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Magura road mishap kills cattle traders

Magura road mishap kills cattle traders

-- 2017-12-11 11:22:01

Two cattle traders have been killed after a Dhaka-bound cattle-laden truck from Jessore hit a roadside tree and plunged into a ditch on Magura-Jessore road at Jagla on Sunday night. The victims were...

Fire at Fenchuganj power station

Fire at Fenchuganj power station

-- 2017-12-11 05:08:25

Some areas of northeastern districts experienced power supply disruptions due to a fire incident at the Fenchuganj power station in Sylhet on Monday. The Power Grid Company of Bangladesh (PGCB) opera...

Tribunal probe team visits Lalmonirhat

Tribunal probe team visits Lalmonirhat

Our Correspondent 2017-12-11 02:01:22

A three-member investigation team led by Mohammad Nazmul Haque, an additional director of the International Crimes Tribunal (ICT), has visited Lalmonirhat district. They talked to victims of the cri...

Gopalganj farmers take interest to  grow mung bean

Gopalganj farmers take interest to grow mung bean

Our Correspondent 2017-12-11 01:36:24

GOPALGANJ, Dec 10: Cultivation of mung bean, locally known as 'Sona Mung' is gaining popularity among the farmers of Jalalabad union under Sadar upazila in the district. A good number of farmers hav...

ACC team to visit Sunamganj to see WDB's embankment repair work

ACC team to visit Sunamganj to see WDB's embankment repair work

Iqbal Siddiquee 2017-12-10 12:26:54

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) would visit different haor areas in Sunamganj soon to see the incomplete work of the Water Development Board (WDB) on the crop protection embankments. A team of the...

Fire guts UCB branch in N’ganj

Fire guts UCB branch in N’ganj

Agencies 2017-12-10 12:00:00

A security guard was burnt to death in a fire that broke out at a branch of United Commercial Bank (UCB) at a city corporation market in Taanbazar area of Narayanganj city early Sunday. The fire orig...

Truck, microbus collide head-on, killing three

Truck, microbus collide head-on, killing three

-- 2017-12-10 09:56:30

Three people were killed and another was injured in a head-on collision between a truck and a microbus on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in Puthia upazila on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Mira Be...

Rajshahi police seize 176 sacks of OMS rice

Rajshahi police seize 176 sacks of OMS rice

-- 2017-12-10 04:51:06

Police seized 176 sacks of rice meant for open market sale (OMS) programme from a truck in Rajshahi city on Sunday. The law enforcers also arrested driver of the truck. Officer-in-charge of Boalia P...

ACC arrests 3 CDA engineers

ACC arrests 3 CDA engineers

-- 2017-12-10 04:24:28

The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) arrested three engineers of the Chittagong Development Authority (CDA) over graft charges. ACC arrested them while conducting a special drive on Sunday The arres...

Bumper production delights Magura brinjal farmers

Bumper production delights Magura brinjal farmers

Our Correspondent 2017-12-10 02:30:25

Magura farmers are overjoyed as they have got a bumper production of brinjal. They are also happy over the present market price of the vegetable. Market sources said brinjal is being sold at Tk 50 pe...

Over 500 trout fish cultivators become jobless at Adamdighi

Over 500 trout fish cultivators become jobless at Adamdighi

Our Correspondent 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Due to acute adverse weather condition, more than 500 trout fish workers under Adamdighi upazila of Bogra district have become jobless in this peak season. According to Miniature Fisheries Organisati...

Female artisans busy making Kumro Bori in Natore

Female artisans busy making Kumro Bori in Natore

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-09 12:00:00

A good number of people are earning good profit by making popular lentil dumpling (Kumro Bori) this winter. Female members of a good number of families are generally engaged in making the item and ea...

Bailey bridge collapses in Thakurgaon

Bailey bridge collapses in Thakurgaon

-- 2017-12-09 11:00:32

Road communications of Thakurgaon district town with 10 Union Parishads remained snapped as a bailey bridge at Barunagaon in Sadar upazila collapsed on Friday evening. Mafidar Islam, station officer...

BGB detains 10 Bangladeshis along Benapole border

BGB detains 10 Bangladeshis along Benapole border

-- 2017-12-09 03:04:06

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 10 Bangladeshi from Daulatpur border in Benapole on Saturday. They were detained while entering into the country illegally. The detainees include fo...

