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BRTC bus crushes man in city

BRTC bus crushes man in city

-- 2018-07-04 14:19:02

A man who was using a motorbike ridesharing service died when a state-run BRTC bus crushed him at Airport intersection in the city on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Nazmul Hossain Fuad, 32...

Elderly man dies due to medical negligence in Ctg

Elderly man dies due to medical negligence in Ctg

-- 2018-07-04 13:30:48

Tension mounted at a private clinic in the port city early Wednesday following the death of an elderly patient allegedly due to medical negligence. The deceased Hazi Mohammad Lokman Chowdhury, 69, of...

Good snake bean output brings smile on faces  of growers

Good snake bean output brings smile on faces of growers

Roving Correspondent 2018-07-03 21:49:44

JOYPURHAT, July 03: Snake bean (Borboti) cultivation has brought smile on the faces of hundreds of marginal peasants in the district this season. Growers are happy over the good production and fair m...

Two minor siblings drown in B’baria

Two minor siblings drown in B’baria

-- 2018-07-03 17:07:11

Two minor siblings drowned in a pond of Golsar village under Kasba upazila in Brahmanbaria on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Tamim, 7, and her sister Nazmin, 5, children of Billal B...

Bandarban landslide kills woman

Bandarban landslide kills woman

-- 2018-07-03 15:05:09

A woman was killed in a landslide amid heavy rains in Bandarban sadar upazila on Tuesday. Protima Rani Dey, 45, wife of Milan Kanti Dey was buried alive when a chunk of mud fell on her tin-shed house...

Bumper Aus rice production likely in Rangpur

Bumper Aus rice production likely in Rangpur

-- 2018-07-03 13:34:58

Rangpur region is likely to get bumper Aus rice production this season where farmers have exceeded their fixed farming target by over 55 per cent this season. Proper implementation of the government&...

Two sustain burns in Gazipur factory fire

Two sustain burns in Gazipur factory fire

-- 2018-07-03 12:44:54

Two people sustained burn injuries while trying to douse a fire that broke out at a foam factory and its warehouse in Borobari area of Gazipur city early Tuesday. The identities of the injured are no...

Gazipur foam factory catches fire

Gazipur foam factory catches fire

-- 2018-07-03 10:36:21

A fire broke out at a foam factory and its warehouse in Borobari area under Gazipur city early Tuesday. The fire erupted at 'Banjing Bangladesh Limited' around 5:00am and soon engulfed the adjoining...

Fruit bagging method helps produce quality mangoes

Fruit bagging method helps produce quality mangoes

Roving Correspondent 2018-07-02 21:48:08

NATORE, June 30: Hundreds of mango farmers in Lalpur upazila of the district have started getting benefits by applying fruits bagging method this season. The farmers of the upazila have taken some 0....

Green chilli prices shoot up in Magura

Green chilli prices shoot up in Magura

Our Correspondent 2018-07-01 22:26:42

MAGURA, July 01: Green chilli prices have shot up in the district during the last few days. The necessary kitchen item is being sold at Tk 120 per kg, which was Tk 40 around a week ago. The Departme...

Three of a family die in lightning strike

Three of a family die in lightning strike

-- 2018-07-01 17:56:40

Three members of a family have died in a lightning strike in Sadullapur upazila of Gaibandha on Sunday. The deceased were identified as Rasheda Begum, her son Afiz and nephew Nizam, all residents of...

Speeding bus kills pedestrian in Sylhet

Speeding bus kills pedestrian in Sylhet

-- 2018-07-01 17:12:46

A passerby was run over by a bus at Nazirbazar in Dakshin Surma upazila under Sylhet division on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Shamsul Islam, 32, of Dashgar village in the upazila....

Cheering ends minor Argentine fan’s life in Feni

Cheering ends minor Argentine fan’s life in Feni

-- 2018-07-01 13:11:05

A minor boy was killed as a pick-up van ran over him at Tulatoli in Sonagazi upazila under Feni region on Saturday night. The deceased was identified as Ibrahim Rahat Russel, 10, son of Obaidul Haq o...

B'baria train derailment investigation underway

B'baria train derailment investigation underway

-- 2018-07-01 11:36:49

Investigation gains access as a five-member probe committee was formed to probe the derailment of an oil-laden train on Chattogram-Sylhet route at Shamarailkandi in Brahmanbaria on Saturday. Shoyeb A...

Rangpur mulls cost-free legal aid services

Rangpur mulls cost-free legal aid services

-- 2018-07-01 11:32:01

Officials of the judiciary at a seminar in Rangpur have called upon all concerned to reach the cost-free legal services to the poor to ensure justice for them to make the government’s legal aid...

