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Defying Hilsa ban: Seven fishermen get jail in Rajbari

Defying Hilsa ban: Seven fishermen get jail in Rajbari

-- 2017-10-07 05:12:38

A mobile court in Rajbari sentenced seven fishermen to 18-day imprisonments for catching Hilsa in Padma River on Friday night defying the ongoing ban. A joint team of local police and Fisheries Depar...

Police arrest 8 cattle thieves in Chudanga, Kushtia

Police arrest 8 cattle thieves in Chudanga, Kushtia

-- 2017-10-07 04:20:41

Police arrested eight cattle thieves from Chuadanga and Kushtia districts on Friday night in separate drives. Officer-in-Charge of Dhamurhuda Police Station Abu Zihad said on secret information, they...

Bagha mayor’s daughter in law found hanging

Bagha mayor’s daughter in law found hanging

-- 2017-10-07 01:48:30

The second wife of Bagha municipality panel mayor’s son has been found dead at their residence in Bagha municipality area of Rajshahi district. Police recovered the body of Jeba Khatun, wife o...

DAE takes initiative for commercial chilli cultivation in Bogra

DAE takes initiative for commercial chilli cultivation in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-10-06 12:50:16

BOGRA, Oct 04: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has taken initiative for commercial chilli cultivation in the district. Over 670 hectares of land in all the 12 upazilas have been brought...

Padma erodes Chapainawabganj town protection dam for  low quality construction

Padma erodes Chapainawabganj town protection dam for low quality construction

Roving Correspondent 2017-10-06 12:48:52

CHAPAINAWABGANJ, Oct 05:  Over 30-metre long town protection dam on the mighty Padma river at Tikri area of Alatuli union under sadar upazila of Chapainawabganj district has been devoured on We...

Pest attack, stem rot disease  affect Rangpur Aman fields

Pest attack, stem rot disease affect Rangpur Aman fields

Our Correspondent 2017-10-06 12:00:00

RANGPUR, Oct 05: The Aman cultivators at different areas in eight districts under Rangpur division are worried owing to attack of pest and stem rot disease,   causing massive damage to their...

Death of RMG worker sparks protest in Gazipur

Death of RMG worker sparks protest in Gazipur

-- 2017-10-06 08:56:21

Workers of a local RMG factory blocked Dhaka-Myemnsingh highway for nearly 90 minutes following the death of a fellow worker in a road accident at Nagpara area of Gazipur on Friday. Abdul Hye, in-cha...

41 jailed for defying fishing ban

41 jailed for defying fishing ban

-- 2017-10-06 02:58:13

A Faridpur mobile court on Friday sentenced 41 fishermen to 15-day imprisonment for catching hilsa in the Padma river defying the ongoing government ban. A mobile court led by executive magistrate Sa...

Indigenous fish species face extinction in Netrakona

Indigenous fish species face extinction in Netrakona

-- 2017-10-05 12:48:03

NETRAKONA, Oct 04 (BSS): Many indigenous fishes are disappearing from the water bodies of the district gradually due to various reasons like siltation of rivers, canals and other water bodies, indiscr...

Low market prices dishearten Joypurhat potato growers

Low market prices dishearten Joypurhat potato growers

Roving Correspondent 2017-10-05 12:47:28

JOYPURHAT, Oct 4: Low market prices have disheartened potato growers in Kalai upazila of the district.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) official sources said the prices have been decreased...

BGB nabs hundi trader at Benapole

BGB nabs hundi trader at Benapole

-- 2017-10-05 12:00:00

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) nabbed an alleged hundi trader along with US$22,500 from Benapole check-post on Wednesday. Lieutenant colonel Ariful Haq said, tipped off, a team of BGB-49 ar...

Construction worker dies from electrocution

Construction worker dies from electrocution

FE Online Desk 2017-10-05 11:48:03

A construction worker died after being electrocuted at his workplace in Azimpur area in Dhaka Thursday morning. The deceased was identified as Anwar Hossain Moqaddes, aged around 40, son of Mahbub Al...

BSF shoots Bangladeshi dead

BSF shoots Bangladeshi dead

-- 2017-10-05 10:54:31

The Border Security Force (BSF) of India has shot dead a Bangladeshi man at Baldia border of Bhurungamari Upazila in Kurigram. The BSF shot Jahangir Hossain, 32, from Monglarkuti village when he was...

Jomuneshwari erosion renders 200 families homeless in Rangpur

Jomuneshwari erosion renders 200 families homeless in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2017-10-04 12:33:45

RANGPUR, Oct 3: Massive erosion in Jomuneshwari has rendered at least 200 families homeless in different villages of Lohanipara and Kutubpur unions under Badarganj upazila in the district over the la...

