaka on charge of killing a school student of Chhatak upazila.
Human chain formed against ex-Kurigram DC Parvin
Entrepreneurs of union Digital Centres formed a human chain against former Kurigram deputy commissioner Sultana Parvin in front of press club on Wednesday for recruitment at union parishad offices violating a High Court rule.
Brac official crushed to death by train in Khulna
A Brac official was crushed to death by a train at Bejerdanga level crossing in Fultala upazila on Wednesday morning.
Young man electrocuted in Jashore
A young man was electrocuted at Baliadanga Khanpur in Manirampur upazila on Tuesday.
One held for spreading rumour over Coronavirus
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) on Tuesday arrested a man from Kazir Dewri area in the city for spreading rumour over Coronavirus through Facebook.
Kurigram’s Nazim Uddin and his ‘mobile court’ of terror
Bangla Tribune’s Ariful Islam Rigan was not the first person in Kurigram to suffer the kind of terrifying raid at home by a mobile court in the dead of night, with Senior Assistant Commissioner Nazim Uddin leading the charge as some kind of in-house “muscle power” for the district administration.
3 Kurigram magistrates withdrawn for ‘torturing journalist’
Three magistrates of Kurigram district administration have been withdrawn for their alleged involvement in torturing journalist Ariful Islam Rigan.