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Rajshahi markets set to sell delicious mangoes

Rajshahi markets set to sell delicious mangoes

-- 2018-05-17 12:29:33

Some indigenous varieties of mango including tasty Gopalbhog are going to appear in Rajshahi markets as ban will be end on harvesting of the seasonal delicious fruit. Farmers, traders and others conc...

Nursery business boosting solvency of farmers in Bogura

Nursery business boosting solvency of farmers in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2018-05-16 21:22:36

BOGURA, May 16: Nursery business is boosting solvency amid farmers in Bogura district from last few years. Mitigating the local demand, they are sending the sapling to the different adjacent district...

Man dies in Gopalganj road accident

Man dies in Gopalganj road accident

-- 2018-05-16 12:24:31

A man was killed after a bus crushed him at Gopinathpur in Sadar upazila under Gopalganj district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Angshu Biswas, 30, of Gopinathpur village in the upazila...

12,000 hectares Boro crops under water in Sirajganj

12,000 hectares Boro crops under water in Sirajganj

-- 2018-05-16 10:51:52

Boro crops on around 12,000 hectares of land in four unions of Tarash upazila in Sirajganj went under water due to waterlogging caused by heavy rains. The affected unions are Magura Binod, Baogaon, M...

Schoolgirl among two dies in lightning

Schoolgirl among two dies in lightning

-- 2018-05-16 10:25:27

Two people including a schoolgirl have been killed in separate incidents of lightning strikes in Kishoreganj and Brahmanabria districts. In Kishoreganj, a housewife named Swarupa Akter, 45, wife of O...

Manikganj road mishap kills three

Manikganj road mishap kills three

-- 2018-05-15 17:53:19

Three persons were killed and 20 others injured in a road mishap at Cross-Bridge area in Ghior upazila of Manikganj district on Tuesday afternoon. The identities of the deceased could not be known im...

Three die as truck, CNG collide head on in Mymensingh

Three die as truck, CNG collide head on in Mymensingh

-- 2018-05-15 15:19:54

Three people were killed and three others injured as a truck collides head-on with a CNG-run-auto-rikshaw on Mymensingh-Tangail highway at Gabtoli in Muktagachha upazila on Tuesday noon.   The i...

Another vessel capsizes in Meghna

Another vessel capsizes in Meghna

-- 2018-05-15 10:52:36

A ship after getting hit by another vessel capsized in the Meghna River on Monday. The broken vessel reported to be carrying 570 tonnes of fly ash at Loggimarar shawl area of Sadar upazila. No casua...

Bus, truck collide head-on killing three

Bus, truck collide head-on killing three

-- 2018-05-15 10:34:36

Three people were killed and four others injured following a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Harotola area of Habiganj Tuesday morning. The identity of the dece...

Electrocution kills two minor brothers in Bhola

Electrocution kills two minor brothers in Bhola

-- 2018-05-14 15:44:44

Two brothers have died from electrocution in Pangasia area under Lalmohon upazila of Bhola district on Monday morning. The deceased were identified as Al-Amin (6), and his brother M Siam (4), sons of...

RAB detains four suspected militants in raids

RAB detains four suspected militants in raids

-- 2018-05-14 15:33:41

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in separate drives arrested four suspected militants in Rajshahi on Monday. The arrestees are: Naimul Islam, Piarul, hailing from Godagari upazila, Jewell, hai...

Two die in cement factory accident

Two die in cement factory accident

-- 2018-05-14 11:33:18

Two workers were killed as a chunk of cement collapsed on them at a cement factory at Paschim Muktarpur in the Munshiganj district town on Monday morning. The deceased have been identified as Md Shah...

Cops recover bodies of expat’s mother, wife in Habiganj

Cops recover bodies of expat’s mother, wife in Habiganj

-- 2018-05-14 11:25:06

Police recovered bodies of a woman and her daughter-in-law from their house at Sadullapur village in Kurshi union of Nabiganj upazila in Sylhet’s Habiganj on Sunday night. The deceased were Mal...

Growers fail to harvest paddy on 5,000 hectares of land

Growers fail to harvest paddy on 5,000 hectares of land

Our Correspondent 2018-05-13 20:58:47

SYLHET, May 13: Farmers of Sunamganj district are in trouble as they could not able to harvest paddy on 5,000 hectares of land. Sources said about 70 per cent of crop have already been harvested and...

BSF picks up three Bangladeshis from Thakurgaon border

BSF picks up three Bangladeshis from Thakurgaon border

-- 2018-05-13 15:29:11

Members of Indian Border Security Force (BSF) have picked-up three Bangladesh nationals from Paria border in Baliadangi upazila of the district early Sunday. The detainees are: Shah Alam, 35, son of...