DAE takes initiative to grow  hybrid cotton at Charghat

DAE takes initiative to grow hybrid cotton at Charghat

Roving Correspondent 2017-10-04 12:00:00

Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has undertaken enterprise to cultivate hybrid cotton in this current season under Charghat upazila of Rajshahi district. The farmers of Matikata, Deopara and...

Aus cultivation gaining popularity in Bogra

Aus cultivation gaining popularity in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-10-04 12:00:00

Aus farming is gaining popularity among thousands of poor peasants in the district. Once Aus was cultivated on the large tract of land in the area, now high yielding Boro has took the place. Farmers...

Youth’s decomposed body found

Youth’s decomposed body found

-- 2017-10-04 12:00:00

Members of river police recovered decomposed body of an unidentified young man from the Buriganga river in South Keraniganj upazila in Dhaka on Tuesday night. After being informed, police recovered t...

Success story of widow's hard work in poultry farming in Rangpur

Success story of widow's hard work in poultry farming in Rangpur

Sayed Mofidul Babu 2017-10-03 12:37:02

RANGPUR, Oct 02: Mariam Begum is an example of how a helpless woman can be successful by dint of hard work and devotion. She has brought significant change in her socio-economic condition by poultry f...

Snake charmer hacked dead

Snake charmer hacked dead

-- 2017-10-03 10:31:21

A snake charmer was hacked to death by miscreants at a Bedey Palli in Porabari area on Monday night.   Police said miscreants attacked Sohel Hossain, son of Nur Hossain, around 7 p.m. and hacked...

Minor siblings drown

Minor siblings drown

-- 2017-10-03 09:32:30

Two minor siblings drowned in a canal at Chhoto Khurma village in Bishwanath upazila of Sylhet district on Monday. The deceased were identified as Rohan Ahmed, 12 and Redwan Ahmed, 8, sons of one Ezz...

BGB members detain seven Rohingyas in Satkhira

BGB members detain seven Rohingyas in Satkhira

-- 2017-10-03 06:17:21

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained seven Rohingya people, including two minor children, from Hijaldi border area in Kolaroa upazila of Satkhira on Tuesday morning. The detainees are Md...

Madaripur road crash leaves one dead

Madaripur road crash leaves one dead

-- 2017-10-03 01:02:21

A man was killed and five others injured as a bus hit an auto-rickshaw in the municipality area in Sadar upazila of Madaripur district on Tuesday morning. The accident took place on Dhaka-Madari...

Two killed in Dinajpur road crash

Two killed in Dinajpur road crash

-- 2017-10-02 12:05:21

Two people were killed in a road accident in front of Sadar upazila office in the district town on Monday morning. Identity of the deceased could not be known immediately, reports UNB. Police said a...

Two dead in Rangpur road mishap

Two dead in Rangpur road mishap

-- 2017-10-02 10:37:59

Two people died and at least four were injured after a pickup and a truck collided head-on in Rangpur, police have said. The accident occurred in Mithapukur Upazila’s Jaigirhat Bus Stand area a...

Bus crashes Habiganj man to death

Bus crashes Habiganj man to death

-- 2017-10-02 02:25:00

A man was crushed under the wheels of a bus on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Bhanudeb village under Nabiganj upazila in Habiganj district of Sylhet on Monday morning. The deceased, identified as Motai Miah...

Bus plunge kills 7, injures 15

Bus plunge kills 7, injures 15

FE Online Report 2017-10-01 12:00:00

A bus accident has left at least 7 people dead and 15 others injured, some of them critically, in Chandina Upazila in Comilla district. Police and fireservice men said the accident occurred on the Dh...

Thailand closely watching Myanmar crisis, ready to provide aid

Thailand closely watching Myanmar crisis, ready to provide aid

-- 2017-10-01 11:14:34

  BANGKOK: Thailand's foreign ministry, in a rare statement on an ongoing crisis in neighbouring Myanmar's Rakhine state, said late on Saturday that it was "closely following the situation" and...

Copter crash-lands in Pabna, all four on board safe

Copter crash-lands in Pabna, all four on board safe

-- 2017-10-01 09:36:50

A helicopter has crash-landed in Pabna's Chatmohar with four people on board, and all of them are safe, police say, according to bdnews24.com. One of the three passengers received 'minor injuries' wh...

Lightning kills 3 fishermen in Rajshahi

Lightning kills 3 fishermen in Rajshahi

-- 2017-10-01 04:40:18

A lightning strike during storm has killed three fishermen at Baghmara Upazila of Rajshahi district on Sunday afternoon. The dead are Abul Hossain, 40, Jalal Uddin, 38, and Khorshed Alam, 50, residen...

Woman dies in Ashulia road mishap

Woman dies in Ashulia road mishap

-- 2017-09-30 12:00:00

An unidentified woman was crashed under the wheels of a moving bus on Nabinagar-Chandra Highway in Ashulia area of Savar, on the outskirts of the Dhaka city Saturday morning. Witnesses said that a bu...