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Banana farming expanding fast in Nilphamari

Banana farming expanding fast in Nilphamari

Our Correspondent 2018-01-29 00:00:00

 Hundreds of poor families of the district have been attaining financial solvency by farming banana. Sources said banana cultivation is increasing gradually in the area. High land or semi sandy...

Rangpur Baukul farmers happy over good yield

Rangpur Baukul farmers happy over good yield

Our Correspondent 2018-01-29 00:00:00

A good yield of Baukul, a plum variety, has made the cultivators of the district jubilant during the current season. Because of huge demand its cultivation is on the rise in different areas of the di...

RAB detains two with 200 kg hemp in B’baria

RAB detains two with 200 kg hemp in B’baria

-- 2018-01-28 17:17:37

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people along with 200kg hemp on Dhaka-Sylhet highway near Khatihata in Sarail upazila on Sunday morning. The arrestees are identified as Ishak Mia...

Moulvibazar road crash kills mother, son

Moulvibazar road crash kills mother, son

-- 2018-01-27 12:31:15

A woman and her minor son died when a head-on collision between a tractor and CNG-run auto-rickshaw occurred at Arjuna in Barlekha upazila on Friday night. The accident took place around 9:30pm as th...

CPBS-1 brings 154 houses under power network

CPBS-1 brings 154 houses under power network

-- 2018-01-27 02:16:48

Chandpur Palli Bidyut Samity (CPBS-1) has brought a total of 154 houses of two villages under Kachua upazila of Chandpur under rural electrification network recently. Former home minister Dr Mohiuddi...

Miscreants beat youth to death in Munshiganj mosque

Miscreants beat youth to death in Munshiganj mosque

-- 2018-01-26 12:56:20

A youth was killed by some miscreants in a mosque where he took shelter on Thursday evening at Jashaldia village in Lawhajong upazila. The deceased was 26, son of Hasen Molla of the village, who had...

Severe cold damages seedbeds in Bogra

Severe cold damages seedbeds in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2018-01-26 12:55:21

BOGRA, Jan 24: Boro paddy growers from different villages are worried for as severe cold like situation have damaged many seedbeds in the district. According to the Department of Agriculture Extensio...

Farmers of Sylhet region passing busy time cultivating Rabi crops

Farmers of Sylhet region passing busy time cultivating Rabi crops

Our Correspondent 2018-01-26 12:54:32

SYLHET, Jan 25: Farmers of greater Sylhet region have been passing busy time for cultivation of different Rabi crops, including vegetable of all types and others. So far, crops on 87,144 hectares had...

Court puts ‘Pir’ behind bars for violating teenage girl

Court puts ‘Pir’ behind bars for violating teenage girl

-- 2018-01-26 05:49:21

A court on Thursday has sent a 'Pir' to jail in a case over raping a teenage girl in Faridganj upazila. Senior Judicial Magistrate court judge Md Shafiul Azam also ordered police to investigate the a...

Boost banking for northern crop production: Speakers

Boost banking for northern crop production: Speakers

-- 2018-01-26 02:42:57

Speakers asked the zonal managers of Rajshahi Krishi Unnayan Bank (RAKUB) to speed up its clients-level lending activities for boosting agricultural production to meet up the national food demand. T...

Dist admin takes initiative to rehabilitate beggars in Gaibandha

Dist admin takes initiative to rehabilitate beggars in Gaibandha

-- 2018-01-25 12:35:13

Speakers in Gaibandha underscored proper implementation of programmes to make the district beggar free through active participation of all. An initiative has been taken by the district administration...

Sheep rearing expanding fast in Joypurhat

Sheep rearing expanding fast in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2018-01-25 12:00:00

A good number of people of the district has attained financial solvency by rearing sheep. According to the Department of Livestock Services, Joypurhat, office sources, many people of Akkelpur, Kalai,...

Natore bean growers make good profit

Natore bean growers make good profit

Roving Correspondent 2018-01-25 12:00:00

Bean growers of the district have attained financial solvency due to good production and fair market price.  The vegetable item is being sold at Tk 40 to Tk 50 per kg in the retail market, while...

Death of Chittagong youth: Three cops withdrawn

Death of Chittagong youth: Three cops withdrawn

-- 2018-01-25 07:41:54

Three policemen were withdrawn in connection with the death of a youth in a clash between police and villagers at Bhatiari in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong on Wednesday night. The policemen are- su...

Decoprima pesticide saves veg fields from root rotting disease

Decoprima pesticide saves veg fields from root rotting disease

Our Correspondent 2018-01-24 12:00:00

Decoprima pesticide can be used in vegetable field for driving root and leaf rotten. It can be used when leaves turn yellowish, flowers fall and fungal attack. It makes plants strong and fresh. ...

