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Housewife slaughtered

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Feb 8: A housewife was slaughtered allegedly by her husband at Harishpur village in Sadar Upazila early Wednesday. Police said Sentu, who married Parul one year back, slaughtered his wife following a family feud at about 1.30am. Sentu went into hiding soon after killing Parul, 20. A case was filed, reports UNB.

Chickens culled in Sunamganj

SYLHET, Feb 8: At least 10,000 chickens were burned alive in a fierce fire that broke out at a poultry farm at Brahmangaon village in Chhatak Uapzila of Sunamganj district Tuesday night. Witnesses said the fire originated from an electric short-circuit at Wales Chowdhury's poultry farm at about 8pm and charred the chickens. On information, firefighters rushed in and put out the blaze with the help of local people. The owner of the farm claimed that chickens worth about Tk 7 lakh were gutted in the devastating fire, reports UNB.

Youth shot dead in Natore

NATORE, Feb 8: Miscreants gunned down an unidentified young man near Ninguine Bridge in Singra Upazila early Wednesday. Police said local people found the bullet hit body of the young man in the morning and informed them. Later, police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for autopsy. Police suspected that the miscreants abducted him from elsewhere following a previous enmity and shot him dead, reports UNB.

Free fertiliser distributed

KHULNA, Feb 8: Free distribution of fertiliser under government's agricultural rehabilitation programme, among the Sidr-affected farmers here began this (Wednesday) morning for current Boro-Aman session. Deputy Commissioner of the district SM Firoz Alam inaugurated the programme at a simple function. Under the programme government will distribute 844 mts of urea and 300 mts of TSP fertilisers among 23,000 farmers of Khulna city and nine upazilas of the district. Each of the farmers is getting 60-kg fertilisers for one bigah land, officials said, reports UNB.

Bombs recovered

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Feb 8: Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) early Wednesday recovered 21 live bombs in Bhabanipur area of Sadar Upazila. Acting on a tip-off, a team of RAB-5, raided the house of Ismail at the village at about 3:30 AM and recovered the live bombs in abandoned condition from the rear entrance of the house. Later, the elite force deposited the bombs to the Sadar police station. None was arrested in this connection, reports UNB.

Fertiliser seized

BOGRA, Feb 8: Police seized a van loaded with 56 bags of fertilizer from in front of Adamdigi Upazila Health Complex here on Monday and arrested five people in this connection. Acting on a tip-off, police raided the van and recovered the bags of urea fertilizer kept under straw in the van, which were being taken to Naogaon district from Joypurhat. The arrested were identified as Khayer Ali, Sekandar Ali, Rezaul Karim, hailed from Naogaon district and Muktar Hoosain and Enamul Haq from Joypurhat, reports UNB.

Discussion on bird flu held

BANDARBAN, Feb 8: A discussion to raise awareness among the local people about the deadly disease bird flu was held at the conference room of the Deputy Commissioner Monday. The symptoms and nature of the disease and ways and means of its prevention were discussed at the meeting presided over by district livestock officer Sunil Baron Das. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Abdul Majid Shah Akand, ADC Abul Kalam M Shamsuddin, SP circle M Abdul Quaiyum Shikdar, NGO representatives, poultry farm owners and journalists, among others, attended the meeting, reports UNB.