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3,870 hectares under winter vegetable cultivation in Tangail

3,870 hectares under winter vegetable cultivation in Tangail

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-29 14:48:37

TANGAIL: Growers of the district have brought a total of 3,870 hectares of land under early winter vegetables cultivation in the current season in the district. According to the Department of Agric...

Flash flood shatters dream of Lalmonirhat farmers

Flash flood shatters dream of Lalmonirhat farmers

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-28 10:13:04

LALMONIRHAT: Flash flood in 17 unions of five upazilas of the district has shattered the dream of several thousand farmers. The affected farmers do not know how they will overcome this situation. Los...

Pest attack damages T-Aman paddy

Pest attack damages T-Aman paddy

OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2021-10-27 09:53:28

T-Aman paddy growers have now become helpless to contain pest attacks in Jashore and Bogura districts. Our Benapole Correspondent reports: Brown grasshoppers have attacked a vast tract of Aman p...

Of broken bridges, bamboo bridge

Of broken bridges, bamboo bridge

OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2021-10-25 11:35:38

Ten bridges are lying useless on a Netrakona road while Cox's Bazar villagers crossing a canal using a bamboo-made bridge for a century now. Reports of such rural communications hardship came from the...

Tahirpur frontier road in poor condition

Tahirpur frontier road in poor condition

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-24 09:38:38

SYLHET, Oct 23: Tahirpur border road in Sunamgaj district has become unfit for use as big potholes have developed on various parts of it due to the strong current of hilly water from the Meghalaya hil...

Floating school a need of time for students on char areas

Floating school a need of time for students on char areas

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHANDPUR 2021-10-20 10:03:18

Nearly 40 thousand people living in Raj Rajeswar union under Chandpur Sadar UZ have demanded a floating high school for their children in this river erosion-prone union in order to get rid of the repe...

Littering threatens haor environment in Kishoreganj as tourists swell

Littering threatens haor environment in Kishoreganj as tourists swell

-- 2021-10-19 18:14:00

The all-weather Itna-Mithamoin-Austragram road in Kishoreganj district is attracting a growing number of tourists to haor, now a popular tourist destination. It has also become a source of widespread...

UP polls: Miscreants shot dead chairman candidate in Rangamati

UP polls: Miscreants shot dead chairman candidate in Rangamati

-- 2021-10-17 15:45:20

An Awami League-backed chairman candidate of union parishad polls was shot dead by some miscreants at Agapara in Kaptai upazila early Sunday. The deceased was identified as Nethoai Marma, 56, also pr...

CCC starts demolishing illegal multi-storey buildings

CCC starts demolishing illegal multi-storey buildings

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-15 08:59:41

Cumilla City Corporation (CCC) authorities have started demolishing illegal multi-storey buildings in the city. The authorities concerned have listed the buildings which were constructed without desig...

Saint Martin’s island's jetty requires quick repair

Saint Martin’s island's jetty requires quick repair

A CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-14 09:52:41

COX'S BAZAR, Oct 13: An accident may happen in Teknaf's Saint Martin's Island as its old, damaged, and poorly-maintained jetty can completely collapse anytime, feared the locals of the only coral is...

Two of a family among three electrocuted in Bogura

Two of a family among three electrocuted in Bogura

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-11 14:08:53

Three people, including a man and his nephew, died after being electrocuted in Sherpur upazila of Bogura district on Monday morning. The victims are Budu Chandra Bhuiyan, 65, his nephew Palash Chandr...

Netrakona villagers use hurricane lamp in hatcheries

Netrakona villagers use hurricane lamp in hatcheries

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-08 09:22:19

NETRAKONA: More than two hundred families at Kothurikona village of Tiyashree Union in Madan upazila of the district have become self-reliant by hatching duckling with hurricane lamp heat. The village...

70 shops gutted in Patuakhali

70 shops gutted in Patuakhali

-- 2021-10-07 10:36:40

At least 70 shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at a busy market in Patuakhali district town in the early hours of Thursday. Mantaj Uddin, deputy director of Barishal Fire Service and Civil D...

A village of vegetable-saplings repute

A village of vegetable-saplings repute

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-05 10:26:13

CUMILLA: The farmers of Shameshpur village of Burichang upazila in Cumilla district are now busy selling winter vegetable saplings. Every year from September to November, vegetable saplings worth abou...

Poultry farming fuelling rural economic growth

Poultry farming fuelling rural economic growth

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-04 10:14:48

Poultry farming comes as a trigger for growth of rural economy and a fortune changer for farmers in the district, official sources said. Poor families in particular are taking it as a boon, while m...

