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One dies while saving street hawker in Benapole

One dies while saving street hawker in Benapole

-- 2018-10-16 21:41:47

A man was killed trying to save a street hawker who was being beaten by some miscreants at Sadipur intersection in Benapole on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Hasanuzzaman, 50, member of...

Cauliflower cultivation gains popularity  in Joypurhat

Cauliflower cultivation gains popularity in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-16 20:56:51

JOYPURHAT, Oct 16: Early winter cauliflower cultivation is gaining popularity across the district due to high market prices. More than 12,000 farmers of Akkelpur, Kalai, Khetlal, Panchbibi and Sada...

Police arrest 51 in Satkhira

Police arrest 51 in Satkhira

-- 2018-10-16 17:22:44

Police, in special drives arrested 51 persons including five activists of Jamaat-E-Islami from eight upazilas of the district in last 12-hour ending at 8am this morning. Sources with the district pol...

Man dies as tractor overturns in Kushtia

Man dies as tractor overturns in Kushtia

-- 2018-10-16 14:28:53

A man was killed after a tractor overturned on Kushtia-Meherpur road in Kushtia on Tuesday morning. The victim was identified as Saddam Hossain, 30, son of Jannat Hossain. Witness said the tractor d...

Beheaded body found in Barguna

Beheaded body found in Barguna

-- 2018-10-16 13:40:07

Police recovered the beheaded body of an unidentified young man in Barguna on Monday night. Locals of Kismat Koruna village in Betagi upazila spotted the body at night and informed police, said Md Ka...

Three of a family die in Tangail road accident

Three of a family die in Tangail road accident

-- 2018-10-16 09:48:15

Three members of a family were killed when a truck carrying a group of workers plunged into a roadside ditch on Dhaka-Tangail highway in Shubulla area of Mirzapur upazila on Tuesday morning. The dece...

Chilli price fall worries Bogura cultivators

Chilli price fall worries Bogura cultivators

Our Correspondent 2018-10-15 22:02:16

BOGURA, Oct 15: Farmers of Adamdighi upazila in the district are worried over the sudden price fall of off-season chilli. Good number farmers of Jenoir, Boshipur, Pushinda, Nasaratpur and Jhakoir v...

Mariners’ Society to have its own building

Mariners’ Society to have its own building

-- 2018-10-15 20:02:09

The construction work of 20-storied building of Bangladesh Mariners’ Society was started as Shipping Minister Shajahan Khan, MP laid the foundation stone of the building Sunday, said a press rel...

Housewife ‘beaten to death’ in Panchagarh

Housewife ‘beaten to death’ in Panchagarh

-- 2018-10-15 17:36:28

A young housewife, who was beaten and forced to take insecticide allegedly by her husband and in-laws at Darjipara village in Tentulia upazila on Sunday, died at a hospital on Monday. The deceased wa...

Eco-friendly light trap, perching methods cut cost, ensure healthy-crops

Eco-friendly light trap, perching methods cut cost, ensure healthy-crops

Our Correspondent 2018-10-14 22:03:07

RANGPUR, Oct 14: The peasants at different areas under the district are showing their interest in cultivating T-Aman paddy using eco-friendly light trap method introduced by the Department of Agricu...

Indian Khasias kill Bangladeshi youth near Sylhet border

Indian Khasias kill Bangladeshi youth near Sylhet border

-- 2018-10-14 12:10:47

A young Bangladeshi man was shot to death by members of Indian Khasia community group near Sylhet border in Khanaighat upazila on Saturday morning. The victim was identified as Mamun Uddin, 28, son o...

Rangpur landless cultivators growing veg on floating beds

Rangpur landless cultivators growing veg on floating beds

Sayed Mofidul Babu 2018-10-14 10:40:53

A good number of landless peasants under Pirgachha upazila in the district are getting financially benefited through farming vegetables on floating beds. These extreme poor people have shown how to c...

RAB arrests one with firearms, ammo in C’nawabganj

RAB arrests one with firearms, ammo in C’nawabganj

-- 2018-10-13 20:28:10

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 arrested an alleged arms trader with a pistol, a magazine and five bullets from Tartipur Cattle market area under Shibganj upazila of Chapainawabganj district...

Flouting hilsa ban puts 25 fishermen in prison

Flouting hilsa ban puts 25 fishermen in prison

-- 2018-10-13 15:57:49

A mobile court in Bhola on Saturday jailed 25 fishermen and fined eight others for netting hilsa from the Meghna and Tetulia rivers in the district defying a government ban. Among the convicts, 25 fi...

Driver dies in Bogura road crash

Driver dies in Bogura road crash

-- 2018-10-13 13:00:27

A fatal head on collision of two buses in Bogura in the early hours of Saturday has killed a man and injured 15 others. The accident took place on Dhaka-Bogura Highway at Sherpur upazila’s Hari...

