Three people died when a sand pile collapsed on them while loading it on a truck at Joikura ghat in Sadar upazila of Rajbari district on Tuesday night. Read more: Two bikers killed in separate road accidents in Dhaka The deceased were identified as Abdur Rahim Sheikh, 55, a sand trader; Maruf Sheikh, 22, driver of an excavator machine; and Ripon Ali alias Imran, 38, driver of the truck in which sand was being loaded. Read more: Traffic police killed in Gaibandha road accident; 3 arrested Quoting local people, Eskarul Islam, officer-in-charge of Rajbari Police Station, said the trio went to load sand around 11 pm. Read more: Road accident leaves youth dead in the city At one stage, a big chunk of sand collapsed on them, leaving the trio dead on the spot.

Two children have been burnt to death as a fire broke out at a Kalukhali upazila house in Rajbari. The deceased were identified as Hujaifa, 8, son of Babu Biswas, and Hasan, 3, son of Ikram, of the upazila. Read more: ​​​​​​​Five of a family charred to death in Chattogram The fire broke out Thursday afternoon and engulfed the house of Babu Biswas when the children were playing in the kitchen and accidentally exposed the gas cylinder to fire, Kalukhali Upazila Nirbahi Officer (UNO) Shah Md Shajeeb said. All gas cylinders, whatever the gas content, are potentially dangerous when exposed to fire and may explode. The children received serious burn injuries as the fire quickly ripped through the kitchen where dry fuel (dried branches of trees and jute sticks) was stored. Read more: 4-year-old boy charred to death in Sherpur They were rushed to Faridpur's Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical College and Hospital where Hasan succumbed to his injuries. Hujaifa was sent to Dhaka Medical College Hospital for better treatment where he died while undergoing treatment, the UNO said.

The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday (January 15, 2023) upheld the High Court order granting bail to Sonia Akter Smrity, a Mahila Dal leader of Rajbari, in a case filed over posting "offensive" content on Facebook against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. A four-member bench of the Appellate Division led by Chief Justice Hasan Foyez Siddiqui passed the order withdrawing the stay order of the Chamber Court. Senior Advocate AJ Mohammad Ali, Barrister Kayser Kamal and Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal appeared in the court for Smriti. Additional Attorney General Sheikh Mohammad Morshed represented the state. Read more: Defaming PM: Chamber Judge stays bail to Rajbari Mahila Dal leader Now there is no bar to the release of the Mahila Dal leader, Barrister Kayser Kamal said. Smrity, wife of Md Khokon Mia of No 3 Beradanga area of Rajbari Sadar, is a member of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal’s Rajbari district unit. On November 2 last year, Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division, M Enayetur Rahim, stayed the bail order granted by the High Court till November 7. The High Court granted interim bail to Smrity in the case on November 1. Read more: Rajbari Mohila Dal member arrested under DSA for 'comment on PM' Police arrested Smrity on October 4 in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for posting offensive status on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook. Arefin Chowdhury, member secretary of Rajbari district Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, lodged an FIR against her. On October 5, Judge Kaisun Nahar Surma of Rajbari No 1 Judicial Magistrate Court rejected Smrity’s bail plea and ordered to send her to jail. On October 26, Rajbari Sessions Judge Court also denied bail to Smrity which prompted her to seek bail from the HC. Read More: Fardin's death: Bushra finally granted bail In her bail plea, Smrity requested the HC to consider her as a woman and a mother of two children. According to the FIR, the accused BNP activist made "insulting remarks" about PM Sheikh Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League, from her personal Facebook account in two separate statuses on August 31 and September 28.

The Appellate Division on Wednesday stayed the bail the High Court granted to  Sonia Akter Smrity, a Mahila Dal leader of Rajbari, in a case filed over posting ‘offensive’ content on facebook against Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Chamber Judge of the Appellate Division M Enayetur Rahim passed the order after hearing the plea of the state side. The court stayed the bail order till November 7. The court also said that the hearing on the state’s plea will be on top of the cause list of the Appellate Division. Senior lawyer AJ Muhammad Ali and Barrister Ruhul Quddus Kazal appeared for the petition in the court while Additional Attorney General Sheikh Mohammad Morshed for the state. On Tuesday, the High Court granted interim bail to Smrity in the case. Smrity, wife of Md Khokon Mia of No 3 Beradanga area of Rajbari Sadar, is a member of Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal’s Rajbari district unit and founder president of Rajbari blood donors club. Police arrested Smrity on October 4 in a case filed under the Digital Security Act (DSA) for posting offensive status on Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Facebook . Arefin Chowdhury, member secretary of Rajbari district Bangabandhu Sangskritik Jote, lodged an FIR against her. On October 5, Judge Kaisun Nahar Surma of Rajbari No 1 Judicial Magistrate Court rejected Smrity’s bail plea and ordered to send her to jail. Read more: HC summons 3 Khulna lawyers to face contempt charges On October 26, Rajbari Sessions Judge Court also denied bail to Smrity which prompted her to seek bail from the HC. In her bail plea, Smrity requested the HC to consider her as a woman and a mother of two children. According to the FIR, the accused BNP activist made insulting remarks about PM Sheikh Hasina, also president of the ruling Awami League, from her personal Facebook account in two separate statuses on August 31 and September 28. Read more: HC suspends Bangladesh Bank Assistant Director recruitment exam for a month “In the statuses Sriti wrote Sheikh Hasina threw abusive words to their leader Khaleda Zia, also prime minister of three times, while delivering speech,” according to the FIR. “No sound word comes out of her (premier) mouth,” it said Sriti wrote in the posts.  

