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BGP firing leaves two injured in Cox’s Bazar

BGP firing leaves two injured in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-11-04 20:57:09

A local boy and a young Rohingya man sustained bullet injuries as Myanmar's Border Guard Police (BGP) opened fire on them at bordering Rahmaterbill under Ukhiya upazila in Cox's Bazar on Sunday. The...

Police sue 90 over explosive recovery from Shibir office

Police sue 90 over explosive recovery from Shibir office

-- 2018-11-04 16:06:17

Police filed a case accusing 90 leaders and activists of Islami Chhatra Shibir over the recovery of crude bombs and other explosives from its office Chattogram. Sub-inspector Anisur Rahman filed the...

Rajshahi road crash kills two

Rajshahi road crash kills two

-- 2018-11-04 10:48:30

Two motorcyclists were killed as a truck hit their vehicle on Rajshahi-Dhaka highway in Tarapur area of Puthia upazila in Rajshahi on Sunday morning. The deceased were identified as Emon Ali, son of...

Lemon farming brings smile on Natore cultivators’ faces

Lemon farming brings smile on Natore cultivators’ faces

Roving Correspondent 2018-11-03 21:43:42

NATORE, Nov 03: Commercial lemon cultivation has brought smile on the faces of hundreds of grassroots farmers in the district.Sources said high profit and low production cost were the main reasons for...

Readers suffer due to space shortage at Jhenidah Islamic Foundation

Readers suffer due to space shortage at Jhenidah Islamic Foundation

Our Correspondent 2018-11-03 21:43:17

JHENIDAH, Nov 03: The Islamic Foundation (IF) here faces acute space shortage hampering its activities including the serene reading environment.The institution runs its activities at a rented building...

Separate road accidents leave three dead

Separate road accidents leave three dead

-- 2018-11-03 20:17:03

At least three people were killed while another severely injured in separate road accidents in Jhenaidah and Manikganj districts on Saturday. The deceased were identified as Al-Amin, 45, son of late...

Five-km tailback on Dhaka-Chittagong highway

Five-km tailback on Dhaka-Chittagong highway

-- 2018-11-03 16:43:34

Hundreds of passengers were stuck in a five-km tailback stretched from Daudkandi toll plaza to Shaheednagar in Cumilla on Dhaka-Chattogram highway. The tailback ensued on Friday and was persisting ti...

372 homeless families get houses in Chuadanga

372 homeless families get houses in Chuadanga

-- 2018-11-03 16:13:02

A total of 372 homeless families have got new houses in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga district. “The houses were built in seven unions and one pourasabha of the upazila through the Prime Mini...

Construction worker falls off bridge, drowns in river

Construction worker falls off bridge, drowns in river

-- 2018-11-03 12:51:03

A construction worker accidentally drowned in Poysa river after falling from an under-construction bridge in Gopalganj on Friday. He was Shamrat Mollah, 28, son of Ishahak Mollah, a resident of Chat...

Electrocution kills one in Gopalganj

Electrocution kills one in Gopalganj

-- 2018-11-02 22:04:24

A man was killed after being electrocuted at Mollakandi in Gopalganj sadar upazila on Friday. The deceased was identified as Jashim Molla, 28, son of Aku Molla of Mollakandi village, reports UNB. Th...

Police recover three bodies in Sirajganj, Cox’s Bazar

Police recover three bodies in Sirajganj, Cox’s Bazar

-- 2018-11-02 18:43:50

Three youths were found dead in Sirajganj and Cox's Bazar districts on Thursday. In Sirajganj, police recovered the decomposed bodies of two young men from the Phuljor River in Ghatina Bridge area in...

Van driver killed as container falls on him in Chattogram

Van driver killed as container falls on him in Chattogram

-- 2018-11-02 17:59:48

A covered van driver was killed as a container from a lorry fell on his vehicle at Chhoto Kumira at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram on Friday morning. The deceased was identified Md Royal, 40, hailin...

Netrokona farmers delight in bumper jute production

Netrokona farmers delight in bumper jute production

-- 2018-11-02 12:19:27

The farmers of Netrokona share gratification over bumper jute production in the current season. In all ten upazilas of the district, farmers managed to attain fair prices for the crop. Department of...

Schoolgirl 'commits suicide' in Jhenaidah

Schoolgirl 'commits suicide' in Jhenaidah

-- 2018-11-02 11:54:19

A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself from the ceiling of her house in Jhenaidah. This happened after she failed to secure pass marks in the test examination on Thursday. The v...

Rangpur coriander leaf  growers expect good yield

Rangpur coriander leaf growers expect good yield

Our Correspondent 2018-11-01 21:33:34

RANGPUR, Nov 01: The growers of early cultivated coriander leaves in the district are expecting a good yield of their produce during the current season as congenial weather conditions prevail across t...

