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Present prices delight  bottle gourd farmers

Present prices delight bottle gourd farmers

Our Correspondent 2018-12-15 21:11:57

GOPALGANJ, Dec 15: Grassroots bottle gourd farmers in Gopalganj Sadar are delighted over the present market prices of the vegetable this season.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DA...

Police arrest man with $20,000 at Benapole

Police arrest man with $20,000 at Benapole

-- 2018-12-15 15:42:39

A man was arrested at Benapole Land Port border with a huge amount of foreign currencies on Saturday. Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troopers seized $20,200 cash, Indian and Bangladeshi currencies, an...

Broccoli cultivation gains popularity in Rajshahi

Broccoli cultivation gains popularity in Rajshahi

-- 2018-12-15 13:21:10

Cultivation of broccoli, a non-conventional winter vegetable, has gradually been gaining popularity in Rajshahi region by dint of its lucrative market price and growing demand. Along with other conve...

DMP arrests 27 over drug charges in city

DMP arrests 27 over drug charges in city

FE Online Report 2018-12-14 15:42:03

Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) in special anti-drug drives arrested 27 suspects from different areas of Dhaka city for selling and consuming illegal drugs.  They also recovered 299 pieces of ya...

25pc Khulna brick kilns illegal: DoE

25pc Khulna brick kilns illegal: DoE

-- 2018-12-14 13:40:31

More than one-fourth brick kilns in Khulna district are operating illegally as 45 of them did not renew their licences, the Department of Environment (DoE )'s Khulna office said. Sources at the DoE...

55,066 hectares of land come under veg farming in  Sylhet division

55,066 hectares of land come under veg farming in Sylhet division

Our Correspondent 2018-12-13 21:30:10

SYLHET, Dec 13: Some 55,066 hectares of land have so far been brought under the farming of winter vegetables in the four districts of Sylhet division. Bottle gourd, pumpkin, radish, bean, tomato, c...

4.56m tonnes of potato yield  likely in Rajshahi

4.56m tonnes of potato yield likely in Rajshahi

-- 2018-12-13 21:29:10

RAJSHAHI, Dec 13 (BSS): Farmers and others concerned are hopeful about a good potato yield in Rajshahi region during the current season as overall climatic condition remains favourable for the farming...

Three die in Chuadanga road mishap

Three die in Chuadanga road mishap

-- 2018-12-13 17:06:26

Three people, including two brothers, were killed in a road accident on Chuadanga-Meherpur road on Thursday. The victims were identified as Rakib Hasan, 22, Sakib Hasan, 12, sons of Akul Ali of Kulpa...

Rajshahi sees fast progress of flyover construction

Rajshahi sees fast progress of flyover construction

-- 2018-12-13 12:17:27

The work on construction of a flyover for the first time in Rajshahi city is progressing fast. The flyover is being constructed at Budhpara Railway crossing with an estimated cost of Tk 2.928 bi...

Mymensingh road crash claims lives of two

Mymensingh road crash claims lives of two

-- 2018-12-13 10:07:57

Two people were killed when a covered van run over them on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Shikarikanda in Mymensingh city on Thursday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, repo...

Aquatic plants dying as  Beel Kumari drying up

Aquatic plants dying as Beel Kumari drying up

Our Correspondent 2018-12-12 21:00:34

RAJSHAHI, Dec 12:  The historical Beel Kumari, a large water body enriched in bio-diversity with rare, aquatic plants and fauna, has started drying up this year. The beel is also a means of li...

Grassroots people attain solvency by rearing ducks

Grassroots people attain solvency by rearing ducks

Our Correspondent 2018-12-12 20:58:29

NAOGAON, Dec 12: Atrai upazila of the district is generally well-known as high crop producing area. Apart from crop cultivation, farmers of the area are now concentrating in different aspects of ag...

18 migratory birds rescued in Sunamganj

18 migratory birds rescued in Sunamganj

-- 2018-12-12 18:20:04

A mobile court in Sylhet on Wednesday awarded six months' imprisonment to six people for hunting migratory birds in the Tanguar haor, a sanctuary, in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj. The convicts are A...

Man dies in Gopalganj road mishap

Man dies in Gopalganj road mishap

-- 2018-12-12 17:16:41

A man was killed as a truck crushed him at Kashiana upazila in Gopalganj district in the early hours of Wednesday. The victim was identified as Mohammod Ali, 45, son of Lal Miah, a resident of Pona a...

Cops detain 32 ‘drug pedlars’ in city

Cops detain 32 ‘drug pedlars’ in city

FE Online Report 2018-12-12 14:40:03

Law enforcers have detained 32 suspects from Dhaka city for their alleged involvement in selling and consuming drugs. Different police station under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) conducted the...

