, April 26 -- Raninagar upazila administration has seized 29.31 tonnes of rice meant for government's Food-Friendly Programmes and other social safety schemes from two warehouses of a rice trader during an anti-hoarding drive.

Tippe-off that a group of unscrupulous traders had stockpiled government rice, the drive led by Raninagar Assistant Commissioner (Land) and Executive Magistrate Sheikh Nowshad Hasan was conducted in Kutkutitala area of Abadpukur Bazar on Friday.

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The rice was recovered from two godowns belonging to Jahangir Alam Babu in the area.

Technical food inspector Md Anisur Rahman of the Raninagar Upazila Food Controller's Office, police from the Ekdala outpost, and several g...