Import-export thru Benapole suspended

Import-export thru Benapole suspended

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-03 09:26:04

BENAPOLE: Import and export between Bangladesh and India have been suspended through Benapole port on Saturday morning as the day is a public holiday in India on the occasion of Mahatma Gandhi's 155th...

BRRI dhan75 to create scope for early farming of Rabi crops

BRRI dhan75 to create scope for early farming of Rabi crops

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2021-10-03 09:23:57

BRRI dhan75 will open doors for the early cultivation of potato, mustard, maize, wheat, and other Rabi crops across the country, especially in the northern region. "It is a potential short-duration v...

Private car driver stabbed dead in Bogura

Private car driver stabbed dead in Bogura

-- 2021-09-30 10:40:25

A private car driver was stabbed to death by two men in the Kansgari area of Bogura district on Wednesday night, police said on Thursday. The deceased was identified as Khairul Islam Sumon, 28, son o...

Three missing fishermen found dead

Three missing fishermen found dead

-- 2021-09-29 13:10:49

Three fishermen, who went missing after a trawler capsized in the Bay of Bengal off the Barguna coast Tuesday, were found dead on Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Ibrahim, 28, son of Hossai...

Trawlers with 24 fishermen capsize in Bay

Trawlers with 24 fishermen capsize in Bay

-- 2021-09-28 18:43:33

One fisherman died and another 23 were rescued after two fishing trawlers capsized in the Bay of Bengal in rough weather on Tuesday, The trawlers had 24 fishermen on board when they sank at Office Ke...

Vegetable farming on floating beds changing farmers' fortune

Vegetable farming on floating beds changing farmers' fortune

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-27 08:53:32

NETRAKONA: Vegetable farming on floating beds in water-bodies is gaining popularity in haor areas of the district, as it holds the prospect of changing farmers' fortunes. Due to floods and natural ca...

Mother, son electrocuted in Thakurgaon

Mother, son electrocuted in Thakurgaon

-- 2021-09-25 10:54:42

A 35-year-old man and his mother died of electrocution while he was switching on an irrigation pump in Balidara village of the district's Ranishankoil upazila on Friday. The deceased were identified...

Dilapidated road mounting people's woes

Dilapidated road mounting people's woes

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-22 08:49:41

NETRAKONA: Thousands of people have been facing extreme suffering due to the dilapidated condition of the Rupganj Bausi Bazar road in Bausi Union under Barhatta Upazila of the district. A number of b...

Rajshahi city dwellers to get another four-lane road

Rajshahi city dwellers to get another four-lane road

-- 2021-09-21 18:01:48

In addition to many others, Rajshahi city dwellers are going to get another four-lane road as Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has taken initiative to convert the double-lane road into a four-lane one....

About 50pc students still absent

About 50pc students still absent

-- 2021-09-21 10:49:12

CHANDPUR: Educational institutions in the district reopened following health guidelines after an 18-month shutdown due to the coronavirus pandemic, with a high number of dropouts or absentees. The te...

Four Sirajganj policemen withdrawn from duty over irregularities

Four Sirajganj policemen withdrawn from duty over irregularities

-- 2021-09-20 17:21:03

Four police personnel from Sirajganj’s Hatikumrul Highway Police Station have been withdrawn from duty over accusations of corruption, irregularities and dereliction of duty. Superintendent of...

Integrated farming can meet food demand

Integrated farming can meet food demand

SM Najmus Sakib back from Ulipur, Kurigram 2021-09-20 10:41:39

Integrated and diversified farming is necessary for meeting the food demand in Kurigram, a food-deficit district in the country's northern region where many people still suffer from poverty and hunger...

No concrete-made bridge over a canal for three decades

No concrete-made bridge over a canal for three decades

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-09-19 09:52:02

CHANDPUR: In the absence of a concrete bridge over a canal beside Taluk derbari, about five hundred families have been suffering much for over three decades at Hossainpur village under Ward No. 7 in...

Pregnant mothers suffer from chronic malnutrition in Kurigram

Pregnant mothers suffer from chronic malnutrition in Kurigram

SM NAJMUS SAKIB back from Ulipur, Kurigram 2021-09-18 10:10:35

Thousands of pregnant and lactating mothers are still deprived of healthy diet in Kurigram district, causing severe health problems for them and raising the number of underweight and stunted children....

Four members of a family die after electrocution

Four members of a family die after electrocution

-- 2021-09-17 22:13:37

Four members of a family have died after being electrocuted at Shilmudi village in Bajra union of Sonaimuri Upazila in Noakhali on Friday. The victims were identified as Abdur Rahim, Sumon (26), Md J...