Two journalists receive splinter injuries at Benapole

Two journalists receive splinter injuries at Benapole

-- 2018-01-24 09:09:52

Two journalists of a private television channel received splinter injuries during a clash between two groups of workers in the Benapole Port area in Jessore on Wednesday. The injured are Jessore dist...

Net house potato farming on rise in Rajshahi region

Net house potato farming on rise in Rajshahi region

-- 2018-01-24 01:40:40

Potato farming through net house system is increasing gradually in Rajshahi region including its vast Barind for multiplying the tissue-culture based seed-potato successfully. Abu Hena Mostofa Kamal,...

Soaring vegetable price worries buyers in Bogra

Soaring vegetable price worries buyers in Bogra

-- 2018-01-23 12:38:31

People of fixed-income group of the district are worried due to high price of all kinds of vegetable. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office source said farmers have cultivated varietie...

State-owned Kushtia poultry farm battles,

State-owned Kushtia poultry farm battles,

-- 2018-01-23 12:25:46

The lone state-owned poultry farm in the district, was established at the cost of Tk 10 million, is now in dire condition. An unprecedented hike in the prices of chicks, poultry feed, medicine, elect...

Narail road mishap takes two lives

Narail road mishap takes two lives

-- 2018-01-23 03:21:45

A grandmother and her granddaughter have been killed after a Kalnaghat-bound truck hit a three-wheeler easy bike carrying them on Narail-Lohagora road in Narail Sadar upazila Tuesday noon. The deceas...

Police recover two bodies from Syllhet hotel

Police recover two bodies from Syllhet hotel

-- 2018-01-22 12:44:06

Police have recovered the bodies of a man and a woman from a hotel room in Sylhet. The bodies were found in Hotel Meherpur at the city’s Sobhani Ghat around 10.30pm on Sunday, Kotwali Police OC...

245 hectares of land come under garlic production in Joypurhat

245 hectares of land come under garlic production in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2018-01-22 12:00:00

Garlic peasants of the district are eyeing a bumper production this season amid a favourable weather condition. The plants are growing well across the district as the local agri office has provided a...

Pumpkin farming going on in Bogra river basin area

Pumpkin farming going on in Bogra river basin area

Our Correspondent 2018-01-22 12:00:00

Hundreds of poor and marginal farmers of Jamuna, Bangalee and Nagore rivers basin of the district are expecting to make a good profit from pumpkin cultivation. Excellent growing of the vegetable is p...

Four Ijtema devotees die in Sylhet head-on crash

Four Ijtema devotees die in Sylhet head-on crash

-- 2018-01-22 12:00:00

Four people were killed and another 10 injured after a bus, carrying 30 Biswa Ijtema devotees, collided head-on with a truck on a Sylhet highway. The incident was reported from Rashidpur Shatmail nei...

Police recover bullet-hit body in Jhenaidah

Police recover bullet-hit body in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-01-21 12:00:00

Police have recovered the body of an unknown man with a bullet wound from Jhenaidah’s Kaliganj. The body was found near the road to Mandartala village around 7am on Sunday, said Kaliganj Police...

Naogaon road accident kills biker

Naogaon road accident kills biker

-- 2018-01-21 03:10:55

A motorcyclist was killed as a bus hit his bike in Biharinagar area under Dhamoirhat upazila of Naogaon on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Mominul Islam Bipul (28), a representative of...

Farmers expects good yield of potato in Rajshahi

Farmers expects good yield of potato in Rajshahi

-- 2018-01-21 01:39:04

Farmers are hopeful about a good potato production in the region in the current season as overall climatic condition remains favorable for the farming. With a view to making good profit like the prev...

Onion farming on rise in Gopalganj

Onion farming on rise in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-01-20 12:00:00

Farmers in Gopalganj are passing a very busy time as onion cultivation is going on in full swing. The Department of Agriculture Extension said around 2825 hectares of land have been brought under the...

Boro cultivation in Nilphamari underway

Boro cultivation in Nilphamari underway

-- 2018-01-20 03:11:33

Boro cultivation paddy has started in Nilphjamari and it would continue for two months more. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said a total 79443 hectares of land has been brought un...

Demand for sweet betel leaf produced in  Bagmara, Mohanpur UZs on the increase

Demand for sweet betel leaf produced in Bagmara, Mohanpur UZs on the increase

Our Correspondent 2018-01-19 12:36:40

RAJSHAHI, Jan 18: The demand for sweet betel leaf produced in Bagmara and Mohanpur upazilas have been increasing day by day. Now, by covering most markets of Rangpur, Khulna, Barisal, Sylhet, Chittago...