Rajshahi sees a slump in rice retail price

Rajshahi sees a slump in rice retail price

-- 2018-10-13 12:31:22

Rice price in Rajshahi’s retail markets is on a nosedive following the government’s launching of “Food Friendly Programme” to control rice price hike. Within a gap of one mont...

Fire guts two Manikganj school buildings

Fire guts two Manikganj school buildings

-- 2018-10-12 16:30:18

A fire raged through two tin-shed buildings of a government primary school in Manikganj district town on Friday noon, burning down valuables of the school. It is being primarily assumed that the fire...

Eight fishermen in jail for flouting ban on hilsa

Eight fishermen in jail for flouting ban on hilsa

-- 2018-10-12 11:56:48

Eight fishermen were sentenced to one-year imprisonment for catching hilsa in the Meghna River on Thursday defying an ongoing ban on netting hilsa. The convicts are Ripon Patwary, 22, Rahim Sheikh, 3...

Peasants attain solvency by growing snake beans

Peasants attain solvency by growing snake beans

Our Correspondent 2018-10-11 21:39:01

BOGURA, Oct 11: A good number of marginal peasants in the district are attaining financial solvency this season by growing snake bean. A good number of farmer said snake bean cultivation is profitabl...

Joypurhat DAE eyes over 400  tonnes of ginger yield

Joypurhat DAE eyes over 400 tonnes of ginger yield

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-11 21:38:15

JOYPURHAT, Oct 11: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) is expecting to grow over 400 tonnes of ginger in the district this season. The farmers can grow the spice crop easily after harvest...

Upgradation still a distant dream

Upgradation still a distant dream

-- 2018-10-11 21:37:06

Upgradation of Thakurgaon Sugar Mills still reamins a distant dream though five years have elapsed since the approval of the development project, reports UNB. One of the reasons behind it is complexi...

Barishal road crash kills three

Barishal road crash kills three

-- 2018-10-11 17:07:52

Three people were killed and 10 others injured as a bus crashed into a roadside tree on Dhaka-Barishal highway at Baichkhola in Gouronadi upazila on Thursday afternoon. One the deceased was identifie...

Car plunges into ditch, kills two in Rajbari

Car plunges into ditch, kills two in Rajbari

-- 2018-10-11 11:53:41

Two people were killed when a private car carrying them plunged into a roadside ditch in Rajbari early Thursday. The fatal accident left driver Manir Hossain, 32, and passenger Ripon Quadir, 30 dead....

Mother, daughter die in Nilphamari road crash

Mother, daughter die in Nilphamari road crash

-- 2018-10-11 10:36:55

A woman and her five-year-old daughter were killed when a truck hit a rickshaw van at Bhatiapara in Domar upazila of Nilphamari on Wednesday night. The deceased are Nazma Begum, 30, wife of Rube...

Police detain seven Rohingyas along Satkhira border

Police detain seven Rohingyas along Satkhira border

-- 2018-10-10 13:41:06

Seven Rohingyas, including women and children, were held from Abaderghat in Satkhira sadar upazila early Wednesday while being trafficked to India. The arrestees are Nur Begum, 45, wife of Selim, the...

Early winter cabbage farmers making good profit

Early winter cabbage farmers making good profit

Our Correspondent 2018-10-09 22:06:20

BOGURA, Oct 09: Early winter cabbage farmers of Shibganj upazila in the district are happy over the bumper production and fair market prices. Favourable weather condition and timely supply of neces...

Joypurhat Sugar Mill eyes 500 tonnes of production

Joypurhat Sugar Mill eyes 500 tonnes of production

Roving Correspondent 2018-10-09 22:04:51

JOYPURHAT, Oct 09: Authority of the Joypurhat Sugar Mill is expecting to produce around 500 tonnes of sugar this season. The mill official sources said farmers of the district have brought over 6,500...

Two die as sunshade collapses in Khulna

Two die as sunshade collapses in Khulna

-- 2018-10-09 18:02:20

Two siblings died in sunshade collapse of an under-construction building in Deana Uttarpara area under Daulatpur police station in Khulna district on Tuesday afternoon. The deceased were identified a...

Naogaon road crash kills three

Naogaon road crash kills three

-- 2018-10-09 13:22:17

Three people were killed when a truck rammed their motorbike on Mohadebpur-Patnitola road in Patnitola upazila headquarters in Naogaon on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as Abdus Salam, 45, son...

Commercial banana cultivation gains  ground in Rajshahi district

Commercial banana cultivation gains ground in Rajshahi district

Our Correspondent 2018-10-08 21:46:01

RAJSHAHI, Oct 08: Commercial cultivation of banana is gaining ground in the district. According to sources, the price of banana remained dull during last year. But, this year the price of banana pr...