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Foresters, fishermen vow to save Sundarbans

In Mongla upazila of Bagerhat forest-dependent people including foresters, fishermen, anglers, Bawali (woodcutters) and Mouali (honey collectors) took an oath to protect the Sundarbans on Sunday morning.On the occasion of Sundarbans Day, Mongla Upazila Administration, Bangladesh Paribesh Andolan (BA...

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3 held with 5 kgs of hemp

Officers of Department of Narcotics Control have arrested three including husband-wife with five kilogram of Hemp at Mongla upazila of Bagerhat. They have been arrested from the Murgi Bazar area adjacent to Tajmahal Road of the municipal area on Wednesday evening.The arrestees are drug dealer Baby (...

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KCC mayor distributes blankets in Mongla

Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Talukdar Abdul Khaleque has distributed blanket among the cold-stricken destitute of different wards of Mongla municipality. The blanket distribution ceremony was held on Tuesday, organised by Councilor of Ward No. 4 of Mongla Municipality Safiqur Rahman K...

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KCC mayor distributes blankets marking Mujib Barsho

Blankets were distributed among the cold-hit destitute as part of BIFPCL's community development on the occasion of Mujib centenary celebrations at Digraj under Mongla upazila of Bagerhat on Thursday morning.Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Alhaj Talukder Abdul Khaleque distributed the bla...

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BCG detains 5 people with foreign liquor

A patrol team of Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) base Mongla conducted a raid at the three-lane intersection adjacent to the bus stand of Mongla Police station in Bagerhat at about 8:00 pm on Thursday.Based on a tip off five men were arrested with 26 bottles of foreign liquor during the raid. The arres...

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Owners flee leaving sawmills

Forest Department raided a sawmills at Mollarhat in Mongla upazila of Bagerhat on Saturday afternoon for setting up the sawmill within 10-km of the Sundarbans.Upon hearing the news of the raid, three owners of the saw mill Abu Bakkar, Sobahan Mollah and Mohsin Mosalli fled.Confirming the information...

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16 Indian fishermen held with trawler

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) arrested 16 Indian fishermen with a fishing trawler from Mongla for illegal intrusion in Bangladeshi water violating maritime boundary of the Bay of Bengal from Fairway Boya area in the early hours of Wednesday. Later, those arrested Indian fishermen alon...

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Aspirants become active for Mongla elections

After 10 long years, Bagerhat's Mongla port municipal election is about to be held in January. Marking the election mayoral and councillor candidates have become active to win party nomination.According to the announcement of the Election Commission, nomination papers will be submitted on Decemb...

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Workers, employees to enjoy medical facilities again in Mongla Port

A workers’ welfare medical center for Mongla Port workers has been relaunched after remaining closed for 10 years. Mayor of Khulna City Corporation (KCC) Talukder Abdul Khaleque reopened the medical center at Delta Barracks in Old Port area in Mongla of Bagerhat on Thursday.Talukder Abdul...

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BNP regime neglected Mongla port development: Khaleque

Khulna City Corporation Mayor Talukder Abdul Khaleque has said while BNP government was in power, we demanded capital dredging for the development of Mongla Port but the then BNP government had no intention to develop the port. They were completely indifferent to the development of the port."KC...

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SP seeks cooperation to stop violence against women

An anti-rape and anti-women repression meeting organised by Mongla Police Station was held with local people on the Mackardone Primary School premises on Tuesday. Presided over by Iqbal Bahar Chowdhury, OC of Mongla Police Station, the meeting was attended, among others, by Pankaj Chandra Roy, ...

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Sundarbans reopening to tourists after 7 months

Sundarbans, the world’s largest mangrove forest, is set to reopen for tourists on November 1 following a seven-month closure due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The decision of Forest Department in this regard were informed to the department at Khulna, Bagerhat, Mongla and Satkhira. Md Ami...

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Mongla port jetty vibrant with full of commercial ships

As a result of the efforts of the present government and various ground-breaking steps in the port authority, the Mongla seaport is now progressing. In this continuum of development, there are also domestic and foreign merchant ships.At one time ships could not anchor at the jetty due to navigabilit...

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Key equipment for Rooppur nuke power plant arrives

The heavy and major equipment for installing the first unit of Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant have been arrived in Mongla Port, said a press release of the Ministry of Science and Technology.The press release mentioned the key equipment including Nuclear Reactor Pressure Vessel and a Steam Generator to...

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Judgment of rape case in 16 days, life sentence of rapist

The trial of a 7-year-old child rape case in Mongla, Bagerhat, has been completed in just 16 days. The court sentenced the only accused Abdul Mannan to life imprisonment. He was also sentenced to one more year imprisonment for non-payment of a fine of Tk 20,000.On Monday (October 19), a week after t...

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Customs intelligence office also to be shifted to Mongla

Abu Hena Md Rahmatul Muneem, Chairman of the National Board of Revenue (NBR), has said that the Mongla Custom House is in the process of modernisation, Like the customs office, the customs intelligence office will also be shifted from Khulna to Mongla if the activities of the customs in Mongla are f...

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Yaba trader held in Mongla

Mongla police arrested a drug dealer named Md. Samim Fakir, 28, with 15 pieces of yaba tablets in Mongla of Bagerhat on Sunday afternoon.Samim is the son of Jahangir Fakir of Bashtali area under Mongla Upazila. He was held during a raid at Burirdanga area in the upazila by Mongla Police Station. Acc...

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Child violated, neighbor arrested

A 7-year-old child has been raped in Mongla. The child was rescued and admitted to the local health complex. Police have arrested the rapist in the incident.Relatives of the raped child told police that the child was left behind by his father and the mother got married elsewhere. He lived with Mama ...

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3 men held for fishing with pesticide in Sundarbans

Forest Department arrested three people from Karamjal area of Sundarbans for fishing with pesticides on Monday morning.A boat, fish, insecticide bottles and other equipment were seized during the raid. Azad Kabir, an official at the Karamjal station of Forest Department in the eastern Sundarbans, sa...

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Hanging body of Indian worker recovered at Rampal power plant

The hanging body of an Indian worker named Prabhat Kumar Singh, 37, was recovered from a thermal power plant under construction at Rampal in Bagerhat on Monday afternoon.Police recovered the body from a bamboo bridge inside the power plant and later sent the body to Bagerhat Sadar Hospital morgue.Pr...