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Migratory birds no more a common sight in Cox's Bazar

Migratory birds no more a common sight in Cox's Bazar

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-03 09:47:31

COX'S BAZAR: Migratory birds are now-a-days hardly seen in Cox's Bazar district due to hunting, heavy urbanisation, massive deforestation, occupation of water bodies and a lack of campaign against p...

15 shops gutted in Sherpur market fire

15 shops gutted in Sherpur market fire

-- 2022-01-02 19:16:51

Fifteen shops were gutted in a fire that broke out at Kushumhati market of Sherpur Sadar upazila early Sunday. Jabed Hossain Tareq, deputy assistant director of Sherpur Fire Service, said the fire br...

More than 700 birds rescued in Bagerhat

More than 700 birds rescued in Bagerhat

-- 2022-01-02 18:57:49

More than 700 birds of Sturnidae species, known as Shalik, were on Sunday freed by police after they were rescued from a cowshed at Mollahat in Bagerhat. Tipped off, police raided Kaka Mia's house at...

Bus plunges into ditch in Sirajganj, four dies

Bus plunges into ditch in Sirajganj, four dies

-- 2021-12-31 17:47:16

Four people, including a policeman, were killed after a bus overturned and fell into a roadside ditch in Sirajganj's Salanga. At least 15 others were injured in the incident which took place on the H...

Mustard cultivation exceeds target in Tangail, Jamalpur

Mustard cultivation exceeds target in Tangail, Jamalpur

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-31 09:53:26

Tangail, Dec 30: The mustard cultivation has exceeded its target by 5,000 hectares of land in Tangail. The Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) and the growers here are expecting a bumper musta...

Construction of Buddha statue in Cox's Bazar nearing completion

Construction of Buddha statue in Cox's Bazar nearing completion

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-29 10:00:30

COX'S BAZAR: Ukhia Central Ananda Bhaban Bihar is building a 130-foot Buddha statue on the ground of the monastery in Cox's Bazar. Leaders of the Buddhist community say the 130-foot statue of Gauta...

An incomplete bridge that symbolises corruption

An incomplete bridge that symbolises corruption

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-27 12:48:42

Irregularities in development projects, including slow implementation, repeated extension of deadlines and the use of substandard materials, are nothing new in Bangladesh. The ordinary residents of T...

Couple killed as truck ploughs through house in Jamalpur

Couple killed as truck ploughs through house in Jamalpur

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-27 12:24:35

A man and his wife were killed as a truck ploughed through their roadside house at Garohori village in Dewanganj upazila early Monday. The deceased are Joynal Abedin, 48 a farmer, and his wife Hasina...

Three die after drinking ‘toxic liquor’ in Pabna

Three die after drinking ‘toxic liquor’ in Pabna

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-25 18:52:36

Three people died and two others fell sick reportedly after drinking toxic liquor at Chakchatiani  in Pabna Sadar upazila on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Robiul Islam Roman, 35, son...

10 held while entering Bangladesh illegally

10 held while entering Bangladesh illegally

-- 2021-12-25 17:37:53

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) members on Saturday detained 10 Bangladeshis while they were entering the country from India without valid documents through Maheshpur border in Jhenaidah district. Thre...

Thrust on boosting output of all-season beans thru hi-tech

Thrust on boosting output of all-season beans thru hi-tech

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-24 09:47:05

SYLHET: Agriculture scientists and researchers at an event in Sylhet on Thursday stressed the need for boosting production of all season beans and other vegetables through application of modern farmin...

Ramu rubber farming in a tight spot

Ramu rubber farming in a tight spot

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-23 09:58:50

COX'S BAZAR: The existence of rubber cultivation in Ramu upazila of Cox's Bazar that dates back to over six decades is now in a fragile condition for various reasons. Lack of manpower and patronisati...

Farmers of Netrokona haor cultivating sweet gourds

Farmers of Netrokona haor cultivating sweet gourds

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-22 10:01:27

NETRAKONA: Growing vegetables in haor areas is not a common sight in Bangladesh. But for the first time, the cultivation of sweet gourd began on the highlands of Netrakona haor. And, the farmers are e...

Half of Naogaon's husking mills closed for years

Half of Naogaon's husking mills closed for years

OUR CORRESPONDENT, NAOGAON 2021-12-20 12:49:38

About fifty per cent of the husking mills in the district were closed due to inability to compete with the auto rice mills in last several years. As a result, a good number of husking-mill owners a...

Jagannath University student dies in Noakhali road accident

Jagannath University student dies in Noakhali road accident

-- 2021-12-18 17:59:34

Jagannath University student Sabrina Akhtar was killed in a road accident in Noakhali as she was returning to Dhaka with her parents. Sabrina was enrolled in the university’s 2017-18 batch at t...

