Shariatpur

Shariatpur
Photo shows the toll plaza of Padma Bridge in Zajira, Shariatpur.

Bus hits Padma Bridge toll plaza barrier at Zajira end

A bus hit a barrier of the toll plaza on Padma Bridge at the Zajira end of Shariatpur on Tuesday.

(L toR) AKM Enamul Hoque Shameem, Md Iqbal Hossain and Nahim Razzaq

Three Shariatpur lawmakers contract Covid-19, skip Padma Bridge opening

Three lawmakers of Awami League from Shariatpur district on Saturday skipped the Padma Bridge inaugural ceremony and the rally attended by prime minister Sheikh Hasina in the district’s Shibchar ...

The Mawa point of the Padma Bridge was completely lit up on Monday

Padma Bridge’s Mawa point lights up

Padma Bridge’s executive engineer Dewan Md Abdul Quader told Prothom Alo on Monday evening, 207 lampposts of the Padma Bridge were lit up together for the first time on a trial basis using power ...

With a record of almost 1,100 people drowning, suffocating or dying of hypothermia on overcrowded boats so far this year, the North Africa to Italy crossing is considered the deadliest sea passage in the world.

Human trafficking from Shariatpur 15 die, 30 go missing in 3 years

Agents have consistently been alluring youth with the bait of the high wages and upscale lifestyle in Italy

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2 sentenced to death for killing schoolboy in Shariatpur

A tribunal here on Tuesday sentenced two people to death for killing an eighth grader after kidnapping him in Jajira upazila of Shariatpur district in 2020

Murder illustration

Woman stabbed to death before a day of her wedding

An 18-year-old woman was stabbed to death by a youth in Shariatpur sadar upazila on Saturday, a day before her wedding and the accused was injured in a mob beating

A combination of pictures shows the farmhouse (top) owned by Zainul Haque Sikder’s family in Dingamanik area of Shariatpur’s Naria upazila and the abandoned house from which residents have been evicted to build the farmhouse.

Evicted from the Sikder farmhouse

Locals said the Sikders started to enclose the area by erecting a boundary wall after buying land from the locals

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Defeated UP member candidate beaten dead in Shariatpur

A defeated member candidate of the 5th-phase Union Parishad (UP) election was beaten to death by his rivals at Nowpara bazar in Nowpara union of Naria upazila in Shariatpur on Thursday

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Shariatpur ‘MP sir has said, there will be no election in Chitalia’

An allegation has surfaced that nomination papers have been withdrawn by forging signatures of the rival candidates in the election of Chitalia union parishad in Sadar upazila of Shariatpur district

Lightning kills 3 fishermen in Shariatpur

Lightning kills 3 fishermen in Shariatpur

Three fishermen were killed by a lightning strike in Shariatpur on Sunday while fishing in the Padma river

Prothom Alo illustration of lynching

Shariatpur journo attacked for shooting video of lynching

A journalist in Shariatpur town was on Monday brutally attacked and injured by some miscreants for shooting video of them in the act of beating up a woman with iron rods

Four sentenced to death for killing headmaster in Shariatpur

Four sentenced to death for killing headmaster in Shariatpur

Four people were sentenced to death and nine others to life term imprisonment by a tribunal in Shariatpur on Wednesday for killing a headmaster of a school in 2010

Photo shows the Padma bridge under construction.

Plan to complete Padma bridge by April next year

The Chinese contractor firm for Padma bridge said it wants to complete the construction of the bridge by April next year

A speedboat is seen ashore after it collided with a sand-laden bulk carrier and sank on Padma River, in Madaripur, Bangladesh, on 3 May 2021

Awami League leaders control the speedboats

It is the local Awami League leaders who control the speedboat business in Munshiganj and Madaripur. These speedboats operate illegally under their shelter

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'Liton Farazi escapes from jail in disguise of Liton Sikder'

An accused, Liton Farazi, has reportedly escaped from jail by producing the bail order of another accused, Liton Sikder. The incident took place at Shariatpur jail in the evening on 4 April 2021

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