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Madrasha teacher killed in Paglapeer

RANGPUR, Nov 18: A madrasha teacher was killed and another person injured in a road accident at Paglapeer Bus Stand on the Rangpur-Dinajpur highway under Sadar upazila on Saturday evening, police sources said. The accident took place when a Dinajpur bound passenger bus from Rangpur hit a motorcycle from behind. Driver of the motorcycle and madrasha teacher Shahidul Islam, 45, of village Mominpur under Sadar upazila in Rangpur was killed on the spot and co-rider Saidul Islam, 55, of the same village, was injured, reports BSS.

BSF hands over 4 Bangladeshis to BDR in Panchagarh

PANCHAGARH, Nov 14: Indian BSF troops handed over four Bangladeshi citizens to BDR jawans after the expiry of their jail term at Giragaon border in Atowari upazila on Thursday. They are - Salema Khatun, 50, wife of Istab Ali and their son Saheb Ali, 10, of Geruadangi village in Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon district, Ali Akbar, 25, son of Kayes Ali of Bagantola village of the same upazlia and Firoza Akhter, 20, wife of Hasen Ali of Singarul village of Pirganj upazila. BDR said that Indian police earlier arrested these trespassers and sent them to jail as they entered illegally into India in different times, reports UNB.

One sentenced to 14 years for smuggling foreign currencies

SATKHIRA, Nov 14: A tribunal here Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to 14 years rigorous imprisonment on charge of smuggling foreign currencies. The convict, Nazmul Haque, 40, son of Imdadul Haque of Nalkura village in Sadar upazila, was also fined Tk 50,000, in default, to face one year RI more. According to the prosecution, a team of BDR, led by a Magistrate, raided a shop of the accused at Nazmul Sharani in the district town on April 12 last year and recovered currencies of US, Saudi Arabia, India, Malaysia, Canada, Kuwait, Sri Lanka, Qatar and Bangladesh worth Tk 7 lakh from the shop and the residence of his father-in-law, reports UNB.