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Assailants slaughter housewife in Naogaon

Assailants slaughter housewife in Naogaon

-- 2017-12-06 04:08:11

Some assailants slaughtered a housewife at her house in Post Office Para of the district town on Wednesday noon. The deceased was Jibonnesa Mini Chawdhury, 55, wife of former chairman of Raninagar up...

Detectives nab two over Habiganj female MP assault

Detectives nab two over Habiganj female MP assault

-- 2017-12-06 02:57:41

Detectives detained two people, including Bahubal upazila vice chairman Tara Miah and also the prime accused in the case for assaulting female MP Amatul Kibria Keya, from the capital on Tuesday night...

Daylong hartal underway in Jurachhari upazila

Daylong hartal underway in Jurachhari upazila

-- 2017-12-06 01:27:18

A dawn-to-dusk hartal called by Jurachhari upazila unit of Chhatra League protesting the killing of a Jubo League leader is underway in the upazila on Wednesday. All business establishments remained...

Dishonest traders deceiving Rangpur farmers with spurious paddy seeds

Dishonest traders deceiving Rangpur farmers with spurious paddy seeds

Our Correspondent 2017-12-05 12:44:58

Farmers of eight districts under Rangpur division are apprehensive as sale of low quality and spurious Boro paddy seed is going on unabated at the beginning of seed sowing season. According to source...

Pregnant woman dies over 'wrong treatment'

Pregnant woman dies over 'wrong treatment'

-- 2017-12-05 04:54:15

A pregnant young woman died at a private clinic in Kachua upazila of Chandpur on Monday evening due to alleged wrong treatment. The deceased was identified as Salma Begum, 28, wife of Md Jakir Hossai...

Mobile court fines 19 fishermen over jatka fishing

Mobile court fines 19 fishermen over jatka fishing

-- 2017-12-05 04:48:47

A mobile court fined 19 fishermen Tk 5,000 each for catching jatka in Meghna river at Naria upazila of Shariatpur on Monday. A joint team of police and officials of Department of Fisheries (DoF) led...

Crop protection embankments work in Sunamganj set to begin December 15

Crop protection embankments work in Sunamganj set to begin December 15

Our Correspondent 2017-12-05 01:48:26

Although the first deadline ended on November 30, the formation of Project Implementation Committees (PIC) couldn't be completed as yet. However, it would be completed before the start of their field...

Pregnant woman dies over wrong treatment

Pregnant woman dies over wrong treatment

-- 2017-12-05 01:31:25

An expectant young woman died at a private clinic in Kachua upazila headquarters on Monday evening as the on-duty doctor treated her wrongly. The deceased was Salma Begum, 28, wife of Md Jakir Hossai...

Thousands in Nilphamari making Bhapa pitha to earn living

Thousands in Nilphamari making Bhapa pitha to earn living

Our Correspondent 2017-12-04 12:40:51

NILPHAMARI, Dec 3:  Around 10,000 ultra poor people, both male and female, are now engaged in making steam cake (Bhapa pitha) in 60 Union Parishad of six Upazilas across the district. Each of the...

Gopalganj peasants expect bumper production of 'Lalzira' rice

Gopalganj peasants expect bumper production of 'Lalzira' rice

Our Correspondent 2017-12-04 12:40:07

GOPALGANJ, Dec 3: Farmers of Gopalganj Sadar of the district are excepting a bumper production of Lalzira rice this year. According to Gopalganj Sadar Upazila Agriculture office sources, a total of 1...

Broccoli farmers eye good  yield in Rangpur district

Broccoli farmers eye good yield in Rangpur district

Our Correspondent 2017-12-04 12:39:15

RANGPUR, Dec 3: The cultivation of broccoli, a kind of winter vegetable has proved lucrative in the district, as growers have been earning handsome profit from its farming in recent years. The grow...

Comilla road mishap leaves truck helper dead

Comilla road mishap leaves truck helper dead

-- 2017-12-04 12:39:14

A truck driver’s helper has been killed after a covered van hit his truck on Dhaka-Chittagong highway in Hatatoli area in Comilla's Sadar Dakhshin upazila on early Monday. The victim, identifie...

Pirojpur microbus plunge kills father, daughter

Pirojpur microbus plunge kills father, daughter

-- 2017-12-04 12:08:59

A man and his daughter were killed and three other family members sustained injuries when the microbus in which they were travelling, overturned and plunged into a ditch at Morelganj end of the Balesh...

Winter cake business, a blessing to 200 families in Bogra

Winter cake business, a blessing to 200 families in Bogra

Our correspondent 2017-12-04 12:00:00

With the winter setting in, more than 400 people of 200 families have found solvency in piping hot cake business in Bogra. “I earn more than Tk 600 at the cost of some Tk 200 every day,”...

