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BGB arrests 35 in Benapole

BGB arrests 35 in Benapole

-- 2018-10-30 17:57:24

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) in separate drives detained 35 people, including an Indian national, from Amrakhali and Putkhali bordering areas in Benapole on Tuesday for entering Bangladesh...

Police recover bodies of mother, daughter in Chattogram

Police recover bodies of mother, daughter in Chattogram

-- 2018-10-30 14:01:57

Police recovered the bodies of a woman and her daughter from their residence at Pathantuli area in Chattogram on Tuesday noon. The deceased were identified as Hosne Ara Begum, 47, and her daughter Pa...

Satkhira schoolgirl commits suicide to get rid of stalking

Satkhira schoolgirl commits suicide to get rid of stalking

-- 2018-10-29 21:07:10

A schoolgirl reportedly took her own life in Baganbari area of Satkhira municipality after being unable to bear persistent stalking by a local young man. The deceased was identified as Chandni Khatun...

Cops recover youth’s severed body in Joypurhat

Cops recover youth’s severed body in Joypurhat

-- 2018-10-29 12:22:35

Police recovered the severed body of an unidentified youth from near a rail track at Koktara in Panchbibi upazila of Joypurhat on Sunday evening. Farid Hossain, Officer-in-Charge of Panchbibi Police...

Tangail, Rangpur, Rajshahi olive  growers get fair market prices

Tangail, Rangpur, Rajshahi olive growers get fair market prices

Our Correspondent 2018-10-28 21:24:10

Hundred of olive growers in the district are delighted over the high market price during the current season as newly-harvested olive has started appearing in the local market. Sources said Sadar, Mir...

Arum farming gains popularity in Gopalganj for low production cost

Arum farming gains popularity in Gopalganj for low production cost

Our Correspondent 2018-10-28 21:23:16

GOPALGANJ, Oct 28: Cultivation of creeper arum and BARI-2 arum has become a profitable venture in Gopalganj Sadar in recent years. According to the Gopalganj Sadar upazila agriculture office sources,...

Home Minister warns stern action against drug peddlers

Home Minister warns stern action against drug peddlers

-- 2018-10-28 19:22:22

Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Sunday issued a note of warning against the drug peddlers asking them to shun their illegal drug trade. “You have time to shun all kinds of illegal drug...

Two die as bus lose control in Sylhet

Two die as bus lose control in Sylhet

-- 2018-10-28 11:44:09

Two passengers were killed as a bus plunged into a roadside ditch in Sylhet on Sunday morning. Police are working to reveal the identities of the victims. The mishap happened at around 6:00 am in Os...

Students of Jhenidah ATI  produce 60 crop varieties

Students of Jhenidah ATI produce 60 crop varieties

-- 2018-10-27 22:13:53

Our CorrespondentJHENIDAH, Oct 27: Agriculture Training Institute (ATI), Jhenidah, has become a role model introducing a special programme of learning, doing and consuming, internally known as 'Shikhi...

Joypurhat coriander leaf growers happy over  fair market prices

Joypurhat coriander leaf growers happy over fair market prices

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-27 22:13:13

JOYPURHAT, Oct 27: Coriander leaf growers in Akkelpur, Kalai, Panchbibi, Khetlal and Sadar upazilas of the district are happy as they are getting fair market price this season.The item is selling at T...

Govt to ensure fair price of milk, says Ranga

Govt to ensure fair price of milk, says Ranga

-- 2018-10-27 21:05:32

State Minister for LGRD and Cooperatives Moshiur Rahman Ranga on Saturday said the government is committed to ensure a fair price and meet the demand of milk in the country. "To fulfil the demand of...

Two minor girls drown in Gopalganj

Two minor girls drown in Gopalganj

-- 2018-10-27 17:08:05

Two minor girls drowned in a pond at Uttarpara under Kotalipara upazila in Gopalganj on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Limi Roy, 7, daughter of Liton Roy and Audri Sarkar, 6, daughter of A...

Man killed in Rajshahi road crash

Man killed in Rajshahi road crash

-- 2018-10-27 16:27:14

A motorcyclist was killed as a speeding truck ran over his vehicle on Kashiadanga-Amchattar road at Sairgachha in Rajshahi on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Biddut Hossain, 32, son of Mafij...

Falling iron rod kills JU student

Falling iron rod kills JU student

-- 2018-10-27 11:37:32

A Jahangirnagar University student has been killed and another student injured after an iron rod hit them falling off a construction site in Dhanmondi in Dhaka. The incident occurred on Friday evenin...

Section 144 imposed in Brahmanbaria

Section 144 imposed in Brahmanbaria

-- 2018-10-27 10:32:38

Local administration imposed Section 144 at Ramrail union in Brahmanbaria Sadar upazila for Saturday as two groups called their meetings at the same venue and time on the same day. Executive magistra...

