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2 more die of dengue in Noakhali, Mymensingh

2 more die of dengue in Noakhali, Mymensingh

-- 2019-08-11 14:56:48

Two more people died of dengue in Noakhali and Mymensingh districts on Sunday, reports UNB. In Noakhali, a sexagenarian man succumbed to the mosquito-borne disease at Noakhali General Hospital in t...

30-km tailback on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in Sirajganj

30-km tailback on Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in Sirajganj

-- 2019-08-11 13:37:30

A 30-km tailback has been created on the Dhaka-Rajshahi highway in Sirajganj, causing immense suffering to home-bound people, reports UNB. Officer-in-charge of Bangabandhu Bridge West Police Station...

Sirajganj road crash kills journo, wife

Sirajganj road crash kills journo, wife

-- 2019-08-11 12:44:26

A local journalist and his wife were killed while their two children injured after being run over by a speedy bus in Raiganj Upazila early Sunday, reports UNB. The deceased were identified as Rafiqul...

Housewife ‘gang-raped’ in Netrakona

Housewife ‘gang-raped’ in Netrakona

-- 2019-08-11 11:34:01

A housewife has reportedly been gang-raped confining her husband to an eatery in Sadar upazila of Netrokona district. Police arrested four accused on Saturday over the incident after the victim filed...

Sacrificial animals abundant across districts

Sacrificial animals abundant across districts

Our Correspondents 2019-08-10 21:30:49

RANGPUR, Aug 10: With only one day left for holy Eid-ul-Azha, the sale of sacrificial animals is gaining momentum at different cattle markets under Rangpur division.According to sources, the cattle ma...

Dengue patients rising in Joypurhat, Sirajganj, Bogura, Jhenidah districts

Dengue patients rising in Joypurhat, Sirajganj, Bogura, Jhenidah districts

Our Correspondents 2019-08-09 01:03:16

TANGAIL, Aug 08: A dengue-affected patient died at Kumodini Hospital under Mirzapur upazila in the district on Wednesday night. The deceased was identified as Arif Hossaon Kajal (28), son of Alam Mia...

Jute price attractive, Gopalganj farmers busy harvesting  the cash crop

Jute price attractive, Gopalganj farmers busy harvesting the cash crop

Our Correspondent 2019-08-09 01:01:45

GOPALGANJ, Aug 08: Jute growers in the district are passing busy time harvesting their produce. Sources said newly-harvested jute has started appearing in the local markets and growers are expecting...

Farmers in Sylhet division engaged in transplanting T-Aman paddy

Farmers in Sylhet division engaged in transplanting T-Aman paddy

Our Correspondent 2019-08-09 01:00:47

SYLHET, Aug 08: most of the farmers in Sylhet division have been engaged in the cultivation of Transplanted Aman paddy in a bid to yield highest after the recent floods, officials and a number of farm...

PABL-FE Roundtable on Insurance Industry’s  Expectations and Attainments in the Budget 2019-2020

PABL-FE Roundtable on Insurance Industry’s Expectations and Attainments in the Budget 2019-2020

-- 2019-08-08 20:51:18

Date: July 31, 2019 • Time: 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. • Venue: Purbani International Hotel, 1 Dilkusha, Dhaka Chief Guest: Mr. M A Mannan, MP, Honorable Minister, Ministry of Planning, Govt...

Two killed in Sirajganj motorcycle crash

Two killed in Sirajganj motorcycle crash

-- 2019-08-08 11:41:33

Two motorcycle riders have died after a car ploughed into the vehicle in Sirajganj’s Ullapara Upazila. The accident occurred on the Nalka-Sirajganj road in the upazila’s Panchlia Bazar ar...

Two die of dengue in Rangpur, Dinajpur

Two die of dengue in Rangpur, Dinajpur

FE Desk Report 2019-08-06 21:09:45

There is no respite from the deadly fever dengue as the disease is taking its toll almost everyday in the city or districts. Virtually it is spreading in an epidemic form creating panic among the peo...

Impressive chilli output makes Magura farmers happy

Impressive chilli output makes Magura farmers happy

Our Correspondent 2019-08-06 21:07:40

MAGURA, Aug 06: Bumper production and high market price have brought smile to the faces of chilli growers in the district. Farmers' sources said green chilli harvest going on in full swing. Newly-har...

Sales of sacrificial animals gearing up in Rajshahi

Sales of sacrificial animals gearing up in Rajshahi

Our Correspondents 2019-08-06 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Aug 05: As the Eid-ul-Azha is approaching fast, sales in markets of sacrificial animals in the district are gearing up. A big number of sacrificial animals including bulls, goats and shee...

Doctors, staff shortage hampers medicare at 50-bed Nabiganj health complex

Doctors, staff shortage hampers medicare at 50-bed Nabiganj health complex

Our Correspondent 2019-08-05 00:00:00

SYLHET, Aug 04: Although the upazila heath complex at Nabiganj in Habiganj district was upgraded into a 50-bed one long ago, yet the government-run hospital lacks minimum number of physicians and othe...

Tangail road crashes kill five

Tangail road crashes kill five

-- 2019-08-04 20:23:57

Five people, including a couple, were killed in separate road crashes in Mirzapur, Ghatail and Delduar upazilas of Tangail on Sunday. In Mirzapur upazila, three people were killed when a Tangail-boun...