Coast Guard members seize jatka in Chandpur

Coast Guard members seize jatka in Chandpur

-- 2017-12-04 04:57:28

Members of Coast Guard Bangladesh in a drive seized 70 kilograms of jatka (hilsa fry less than 9 inches in length) from a launch in Meghna river in Chandpur on Monday. Lt Sinchon Ahmed, commander of...

Customs officials arrest three Indians with gold bars

Customs officials arrest three Indians with gold bars

-- 2017-12-04 04:46:48

Customs Intelligence officials arrested three Indian citizens along with 17 gold bars worth Tk 10 million from international check post of Benapole Port in Jessore on Monday. The arrestees were ident...

Ctg road crash kills vegetable traders

Ctg road crash kills vegetable traders

-- 2017-12-04 02:27:53

Two vegetable traders have been killed and two others injured after a Chittagong-bound vegetable-laden truck from Comilla, hit a stationed truck in Shitalpur area on Dhaka-Chittagong Highway in Sitaku...

Early tomato farmers making huge profits in Bogra

Early tomato farmers making huge profits in Bogra

Our correspondent 2017-12-03 12:53:55

Many farmers, who have taken up early cultivation of winter crops, especially tomato, are now counting huge profits in Bogra district. They already started harvesting the vegetable, which is now sell...

Gopalganj road crash death toll reaches 8

Gopalganj road crash death toll reaches 8

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

Another person,who was badly injured in a road accident at Sadar upazila of Gopalganj died on Saturday morning. The death toll raised from the incident to eight. The accident took place on Friday nig...

Green onion brings smile to farmers in Natore

Green onion brings smile to farmers in Natore

Roving Correspondent 2017-12-03 12:00:00

Green onions have brought smiles on the faces of hundreds of poor and marginal farmers this year as it is selling at a lucrative rate in Natore. They also made huge profits in last year. They cultiva...

NGO foundation day observed in Magura

NGO foundation day observed in Magura

-- 2017-12-03 12:00:00

Bangladesh NGO foundation day was observed in Magura on Saturday . A discussion was arranged jointly by Rova foundation , SWC and Palli Prokriti at Rova foundation training center.Magura deputy commi...

Clash kills ex-UP member in Habiganj clash

Clash kills ex-UP member in Habiganj clash

-- 2017-12-03 11:27:41

A former Union Parisad member was killed and 15 people were injured in a clash at Jashkesori village in Ajmiriganj upazila.The clash ensued over a disputed land on Saturday afternoon. Zillur Rahman C...

Rivals torch 14 houses in Madaripur

Rivals torch 14 houses in Madaripur

-- 2017-12-03 08:55:20

At least 14 houses were torched in sporadic clashes between two groups of villagers over establishing supremacy at Lakshmiganj area in Madaripur. Witnesses said two groups of people led by a ward cou...

Muggers hack Gas station worker, rob in Gazipur

Muggers hack Gas station worker, rob in Gazipur

-- 2017-12-03 03:13:45

Muggers have robbed a gas station worker of Tk 1 million after stabbing him in a drive-by attack in Gazipur. The victim, Niamat Ali, 35, works as a manager at the Hazi Mofizuddin CNG Filling Station...

RCC development works going on at a snail's pace

RCC development works going on at a snail's pace

-- 2017-12-03 01:22:22

Development works under Rajshahi City Corporation are going on at a snail's pace as RCC authorities have failed to repay TK 200 million arrears bills to 60contractors. RCC authorities have taken up t...

Gopalganj road crash kills 7

Gopalganj road crash kills 7

-- 2017-12-02 12:53:57

Seven people, including a minor, were killed and 20 others injured in a road accident. The accident took place when a bus rammed a truck in Betgram area on Dhaka-Khulna Highway in Sadar upazila on Fr...

Land dispute kills mother, 2 kids in Kishoreganj

Land dispute kills mother, 2 kids in Kishoreganj

-- 2017-12-02 12:09:45

A woman and her two children were hacked to death and her husband was seriously injured over land related dispute in Pakundia upazila of Kishoreganj on Saturday morning. The deceased were wife of Mos...

Shantu Larma warns of unrest in the hills

Shantu Larma warns of unrest in the hills

-- 2017-12-02 11:54:08

Jyotirindra Bodhipriya Larma, popularly known as Shantu Larma, has warned the Bangladesh government that the hill regions will be engulfed in unrest unless it fully honours the 1997 Chittagong Hill Tr...

Pabna road mishap takes lives of two

Pabna road mishap takes lives of two

-- 2017-12-02 07:42:46

Two people, including a woman, were killed and four others injured when a truck hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Nurpur area on Pabna-Gachhpara road in Sadar upazila on Saturday. The deceased have been...

‘Neighbor’ stabs man dead in Ctg

‘Neighbor’ stabs man dead in Ctg

-- 2017-12-02 04:32:57

A young man was stabbed to death over a previous enmity at Jhaldi in Banshkhali upazila. The deceased was Didarul Alam, 28, son of Najir Ahmed of the village. Abdul Malek, a neighbour of Didarul, ha...