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Low price disappoints off-season radish farmers

Low price disappoints off-season radish farmers

Our Correspondent 2018-08-05 15:30:52

Off-season radish farmers of the district are disappointed over the low market price in Bogura district. Growers are incurring massive losses instead of profit, said farmer Salam Hossain of Mohasthan...

Locals urge authority to construct western approach soon

Locals urge authority to construct western approach soon

Our Sylhet Correspondent 2018-08-05 15:28:07

The much desired bridge, built over the Noljur river under Jogonnathpur upazila of Sunamganj couldn't be made ready for use only due to unusual delay for construction of its western approach. Thousan...

Gaibandha female workers receive Tk 11.2m savings

Gaibandha female workers receive Tk 11.2m savings

-- 2018-08-05 12:15:37

A total of 150 female workers in Sundarganj upazila of Gaibandha district have got their savings over Tk 11.2 million earned from the Rural Employment and Road Maintenance Programme (RERMP) in the las...

Pick-up van rams into truck in Gazipur, killing one

Pick-up van rams into truck in Gazipur, killing one

-- 2018-08-05 11:56:35

A pick-up van has rammed into a parked truck in Gazipur’s Sadar Upazila, killing a man instantly and injuring five others amid an ongoing student campaign for safe roads. The accident took plac...

Police detain Mohila Dal leader for ‘instigating’ students

Police detain Mohila Dal leader for ‘instigating’ students

-- 2018-08-04 19:26:34

Police have arrested a local leader of Jatiyatabadi Mohila Dal, BNP's women wing,  in Chattogram on Saturday for allegedly provoking the student protests. Fatema Badshah, acting president of the...

Father, son die in Bandarban clash

Father, son die in Bandarban clash

-- 2018-08-04 18:06:32

A man was gunned down and his son was hacked to death in a remote area in Ruma upazila of Bandarban on Friday night during a clash over establishing supremacy between two groups. The deceased were id...

Road crash claims another student’s life

Road crash claims another student’s life

-- 2018-08-04 16:37:15

Another college girl was killed on Saturday after being hit by a covered van at Barabari on Dhaka-Mymensingh Highway in Gazipur amid the ongoing student demonstrations demanding safer roads. After...

Housewife ‘commits’ suicide in Sunamganj

Housewife ‘commits’ suicide in Sunamganj

-- 2018-08-03 17:37:50

A housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house at Jangalbari in Tahirpur upazila of Sunamganj district on Friday, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as...

Rajshahi slum dwellers get community housing

Rajshahi slum dwellers get community housing

-- 2018-08-03 11:58:40

Many slum people have started living in brick-built house driving out their long-lasting living life in thatched or mud-house in Rajshahi city. “I had never thought, even in my dreams, that I w...

RMCH female student commits 'suicide'

RMCH female student commits 'suicide'

-- 2018-08-03 11:30:40

A female student of Rajshahi Medical College Hospital reportedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling fan of her house at Daspukur in Rajshahi city on Thursday night. The deceased wa...

Blacksmiths expect  Tk 100m business  during upcoming Eid

Blacksmiths expect Tk 100m business during upcoming Eid

Roving Correspondent 2018-08-02 21:15:40

SIRAJGANJ, Aug 02:  More than 12,000 blacksmits in Bogura, Natore, Joypurhat and Sirajganj districts are actively involved in making iron tools. Sources said many unemployed youths have attained...

Farmers busy cultivating T-Aman in districts

Farmers busy cultivating T-Aman in districts

Our Correspondent 2018-08-02 21:14:18

SYLHET, Aug 02: Farmers in Sylhet division are busy cultivating Transplanted Aman (T- Aman) paddy. Some 21,378 hectares of seedbed have already been prepared, an official of DAE, Sylhet divisional of...

Experts focus on boosting fish production  to improve living standard of rural people

Experts focus on boosting fish production to improve living standard of rural people

-- 2018-08-02 21:12:17

RANGPUR, Aug 02 (BSS): Fisheries experts at a fingerling releasing function here today said fish production consistently increased in last 10 years improving livelihoods of rural people cutting povert...

Two schoolboys drown in Cumilla

Two schoolboys drown in Cumilla

-- 2018-08-02 19:31:13

Two schoolboys drowned in the Dharma Sagar pond in Cumilla on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Shihab, son of sub-inspector Abdul Mannan and a class-IX student of Modern High School in the c...

Truck hits motorbike in Dohar, killing schoolboy

Truck hits motorbike in Dohar, killing schoolboy

-- 2018-08-02 13:42:21

A schoolboy was killed and another injured when a truck hit a motorbike at Char Keshai in Dohar upazila of Dhaka on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Risad, 15, a class VII student of Holy Cro...

