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A police constable of Feni Model Police Station has been suspended for allegedly  raping a girl. The suspended police constable is Sharif Uddin Bablu, 26, son of Jamal Uddin of Jamtala Chowdhury Bari in Chhagalnaiya upazila. Also read:Youth gets life term for raping Thakurgaon woman The action was taken after the girl lodged a written complaint with Feni Model Police, said Mohammad Nizam Uddin, officer-in-charge of the police station. According to the complaint, the policeman brought the girl to a hotel in Mahipal area of Feni from Zorarganj upazila of Chattogram  on false promise of marriage and raped her there several times.  Also read:Seven get life term for raping Bangladeshi woman in India As the girl put pressure on him to marry her, Bablu refused to marry and stopped communicating with her, she wrote in her complaint. Legal action will be taken in this regard, said the OC.

Two persons were killed and another was injured in a head-on collision between a tractor trolley and a van on the Bagerhat-Pirojpur Highway near Shrimp Research Center in Pirojpur on Wednesday morning, officials said. One of the deceased was identified as Reshmi Begum, wife of Babul Fakir of Sundarghona village of Sadar upazila. All the victims were occupants of the van. Read: 24-yr-old student 'kills self' on video call with woman Md Golam Sarwar, assistant director of Bagerhat Fire Service and Civil Defense, said the accident occurred around 9.30am when the brick-laden tractor trolley crashed into the van, leaving the woman dead on the spot and two others injured. The injured were rushed to a nearby hospital, where doctors declared one of them dead. Read: MC College student found dead in dorm The van puller was sent to Khulna Medical College Hospital for better treatment, the officer said. The bodies have been kept in the hospital morgue for post-mortem, he added.

A 21-year-old student of MC College was found hanging inside a room in her hostel in the Tilagarh area of Sylhet city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Smriti Rani Das, a first-year student of the English department. She was originally from Kishoreganj district. Read: 24-yr-old student 'kills self' on video call with woman Prof Saleh Ahmed of MC College said that fellow residential students found Smriti hanging from the ceiling of a room on the third floor of the hostel in the morning. Smriti used to stay in a room on the second floor of the hostel but her body was found in an unoccupied room on the third floor, he said. Indranil Bhattacharya, an inspector at the Shahporan Police Station, said the body was sent to Sylhet Osmani Medical College and Hospital morgue for an autopsy. Read: Showers likely to drench parts of country "Prima facie, it seemed she died by suicide. But a probe is on to ascertain the exact cause of her death,” he said.  

A 24-year-old third-year honours student allegedly ended his life during a video call with his girlfriend in Boalmari village of Chuadanga in the early hours of Wednesday. The deceased, Fazle Rabbi, son of Tulu Miah of the village, was a student of Chuadanga Government College. Besides, he worked at a private healthcare centre. Read: 2 teenage girls ‘commit suicide’ in Pabna Family members of the victim told UNB that an unidentified woman called them around 2am and told them that Rabbi had hanged himself in his bedroom. His family members immediately broke open the door of Rabbi's bedroom and rushed him to Chuadanga Sadar Hospital, where doctors declared him dead on arrival. Read: Pirojpur: Fire breaks out at upazila market "We came to know that Rabbi committed suicide after an altercation with his girlfriend," a family member said. Chuadanga Sadar police inspector Abu Sayed said that "legal action will be taken in this case".

Several shops were gutted in a massive fire that broke out at Indurhat Bazar in Nesarabd upazila of the district on Tuesday night, police said. The blaze began around 11pm at an eyewear showroom and soon engulfed the adjacent shops, said Abir Md Hossain, officer-in-charge of Nesarabad police station. Read: 10 workers injured in Gazipur factory fire "Two fire tenders were pressed into service and the blaze was contained around 12.30am," he said. “Fortunately, no casualties were reported.” Fire officials suspect that an electrical short-circuit triggered the fire. Read: Father, son held with firearms in Benapole "Anyway, a probe has been ordered to ascertain the exact cause of the fire and the extent of damage," a fire official said.

Local Government, Rural Development and Co-operative (LGRD) Minister Md Tajul Islam has claimed that Bangladesh is well-positioned in comparison to other Asian nations with regards to its foreign debt.   He came up with the assertion while briefing journalists after a meeting with a World Bank delegation led by its country director Mercy Tembon at the Bangladesh Secretariat on Tuesday.   “Our foreign loans are less than other Asian counties. We never failed to pay the loans. That is why the World Bank wants to give us more loans. But, we will take loans considering all economic aspects of the country,” Tajul said.  READ: Parking on roads should be penalised: LGRD minister The government of Sheikh Hasina is receiving foreign loans after proper scrutiny, he said.    Tajul also said, “World Bank basically is a finance organisation. It has been mentioned that Bangladesh is not a bottomless basket anymore. Bangladesh is moving forward as an emerging economy. The current economic condition of Bangladesh is far better than the past.”  Mentioning that development works of various projects financed by the World Bank worth $2.87 billion are going on in full swing in the country, the LGRD minister said the Washington-based lender has expressed its keen interest to invest about $100 billion in various sectors in Bangladesh.   About the much-hyped Padma Bridge, he said, the World Bank acknowledged that Bangladesh has shown its capacity to the whole world by constructing Padma Bridge. LGRD secretary Mezbah Uddin Choudhury along with the other high officials of the ministry was present.

An eight-year-old girl was killed in a road accident in Dakshin Bathuli village of Savar’s Dhamrai on Tuesday. Deceased Nasima Akter was the daughter of Nasir Uddin, an expatriate from Dakshin Bathuli village in Dhamrai. Also Read: 8 killed in India road accident The accident occurred on Tuesday afternoon. The girl was crossing the street when she was crushed under the wheels of a coal-laden truck, OC Atiqur Rahman of Dhamrai Police Station said. He said that the body was handed over to her family without an autopsy as per their wishes.  

Two teenage boys drowned in the Pagla River in Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Tuesday, said police. The deceased were identified as Momin, 12, and Abu Taher, 14, of the upazila. Also read: Minor siblings drown in Bandarban The duo drowned in the river while bathing at around 4pm, said Arif Ali, sub-inspector (SI) of Shibganj police station. Later, locals recovered the bodies and informed police.

A man was found dead with his throat slit at Charkomishoner village in Muladi upazila on Tuesday morning. The deceased was identified as Monir Hawladar, 32, son of Salam Hawladar of the village. He worked as a ticket seller at a bus counter in Muladi. Also read:50-yr-old killed over family feud in Barishal Maksudur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Muladi Police Station, said locals spotted the body in a canal of the village in the morning and informed police. On information, police recovered the body and sent it to Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital morgue for autopsy.

Police recovered two bodies from the Inani beach area and Kabita Chattar point of Cox’s Bazar, respectively, on Tuesday.   Also read: Missing tourist’s body recovered after two days from Moheshkhali Channel   “A 30-year-old man’s body washed ashore in the Inani beach area and another body -- that of an 18-20-year-old man -- was found hanging in the Kabita Chattar area," said Md Selimuddin, officer-in-charge of Cox’s Bazar model police station. Also read: Body of Indian national recovered from Dauki River in Sylhet   He said both the bodies were sent for post-mortem.