Naogaon, Bangladesh News

Mamunur Rashid The members of the outlawed Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh are stated to be regrouping in certain pockets of the country abandoning their traditional hideouts after the arrest of their top IT and bomb experts a few weeks ago.

Law enforcers yesterday transferred three organisers of "Islam and Muslim", an offshoot of Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh , to Rajshahi from Dhaka and produced them before a court seeking a seven-day remand for each.

Special Branch of Police in Gazipur arrested Abdur Rahim alias Shahadat, the chief organiser of "Islam and Muslim", a new offshoot of banned Islamist militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh .

Following a procession in Narail town demanding steps to stop grabbing of indigenous people's land, the protesters burn the effigy of alleged land grabber Saif Hafizur Rahman yesterday.

Vice Chancellor of Rajshahi University of Engineering and Technology Dr M Fazlul Bari speaks at an orientation meeting for the 'English in Schools' initiative jointly launched by The Daily Star and AKTEL.

An indigenous woman sits on the rubble of her home, which land grabbers torched on June 13.

Adivasi Chhatra Parishad forms a human chain at Kazla gate of Rajshahi University yesterday demanding punishment to the perpetrators who evicted 74 indigenous families in Naogaon on June 13.Photo: STAR Star National Desk Indigenous people yesterday observed protest programmes in Rajshahi, Naogaon and Magura to press home their demand for punishment ...

A procurement drive launched by the government was meant to help farmers. But the procurement system, often flawed, benefits middlemen and millers, not farmers.

Several hundred indigenous people under the banner of Jatiya Adivasi Parishad yesterday formed a human chain at Shaheb Bazer zero point in Rajshahi city protesting eviction of 74 indigenous families from their land allegedly by local hired goons of a BNP adherent at Khatirpur in Porsha upazila of Naogaon.

Hired goons of a BNP adherent evicted at least 74 families, including 56 Indigenous families, from their land in a series of attacks at Khatirpur in Porsha upazila of Naogaon to grab their land.

DHAKA: Ethnic minority people took to the streets in Porsha of the northern Naogaon district Sunday in protest at the arson attack on a Santal settlement by henchmen of land grabbers in a bid to evict them from their land.

DHAKA: Thugs unleashed by land grabbers on Friday night torched at least 57 thatched houses belonging to Santals evicting the ethnic minority people from their homesteads in northern Naogaon district, witnesses and rights activists said.

BSS, Rajshahi The Barind Multipurpose Development Authorities have been implementing various need-based projects to improve the socio-economic conditions and protect the environment in the vast Barind area in northern Bangladesh.

A government probe team detected that former agriculture minister Matiur Rahman Nizami was behind misuse, waste and misappropriation of at least Tk 35 crore of Barind Multipurpose Development Authority during the four-party alliance rule.

Octogenarian Md Gaher Ali Tikadar of Naogaon has set up an extraordinary example of planting trees on his own initiative along the Naogaon-Rajshahi road during the last 60 years.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina said today the government is taking initiatives to formulate an integrated policy to save the country's environment and rivers from pollution and preserve the water resources.

RAJSHAHI, May 29: A Bangladeshi cattle- trader was shot dead by Indian Border Security Force at Shapaher frontier under Naogaon district yesterday, reports BSS.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Wednesday said Awami League lawmaker Shahjahan Khan, convener of a parliamentary subcommittee, should seek an a apologya for spreading a canardsa against Tarique Rahman, senior joint secretary general of BNP.

BSS, Rajshahi Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank is implementing an uplift project, providing funds to the small entrepreneurs side by side with raising the scope of development activities in several parts of the country's northern region.

Bangladesh needs more modern food storage and silos to stock more food grains, particularly rice, for reaping benefits of the ongoing bumper boro harvest, said Food and Agriculture Organisation .