Mamun-ur-Rashid

The minority Shia Muslims in Bogra's Shibganj upazila have never felt threatened living in the Sunni-dominated area. On the contrary, they have always lived peacefully with their Sunni brothers and sisters for decades. But now a sense of fear has gripped them following Thursday's gun attack inside a Shia mosque by unknown assailants. The shooting killed the muezzin of the mosque and injured three more, including the imam.

Illegal structures have been erected on government land at Alangi Bazar in Alangi union of Dhunat upazila under the district allegedly in collusion with the local union parishad chairman.

The killers of Dipankar Chakrabarty, a noted journalist of the district and former vice president of Bangladesh Federal Union of Journalists, are yet to be brought to justice, 11 years after the brutal murder.

Good yield of sugarcane makes farmers in the district happy as the cash crop is selling for good prices during the peak harvesting period.

Thousands of students have been deprived of education since the ongoing flood hit three upazilas in Bogra over two weeks ago.

Struggling to run his family, a youth cooked up a story of his abduction and extorted Tk 2 lakh from his father last week, but finally

Houses for 150 landless families will be built under a government-run housing project named Hashraj Housing Project on 13 acres of

At last centenarian Moglu Pramanik got his rightful elderly allowance from the government's social service department as well as financial help from Bangladesh NGO Foundation (BNF).

Hundreds of people belonging to minority Hindu community at Paulpara in Aria union of Shajahanpur upazila under the district have

Hundred-year-old Moglu Pramanik of Shihipur village in Dikdair union of Sonatola upazila under the district is yet to get the allowance meant for the elderly people.

Crude bombs exploded there. Clashes were witnessed in the neighbourhood too and many got injured in the process.

A piece of land of Phulbari Govt Primary School in Shariakandi upazila was recovered recently from the clutches of land grabbers after around 50 years, much to the relief of locals, teachers and students of the school.

The countrywide indefinite blockade and repeated hartals have put a severe financial hardship on around half a lakh transport workers and their families in the district.