Two people, including a nine-year-old girl, were burnt to death in a fire that broke out at their house in Goalundo upazila of Rajbari on Sunday night. The deceased were identified as Boro Bibi, 90, and Tasmia Aktar, residents of the upazila. The fire broke out at their tin-shed house in Beparipara village around  9 pm following gas cylinder blast while Boro Bibi and Tasmia were asleep, said Swapan Kumar Majumder, officer-in-charge (OC) of Goalundo Ghat police station. On information, a team of Goalunda fire service doused the fire after an hour, said leader of Goalunda fire station Sabekul Islam. The fire fighters also recovered two charred bodies from the house, he added.

Miscreants gunned down a businessman at a tea stall in Sadar upazila of the district on Saturday evening, police said. The deceased has been identified as Ariful Islam, 25, son of Abdur Razzak of Khankhanapur’s Sardarpara in the upazila and poultry businessman.     Local Abul Kalam said Ariful was sitting on a bench at a tea stall in front of Suraj Mohini Institute High School nearby Khankhanapur Union Parishad around 6pm. A group of miscreants on two motorbikes from Khankhanapur Bazar shot him dead, he said. He sustained bullet injuries in the head and chest causing immense bleeding, local Kalam depicted. Read: AL activist shot dead in broad daylight at Pabna tea stall Shawkat Hasan, inspector of Khankhanapur police investigation centre, said they have been working to unearth the reason for the murder and identify the killers. He also said they collected some samples from the spot where higher ups officers, including superintendent of police, visited.

Two cousins returning to their respective homes from Dhaka to celebrate Eid with their families in Jhenaidah died after a three-wheel vehicle they were travelling in overturned in Rajbari district town early on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified as Azizur Rahman, 22, and Matiur Rahman, 35 of Shailakupa upazila of Jhenaidah district. Four other occupants of the commercial vehicle, including its driver, sustained injuries in the road accident. Read: Mother-daughter duo killed in Dinajpur road accident The accident occurred around 5.15 am on Rajbari-Kushtia Road when the vehicle with the six occupants overturned after the driver lost control, leaving the cousins dead on the spot and the others injured, said sub-inspector of Sadar Police Station, Moazzem Hossain. The injured have been hospitalised, he said. "The vehicle has been seized and the driver arrested."

A fire broke out at a jute mill in the Aladipur area of Rajbari Sadar upazila early on Friday morning. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. Md Nazrul Islam, assistant director of Faridpur fire service and civil defense, said the blaze started around 6 am in an oil tanker in production unit-1 of Rajbari Jute Mills in the Aladipur area and engulfed other areas of the factory soon. Also read: Munshiganj fire: 28-yr-old woman dies of burn injuries The first fire tender took nearly two hours to reach the spot and later five more joined in. "The fire was brought under control after another two hours," Nazrul said. "Efforts are now on to fully douse the flames." However, the mill owner and workers claimed that the fire did not originate from an oil tanker. Md Salauddin Sheikh, additional police superintendent of Rajbari, said they were working to ensure the safety of the mill workers. Also read: 4 burned in N’ganj as gas cylinder leak causes fire

An executive engineer of Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) in Rajbari, who was caught on camera assaulting a junior colleague, has been shunted out. The action was taken against Abdul Ahad, the executive engineer, on Wednesday, after the video went viral on social media. Read:4 Health Ministry employees suspended over missing of 17 files Abdul has been attached to the training and human resources wing of the additional chief engineer's office of BWDB in Dhaka, according to an order issued by the board's deputy secretary (administration), Syed Mahbubul Haque. In the video footage, Abdul can be seen verbally abusing and physically assaulting deputy assistant engineer Mohammad Rony in his office. A man who was present there at the time, can be seen trying to intervene. Read:Wrong instructions to SSC candidates: Natore teacher suspended for 5 years After the assault, Rony sent a written complaint to the chief engineer of BWDB. “Rony refused to carry out my order. I lost my cool and assaulted him. I admit my mistake," Abdul said.

Anti-Corruption Commission ( ACC) on Sunday conducted a drive at the Rajbari Regional Passport Office as the Commission received allegations of bribery for providing passport services to customers. Deputy Director of ACC public relations office Muhammad Arif Sadeq told UNB that an enforcement team led by Assistant Director of Integrated District Office in Faridpur Kamlesh Mandal raided the passport office. The spokesperson also said that an ACC Enforcement Team visited the passport office, questioned the concerned officials about the allegations and recorded their statements in this regard. READ: ACC probes allegation of loan embezzlement at Agrani bank   The team has also asked for some specific documents provide various documents related to corruption, he added. The ACC Enforcement Team will submit the final report along with the necessary recommendations after verifying the papers received from the passport. READ: Covid vaccine: India's Covaxin gets emergency use approval for kids aged 2-18