Couple die in Brahmanbaria road crash

Couple die in Brahmanbaria road crash

-- 2018-12-11 21:51:38

A couple were killed as a bus collided head-on with an auto-rickshaw at Suhilpur on Dhaka-Sylhet Highway under Sadar upazila in Brahmanbaria on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Bishnu Deb, 68...

Flower farmers happy  as sales soar ahead of  Victory Day celebration

Flower farmers happy as sales soar ahead of Victory Day celebration

Our Correspondent 2018-12-11 21:01:47

JHENIDAH, Dec 11: Flower farmers in the district are happy as sale of their produce has soared ahead of the Victory Day celebration. Farmers' interest in growing flowers is on the increase and around...

Fire breaks out at cotton mill in Habiganj

Fire breaks out at cotton mill in Habiganj

-- 2018-12-11 10:46:28

A fire has broken out at a cotton mill in Noyapara of Madhobpur upazila under Habiganj district early Tuesday. The fire originated at warehouse no 3 of Saiham Texttile Mills around 1:30am, according...

High prices delight Bogura, Joypurhat potato farmers

High prices delight Bogura, Joypurhat potato farmers

Our Correspondent 2018-12-11 00:52:00

BOGURA, Dec 10: Farmers in the district are happy with the fair market prices of the newly-harvested potato. The early cultivated potato is being sold at Tk 1,600 to Tk 1800 per maund in the retail...

Rangpur broccoli cultivators make handsome profit

Rangpur broccoli cultivators make handsome profit

Our Correspondent 2018-12-11 00:51:19

RANGPUR, Dec 10: The broccoli cultivators in different areas of the district are hopeful about a plentiful yield of the vegetable in this season. This year winter vegetable growers under the distri...

Satkhira veg prices fall on supply glut

Satkhira veg prices fall on supply glut

-- 2018-12-11 00:50:35

SATKHIRA, Dec 10 (UNB): The oversupply of vegetables is forcing farmers in Satkhira to sell their produces at lower prices, raising fears that they will not be able to get back their production costs....

45kg touchstone idol recovered in Rajbari

45kg touchstone idol recovered in Rajbari

-- 2018-12-10 19:50:47

A touchstone statue of Hindu goddess 'Lakshmi Narayan' was recovered from the district's Baliakandi upazila of Rajbari on Monday. Police's Detective Branch made the recovery during a raid in the upaz...

Two die in Faridpur road crash

Two die in Faridpur road crash

-- 2018-12-10 19:33:23

Two people were killed and seven others injured in a road accident involving two buses and a pickup at Gazaria in Nagarkanda upazila in Faridpur on Monday. The deceased were identified as Azizur Rahm...

Dublar Char to get 4.5 square km land after dredging Pashur channel

Dublar Char to get 4.5 square km land after dredging Pashur channel

-- 2018-12-10 18:13:15

Dublar Char, an island in the Sundarbans, will get about 4.5 square kilometre of land as soil will be deposited in the island during the dredging of the outer bar of Pashur channel aiming to enhance t...

Chuadanga journos assoc, Dhaka elects Enamul, Bakul  president, secy

Chuadanga journos assoc, Dhaka elects Enamul, Bakul president, secy

-- 2018-12-10 16:56:20

Chuadanga Journalists Association, Dhaka has started its journey. A 13-member committee of the association was formed at a meeting at the Ramna Chinese Restaurant in the city on Friday. The meeting...

Police recover youth’s decomposed body from Chattogram hill

Police recover youth’s decomposed body from Chattogram hill

-- 2018-12-10 15:33:15

Police recovered the decomposed body of a young man from a remote hill in Chattogram’s Sitakundu upazila on Monday morning. Locals said that a group of woodcutters found the body handing from a...

Cabbage cultivation proves profitable in Bogura

Cabbage cultivation proves profitable in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2018-12-10 00:40:43

BOGURA, Dec 09: Cabbage cultivation has brought smile on the faces of hundreds of grassroots farmers in the district. Getting repeated bumper production and fair market prices, farmers in the area...

22kg venison recovered from Sundarbans

22kg venison recovered from Sundarbans

-- 2018-12-09 21:12:58

Members of Forest Department in a drive recovered 22 kilograms of venison from the Sundarbans at Charkhali Beel area of Sharankhola upazila in Bagerhat on Sunday afternoon. Acting on a tip-off, a tea...

Khulna road crash leaves man dead

Khulna road crash leaves man dead

-- 2018-12-09 18:31:25

A man was killed on Sunday as a BRTC bus crashed an auto-rickshaw near Dada Match Factory in Khulna. The deceased was identified as Abul Hossain, 45, son of Abdul Malek of Chanmari area in the city....

‘Mentally challenged son’ kills father

‘Mentally challenged son’ kills father

-- 2018-12-09 12:45:02

A man was killed allegedly by his mentally challenged son in Gazipur in the early hours of Sunday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Hye, 55. Abu Bakar Siddique, officer-in-charge of Kaliganj Pol...