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Mudslide kills two workers in Chuadanga brick field

Mudslide kills two workers in Chuadanga brick field

-- 2019-04-16 12:36:36

Two workers were killed and three others injured as a chunk of mud collapsed on them at a brick field in Damurhuda upazila of Chuadanga on Tuesday morning. The deceased were identified as Abdul Hanna...

Bogura summer radish growers making good profit for fair price

Bogura summer radish growers making good profit for fair price

Our Correspondent 2019-04-15 21:16:30

BOGURA, Apr 15: Summer radish growers of the district are making good profit this season due to fair market price. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), so far 300 bighas of l...

Off-season bitter gourd  farming on rise in Natore

Off-season bitter gourd farming on rise in Natore

Roving Correspondent 2019-04-15 21:15:23

NATORE, Apr 15: Off-season bitter gourd cultivation is on the rise in the district as the growers have been making a handsome profit from the vegetable over the last couple of years. Farmers genera...

Youth shot dead in Chattogram

Youth shot dead in Chattogram

-- 2019-04-15 20:56:37

A young man was shot to death by miscreants at Dakkhin Saral village in Banshkhali upazila early Monday. The deceased was identified as Abul Kalam, 37, of the village. Family sources said Kalam was...

Khulna road crash kills elderly woman

Khulna road crash kills elderly woman

-- 2019-04-14 17:52:44

A woman was killed being hit by a motorcycle in Binapani area of Koyra upazila in Khulna on Sunday morning. The deceased was identified as Chini Rani Barman, 62, wife of Nagendra Nath Barman. Local...

20 shops gutted in Kurigram fire

20 shops gutted in Kurigram fire

-- 2019-04-14 14:22:31

At least 20 shops were gutted as a fire broke out at a market in central bus terminal area of Kurigram town early Sunday. Monzil Haque, deputy assistant director of Kurigram Fire Service, said the fi...

Truck-motorcycle collision leaves ASI dead on Rangpur-Bogura highway

Truck-motorcycle collision leaves ASI dead on Rangpur-Bogura highway

-- 2019-04-14 09:03:45

An assistant sub- inspector (ASI) of police was killed as a speeding truck hit his motorcycle on the Rangpur-Bogura highway at Baldipakur in Mithapakur upazila of Rangpur on Saturday noon. The deceas...

UZ chairmen, vice-chairmen take oath in Rajshahi

UZ chairmen, vice-chairmen take oath in Rajshahi

-- 2019-04-13 17:42:51

Chairmen, vice-chairmen and vice-chairmen in women reserved seats elected through the fifth upazila parishad election in Rajshahi district took oath on Saturday with a vow to serving their respective...

Three ‘robbers’ die in Feni lynch-mob attack

Three ‘robbers’ die in Feni lynch-mob attack

-- 2019-04-13 12:30:21

Three suspected robbers were killed in a lynch-mob attack at Uttar Alipur village in Daganbhuiyan upazila of Feni in the early hours of Saturday. Two of the deceased were identified as Monir Hossain,...

Construction worker dies falling off Sunamganj building

Construction worker dies falling off Sunamganj building

-- 2019-04-12 20:33:21

A construction worker died after falling from an under-construction building in Court Chattar area of Sunamganj district town on Friday. The deceased was identified as Md Mostafa Mia, 55, son of Gaus...

Farmers to produce 3.4m tonnes Boro in Rajshahi

Farmers to produce 3.4m tonnes Boro in Rajshahi

-- 2019-04-11 21:33:10

Farmers have cultivated boro paddy on around 830,000 hectares of land exceeding the target set by Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in eight districts under Rajshahi division during the curren...

Bogura potato growers incur loss for low  market price

Bogura potato growers incur loss for low market price

Our Correspondent 2019-04-10 21:14:25

BOGURA, Apr 10: A good number of farmers in the twelve upazilas of the district are worried over the low market price of potato this year. Farmers said Fata Pakri, Diamond, Telpakri and some others p...

Mentally challenged youth burned dead in Chattogram

Mentally challenged youth burned dead in Chattogram

-- 2019-04-10 17:29:33

A mentally challenged young man was burned to death in a fire incident at Lakhera under Kolagaon union of Patiya upazila in Chattogram on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Hinu Barua, 28,...

Two dead in Natore road crashes

Two dead in Natore road crashes

-- 2019-04-10 17:24:45

Two people were killed in separate road accidents in Natore on Wednesday. A man was killed and 10 others were injured after a cattle-laden human hauler plunged into a ditch near Ramaigachi area of Na...

Two die in Natore road crashes

Two die in Natore road crashes

-- 2019-04-10 13:40:35

A man and a woman were killed while ten others injured in separate road crashes in Natore district town and Baraigram upazila on Wednesday. A cattle trader was killed and ten others injured when a ca...

