Fighting in AL: Six are shot

At least 10 people were injured in a clash between two factions of ruling party Awami League (AL) in Pabna. Six of the injured have bullet injuries. The incident is of Charbangaria village of Hemayatpur union of Sadar district. The six people who sustained bullet injuries are: Habu Sardar, 50, Mamun Hussain, 30, Salim Mandol, […]

The torchbearer of progressive politics is remembering Abdur Rob Boga Mia

He believed in respectful relations as a means of organizing party politics and bringing strength to the grassroots. His relations with the leaders of other political parties were also respectable. Boga Miya played an important role in Bangabandhu’s Six Point Movement and helped raise awareness among the masses, which eventually resulted in the mass movement […]

The people of the north are feeling the chill due to the fall in the mercury amid mild cold.

People in the northern and northwestern districts of Bangladesh are experiencing the last spell of mild winter before the first breeze of spring blows in. The mercury dropped significantly in Nilphamari, Pabna, Dinajpur and Kurigram, with Rajarhat upazila in Kurigram recording the lowest temperature of 8.6 degrees Celsius on Thursday. When the temperature drops below […]

One mental patient kills another

Jainal Abedin of forty five was admitted to Pabna Mental Hospital on 12th January this year for his mental illness. He was killed by Asharaful Islam another psychiatric patient of the hospital yesterday. Different sources of the hospital said there was mild altercation between those two patients before the incident. But no one is sure […]

Burial of Samson Chy today

  Legendary nobleman Samson H Chowdhury will be buried in his family cemetery in Pabna this morning. His physique was flown to Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Singapore yesterday around 9:00pm as good as after taken to Kakrail Catholic Church for funeral. Samson, authority of Square Group, breathed his final during Raffles Hospital in Singapore […]

11 die in road crashes

Eleven people were killed and 13 others injured in road accidents in Chittagong, Benapole, Rangpur, Pabna, Bogra, Jessore and Moulvibazar early Sunday and yesterday. Staff correspondent from Chittagong reports: An unidentified rickshaw-puller was killed when a speeding bus hit his rickshaw from behind around 9:00 am in No. 2 Mailer Matha area under Bandor Police […]