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Sand lifting in Jomuneshwari, Atrai rivers threatening  cropland, habitat

Sand lifting in Jomuneshwari, Atrai rivers threatening cropland, habitat

Our Correspondent 2017-11-30 01:01:06

RANGPUR, Nov 29: Mindless sand lifting is going on unabated from Jomuneshwari river at Balapara village of Ikorchali union of Taraganj upazila in Rangpur district, causing serious risk for the river b...

Experts stress farming aromatic rice by applying modern methods

Experts stress farming aromatic rice by applying modern methods

Our Correspondent 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Academics, agriculture scientists and researchers at an event in Sylhet laid emphasis on further research and cultivation of high-value aromatic rice varieties across the country through adopting mode...

Khulna road crash claims two lives

Khulna road crash claims two lives

FE Online Desk 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Two people, including a local Jubo League leader, were killed and three others injured when the private car in which they were travelling, collided head-on with a speedy jute laden truck at Arongghata...

Good market prices delight Sirajganj  T-Aman growers

Good market prices delight Sirajganj T-Aman growers

Roving Correspondent 2017-11-29 01:23:26

SIRAJGANJ, Nov 28:  Hundreds of growers of the district are delighted over the good market price of the newly-harvested T-Aman paddy. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE)...

Bangladeshi dies in BSF firing

Bangladeshi dies in BSF firing

-- 2017-11-28 12:42:01

A Bangladeshi national was gunned down by Border Security Force (BSF) of India at Borogram border point in Kamalpur union under Dinajpur sadar upazila on Monday night. The deceased was identified as...

Patuakhali road mishap kills trucker, helper

Patuakhali road mishap kills trucker, helper

-- 2017-11-28 12:00:00

The driver and his helper of a Barguna-bound vegetable-laden truck were killed when the vehicle plunged into a roadside ditch on Patuakhli-Kolapara road in Patuakhli Sadar upazila on Tuesday morning....

One  dies in shootout with Rajbari police

One dies in shootout with Rajbari police

-- 2017-11-28 12:00:00

A suspected extremist was killed allegedly in an shootout with police in Rajbari’s Sadar Upazila. Police Station SI Kamal Hossain said the shootout happened around 3am on Tuesday in the Upazila...

Mobile court fines traders in Jhenidah

Mobile court fines traders in Jhenidah

-- 2017-11-28 10:30:30

Separate mobile courts fined four LP gas traders to Tk42,500 and three shop owners to Tk 7,500 in the district town. The mobile court led by executive magistrate RaziaAkhter Chowdhury fined while con...

Joypurhat, Nilphamari potato growers happy over market  price as harvest starts

Joypurhat, Nilphamari potato growers happy over market price as harvest starts

Roving Correspondent 2017-11-27 12:47:27

JOYPURHAT, Nov 26:  The potato growers of the district are delighted for good market price this season. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), the marginal farmers of the di...

Impressive profit lures peasants to grow tomato on larger scale

Impressive profit lures peasants to grow tomato on larger scale

Our Correspondent 2017-11-27 12:46:30

RANGPUR, Nov 26: The tomato growers of Rangpur district are expecting an abundant yield of the vegetable during the current season owing to favourable weather condition. Visiting some areas of the di...

Rajshahi housewife ‘kills self’

Rajshahi housewife ‘kills self’

FE Online Desk 2017-11-27 12:35:44

Anjuara Begum, wife of Mansur Rahman, hailing from Mokhmoil village of Rajshahi’s Bagmara upazila, allegedly killed herself by taking poison at her own residence in the village early Monday. Fa...

Mosquito coil triggers fire, killing youth

Mosquito coil triggers fire, killing youth

-- 2017-11-27 12:00:00

A young man who suffered serious burn injuries in a fire at his Debarpar home in Khulshi area of Chittagong on Sunday died at a hospital on Monday morning. Police said the fire, originated from a mos...

Two-crop farming on same land gains popularity in Bogra

Two-crop farming on same land gains popularity in Bogra

Our Correspondent 2017-11-27 09:29:47

BOGRA, Nov 27: Simultaneous farming of two crops on the same land is gaining popularity in the district.According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources, more than 560 hectare...

Ratargul forest still awaits co-management system

Ratargul forest still awaits co-management system

Iqbal Siddiquee 2017-11-27 09:29:09

SYLHET, Nov 27: Even a year after the decision was taken, the authority concerned couldn't establish the much-talked co-management system on the country's lone swamp forest 'Ratargul' for its proper m...

Khulna AL leader passes away

Khulna AL leader passes away

-- 2017-11-27 03:28:30

Khulna Awami League’s acting general secretary Gazi Abdul Hadi died at a hospital in capital Dhaka on Sunday night. He was 65. Abdul Hadi who was undergoing treatment at Square Hospitals since...

