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Three children drown in Chandpur

Three children drown in Chandpur

-- 2019-01-01 12:31:30

Three children have drowned at different locations in Chandpur’s Sadar upazila. The incidents occurred at Balia Union’s Forakkabad on Monday afternoon and Kalyanpur Union’s Dasadi V...

Weekly haats create severe traffic snarl on Rajshahi-Tanore highway

Weekly haats create severe traffic snarl on Rajshahi-Tanore highway

Our Correspondent 2018-12-31 20:26:00

RAJSHAHI, Dec 31: Severe traffic congestion on the Rajshahi-Tanore Highway at Kaliganj and Talanda under Tanore upazila of the district is now a regular phenomenon during the two weekly haats beside t...

Magura cabbage growers unhappy about low prices

Magura cabbage growers unhappy about low prices

Our Correspondent 2018-12-31 20:25:00

MAGURA, Dec 31: Cabbage growers in the district are frustrated over the present low market prices. Sources said though a bumper production of cabbage has been achieved, farmers are not getting fair p...

Severe cold wave sweeps Panchaghar

Severe cold wave sweeps Panchaghar

-- 2018-12-31 18:21:59

Severe cold wave is sweeping over Panchaghar district. Mild to moderate cold wave is sweeping over Mymensingh division and the rest part of Rangpur division, and the regions of Tangail, Madaripur, Go...

Injured in polls violence, AL man dies in Rajshahi

Injured in polls violence, AL man dies in Rajshahi

-- 2018-12-31 14:02:08

An Awami League leader, who sustained injuries during a clash between Awami League and BNP activists in Godagari upazila on Sunday, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) early Monday. The...

Farmers show interest in diversifying crops

Farmers show interest in diversifying crops

Our Correspondent 2018-12-30 21:14:28

SYLHET, Dec 30: Cultivation of different crops in addition to Boro paddy during the current Rabi season has increased as the farmers are showing more interest in the diversified crops in place of the...

BGB recovers firearms, ammo in C’nawabganj

BGB recovers firearms, ammo in C’nawabganj

-- 2018-12-30 11:59:05

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered a foreign made pistol, a magazine and seven rounds of bullet from Tarapur area under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district in the early hours of Sunday....

BADC supplies 7,706 tonnes of high-yielding Boro seeds in Sylhet

BADC supplies 7,706 tonnes of high-yielding Boro seeds in Sylhet

Our Correspondent 2018-12-29 21:07:21

SYLHET: A total of 7,706 tonnes of high-yielding Boro seeds have so far been supplied to the farmers in Sylhet division this season through the Bangladesh Agriculture Development Corporation (BADC)....

Cauliflower cultivation gains  popularity in Magura

Cauliflower cultivation gains popularity in Magura

Our Correspondent 2018-12-29 21:06:47

MAGURA, Dec 29: Cauliflower cultivation is gaining popularity in the district.Farmers' sources said a bumper production of cauliflower has been achieved in the district this season. Growers are also g...

Three workers die in Korean EPZ road accident

Three workers die in Korean EPZ road accident

-- 2018-12-29 12:23:28

Three people have been killed and 35 others injured after a bus rammed another bus carrying workers near the gate of the Korean EPZ in Chattogram. The accident occurred near the KAFKO Gate at around...

Youth found dead in Narayanganj

Youth found dead in Narayanganj

-- 2018-12-28 20:23:24

Police recovered the body of an unidentified youth from Fatullah in Narayanganjearly Friday. Officer-in-charge (Investigation) of Fatullah Model Police Station Shah Jalal said a night guard spotted t...

Chattogram road crash leaves three dead

Chattogram road crash leaves three dead

-- 2018-12-28 17:12:07

Three people, including a minor boy, were killed as a cement-laden truck hit a rickshaw at Mirsharai Upazila in Chattogram on Friday. The victims were identified as Sultan, 31, from Pola Morga area,...

Blaze at Faridpur bazar guts 13 shops

Blaze at Faridpur bazar guts 13 shops

-- 2018-12-28 13:24:44

Thirteen shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Satroshi Bazar in Sadarpur upazila of Faridpur early Friday. Faridpur Fire Service station officer Saifuzzaman said the fire broke out at a sho...

Jashore 10th grader ‘commits suicide’

Jashore 10th grader ‘commits suicide’

-- 2018-12-28 11:57:11

A class X student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree after being failed to secure first position in the final examination at Ista village in Jashore’s Jhikargachha upazil...

Boro farming starts in Sylhet

Boro farming starts in Sylhet

Our Correspondents 2018-12-27 21:29:34

SYLHET, Dec 27: Boro paddy cultivation has started in all the four districts of Sylhet division as farmers began transplanting seedlings in the main cropland from seedbeds. An official at the DAE S...

