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Section 144 imposed
January
27, 2001
Pirojpur, Jan 26 (UNB) – District administration today imposed Section 144 in the town apprehending violence between Jamaat-e-Islami activists and pro-liberation forces.
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Freedom fighters’ rally
January
17, 2001
Pirojpur, Jan 16 (UNB) - A grand rally of freedom fighters and their children was held in the town this (Tuesday) morning.
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Shortage
of teachers
September
6, 2000
Pirojpur,
Sept 5 (UNB) – Academic activities at Government Suhrawardy College here
are seriously being hampered simply for lack of teachers.
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Development
programme
August
23, 2000
Pirojpur,
Aug 22 (UNB) – Local Government Engineering Department constructed 99
roads and connecting roads during the last fiscal, costing Tk 1.82 crore.
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289
projects implemented
July
28, 2000
Pirojpur,
July 27 (UNB) – Local Relief and Rehabilitation Department implemented 289
projects under its special rural infrastructure maintenance program during
the 1999-2000 fiscal.
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Construction
of community clinics under IDB
June
28, 2000.
Pirojpur,
June 27 (UNB) – Construction works on 64 community clinics,
involving Tk 1.47 crore, are proceeding in six upazilas of the
district..
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Soft-term
loan distributed
June
28, 2000
Pirojpur,
June 27 (UNB) – Youth Development Department distributed soft-term
loan totaling Tk 1.96 crore among youths of the district in 11 months
of the current fiscal year.
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Nine
killers sentenced to death
June
28, 2000
Pirojpur,
June 27 (UNB) – A court here today sentenced nine people to death
for killing a couple six years ago.
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Three
people awarded death penalty for throwing acid on a girl
June
7, 2000.
Pirojpur,
June 6 (UNB) – A court here today (Tuesday) awarded death sentence
to three people, including two brothers, for throwing acid on a girl.
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Construction
of coastal embankment under AD
May
24, 2000
Pirojpur,
May 23 (UNB) – Construction works on a 2-km coastal embankment,
taken up under ADP, at Mathbarai upazila are progressing fairly well.
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Two
people killed in road mishap
May
3, 2000
Pirojpur,
May 2 (UNB) – Two people, including a minor boy, were killed in
separate road accidents in Bhandaria and sadar thana today (Tuesday).
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27 roads under
constructed
April
22, 2000
Pirojpur, Apr 21 (UNB) – A good number of
projects under the government’s Rural Infrastructure Development
Program are being implemented in the district at a cost Tk 2.64 crore.
Under the projects, 27 roads are either being
constructed or reconstructed under the supervision of Local Government
Engineering Department (LGED).
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Wheat
allocated under test relief program
April
22, 2000
Pirojpur, Apr 21 (UNB)- As part of its efforts to
ensure food for the rural poor during off-season, the government has
allocated 537 mts of wheat for the district under Test Relief Program.
The wheat will be used for implementing 274 rural
infrastructure development projects in six upazilas of the district in
the current fiscal.
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Woman committed suicide
April
19, 2000
Pirojpur,
Apr 18 (UNB) – A middle-aged woman allegedly committed suicide at
village Joykul in Kaokhali thana on Sunday.
Family
sources said Lalu, 40, wife of Abu Hossain, took her own life by
hanging herself from the ceiling of a cowshed following a family feud.
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Fire
burnt shops and house Seizure
of vehicles with Indian sugar
April
12, 2000
Pirojpur,
Apr 11 (UNB) – Twenty-six shops and a house were burnt to ashes in a
devastating fire at small hours Monday at Dakkhin Bazar in Kaokhali
thana of the district.
Fifteen
people sustained injuries while putting out the blaze that damaged
property worth nearly Tk 1 crore.
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