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Labourer shortage, high wages worry Boro farmers

Labourer shortage, high wages worry Boro farmers

OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2022-05-13 10:03:49

Boro farmers in the Barind tract area and Magura district are facing serious problems due to shortage of labourers and their high wages. Our Bogura Correspondent says, acute labourer crisis has been...

Nearly 2,359 litres of edible oil seized in Natore

Nearly 2,359 litres of edible oil seized in Natore

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-12 15:46:47

Authorities have seized 2,359 litres of edible oil illegally stored in five shops in Natore district town on Wednesday. A joint team of the Directorate of National Consumer Rights Protection (DNCRP)...

36 filling stations in Thakurgaon facing fuel crisis since Eid-ul-Fitr

36 filling stations in Thakurgaon facing fuel crisis since Eid-ul-Fitr

-- 2022-05-11 21:51:13

Transport owners and workers in Thakurgaon are facing immense sufferings as 36 filling stations of the district are not getting fuel after Eid-ul-Fitr due to a crisis. Owners of filling stations said...

No entry fees for tourists at Jaflong until further notice: Sylhet DC

No entry fees for tourists at Jaflong until further notice: Sylhet DC

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-10 23:38:18

The local administration has decided to stop collecting entry fees from tourists at the popular and natural beautiful tourist spot of Jaflong under Gowainghat Upazila of Sylhet. The decision was take...

BGB detains 10 for 'illegally entry'

BGB detains 10 for 'illegally entry'

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-10 13:03:17

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) on Tuesday claimed to have detained 10 people while they were entering the country illegally from India via Moheshpur border in Jhenaidah on Monday. All the detainees cl...

Two electrocuted in Natore

Two electrocuted in Natore

-- 2022-05-10 10:57:42

Two people were electrocuted to death in Natore on Monday. The deceased were identified as Ratan Ali, 32, a resident of Hamlaikola village, and Milon Hossain, 28, of Khacchop Bazar area in Gurudaspur...

63-year-old killed over property feud in Chuadanga

63-year-old killed over property feud in Chuadanga

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-10 10:24:41

A 63-year old private contractor was killed allegedly over a property dispute in Chuadanga district on Monday night. The deceased was identified as Kamal Hossain, a resident of the Munshiganj Clinic...

Two Awami League activists wounded as LDP leader allegedly fires shots

Two Awami League activists wounded as LDP leader allegedly fires shots

-- 2022-05-09 19:35:10

Two people were shot during a clash between activists of pro-Awami League bodies and the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) on Monday at Redwan Ahmed College premises in Chandina Upazila of Cumilla. Afte...

Seven shops fined in Sylhet for stockpiling, overpricing soybean oil

Seven shops fined in Sylhet for stockpiling, overpricing soybean oil

-- 2022-05-08 23:09:37

The authorities on Sunday fined seven wholesalers of edible oil Tk 16,000 for stockpiling and selling soybean oil at a price higher than that fixed by the government during a raid in Sylhet. The Dire...

Four teenage girls of Lakshmipur remain missing

Four teenage girls of Lakshmipur remain missing

-- 2022-05-08 21:36:42

Four teenage girls, who are residents of a village in Lakshmipur district’s Kamalnagar Upazila, remain missing since Saturday morning, according to police. The names of missing girls are: as Zo...

Three teenagers killed as their motorcycle crashes into tree

Three teenagers killed as their motorcycle crashes into tree

-- 2022-05-04 21:48:03

Three teenage boys were killed as their motorcycle crashed into a roadside tree in Panchagarh on Wednesday afternoon. The deceased were identified as Natun Islam, 16, Mahabubar Rahman Shishir, 17, an...

Two killed in road accident on Barisal-Patuakhali highway

Two killed in road accident on Barisal-Patuakhali highway

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-05-04 11:18:29

Two youths were killed and another was injured when their bike collided with a motorised three-wheeler on the busy Barisal-Patuakhali highway in Jhalakathi district on Tuesday. The deceased were iden...

Many villagers in six districts celebrate Eid on Monday

Many villagers in six districts celebrate Eid on Monday

-- 2022-05-02 19:28:40

In line with Saudi Arabia, many villagers in Chandpur, Lalmonirhat, Dinajpur, Satkhira, Kurigram and Barishal held Eid-ul-Fitr congregations on Monday, a day earlier than the nationwide celebration....

Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated in two Chandpur villages on Sunday

Eid-ul-Fitr celebrated in two Chandpur villages on Sunday

-- 2022-05-01 18:04:34

Residents of Shadra and Shamserpur villages in Hajiganj Upazila of Chandpur district have celebrated Eid-ul-Fitr on Sunday in line with the celebration in Afghanistan, Niger and Mali. The main congre...

Eid sparks tourism boom in Cox's Bazar, Sylhet

Eid sparks tourism boom in Cox's Bazar, Sylhet

OUR CORRESPONDENTS 2022-05-01 09:59:27

COX'S BAZAR: The beach city of Cox's Bazar is expected to draw holidaymakers in droves during Eid holidays. About 70 per cent hotels, motels and guest houses have already been booked in advance. Hote...

