Pro-Jamaat union leader killed in Gaibandha
A local leader of Sramik Kalyan Federation, the labour wing of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, was stabbed to death by unidentified miscreants in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha Saturday night...
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Minor boy electrocuted in Gaibandha
A minor boy died from electrocution at Majhipara village under Lakhsmipur union of Gaibandha Sadar on Friday morning...
Schoolboy drowns in Gaibandha
A schoolboy drowned in a pond at Horin Singha village under Ramchandrapur union of Gaibandha Sadar upazila Thursday afternoon...
Stop attempts to evict Santals from cropland, say rights activists
Thirty-two citizens released a joint statement on Wednesday urging an immediate stop to efforts aimed at evicting Santal farmers under the pretext of setting up an Export Processing Zone in the Bagda Farm area of Gobindaganj, Gaibandha...
Youth beaten to death in Gaibandha
A youth was beaten to death at Palupara under Gobindaganj in Gaibandha allegedly for raping a six-year-old child...
Teen madrasa student reportedly commits suicide in Khilgaon
A teenage madrasa student reportedly took his own life on Friday afternoon in the city鈥檚 Khilgaon area of the capital.
5 killed in road accidents
At least five people were killed and two others injured in road accidents in Jhalakati, Munshiganj, Naogaon and Netrakona districts on Saturday...
Fugitive bus driver arrested in Gaibandha
The Rapid Action Battalion has arrested a fugitive bus driver in connection with a fatal road accident that killed two people at Palashbari in Gaibandha in the past year...
Clash between 2 groups of villagers leaves 32 injured in Gaibandha
A clash between two groups of villagers triggered by allegations of harassing a woman and her daughter left at least 32 people injured in the remote char area of the River Teesta in Gaibandha on Thursday.
Gaibandha BNP leader accused of sexual harassment of Mohila Dal leader
A Bangladesh Nationalist Party leader has been accused of allegedly sexually harassing and threatening to kill a Mahila Dal leader in Gaibandha...
HC removes state-appointed receiver from Beximco鈥檚 Teesta Solar operations
The High Court on Tuesday removed the state-appointed receiver from Teesta Solar Limited, a 200MW solar power plant operated by Beximco Group and the largest solar-based power station in Bangladesh, located along the Teesta River in Gaibandha.
Punishment for those involved in Santal land grabbing demanded
Seventeen land and human rights organisations on Tuesday demanded punishment for those involved in land grabbing from the Santal community and the arson attack on a Santal house in Gobindganj of Gaibandha...
Santals鈥� security and rights to land must be protected
YET another attack on a Santal family shows that the authorities have failed to protect and ensure the rights of the community. A union council chair and his associates reportedly attacked members of a Santal family, including a woman, over a land dispute at Gobindaganj in Gaibandha on January 3. The Rajahar union council chair and his associates...
UP chairman held over torture of Santal woman
A Union Parishad chairman has been arrested in a case involving the torture of a Santal woman and her house set on fire in Gobindaganj of Gaibandha...
Rajshahi people protest at attack on Santal woman
Rajshahi people on Monday formed a human chain in the city protesting against the physical assault on a Santal woman and setting her house on fire at Rajabirat village of Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha....
Santal houses set on fire by UP chairman in Gaibandha
Two Santal families鈥� houses were attacked and set on fire by a local Union Parishad chairman on Friday night, at a Santal village in Gobindaganj, Gaibandha. Senior police officers visited the area on Saturday...
Thousands of riverine areas children unable to attend school: study聽
A recent study revealed that children in riverine areas were disproportionately unable to attend school due to natural disasters.
Tax, trade licence fees in Gaibandha can now be paid thru Nagad
Residents of all unions in Gaibandha district can now digitally pay their holding tax and trade licence fees exclusively through Nagad, the digital financial service of the Bangladesh Postal Department, said a press release...
22 held in Gaibandha for proxy in DC office exam
Twenty-two individuals, who were posing as proxy candidates during the oral examination for office assistant positions at Gaibandha deputy commissioner鈥檚 office, were held and later handed over to police...
Couple electrocuted in Gaibandha
A couple was electrocuted while charging an auto-rickshaw battery at their home in Khola Mondol鈥檚 Bazar area in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha on Thursday morning...
Police recover bodies of two missing gamblers in Gaibandha
The bodies of two gamblers who dived into a river to escape from the villagers in Fulchhari upazila of Gaibandha District, have been recovered....
Mentally challenged woman held for stabbing four schoolgirls in Gaibandha
Police arrested a 鈥榤entally challenged鈥� woman for stabbing four schoolgirls in a classroom in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha district on Tuesday...
Job scam ring mastermind arrested
The members of the Rapid Action Battalion arrested Shaharul, an alleged mastermind behind a job scam ring, from Palashbari in Gaibandha...
