Habiganj, Bangladesh News

Law enforcers manhandle militant suspect Shahed out of the BTCL building in Habiganj yesterday after a three-and-a-half-hour nerve-racking standoff.Photo: Focus Bangla Shariful Islam A suspected militant yesterday laid siege to the BTCL Habiganj office for three and a half hours and threatened to blow it up holding two people, including a child, ...

New Nation Desk Fourteen persons were given life in prison in two separate cases of oppression to women and killing in Habiganj and Barisal districts on Sunday.

DHAKA: Flood situation in the north and the south are likely to deteriorate as heavy rainfall continued over the north-east and the south-east with major river systems swelling.

Sunday, July 05, 2009 DHAKA: A family of six were killed in northern Bangladesh on Saturday after heavy rains triggered landslides and flash floods that destroyed their house and left tens of thousands stranded, police said.

Torrential rains triggered landslides and flash floods killing six people and stranding half a million in their homes in Bangladesh, officials said on Saturday.

DHAKA: Torrential rains and sudden onrush of upstream waters over the north and north-eastern part of the country have triggered flash-floods in some northern and southern districts though all the rivers were flowing well below the danger-level, except the Khowai in Habiganj.

UNB, Habiganj Tension heightened along Balla border in the district as Indian Border Security Force prevented the workers of Water Development Board from dumping CC blocks in the Khowai River Thursday.

Business Report Grameenphone, jointly with Sightsavers International, organized a free Eye Camp at the Didar Community Center, Chunarughat, Habiganj on May 15.

Tea plantation workers remain one of the least paid labourers in the country who live a very miserable life, said the speakers at a seminar yesterday.

Shamim Jahangir Seven power producer and manufacturer companies have submitted pre qualification statement on the last day of tender submission yesterday for installation of 450MW Power Plant at Bibiyana in Habiganj.

Bangladesh-born British citizen Faisal Mostafa, now detained in Dhaka, has close links with banned Islamist outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh, said investigators.

Speakers at a discussion yesterday said that trial of the war criminals is a must for a better Bangladesh.

Over 11 lakh people, most of them children under five, die of malaria in the country every year.

There are about160 tea gardens in Bangladesh. These tea gardens are located mostly in Moulvibazar, Habiganj, Sylhet and Chitagong Hill Tracts.

After a gap of three days due to national mourning in the wake of the BDR mutiny and massacre, Theatre Festival resumed at the M. Saifur Rahman Auditorium of the Sylhet city Monday last.

The cover of 'Londoner Smreeti', which reveals past and present condition of and potentiality of Bangladeshi in London, was unsealed on Friday at a hotel in the city.

The Election Commission yesterday announced it will have judicial enquiry into allegations of electoral irregularities in 11 more upazilas, raising the number of such local bodies to 18.

The Sylhet divisional chapter of the three-day Jatiya Patha Natya Utsab ended in Sylhet recently with a demand for the trial of the war criminals and the corrupt elements of society.

UNB, Dhaka Suspending election results of 31 upazilas, the Election Commission yesterday forwarded the results of 431 upazilas for publication in the official gazette.

Election results of 16 more upazila parishads are likely to be suspended on grounds of gross irregularities, raising the number of such upazilas to 30.