Helal Akbar Chowdhury distributes Iftar, Seheri  among poor people

Helal Akbar Chowdhury distributes Iftar, Seheri  among poor people

-- 2022-04-30 19:48:13

Helal Akbar Chowdhury Babar, a key person of ABM Mohiuddin Chowdhury Foundation, has taken an initiative to distribute Iftar and Seheri items daily among the poor during the holy month of Ramadan. If...

Fire sweeps through trade hub in Noakhali, guts over 200 shops

Fire sweeps through trade hub in Noakhali, guts over 200 shops

-- 2022-04-29 19:33:16

More than 200 shops have been burnt down in a blaze that swept through the trade hub of Chowmuhani in Noakhali during the busy Eid shopping season. The fire engulfed the Islam Market, Haq Market and...

Ctg teen who dreamt of becoming a cricketer commits suicide

Ctg teen who dreamt of becoming a cricketer commits suicide

-- 2022-04-29 19:03:48

An 18-year-old youth, whose dream was to become a cricketer, took his own life at his house in EPZ area of Chattogram, having failed to endure acute poverty. The deceased was identified as Sagar Maju...

Nachol residents struggle to get potable water

Nachol residents struggle to get potable water

-- 2022-04-29 09:22:05

CHAPAINAWABGANJ: Amid soaring temperatures during the fasting month of Ramadan, residents of Nachol in the northern district have been struggling to get potable water. The aggrieved residents claim t...

Legal aid for poor litigants stressed

Legal aid for poor litigants stressed

-- 2022-04-29 09:08:32

Speakers here called upon lawyers and others concerned to be more sincere for ensuring legal aids to the grassroots poor, distressed and other litigants. They said that all people are equal to the...

40,000 Rangpur women busy with ornamental stitching ahead of Eid

40,000 Rangpur women busy with ornamental stitching ahead of Eid

-- 2022-04-28 22:23:52

Around 40,000 women are now busy with ornamental needlework at homes or local enterprises in Rangpur division ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr, according to BSS. Ornamental stitching has a huge demand, especiall...

Fake herbal cosmetics worth Tk 336,000 seized in Rajshahi

Fake herbal cosmetics worth Tk 336,000 seized in Rajshahi

-- 2022-04-28 21:59:14

Police arrested two persons with huge fake herbal cosmetics worth Tk 336,000 from Puthiya Upazila in the Rajshahi district on Thursday. The arrested persons were identified as Muhammad Sujan, 33, and...

Black cumin farming gets a boost in Magura

Black cumin farming gets a boost in Magura

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-04-28 11:19:36

MAGURA: Black cumin cultivation is gaining popularity in Magura. Soil and weather of this district is congenial for black cumin cultivation. On the other hand, price of black cumin is high in the m...

Perilous Eid holiday travel fears loom large

Perilous Eid holiday travel fears loom large

FE REPORT 2022-04-28 11:15:36

The government is bracing for a series of measures to ease the suffering of travellers during Eid-ul-Fitr holidays as a huge exodus from Dhaka is expected with the rapid fall in coronavirus cases. B...

Chattogram experiences major shift in Eid shopping culture

Chattogram experiences major shift in Eid shopping culture

TOFAEL MAHMUD 2022-04-27 18:12:12

“Everything about shopping for Eid in Dhaka revolves around the New Market” - this used to be a fact, even a few years ago. While this has little truth in it because the rising affluence...

3,810 hectares of land brought under jute cultivation in Narsingdi

3,810 hectares of land brought under jute cultivation in Narsingdi

-- 2022-04-26 11:39:02

NARSINGDI: Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) has taken up a programme to cultivate jute on 3,810 hectares of land in the district with the production target of 35,950 bales of jute during t...

Salt worth Tk 7.5m washed away in Cox's Bazar

Salt worth Tk 7.5m washed away in Cox's Bazar

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-04-26 11:12:54

COX'S BAZAR: Salt stocks worth Tk 7.5 million had been washed away recently in the district in flooding that occurred due to heavy rain, people involved in salt production said. According to salt far...

Jibon Boli becomes champion of 113th edition of Jabbar er Boli Khela

Jibon Boli becomes champion of 113th edition of Jabbar er Boli Khela

-- 2022-04-25 22:15:33

Jibon Boli emerged as the champion of the 113th edition of the popular and traditional wrestling competition of Chatttogram ‘Jabbar er Boli Khela’ on Monday. Tariqul Islam Jibon Boli from...

Temperature hits 41°C in Chuadanga

Temperature hits 41°C in Chuadanga

-- 2022-04-24 23:14:39

Western district Chuadanga is facing the worst of the severe heatwave sweeping over parts of the country as the maximum temperature on Sunday was recorded there at 41°C (Celsius). According to th...

Pineapple farming makes Narsingdi farmers happy

Pineapple farming makes Narsingdi farmers happy

-- 2022-04-24 10:36:19

NARSINGDI: The honey queen pineapple farming is gaining ground, making many farmers happy in Polash upazila of the district. The high yield of the pineapple variety brings substantial amount of money...