Tag: Kushtia
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Low turnout in Daulatpur Upazila Parishad elections of Kushtia: Only 6 votes were cast in 6 hours
He said that although polling started at 8 am, the first vote at the booth was cast at 9.22 am. “Whenever a voter is entering the centre, we see from the window that she will come to my booth. But no voter is entering my booth,” Sohail Ahmed told Prothom Alo. Presiding officer Sahajul Islam…
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Former BCL leader Sajib led the Milan massacre in Kushtia
Sources said that after committing the murder, SK Sajib was roaming normally in the city. Police detained Sajib and three others from the town. Others arrested include Zahir Rehan alias Babu from Kantinagar village of Sadar upazila, Faisal Ahmed from Kumarpara area of the same upazila and Ifti Khan from Awas area. Many BCL leaders…
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Minimum temperature recorded in Kushtia was 8.5 degrees Celsius, schools closed
Sharing his dilemma, Umar Farooq, a parent, told Prothom Alo, “Brother, I came to know that teachers are not aware of this. My two little ones are getting ready for school, what can I say?” Several schools in the district, contacted around 8:00 a.m., said they had not yet officially confirmed the decision. However, some…
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I lost due to vote rigging: Inu
I lost due to vote rigging: Inu
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Kushtia-2: Jasad uncomfortable with AL stopping ‘paid campaign service’ for Innu
This time, followers of the ruling party decided that they would not provide any paid campaigning services to JASAD, but would instead work for their own candidate. Mirpur Upazila Awami League president Abdul Haleem named Kamarul as their candidate and vowed to work in a coordinated manner to ensure his victory. “All leaders and workers…
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Lights out all over Bangladesh
Power supply of all the power plants across the country has been suspended, says PDCB director An unusual power outage has taken over the entire country since 11:30am on Saturday. The nationally important establishments like Bangabhaban, Ganabhaban, Prime Minister’s Office and the National Parliament are also out of power since then. However, Dhaka Medical College…
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There workers died when they fell in oil tanker
Three workers of a metal industry in Kushtia died when they fell in an oil tanker carrying furnace oil. The workers are Mehedi Hassan Shohagh (28), Ripon Hossain (45) and Mintu (46). The industry authority did not provide the details of the mishap which took place on Tuesday evening. According to police and some other…
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Lalon Smaran Utsab begins
The five-day prolonged Lalon Smaran Utsab (memorial festival) will proceed from Mar 7 during a Lalon Akhra, in Chheuria, underneath Kushtia district. The legal holiday is hold annually to applaud Dol Purnima (full moon) highlighting a truth of Lalon. The jubilee was introduced by Lalon. After his demise, a legal holiday incited in to a…
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Book lovers group to Bangla Academy
Abdullahhel Kafi Raton over his hold up prolonged mental condition yesterday as he visited case after case during the Amar Ekushey Boi Mela premises. “My mental condition has come true,” pronounced Raton, the physically-challenged immature male from Kushtia who visited the satisfactory upon the wheelchair. “I followed headlines surrounding this satisfactory ever given you was…
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Biswa Ijtema begins
Prayers as well as sermons noted a initial day of Biswa Ijtema — a single of a largest congregations of Muslims — as it non-stop upon a banks of a stream Turag during Tongi yesterday morning. Six participants died of cardiac detain as well as aged age complications upon Thursday night as well as early…
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Group art exhibition during Bengal Gallery
To symbol a 40th anniversary of a autonomy as good as Tagore’s 150th bieing born anniversary, Bengal Gallery of Fine Arts as good as British American Tobacco Bangladesh (BATB) mutually organized a four-day organisation art exhibition, patrician “Song of Our Motherland” during Bengal Gallery in Dhanmondi, Dhaka. The participating artists were Qayyum Chowdhury, Samarjeet Roy…
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2 kidnapers killed in Kushtia gun fight
Two suspected inter-district kidnappers were killed in a gunfight with military in a district upon Tuesday night. In a midnight gunfight in Sadarpur bil underneath Mirpur upazila, dual members of a squad of kidnappers were killed. The defunct were identified as Liton, 28, son of Chad Ali of Doulatpur upazila in Kushtia as well as…
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2 killed in Kushtia ‘shootout’
Two alleged auto-rickshaw lifters were killed in a ‘shootout’ between their cohorts and Rapid Action Battalion members on the outskirts of Kushtia town early Sunday. The deceased are Zia and Milon Hossain of Chourhash in the town, reports our Kushtia correspondent. Rab sources said the elite force members received information that a gang hijacked a…
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Mystique Of The Man
A four-day programme on the occasion of the 121st death anniversary of Baul king Lalon Shah ended at Chheuria Lalon akhra in Kushtia on Wednesday night. The event is an annual fixture held on the first of the Bangla month Kartik. State-run Lalon Academy, which consists of local elected people, arranged the programme. Baul Abdul…
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Bauls pour into Kushtia
Bauls from across the country and abroad have thronged Lalon Akhra in Chheuria, Kushtia as a five-day programme to mark the 121st death anniversary of Lalon will begin Sunday evening. The programme includes a ‘Lalon Mela’, discussion and rendition of songs by artistes of Lalon Academy and Bauls from across the country. Abdul Karim Shah,…