Thakurgaon police set up  200 CCTV cameras

Thakurgaon police set up 200 CCTV cameras

-- 2017-11-26 12:00:00

Police in Thakurgaon have installed some 200 Closed Circuit Television (CCTV) cameras at different crime-prone spots of the district in a bid to enhance security of the people. As criminal activities...

Bike crash kills 2 teens in Rajshahi

Bike crash kills 2 teens in Rajshahi

-- 2017-11-26 11:26:24

Two teenage boys were killed in a motorcycle accident on Durgaspur-Katakhali road in Durgapur upazila. The accident took place when the bike hit a roadside tree around 7:30 pm, on Saturday night,leav...

Naogaon bus plunge kills two

Naogaon bus plunge kills two

FE Online Desk 2017-11-26 11:03:44

Two people have been killed and at least 10 others sustained injuries when the driver of a Naogaon-bound bus lost control over the vehicle and fell into a roadside ditch at Panchamitola area in Manda...

Female SI ‘hangs herself’ in Savar

Female SI ‘hangs herself’ in Savar

FE Online Desk 2017-11-26 10:45:12

Tahmina Akhter, a female Sub-Inspector of Savar Model Police Station, who was on maternity leave, allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from a ceiling fan at her own residence in Savar staff...

Coast Guard seize Tk 210m current nets

Coast Guard seize Tk 210m current nets

-- 2017-11-26 08:06:51

Bangladesh Coast Guard members have seized around 6 million metres illegal current nets worth Tk 210 million in Bhola district town. A team of the coast guard conducted drives at different shops and...

Dinajpur transport workers withdraw strike

Dinajpur transport workers withdraw strike

-- 2017-11-26 04:41:12

Transport workers of Dinajpur withdrew their strike on Sunday. They went on an indefinite on Wednesday following a clash with some students of Hajee Danesh Science and Technology University (HSTU)....

Chuadanga train collision snaps rail link with Khulna

Chuadanga train collision snaps rail link with Khulna

-- 2017-11-25 11:34:24

The rail link between Khulna and the rest of the country was snapped after a Partbatipur-bound train, carrying oil, collided with another freight train coming from the opposite direction near Darshana...

Cops detain Sherpur Udichi gen secretary

Cops detain Sherpur Udichi gen secretary

-- 2017-11-25 11:34:07

Police detained two people, including the general secretary of Bangladesh Udichi Shilpigosthi Sherpur unit over an extortion case on Friday night. Inspector Md Nazrul Islam, officer-in-charge of Sadar...

Ctg road mishap kills ex-Cuet student

Ctg road mishap kills ex-Cuet student

FE Online Desk 2017-11-25 10:01:32

A former student of Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (Cuet) died after a bus hit him while crossing New Monsurabad road under Pahartoli station in the port city on Friday night. Th...

Khulna's rail link resumes after 9 hours

Khulna's rail link resumes after 9 hours

-- 2017-11-25 07:16:15

Train communications between Khulna and rest of the country resumed on Saturday afternoon after a suspension of over nine hours. The rail link was snapped following a collision between two freight tr...

Lakshmipur road crash kills schoolboy

Lakshmipur road crash kills schoolboy

-- 2017-11-25 01:57:54

A third grader student died after a CNG-run auto rickshaw knocked him down while he was crossing a road at Charmohona area in Raipur upazila of Lakhmipur district on Saturday morning. The accident le...

Train, truck collide in Gazipur killing one

Train, truck collide in Gazipur killing one

-- 2017-11-24 12:00:00

An assistant train driver was killed and 50 passengers were injured as a train hit a truck at Bokterpur level-crossing on Dhaka-Rajshahi route in Kaliakoir upazila early Friday. The deceased has been...

Two bikers die in Madaripur road mishap

Two bikers die in Madaripur road mishap

-- 2017-11-24 02:59:53

Two motorcyclists were killed and another was injured in a road accident at Kadirpur village in Shibchar upazila on Thursday night. The deceased were identified as Kanchan Mirza, 35, son of Khaled Mi...

Mymensingh road crash kills bus helper

Mymensingh road crash kills bus helper

-- 2017-11-23 12:41:43

Niranjon Chandra (55), a bus helper was killed in a road accident at Babtir crossing area under Muktagachha upazila in Mymensingh on Thursday morning. The accident occurred in the area around 9:30 am...

Pumpkin output delights Bogra farmers

Pumpkin output delights Bogra farmers

Our Correspondent 2017-11-23 08:55:33

BOGRA, Nov 23:  Pumpkin production has brought smile on the faces of hundred of ultra-poor peasants in the district this current season. Deputy director of the Department of Agriculture Extensio...