Gaibandha
Ramshackle state of sports in Gaibandha
According to Sanaul Habib Sazzad, a district coach under the Bangladesh Cricket Board (BCB), as many as 200 students had aspired to be cricketers under his guidance around two decades ago when he began training the Gaibandha youths.
Overloaded truck damages bailey bridge in Gaibandha, truck driver dies
A bailey bridge collapsed after a cement-laden truck hit it and fell into the waterbody in Gaibandha’s Fulchari upazila today.
1,500 kg relief rice recovered in Gaibandha, 2 held in connection
Police recover 50 sacks of vulnerable group development (VGD) rice, weighing 1,500 kg, from an empty house in Gaibandha’s Sundarganj upazila.
Gaibandha flood victims take shelter in empty rail coaches
Many flood-affected people have taken shelter inside empty rail coaches of a train stuck between Trimohoni-Badiyakhali area in Sadar upazila of Gaibandha as their houses were inundated in flood waters.
Students in Gaibandha vow to build humanitarian Bangladesh
Thousands of Santal and Bangalee students of eight high schools Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha have taken oath to build a humanitarian Bangladesh with communal harmony.
Factional Feud: Jubo League leader killed in Gaibandha
An upazila Jubo League leader was hacked to death and four others were wounded in a clash with Bangladesh Chhatra League activists at Bonarpara Railway Station Bazar on Thursday night.
Deadliest day for travellers
Fifty-two people were killed, including 18 in one crash in Gaibandha, on the country's roads yesterday.
Making the most of a cold winter
Northern winters can be cold. At 67-years-old it would be understandable if Marium Begum, from Panchgachi Santiram village in Gaibandha's Sundarganj upazila, said she really feels it: not only the cold of the winter air but from long years of struggle.
Crime Against Humanity 1971: Ex-Jamaat MP, 5 others to hang
Six Gaibandha men including a former Jamaat-e-Islami lawmaker have been given capital punishment for committing crimes against humanity during the Liberation War in 1971.
Eviction of Gaibandha Santals: A year on, yet no sign of redress
Even though a year has passed, the Santals who were evicted from the land of Sahebganj-Bagda sugarcane farm in Gaibandha's Gobindaganj were yet to be rehabilitated and compensated.
No flood victim to suffer from hunger: PM
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said no one will suffer from hunger due to the ongoing flood, renewing the promise that her government's support for the flood victims will continue until the next crops are harvested.
Conjoined Twins: Seperated, Tofa, Tahura doing well
Tofa and Tahura, the 10-month-old conjoined twins from Gaibandha, are doing well after they were separated in a marathon surgery
Bamboo-made watchtower to check robbery
Locals have set up two bamboo-made watchtowers to tackle robbery in remote char areas on the Teesta river basin in Sundarganj
‘JMB man’ among 3 killed in Gaibandha, Dhaka ‘shootouts’
An alleged operative of banned militant outfit Jama'atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) and two suspected hijackers have been killed in separate "gunfights" with law enforcers in Gaibandha and Dhaka.
Arrest orders for 5 Gaibandha war crimes suspects
A tribunal in Dhaka issues arrest warrant against five Gaibandha men for their alleged involvement with crimes during the 1971 Liberation War.
Hindu trader killed, ‘IS claims responsibility’
A Hindu shoe trader is murdered at his shop in Gobindaganj Upazila of Gaibandha. Hours later, a tweet posted by US-based SITE Intelligence Group said international militant outfit Islamic State (IS) had claimed responsibility of the murder.
Lightning takes 17 more lives in 11 districts
At least 17 people were killed after being struck by lightning during the storm at different parts of the country, raising the death toll from such incidents to 49 in two days.
Girl abused in classroom
Two Chhatra League men forced all the students out of a classroom except for one girl, shut the door and allegedly abused her verbally and physically.
UP poll violence: 2 injured victims die
Two persons, who were injured in separate clashes in Thakurgaon and Gaibandha during the fourth union parishad elections, die.