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Export-import thru’ Benapole land port suspended

BENAPOLE, Aug 21: Export-import activities between Bangladesh and India through the Benapole land port came to a halt Tuesday morning due to a dawn to dusk strike in West Bengal. CPM and other opposition parties enforced the strike protesting price-hike of essentials. CPM supporters stopped trade activities through the port in the morning. Customs cargo officer at Benapole land port Sikdar Mahbub informed that hundreds of trucks loaded with various goods, including perishables such as onion and fish, remained stranded on both sides of the frontier. He, however, said other activities of the land port are normal, reports UNB.

3 outlaws held with arms in Jhenidah

JHENIDAH, Aug 21: Elite force RAB arrested three cadres of outlawed Biplobi Communist Party with two firearms at Brahimpur in Shailakupa upazila early Tuesday. Acting on secret information that a group of terrorists were holding a clandestine meeting a RAB team conducted a drive at the village and arrested cadres Wazed Fakir, Mozaffar Hossain and Mohidul Islam from the bank of a nearby pond. According to their confessional statement RAB also recovered a cut-rifle, a SBBL gun and 11 rounds of bullet from the area. A case was filed against them with local police station, reports UNB.

Police official, dacoit injured in Kurigram

KURIGRAM, Aug 21: A police official and a dacoit ringleader were injured in a clash between them at South Banshjani village in Bhurungamari upazila on Monday. Police said acting on secret information, a team led by ASI Abdul Latif raided the house of notorious dacoit gang leader Hasu, 48, son of Muslim Uddin Munshi at dead of night. Sensing danger Hasu and his accomplices swooped on the law enforces leaving ASI Latif seriously injured. Later, police opened fire on the gang that left Hasu, 48, injured. Hasu and ASI Latif were admitted to Rangpur Medical College Hospital. Police said Hasu served three years in prison in a dacoity case. They said he was wanted in a number of robbery and other criminal cases, reports UNB.

Workshop on AIDS held in Jhalakati

JHALAKATI, Aug 21: A day long workshop on "Orientation of police officials on HIV/AIDS issue" was held at the office of police superintendent on Tuesday. A total of 26 police officials of the district took part in the workshop. District Police Superintendent M Shafiqur Rahaman attended the programme as chief guest while assistant police superintendent Uttam Kumar Paul as special guest. Padakkhep, a non government organisation organised the workshop with the financial assistance of Unicef and National Aids/STD programme (NASP), reports UNB.

Day labourer dies falling from running truck in Bagerhat

BAGERHAT, Aug 21: A day labourer died falling from a timber-laden truck at Katadura in Mollahat upazila Monday evening. The victim was identified as Saiful Molla, 28, of Singrai village in Chitalmari upazila. Police and witnesses said hit by a branch of a tree Saiful fell down from the speeding Dhaka bound truck and died instantly. Police recovered the body and sent it to hospital morgue for autopsy, reports UNB.

3 women held with phensidyl in Benapole

BENAPOLE (JESSORE), Aug 21: Police arrested three women drug peddlers along with 300 bottles of Indian phensidyl syrup at Navaran Bazaar here on Monday. Acting on a tip-off, a team of Sharsha thana police raided a Jessore-bound bus from Benapole and arrested Mani Begum, Amena Begum and Monwara Begum of Raipara area in Jessore town along with the phensidyl syrup, reports UNB.