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.

October 2, 2015
October 2, 2015

Boy allegedly shot by Gaibandha MP

A 10-year-old boy is injured as a local MP allegedly shot him at Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha, the victim’s family claims.

September 24, 2015
September 24, 2015

3 die in Bogra road crash

Three people including two garment workers are killed and 10 injured in a head-on collision between two buses on Dhaka-Rangpur highway in Shibganj upazila of Bogra.

September 17, 2015
September 17, 2015

Girl raped, killed by ‘classmates’ in Gaibandha

A schoolgirl is raped and killed allegedly by her classmates in Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha early today.

July 5, 2015
July 5, 2015

Arrest order for 9 cops, bank official

A Gaibandha court issues arrest warrants against nine policemen and the manager of a Sonali Bank branch in the district on charges of beating up two court officials.

May 31, 2015
May 31, 2015

No power in 8 villages, Gaibandha locals block highway

Locals blocked Dhaka-Rangpur highway for in Gaibandha protesting power cut in eight villages of Gobindaganj for a week.

March 20, 2015
March 20, 2015

Salahuddin not found in Gaibandha

Law enforcement agencies remain in the dark about the whereabouts of BNP leader Salahuddin Ahmed who was claimed to have been arrested by plainclothes police from a residence of Uttara in Dhaka

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