Bus crushes elderly woman in Rajshahi

Bus crushes elderly woman in Rajshahi

-- 2018-05-13 13:00:41

An elderly woman was killed as a bus crushed her on Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj highway at Godagari municipal area in Rajshahi on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Rasheda Begum, 60, wife o...

Police recover two bodies in Savar

Police recover two bodies in Savar

-- 2018-05-13 10:19:30

Police recovered the bodies of two men from Kamalapur and Kaundia areas of Birulia of Savar on Sunday morning. A 42-year-old rickshaw puller Chand Miah reportedly committed suicide by taking poison a...

Aus seedbeds on 8,828 hectares of land in Sylhet division

Aus seedbeds on 8,828 hectares of land in Sylhet division

Our Correspondent 2018-05-12 21:08:18

SYLHET, May 12: With a target to bring larger areas under Aus farming in Sylhet division in the Kharif season, the farmers in many areas are busy in preparing seedbeds. It would be completed in weeks...

Shoe manufacturing a boon for Rajshahi villagers

Shoe manufacturing a boon for Rajshahi villagers

-- 2018-05-12 11:59:39

Many people, both males and females, have become financially solvent over manufacturing shoes at Kaluhati village under Charghat upazila in Rajshahi district. The successful villagers are contributin...

Two hurt as cargo vessel sinks in Meghna

Two hurt as cargo vessel sinks in Meghna

-- 2018-05-12 11:02:07

A cargo vessel carrying 1000 tonnes of clinker capsized in the middle of the Meghna River at Katakhali Majherchar area in Haimchar upazila in Chandpur on Friday evening. The vessel 'MV Millennium-1 w...

Six get punishment for unfair means in recruitment test

Six get punishment for unfair means in recruitment test

-- 2018-05-11 20:32:06

A mobile court fined five candidates and sentenced another one for adopting unfair means in the primary assistant teacher recruitment test in Gopalganj on Friday. The candidates are: Sankar Das, Sheu...

Six die in M’singh road mishap

Six die in M’singh road mishap

-- 2018-05-11 16:57:08

Six people were killed as a bus crashed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Kashni of Tarakanda upazila in Mymensingh on Friday afternoon. Mazharul Haque, officer-in-charge of Tarakanda Police Station, s...

Two kids drown in Tangail river

Two kids drown in Tangail river

-- 2018-05-11 13:20:00

Two children drowned in a river at Kashil Paschimpara village in Basail upazila of Tangail on Thursday. The deceased were identified as Rumi, 7, daughter of Bhulu Jamadar and Shonali, 6, daughter of...

Truck crushes hawker in Narsingdi

Truck crushes hawker in Narsingdi

-- 2018-05-11 12:30:23

A newspaper hawker was crushed under wheels of a truck on Dhaka-Sylhet highway near Velanagar Bazar area in Narsingdi at about 6 am Friday. The deceased was identified as Kamal Mia, aged 58, a hawker...

Rajshahi farmers taking up pre-paid irrigation system

Rajshahi farmers taking up pre-paid irrigation system

-- 2018-05-11 12:19:18

Farmers across Rajshahi region are adapting themselves in using pre-paid cards for irrigation and the system is being popularised among them in the vast Baring tract since the last couple of years....

Rangpur, Bogura Boro growers suffer for shortage of labour

Rangpur, Bogura Boro growers suffer for shortage of labour

Our Correspondent 2018-05-10 21:17:40

RANGPUR, May 10: Severe dearth of day-labourers has been affecting the harvesting of Boro paddy in eight upazilas of the district this year. According to sources a good number of farm labourers of th...

Ginger farming in Nilphamari going on in full swing

Ginger farming in Nilphamari going on in full swing

Our Correspondent 2018-05-10 16:00:41

The cultivation of ginger is going on in full swing across the Nilphamari district. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources, around 2150 hectares of land have been b...

Lightning kills B’baria Palli Bidyut worker

Lightning kills B’baria Palli Bidyut worker

-- 2018-05-10 12:40:34

A worker of Palli Bidyut Samity was killed by lightning at Boro Pukurpar area in Bijoynagar upazila on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Saiful Islam, 35, a line man of Suhilpur Palli Bidyut...

Housewife dies of electrocution in Rajshahi

Housewife dies of electrocution in Rajshahi

-- 2018-05-09 12:38:45

A housewife died from electrocution at Zadabpur village in Shahrasti upazila on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Minu Ara Begum, 40, wife of Kabir Hossain of the village, said Selim Patwari, c...

Detectives seize nine zebras in Jashore

Detectives seize nine zebras in Jashore

-- 2018-05-09 11:40:20

Detectives in a drive seized nine zebras from Satmail Bazar area in Sharsha upazila early Wednesday. Tipped off, a team of Detective Branch of police raided the area around 12 am and recovered the ze...