Outlaw arrested
Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) in Chuadanga arrested a member of an outlawed party and recovered two bombs from him on Tuesday evening. The outlaw was identified as Masud Rana, 22, a cadre of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) faction Lal Pataka. Acting on a tip off that Rana was carrying bombs in his motorbike, a team of Rab-6 stopped him at Zafarpur intersection in Chuadanga town at about 7.30pm and recovered two bombs from a polythene bag kept under the sit cover of the bike. Following confessional statement of Rana, Rab raided several places in Chuadanga town but failed to arrested his accomplices. Rana was handed over to Chuadanga Sadar police yesterday noon.
BAT helps farmers
Our Correspondent, Lalmonirhat
British American Tobacco (BAT) distributed personal protective equipment (PPE) among 200 farmers for free at its district office at Sarpukur village of Aditmari upazila yesterday. Wearing PPE, farmers can keep themselves safe from the bad impact of insecticides at the time of using those in their field. BAT, Rangpur regional officer Belayet Ahsan said, poor farmers in the district cannot purchase personal protective equipment from the market. So the British America Tobacco has arranged the PPE free of cost for them. Now the farmers can pratect themselves fully from the harmful effects of insecticide, he added.
Indian scholarships
Staff Correspondent, Rajshahi
Ninety-six meritorious children of freedom fighters in Rajshahi division on Tuesday received Indian government's education scholarships at a function in the city. Winners of the scholarship worth Tk 10.08 lakh, are higher secondary students under-graduates from different colleges and universities of eight districts under the division. The scholarships are given in two categories since 2006. In the under-graduate category, 24 students to get total scholarship money of Tk 24,000 every year for four years till completion of his/her graduation while each of the 72 higher secondary scholarship winners will receive Tk 6,000 every year for two years. Rajshahi mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Lition distributed the scholarships as chief guest while KP Munshi, Indian assistant high commissioner presided the function. The mayor thanked the Indian government for the initiative and said it would boost friendship between the two countries.
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