Anwarul Haider

Says wife of Foyez who was shot dead in Laxmipur

Says father of Hasan, 20, who was shot dead on July 18

"We were going for breakfast when my son got shot. He died without even having something to eat."

Says father of slain 16-yr-old Akash

Mamun, from Jalial village in Noakhali's Binodpur, was fatally shot on the Mohakhali flyover while heading back to his home from his aunt's residence in Shaheenbag, Dhaka.

The upazila chairman election in Noakhali’s Subarnachar today is going to be a battle of ballots between a veteran Awami League leader and a young one.

Eid is about homecoming and family reunion. But this year’s Eid-ul-Fitr brought no such joy for the 23 crewmen of hijacked MV Abdullah.

Two people, including a local AL leader, were sent to jail yesterday in a case filed over the rape of a woman and her minor daughter in Char Wapda union of Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila early Tuesday.

A group of people under the banner of Khudra Hawkers Somobay Samity Limited have illegally occupied around 65 decimals of public land in Noakhali town and are now constructing a two-storied wooden structure on the land for making commercial shops.

Soybean growers in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali are deeply concerned about incurring heavy losses this year as their fields are being attacked by a surge of hairy caterpillars, locally known as bichha poka.

In most restaurants of Companiganj’s Basurhat, an instruction is clearly written on the walls: “Conversations over politics are strictly prohibited.”

Two lives have been cut short, caught in the crossfire of gunfights between the two groups of the ruling Awami League in Noakhali’s Companiganj in recent weeks.

Hours after Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday warned of action against people involved in the deadly clashes in Noakhali’s Companiganj, men in plainclothes picked up Mizanur Rahman Badal, the rival of Obaidul’s brother Quader Mirza.

Land dispute has locked up, over two decades, a primary school that had been opened up, in 1972, to commemorate martyred intellectual Prof Munier Chowdhury.

Delwar Hossain, prime accused in the recent gang rape of a woman in Noakhali, engaged in various crimes under the patronage of local politicians from both the ruling Awami League and the BNP.