Minor girl dies of electrocution in Rajshahi

Minor girl dies of electrocution in Rajshahi

-- 2018-10-26 18:25:15

A minor girl was killed after being electrocuted in Gangarampur village of Bagha Upazila in Rajshahion Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Rasheda Khatun, 10, daughter of Abdur Rashid of t...

Man gets life term imprisonment in Manikganj

Man gets life term imprisonment in Manikganj

-- 2018-10-26 10:51:39

A tribunal in Manikganj on Thursday convicted a man and sentenced him to life term imprisonment in an abduction case. The convict, Majnu Pramanik, son of Shamsul Pramanik of Pangsha upazila in Rajbar...

Ctg transport workers call off strike

Ctg transport workers call off strike

-- 2018-10-25 20:23:07

Following assurance from the administration, bus owners on Thursday evening withdrew a strike enforced on Chattogram-Rangamati-Khagrachhari route on Wednesday night. President of Chattogram Transport...

230 hectares of land come  under early winter bean  production in Natore

230 hectares of land come under early winter bean production in Natore

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-25 20:21:45

NATORE, Oct 25: Early winter bean farming becomes boon for hundreds of grassroots farmers in the district this season.A good number of farmers said repeated bumper yield and lucrative market prices ar...

Coastguards rescue kidnapped fisherman in Sundarbans

Coastguards rescue kidnapped fisherman in Sundarbans

-- 2018-10-25 18:59:52

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard early Thursday rescued a fisherman who was kidnapped by forest robbers from Mathabhanga Canal of Chunkuri River of Sundarbans in Satkhira. The rescued fisherman is R...

Transport strike underway in Rangamati

Transport strike underway in Rangamati

-- 2018-10-25 16:17:31

BNP on Thursday alleged that the current parliament has been on a spree of making 'black laws' to establish Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's 'dictatorship' and revive 'Baksal' in the country, reports UN...

Red spinach farming expands in Rangpur on impressive profit

Red spinach farming expands in Rangpur on impressive profit

Our Correspondent 2018-10-24 21:09:03

RANGPUR, Oct 24: The farmers at different areas in the district are showing their interest in farming red spinach (Lal Shak) due to good profit.Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Rangpur offic...

Sylhet peasants show interest  in producing high-yielding  summer tomato

Sylhet peasants show interest in producing high-yielding summer tomato

Our Correspondent 2018-10-24 21:08:30

SYLHET, Oct 24: Farmers in Sylhet region have been achieving a good yield of summer tomato for over the last few years.Chairman of Horticulture Department at Sylhet Agriculture University Prof Dr Md S...

Nine get life-imprisonment for killing AL leader Abu Khan

Nine get life-imprisonment for killing AL leader Abu Khan

-- 2018-10-24 17:12:39

A trial tribunal in Rajshahi on Wednesday convicted and sentenced them to life-term imprisonment for killing a local unit leader of Bangladesh Awami League Abu Khan. Divisional Tribunal Judge Anup Ku...

Woman burned dead in Panchagarh

Woman burned dead in Panchagarh

-- 2018-10-24 16:29:36

A woman, who suffered burn injuries after her sharee caught fire at Hagurajot village in Tetulia upazila of Panchagarh district on Tuesday, succumbed to her injuries on Wednesday morning. The decease...

Cops recover bullet-hit body of ‘drug trader’ in Teknaf

Cops recover bullet-hit body of ‘drug trader’ in Teknaf

-- 2018-10-24 12:31:26

Police recovered the bullet-hit body of a suspected drug trader from Maheshkhalia Para in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s bazar early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Mufiz Alam, son of Lal Mi...

Magura Aman farmers applying perching method to kill insects

Magura Aman farmers applying perching method to kill insects

Our Correspondent 2018-10-23 23:09:49

MAGURA, Oct 23: Most of the farmers in the district are applying the perching method to kill insects in their Aman paddy field.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Magura, sources said some...

Bumper yield, fair prices bring smile on  faces of Bogura banana growers

Bumper yield, fair prices bring smile on faces of Bogura banana growers

Our Correspondent 2018-10-23 23:09:09

BOGURA, Oct 23: Banana growers in the district are delighted over the bumper production and fair market prices this season.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources sai...

Dragon fruit cultivation gains  popularity in Rajshahi region

Dragon fruit cultivation gains popularity in Rajshahi region

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-23 23:08:45

NAOGAON, Oct 13: Experimental dragon fruit farming has brought smile on the faces of grassroots farmers in Raninagar upazila of the district this season.Sources said the fruit cultivation is expanding...

Boatman injured in ‘gunfight’ in Padma

Boatman injured in ‘gunfight’ in Padma

-- 2018-10-23 16:50:47

The boatman of a riverboat carrying a team of river police sustained bullet injuries in a reported gunfight between the law enforcers and fishermen in the Padma River in Louhajong upazila on Tuesday m...