Jirashail, Parija farming gaining  momentum in Bogura

Jirashail, Parija farming gaining momentum in Bogura

-- 2018-06-30 21:46:26

Our CorrespondentBOGURA, June 30: Cultivation of two paddy varieties - Jirashail and Parija - is gaining momentum in the district this season.Sources said the growers achieved a noticeable benefit las...

Lightning strike leaves fisherman dead in Sunamganj

Lightning strike leaves fisherman dead in Sunamganj

-- 2018-06-30 21:13:28

A fisherman was killed after being hit by a thunderbolt at Dolor haor in Dharmapasha upazila in Sunamganj on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Selim Mia, 28, son of late Abdul Aziz of Paikurat...

Police arrest 39 JCD men in Kushtia

Police arrest 39 JCD men in Kushtia

-- 2018-06-30 17:31:27

Police arrested 39 leaders and activists of Jatiyatabadi Chhatra Dal (JCD) while they were allegedly planning sabotage at the house of a BNP central leader in Kushtia on Friday night. JCD Kushtia dis...

Two minor siblings die after drowning in B’baria

Two minor siblings die after drowning in B’baria

-- 2018-06-30 12:25:50

Two siblings drowned in a pond at Modhhaparain Akhaura upazila in Brahmanbaria on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Jannat, 8, and Sayeed, 6, daughter and son of Masuk Mia of the area...

Joypurhat road mishap kills Polytechnic teacher

Joypurhat road mishap kills Polytechnic teacher

-- 2018-06-30 11:12:55

A female teacher of a polytechnic institute was killed when a battery-run auto-rickshaw carrying her collided with a speeding bus on Joypurhat-Mangalbari road in Khanjanpur PDB area in Joypurhat distr...

Customs officials detain man with 13 gold bars

Customs officials detain man with 13 gold bars

-- 2018-06-29 20:31:53

Customs officials detained a man along with 13 gold bars at Darshana check-post in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga on Friday. The arrestee was identified as Delwar Hossain, 50, son of late Umed Sheikh...

Former UP member dies in Kurigram road crash

Former UP member dies in Kurigram road crash

-- 2018-06-29 16:49:03

A former UP member was killed as a pick-up hit him in Sonahat land port area in Bhurungamari upazila of Kurigram on Friday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Majid, 50, a former member of Sonahat...

PWD hands over new bldg of Sunamganj District Hospital to Health Dept

PWD hands over new bldg of Sunamganj District Hospital to Health Dept

Our Correspondent 2018-06-28 21:15:50

SYLHET, June 28: The newly-constructed building of the Sunamganj District Hospital was handed over to the Health Department recently. District Civil Surgeon Ashutosh Das said, "We took over the new...

29 people face jail term for embezzling money 33 yrs ago

29 people face jail term for embezzling money 33 yrs ago

-- 2018-06-28 21:06:26

A court on Thursday sentenced 29 people to three years' imprisonment in a case filed for embezzling Tk 5.3 million from Rupali Bank 33 years ago. The convicts, tried in absentia, were also fined the...

Schoolgirl dies as elephant goes on a rampage

Schoolgirl dies as elephant goes on a rampage

-- 2018-06-28 11:37:52

A minor girl was trampled to death by a rampaging elephant at Khutakhali area in Chakaria upazila on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased was identified as Nur Jannat, 11, daughter of Bahadur Haque of S...

Worker dies of electrocution in Panchagarh

Worker dies of electrocution in Panchagarh

-- 2018-06-28 11:26:41

A construction worker was killed after being electrocuted at Shahbahan in Tentulia upazila of Panchagarh district on Wednesday. Quoting witnesses, Zahurul Islam, officer-in-charge of Tetulia Model Po...

Two killed in Bogura road accident

Two killed in Bogura road accident

-- 2018-06-27 17:39:23

Two people were killed in a road accident at Betbari Sujabad Dahpara under Shajahanpur upazila of Bogura district this morning. The deceased were identified as Sultan Ahamed, 42, son of Abdul Kader o...

Ex-UP member dies in Gopalganj road accident

Ex-UP member dies in Gopalganj road accident

-- 2018-06-27 17:03:09

A former UP member was killed and three other people were injured on Wednesday as a bus collided with a human hauler on Gopalganj-Kotalipara road in Sadar upazila under Gopalganj district. The deceas...

RCC facing acute fund crisis

RCC facing acute fund crisis

Our Correspondent 2018-06-27 13:44:12

Due to absence of government allocation, the Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) is facing an acute crisis of fund. At the same time, to retain regular activities of city corporation, RCC authorities i...

Storms raise risk of water contamination inRohingya camps

Storms raise risk of water contamination inRohingya camps

-- 2018-06-27 13:20:57

COX’S BAZAR: Heavy rainfall in Cox’s Bazar earlier this month has put major strain on drainage systems in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camps, according to IOM engineers, who predict...