Police yesterday recovered the hanging body of a student of Government Brojomohun College from an abandoned room near its Flight Sergeant Fazlul Haque Hall in Barishal city.
Four children drowned in tidal water and a rickshaw-puller was crushed under a tree in Barishal division, while low-lying regions in the country were inundated after cyclone Yaas made landfall yesterday noon on the Odisha-West Bengal coast in India. In a briefing yesterday, the state minister for disaster management and relief said 27 upazilas in nine districts were affected
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Published: 11 May 2021 12:16 PM BdST
Updated: 11 May 2021 01:20 PM BdST
Large crowds of Eid returnees are still flocking to the Shimulia port despite the strict measures in place to curb transmission of the coronavirus. );
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Bangladesh has deployed paramilitary and police personnel to monitor the roads leading to the port. Lines of vehicles lengthen on either side of security checkpoints. That has not stopped the constant flow of determined returnees, some of whom are getting off vehicles on one side of the checkpoint, crossing them and then boarding other vehicles waiting on the other side.
A group of four young men were walking along the Ikuria area around 7:30 am. They had arrived in Dhaka from Chattogram by truck on Monday night and were headed to Madaripur. One of them, Abdul Wahhab, said they had paid the truck driver Tk 1,900 each to bring them from Chattogram to Dhaka. The group crossed the Postogola Bridge on foot, carrying
Youth gets life term for raping mentally challenged girl in Barishal Star Online Report Star Online Report
A youth was sentenced to life term imprisonment today for raping a mentally challenged girl in Barishal s Muladi upazila.
Judge Abu Shamim Azad of Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal handed down the punishment in the presence of the accused Shariful Islam Mursalin.
The court also fined the accused Tk one lakh, said Advocate Faizul Haque, special public prosecutor of the court.
According to the case statement, the accused raped the victim after finding her alone at her home on April 26, 2016.
The victim s mother filed a rape case against the accused with Muladi Police Station on April 28, 2016. Police pressed charges before the court on July 10 of the same year.