Training programme on tailoring makes a school dropout self-reliant

Training programme on tailoring makes a school dropout self-reliant

Our Correspondent 2017-12-08 12:22:14

MAGURA, Dec 05: School dropout Shikha is now enjoying a new life. Shikha is the daughter of Hanif Sheikh of village Barunatal under Magura sadar upazila. Hanif Sheikh is the owner of a petty tea st...

Police arrest two with arms at Benapole

Police arrest two with arms at Benapole

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Police arrested Two people along with firearms from Navaron Burujbagan area on Beanpole-Jessore Highway under Sharsha upazila of Jessore early Friday. Acting on a tip-off, police raided the area and...

Bogra brinjal farmers getting fair price this season

Bogra brinjal farmers getting fair price this season

Our correspondent 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Farmers of Bogra district are happy as they are getting fair price of brinjal this year. The tasty vegetable was grown massively across the area including its vast char land amid favourable weather c...

Design complexity stalls modernisation of Khulna Railway Station

Design complexity stalls modernisation of Khulna Railway Station

Our correspondent 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Design complexities are delaying the modernisation of a railway station in Khulna district, begun in April 2015. Now it is 44 months on since the Cabinet Committee of Public Procurement approved the...

Twin brothers die in Lakshmipur road crash

Twin brothers die in Lakshmipur road crash

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

Twin brothers have died in a road accident in Lakshmipur on Friday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Hasan and Hossain, 14, sons of Khurshed Alam of Shafipur village in Lakshmipur Sadar upaz...

BGB detains two with gold bars worth Tk 17m

BGB detains two with gold bars worth Tk 17m

-- 2017-12-08 03:15:12

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) arrested two suspected smugglers along with 26 gold bars worth Tk 16.7 million from Benapole check-post area on Friday. The arrestees are Imran Hossian, 22, s...

Two women die in Barisal road crash

Two women die in Barisal road crash

-- 2017-12-08 01:19:47

Two women were killed and three others injured in a road crash at Naruttampur area in Banaripara upazila of Barisal district on Friday. One of the deceased was identified as Fatema, reports UNB. Md...

Daylong hartal underway in Rangamati

Daylong hartal underway in Rangamati

-- 2017-12-07 11:31:46

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Textile mill resumes operation after 22 years

Textile mill resumes operation after 22 years

Our Correspondent 2017-12-07 04:21:32

Darwani Textile Mill has resumed operations 22 years after it was closed in the face of huge losses in Nilphamari district. Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor inaugurated the operation at a f...

Sweet smell of Aman pervades  air as harvest begins

Sweet smell of Aman pervades air as harvest begins

Our Correspondent 2017-12-07 01:17:17

RANGPUR, Dec 6: Sweet fragrance of Aman paddy pervades the air as harvest of the crop is going on in full swing across Rangpur division. The cultivators of the region are delighted due to satisfact...

Fair price delights Sirajganj catkin growers

Fair price delights Sirajganj catkin growers

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-07 01:16:19

SIRAJGANJ, Dec 06:  Catkin (Kashful) growers of the vast char area of the mighty Jamuna river under the district are delighted over the fair price this current season. Everyday, a good number...

Patients suffer as Derai UZ health complex in poor state

Patients suffer as Derai UZ health complex in poor state

Our Correspondent 2017-12-07 01:15:30

SYLHET, Dec 06: The Derai Upazila Health Complex in Sunamganj couldn't yet start functioning as 50-bed one even a year after it was upgraded by the health minister. Over 250,000 people of the remot...

Commuters suffer for bad shape  of Sirajganj-Enayetpur link road

Commuters suffer for bad shape of Sirajganj-Enayetpur link road

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-06 12:55:39

SIRAJGANJ, Nov 05: Thousands of commuters have been suffering due to the bad shape of the Sirajganj-Enayetpur link road in the district. According to the official sources at the Roads and Highways...

Radish price drops across Bogra

Radish price drops across Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Radish price has fallen sharply across the district. Sources said rate of the winter delicacy has dropped due to massive supply. Market sources said radish is being sold at Tk 10 to Tk 12 per kg in t...

Jogonnathpur Boro growers face shortage of water

Jogonnathpur Boro growers face shortage of water

Our Correspondent 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Over 1500 farmers are in much trouble in cultivating Boro paddy this season due to water crisis. Many of them from the five villages of unions under Jogonnathpur upazila in Sunamganj district were now...

Farming of spicy crops on the rise in Rangpur

Farming of spicy crops on the rise in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2017-12-06 11:46:09

The cultivators of the district are passing busy time in farming varieties of spicy crops this current season as a congenial weather condition has been prevailing in the region. Sources said due to h...