75 mass grave sites of  Liberation War martyrs  lying uncared for

75 mass grave sites of Liberation War martyrs lying uncared for

Our Correspondent 2019-04-09 21:15:47

NAOGAON, Apr 09: Some 75 mass grave sites of the Liberation War martyrs have been lying uncared for in different upazilas of the district. Ekushey Parishad Naogaon, a socio-cultural organisation of...

High-yielding wheat varieties make Barind growers happy

High-yielding wheat varieties make Barind growers happy

-- 2019-04-09 21:14:36

RAJSHAHI, Apr 09 (BSS): Farmers are now on the final stage of harvesting their cultivated wheat with satisfactory yield in the region including its vast Barind tract thanks to the newly-developed high...

Four of a family sustain severe burn injuries

Four of a family sustain severe burn injuries

-- 2019-04-09 17:43:54

Four members of a family sustained severe burn injuries after a fire broke out at their house in Lochonpur village of Raipura Upazila in Narsingdi on Tuesday. The injured -- Priti, 11, Sweety, 13, Mu...

Driver dies as human hauler overturns in Chuadanga

Driver dies as human hauler overturns in Chuadanga

-- 2019-04-09 10:08:09

A human hauler driver was crushed under the wheels of a truck while two of its passengers sustained injuries after the vehicle overturned in Chuadanga district town on Tuesday morning. The deceased c...

Thrust on expanding Aus, maize cultivation

Thrust on expanding Aus, maize cultivation

Our Correspondent 2019-04-08 21:02:08

SYLHET, Apr 08: Speakers at a workshop in Sunamganj laid emphasis on expanding Aus and maize cultivation in the four districts of Sylhet division to boost production. Additional Secretary of the Mini...

Jute mill workers to stage demonstrations again

Jute mill workers to stage demonstrations again

-- 2019-04-08 17:45:10

Workers of 22 jute mills, including the state-owned ones, have decided to intensify demonstration to force the government accept their demands including implementation of wage commission. The Banglad...

Jewellery shop employee found dead in Chattogram

Jewellery shop employee found dead in Chattogram

-- 2019-04-08 10:27:17

Police have recovered the body of a jewellery shop employee from Bakshirhat area in the port city. The deceased was identified as Utpaul, 30, an employee of 'Danu Miah Sawdagar Jewellery Shop'. Loca...

Magura achieves success in producing BINA Gram-4

Magura achieves success in producing BINA Gram-4

Our Correspondent 2019-04-07 21:44:03

MAGURA, Apr 07: The district has experienced a success in producing BINA Gram-4 for the first time. Some 10 acres of land on the compound of the Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture (BINA),...

Joypurhat peasants expecting high bottle gourd production

Joypurhat peasants expecting high bottle gourd production

Roving Correspondent 2019-04-07 21:43:18

JOYPURHAT, Apr 07: Summer bottle gourd cultivators of all the five upazilas of the district are expecting a bumper output this season. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) official sources...

10 hurt in police-BCL clash at CU

10 hurt in police-BCL clash at CU

-- 2019-04-07 17:43:28

At least ten people were injured in sporadic clashes between Bangladesh Chhatra League(BCL) activists and police on Chittagong University campus during a blockade enforced by a faction of BCL to press...

Fire guts jute godown in Chuadanga

Fire guts jute godown in Chuadanga

-- 2019-04-07 12:40:00

A jute godown was gutted as a fire broke out in Pashurhat area of Alamdanga upazila, Chuadanga early on Sunday. Police and Fire Service sources said the fire broke out at the godown of one Mohibul Is...

Two RU students die after ‘taking excessive liquor’

Two RU students die after ‘taking excessive liquor’

-- 2019-04-07 11:27:25

Two students of Rajshahi University died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Sunday reportedly after taking excessive amounts of liquor. The deceased were identified as Muhtasim Rafid Khan, a 3rd...

Five killed in Gaibandha road crash

Five killed in Gaibandha road crash

-- 2019-04-06 18:25:03

At least five persons were killed and 15 others injured in a road accident on Dhaka-Ranpur Highway in Balua area of Gobindaganj upazila in Gaibandha district in the early hours of Saturday. Police an...

RCC launches mosquito control drive on RU campus

RCC launches mosquito control drive on RU campus

-- 2019-04-06 17:59:08

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has launched a week-long mosquito control and cleanliness drive in Rajshahi University (RU) campus aimimg at making it free from the mosquito menace. RCC Panel Mayor S...

Female student set on fire at examination centre

Female student set on fire at examination centre

-- 2019-04-06 16:37:03

A female madrasa student, who had accused her principal of sexually harassing her, was set afire allegedly by fellow students in Sonagazi Upazila of Feni on Saturday. But some madrasa students claime...