Good output delights Bogura red spinach cultivators

Good output delights Bogura red spinach cultivators

Our Correspondent 2018-11-01 21:32:43

BOGURA, Nov 01: Hundreds of red spinach cultivators in the district are delighted this season over the good yield and fair market prices. A good number of farmers said the Bangladesh Agriculture Deve...

Puthia temple complex, worth the visit

Puthia temple complex, worth the visit

RU Correspondent 2018-11-01 21:31:42

RAJSHAHI, Nov 01: Tourists are attracted when they visit temple complex at a local "estate" at Puthia, some 23 kilometres to the east of Rajshahi city. But the cluster of centuries-old Hindu temples...

Thrust on promoting food safety in poultry sector

Thrust on promoting food safety in poultry sector

-- 2018-11-01 21:30:30

RANGPUR, Nov 01 (BSS): Livestock experts at a workshop have stressed promoting food safety in the poultry sector to produce healthier birds for meeting nutrition needs of the population. They put imp...

Case filed over newborn’s death during transport strike

Case filed over newborn’s death during transport strike

-- 2018-11-01 19:15:50

A case was filed accusing 170 unnamed transport workers over the death of a newborn child during a strike enforced by transport workers on October 28. Victim's uncle Hazi Akbar Ali filed the case wit...

Barguna road crash leaves driver dead

Barguna road crash leaves driver dead

-- 2018-11-01 17:47:15

A trolley driver was killed as a passenger bus smashed his trolley in Barguna on Thursday. The dead man was Babul Hossain aged 32, a resident of Chalkmaiya village under Kalapara upazila. According...

Cops recover body of youth in city

Cops recover body of youth in city

-- 2018-11-01 17:03:48

Police recovered the body of a young man in a sack from Ambaghicha Khalpar area in Dhaka in the early early hours of Thursday. The dead man was an auto-rickshaw driver Sagor, 30, from Golachipa upazi...

Two Ctg gas pipeline victims die

Two Ctg gas pipeline victims die

-- 2018-11-01 12:57:25

Two among the five people injured in a Hathazari gas cylinder explosion in Chattogram have died. A three-year-old child, Tanim, and Razia Sultana, 11, succumbed to their burn injuries on Thursday mor...

Two get life term for murder in Jashore

Two get life term for murder in Jashore

-- 2018-11-01 11:12:53

A court in Jashore district on Wednesday sentenced two people to life term imprisonment for killing a man of Haridrapota village in Jhikargachha upazila in 2002. The convicts are Abdul Aziz Laltu, so...

Officials seize smuggled goods worth Tk 15m

Officials seize smuggled goods worth Tk 15m

-- 2018-10-31 13:14:09

An anti-smuggling task force team have seized smuggled goods worth Tk 15 million in Gobindaganj on Tuesday. The raid took place in Goleza Super Market in the upazila, according to Border Guard Bangla...

Rajshahi court jails bus driver

Rajshahi court jails bus driver

-- 2018-10-31 11:51:29

A court in Rajshahi sentenced a bus driver to one year and three months jail in an accident case. Rajshahi Chief Judicial Magistrate Court-3 Judge Ujjal Mahmud on Tuesday sentenced Selim Khan, 50, fo...

Water stagnation hampers seed  production in Jhenidah Sadar

Water stagnation hampers seed production in Jhenidah Sadar

Our Correspondent 2018-10-30 21:07:14

JHENIDAH, Oct 30: A total of 12 acres of land of Sadhuhati Foundation Seed Production Farm of BADC at Dakbangla Bazar under Sadar upazila in the district is lying waterlogged, causing heavy losses to...

Naogaon pumpkin peasants making good profit

Naogaon pumpkin peasants making good profit

Our Correspondent 2018-10-30 21:06:19

NAOGAON, Oct 30: Farmers in the district are making a good profit as they have achieved a bumper output of pumpkin this season.  According to the district office of the Department of Agriculture...

Madrasa student missing in Sylhet for 43 days

Madrasa student missing in Sylhet for 43 days

-- 2018-10-30 19:06:26

A madrasa student has reportedly remained missing for past 43 days in Tantipara area in Sylhet. The missing student was identified as Sadinur Rahman, 11, son of Abdul Kahar of Baramuha village of sou...

Youth gets crushed under train in Ctg

Youth gets crushed under train in Ctg

-- 2018-10-30 18:49:51

A young man was crushed to death by a train at Jhawtala Railway gate in the city on Tuesday afternoon while wearing headphones. The identity of the deceased, aged around 25-26, could not be known yet...

Natore schoolboy missing in Padma while taking ‘selfie’

Natore schoolboy missing in Padma while taking ‘selfie’

-- 2018-10-30 18:00:49

A schoolboy went missing in the Padma River reportedly while taking selfie at Gouripur under Lalpur upazila in Natore on Tuesday. The victim was identified as Ashraf Siddique Abir, son of Abu Bakar S...