Bullet-hit body found along Kushtia border

Bullet-hit body found along Kushtia border

-- 2019-08-04 17:00:46

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered the bullet-hit body of a young man from Charpara border along Daulatpur upazila in Kushtia district on Sunday, reports UNB. The deceased was identif...

Five killed in Tangail road accident

Five killed in Tangail road accident

-- 2019-08-04 16:51:45

Five people, including husband and wife, were killed and five others injured in three separate road accidents in Tangail on Sunday. Mirzapur Thana police said three people including husband and wife...

Dhaka-Gaibandha rail link to be fixed before Eid: Minister

Dhaka-Gaibandha rail link to be fixed before Eid: Minister

-- 2019-08-02 19:05:21

Railways Minister Md Nurul Islam Sujan on Friday said rail route connecting the capital and eight northern districts via Gaibandha will be restored before Eid-ul-Azha.  “The repair work is...

70 shanties gutted in N’ganj slum fire

70 shanties gutted in N’ganj slum fire

-- 2019-08-02 18:51:57

At least 70 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out in a slum near Narayanganj Zila Parishad office in the district early Friday. Abdullah Al-Arefin, deputy assistant director of Narayanganj Fi...

Borhan Biswas Rumon—a snake lover and farmer

Borhan Biswas Rumon—a snake lover and farmer

Our Correspondent 2019-08-02 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, Aug 01: The snake farm owned by Borhan Biswas Rumon of Naohata under Paba upazila in the district is only of its kind in the district. The snake farm known as Snake Rescue and Rehabilitatio...

Joypurhat blacksmiths passing busy time ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

Joypurhat blacksmiths passing busy time ahead of Eid-ul-Azha

Roving Correspondent 2019-08-02 00:00:00

JOYPURHAT, Aug 01: Over 500 blacksmiths in the district are passing busy time at their shops making sharp tools for slaughtering sacrificial animals and preparing their flesh, with the Eid-ul-Azha app...

Road crash kills two motorcyclists in Rajshahi

Road crash kills two motorcyclists in Rajshahi

-- 2019-08-01 09:59:36

Two motorcyclists were killed after a truck hit a motorcycle on the Rajshahi-Chapainawabganj road in Godagari upazila of Rajshahi in the early hours of Thursday. The deceased were identified as Samad...

Pomelo cultivation ushers in new hope among Gopalganj farmers

Pomelo cultivation ushers in new hope among Gopalganj farmers

Our Correspondent 2019-08-01 00:00:00

GOPALGANJ, July 31: Pomelo cultivation has ushered in a new hope among the growers in Gopalganj Sadar and Kasiani upazilas in the district as the cultivators are benefiting greatly from the produce....

Experts ask rearers not to use steroid for cow fattening

Experts ask rearers not to use steroid for cow fattening

-- 2019-07-31 00:00:00

MANIKGANJ, July 30 (BSS): Mankiganj cattle rearers were asked not to use any steroid or hormone tablet for fattening their animals for upcoming Eid-ul-Azha market. Acting district livestock officer D...

Naogaon cultivators busy  transplanting Aman seedlings

Naogaon cultivators busy transplanting Aman seedlings

Roving Correspondent 2019-07-31 00:00:00

NAOGAON, July 30: Famers in the district are passing busy time transplanting Aman paddy seedlings. According to the officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), over 16,7456 hectares o...

Farmers opting for avocado cultivation  in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj

Farmers opting for avocado cultivation in Rajshahi, Chapainawabganj

Our Correspondent 2019-07-30 00:00:00

RAJSHAHI, July 29: Farming of avocado, a fruit enriched with various vitamins and containing medicinal quality to resist various diseases, is gaining popularity in Rajshahi and Chapainawabganj. In ad...

Floods cause severe damage to  roads in frontier Sunamganj

Floods cause severe damage to roads in frontier Sunamganj

Our Correspondent 2019-07-30 00:00:00

SYLHET, July. 29: Road link in frontier Sunamganj district is yet to become normal although waters have started receding from the area. Direct plying of vehicles remained suspended on the Sunamganj-Ta...

Thousands facing boundless miseries  in flood-battered Bogura, Sirajganj

Thousands facing boundless miseries in flood-battered Bogura, Sirajganj

Roving Correspondent 2019-07-28 21:41:12

SIRAJGANJ, July 28: Flooding has brought several thousand people to their knee in Bogura and Sirajganj districts with fresh swelling of the mighty Jamuna and Bengali rivers in recent days.  The...

Mango intercropping boon for Rajshahi farmers

Mango intercropping boon for Rajshahi farmers

-- 2019-07-28 16:50:53

Many farmers are seen showing interests towards intercropping of mango with various cereal crops especially paddy in the region including its vast Barind tract because the method gives additional inco...

3,200 hectares of cropland flooded in Naogaon

3,200 hectares of cropland flooded in Naogaon

-- 2019-07-26 20:07:47

Thousands of farmers are staring at a bleak future after Atrai and Chhoto Jamuna rivers burst their banks, flooding several thousand hectares of farmland in the district. The affected croplands are i...