Harvest of Aus paddy going on in full swing in northern districts

Harvest of Aus paddy going on in full swing in northern districts

FE Desk 2018-08-01 22:46:27

Farmers of the northern districts have started harvesting Aus paddy in a jovial mood as they are expecting a bumper yield and good market price. Many farmers have shifted to Aus crop from other cro...

Problems plague lone Shishu Paribar in Khulna division

Problems plague lone Shishu Paribar in Khulna division

-- 2018-08-01 22:45:13

BAGERHAT, Aug 01 (UNB): The lone Sarkari Shishu Paribar in Khulna division is plagued with various problems, including accommodation crisis, forcing the authorities to halt admission of children to th...

20 families of five Bogura UZs earn livelihood by selling bamboos

20 families of five Bogura UZs earn livelihood by selling bamboos

Our Correspondent 2018-08-01 22:44:00

 BOGURA, Aug 01: Vendors are making a good profit by selling bamboos on rickshaw-van. Over 120 families of Dupchanchia, Gabtoly, Adamdighi, Nandigram and Sadar upazilas of the district are engag...

Three-day fruit tree fair starts in Gobindaganj

Three-day fruit tree fair starts in Gobindaganj

-- 2018-08-01 11:38:22

A three-day long fruit bearing tree fair began on the premises of Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district on Tuesday afternoon. Local lawmaker Principal Abul Kalam Azad inaugurated the fair, organi...

Cattle rearers face acute fodder shortage in Joypurhat

Cattle rearers face acute fodder shortage in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2018-07-31 22:11:36

JOYPURHAT, July 31: Hundreds of cattle rearers across the district have been facing acute fodder shortage over the last couple of weeks. Many cattle rearers of the area said they have no way but to p...

Farmers expect good Aus yield in Sylhet div

Farmers expect good Aus yield in Sylhet div

Our Correspondent 2018-07-31 22:09:39

SYLHET, July 31: Aus farmers across the Sylhet division are expecting a good yield this season and they will start harvesting the produce after three or four weeks. Aus cultivation is gaining popular...

Two minors drown in Chandpur

Two minors drown in Chandpur

-- 2018-07-31 11:38:40

Two minor cousins drowned in a pond in Sonaimuri village of Hajiganj upazila under Chandpur region on Monday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Sinthia Akhter, 6, daughter of Md Delwar Hossain...

Ribbon retting method gaining popularity  in Nilphamari

Ribbon retting method gaining popularity in Nilphamari

Our Correspondent 2018-07-30 21:00:39

NILPHAMARI, July 30: Jute growers of the district have started ribbon retting technology to process the cash crop. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources said it is a method to separat...

51 rivers swell, 39 fall

51 rivers swell, 39 fall

-- 2018-07-30 20:22:52

Water levels in 51 river stations monitored by Flood Forecasting and Warning Centre (FFWC) have marked rises and 39 stations recorded falls. Among the 94 monitored water level stations, four are stea...

Train hits, kills university student in Chattogram

Train hits, kills university student in Chattogram

-- 2018-07-30 13:39:26

A student of International Islamic University Chittagong (IIUC) was crushed under the wheels of a train at Kumira in Sitakunda upazila on Monday. The deceased has been identified as Kazi Sirat, a stu...

People crisscross waterbodies with boat by pulling ropes

People crisscross waterbodies with boat by pulling ropes

Our Correspondent 2018-07-29 21:14:00

RAJSHAHI, July 27:  Due to absence of required bridges and culverts on the rivers and other waterbodies crisscrossing Gurudaspur upazila of greater Rajshahi district, villagers cross those waterb...

Bogura villagers attain solvency by making brooms

Bogura villagers attain solvency by making brooms

Our Correspondent 2018-07-29 21:12:50

BOGURA, July 29: A good number of people in the district have changed their financial condition by making brooms. Sources said Nandigran, Sherpur, Gabtoly, Dhunot and Kahaloo upazilas are well-for ma...

Police recover dead body of indigenous girl in Khagrachhari

Police recover dead body of indigenous girl in Khagrachhari

-- 2018-07-29 18:39:40

Police recovered a body of an indigenous girl in Noymail area in Dighinala upazila of Khagrachhari district early Sunday. The deceased was identified Krittika Tripura alias Punati, 11, daughter of An...

Pickup van, truck collision leaves two dead

Pickup van, truck collision leaves two dead

-- 2018-07-29 13:14:59

At least two people were killed and six others injured in a head-on collision between a pickup van and a truck on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Ansar More area in Gazipur’s Sreepur upazila early S...

Rajshahi Silk Mills resumes operation after 16 years

Rajshahi Silk Mills resumes operation after 16 years

Our Correspondent 2018-07-28 22:26:57

Rajshahi Silk Mills which remained closed for the last 16 years, resumed its experimental production from Friday. Fazley Hossain Badsha, MP of Rajshahi Sadar constituency and senior vice president o...