Teenager dies as Dhaka-bound bus hits bike in Bagura

Teenager dies as Dhaka-bound bus hits bike in Bagura

-- 2021-12-17 14:51:17

A teenager died while another person riding pillion sustained injuries when their bike was hit by a bus on the Dhaka-Bagura highway in the district's Shahjahanpur upazila late Thursday night. The dec...

Truck hits auto-rickshaw, father and daughter die

Truck hits auto-rickshaw, father and daughter die

-- 2021-12-10 18:53:50

A man and his daughter were killed and another one injured when a truck hit an auto-rickshaw in front of Dak Bungalow of Chasara in Narayanganj on Friday. The deceased were identified as Altaf Hossai...

Fire breaks out at Rajbari Jute Mills

Fire breaks out at Rajbari Jute Mills

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-10 11:57:00

A fire broke out at a jute mill in the Aladipur area of Rajbari Sadar upazila early on Friday morning. Fortunately, no casualties were reported. Md Nazrul Islam, assistant director of Faridpur fire s...

Reopening of Mogholhat checkpoint emphasised to facilitate travel

Reopening of Mogholhat checkpoint emphasised to facilitate travel

OUR CORRESPONDENT, LALMONIRHAT 2021-12-06 10:32:17

The leaders of business community and civil society have called on the government to take proper steps to reopen the Mogolhat Land Customs Checkpoint of Sadar upazila. If this happens, people of both...

Boro seedbeds in the making in Netrakona fields

Boro seedbeds in the making in Netrakona fields

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-06 09:04:47

NETRAKONA: The farmers in the district are busy preparing seedbeds and seedlings of Boro paddy in Haor areas as the Aman cultivation is over. According to the Netrakona Agricultural Extension Departm...

Two ‘robbers’ killed in Bhola ‘gunfight’

Two ‘robbers’ killed in Bhola ‘gunfight’

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-05 14:40:52

Two suspected robbers were killed in a ‘gunfight’ with members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) at Char Kukri Mukri in Charfashion upazila of Bhola district on Sunday. The identities of th...

Lax security threatens Cox's Bazar airport

Lax security threatens Cox's Bazar airport

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-12-05 09:23:34

COX'S BAZAR: A day after a Biman plane hit two cows on the runway while taking off from Cox's Bazar airport, this correspondent found lax security at the airport. The boundary walls are broken due...

Microbus-auto collision kills two in Chapainawabganj

Microbus-auto collision kills two in Chapainawabganj

-- 2021-12-03 20:21:09

Two people were killed and three others injured in a microbus-auto-rickshaw collision on Chapainawabganj-Sonamasjid land port road in Shibganj Upazila of Chapainawabganj on Friday. The deceased were...

Road accidents kill six people in four districts

Road accidents kill six people in four districts

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-03 19:48:19

At least six people were killed in separate road accidents in Chandpur, Rajshahi, Pabna and Chattogram districts on Thursday night and Friday. Among the deceased, three were killed in Chandpur and th...

Farmers suffer as dealers charge higher fixed price for fertilisers

Farmers suffer as dealers charge higher fixed price for fertilisers

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2021-12-03 09:32:20

Fertiliser dealers of the haor upazilas in Sunamganj have been extracting additional price from the farmers, alleged a number of locals. Krishak Sangram Parishad leader Khairul Bashar Thakur of Badsh...

Chattogram at high risk of earthquake

Chattogram at high risk of earthquake

NAZIMUDDIN SHYAMOL, CHATTOGRAM 2021-12-01 09:01:02

Chattogram and its adjoining areas are at high risk of earthquake, experts said. If an earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale hits Chattogram, more than 0.15 million buildings could be destroyed...

Salt farmers fear losses

Salt farmers fear losses

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-29 09:59:33

COX'S BAZAR: Salt farmers have requested the government to revise the initial decision of importing edible salt since there is already an ample reserve of salt in the country. According to the Salt F...

BGB recovers Tk 60m worth Yaba from Teknaf

BGB recovers Tk 60m worth Yaba from Teknaf

-- 2021-11-26 17:31:28

The Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered 200,000 pieces of Yaba worth Tk60 million during a drive at Teknaf, the force said on Friday. The illegal drug was being smuggled to Bangladesh from Myanm...

Approach road linking 40 Sylhet villages damaged

Approach road linking 40 Sylhet villages damaged

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-25 11:11:31

SYLHET: Thousands of locals have been suffering much due to damage of a major part of the approach of an important link road, connecting the Beheli union parishad and other offices in the district. I...

Lucrative price boosts BARI Halud-1 cultivation in Bogura

Lucrative price boosts BARI Halud-1 cultivation in Bogura

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-25 10:45:20

BOGURA: BARI Halud-1 (turmeric) farming is expanding across the district over the last few years. Due to favourable weather condition, peasants are expecting bumper production of the spice this sea...