Maize cultivation expands  in Jhenidah district

Maize cultivation expands in Jhenidah district

Our Correspondent 2018-12-27 21:28:09

JHENIDAH, Dec 27: Maize cultivation is expanding in the district for its popularity among the farmers. Every season cultivators make handsome profit from the crop amid favourable weather condition....

Miscreants torch AL election campaign office in Meherpur

Miscreants torch AL election campaign office in Meherpur

-- 2018-12-27 20:28:10

Miscreants torched an election campaign office of Awami League (AL) candidate for Meherpur-2 constituency at Bholadanga village in Gangni upazila early Thursday. Harendranath Sarker, officer-in-charg...

Three held with AK-22 rifle, ammo in Rangamati

Three held with AK-22 rifle, ammo in Rangamati

-- 2018-12-27 18:26:27

Members of joint forces morning arrested three people along with an AK 22 automatic rifle, three rounds of ammunition and four Chinese knives during a drive at Farua under Bilaichhari upazila in Ranga...

Rajshahi people hit hard by cold weather

Rajshahi people hit hard by cold weather

-- 2018-12-27 17:17:33

The unusual cold weather is disrupting normal life in Rajshahi and its adjacent areas for the last couple of days as the difference between maximum and minimum temperature was further reduced during t...

Excavation of five rivers begins in Panchagarh

Excavation of five rivers begins in Panchagarh

-- 2018-12-27 15:26:37

Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has begun excavation and re-excavation works of five rivers at a cost of Tk 1.5 billion in five upazilas of Panchagarh district. Deputy Commissioner of Panch...

Police recover elderly man’s body in Jashore

Police recover elderly man’s body in Jashore

-- 2018-12-27 11:42:42

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man from Bhairab River in Jashore on Wednesday. Locals spotted the floating body of the elderly man at Naoapara Ferryghat in Abhoynagar upazila...

Fire guts 180 rooms at Gazipur workers’ colony

Fire guts 180 rooms at Gazipur workers’ colony

-- 2018-12-27 10:41:58

At least 180 rooms at the workers colony in Chakrawarty area of Gazipur were gutted in a fire early Thursday. The fire originated from an electric short circuit at a tin-shed room of the colony aroun...

Bumper output makes chilli  farmers happy

Bumper output makes chilli farmers happy

Our Correspondent 2018-12-26 20:49:03

BOGURA, Dec 26: Bumper yield of chilli has made hundreds of grassroots peasants in the district happy this season. Sources said chilli production in the district has exceeded all the records in t...

80,690 hectares of land to come under Boro farming in Gopalganj

80,690 hectares of land to come under Boro farming in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-12-26 20:46:12

GOPALGANJ, Dec 26: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in the district has taken a massive programme to grow Boro paddy on 80,690 hectares of land this season with a production target of 3...

Rajshahi growers eye 0.22m tonnes of mustard yield

Rajshahi growers eye 0.22m tonnes of mustard yield

-- 2018-12-26 20:44:56

RAJSHAHI, Dec 26 (BSS): Field-level agricultural extension officials and scientists concerned along with the growers are expecting a good yield of mustard seed this season as the government has taken...

Two motorcyclists die in Mymensingh road crash

Two motorcyclists die in Mymensingh road crash

-- 2018-12-26 16:16:40

Two motorcycle passengers have been killed after their vehicle was rammed by a bus in Mymensingh’s Nandail upazila. The accident occurred on the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj Highway in the Chamta are...

Man dies in road crash in Gazipur

Man dies in road crash in Gazipur

-- 2018-12-26 12:56:20

A man was killed and another injured when a truck rammed a covered-van on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Rajendrapur intersection in Gazipur on Wednesday. The dead man was identified as Mosharraf Hossai...

8,539 villages now under electricity coverage in Rangpur

8,539 villages now under electricity coverage in Rangpur

-- 2018-12-26 12:48:02

The Rural Electrification Board (REB) has brought 8,539 villages of Rangpur division under electricity coverage in last ten years improving human resources, rural economy and life-style of the rural p...

Indian prisoner dies in Jashore jail

Indian prisoner dies in Jashore jail

-- 2018-12-26 11:39:00

An Indian citizen accused in a gold smuggling case died of cardiac arrest at Jashore Central Jail on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sanzid Bharma, 48, son of Mahindar Bharma of New Delhi. J...

Profuse vegetables yield cheers  Sirajganj, Sylhet growers

Profuse vegetables yield cheers Sirajganj, Sylhet growers

Our Correspondents 2018-12-25 21:47:55

SIRAJGANJ, Dec 25: Vegetable growers in the vast Barind tract are delighted as they have been getting repeated bumper yield over the last few years. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), the...