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Journalist arrested in Satkhira under Digital Security Act

Journalist arrested in Satkhira under Digital Security Act

-- 2022-02-18 21:24:52

Two people, including a journalist, were arrested under the Digital Security Act for posting alleged provocative statements against the government and police on Facebook in Patkelghata of Satkhira, po...

Awami League leader shot dead in Kushtia

Awami League leader shot dead in Kushtia

-- 2022-02-18 16:29:35

A local Awami League leader was shot dead and six others injured in Kushtia’s Bheramara Upazila. According to bdnews24.com, three of the injured people sustained bullet wounds. The incident to...

Illegal soil extraction going on in Chandpur

Illegal soil extraction going on in Chandpur

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-02-17 10:17:48

CHANDPUR: Rapid urbanisation has made illegal soil mining across the district much more lucrative than farming. Visiting some Chandpur villages, it has been seen that some farmlands have been dug 10-...

Naogaon farmers show interest in banana farming

Naogaon farmers show interest in banana farming

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-02-14 11:26:31

NAOGAON: Banana farming has piqued the interest of peasants in the district due to its lower production cost and higher profit margins. According to sources at the Department of Agricultural Extens...

100 illegal structures in St Martin's Island razed

100 illegal structures in St Martin's Island razed

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-02-13 10:43:00

CHATTOGRAM: The administration concerned evicted around 100 illegal establishments yesterday (Friday) to save the biodiversity of Bangladesh's lone coral island St Martin's. After declaring the St M...

Langura: Where river meets hillocks

Langura: Where river meets hillocks

OUR CORRESPONDENT, NETROKONA 2022-02-11 10:11:48

Nestled in the slopes of Meghalaya hills in the Indian border of Kalmakanda upazila of Netrokona, Langura is brim-full with tourism potential. The small village could be a perfect destination for t...

Mughal-era mosque needs care, not replacement

Mughal-era mosque needs care, not replacement

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-02-06 10:39:10

LALMONIRHAT: For centuries, the locals of a village in Lalmonirhat have been praying in a tiny mosque, believed to be a structure built in the Mughal period. A section of the influential people, howe...

500 stone, lime-carrying boats run aground in Patlai River

500 stone, lime-carrying boats run aground in Patlai River

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-02-04 10:59:40

SYLHET: More than 500 steel body boats had run aground on the narrow river Patlai in remote Sunamganj due to fall in the water level for the last two weeks causing much suffering to the locals. Moreo...

No pontoons at four launch terminals

No pontoons at four launch terminals

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-02-02 12:07:38

CHANDPUR: Hundreds of people including students and traders have been suffering a lot due to lack of pontoons at four launch terminals on the banks of the Meghna River under Haimchar upazila of Chan...

12-year-old succumbs to burn injuries after 17-day fighting for life

12-year-old succumbs to burn injuries after 17-day fighting for life

-- 2022-01-30 17:04:35

A 12-year-old boy who was injured in a gas cylinder blast alongside many other children in Cumilla’s Nangalkot Upazila has died after fighting for his life for 17 days. The victim, Sabbir Hossa...

High price of warm clothes frustrates the poor

High price of warm clothes frustrates the poor

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-30 09:32:01

LALMONIRHAT: The high price of warm clothes have frustrated the poor and commoners in the districts. As the cold and foggy weather is blowing in the northern districts, traders of warm clothes taki...

Police recover bodies of two newborns inside a carton

Police recover bodies of two newborns inside a carton

-- 2022-01-29 21:41:03

Police on Saturday recovered bodies of two newborns inside a carton in Nalitabari upazila of Sherpur district. The bodies were found under Kharaghat Bridge in Gaglajani village, reports UNB. Accordi...

Bus rams autorickshaw in Manikganj, three die

Bus rams autorickshaw in Manikganj, three die

-- 2022-01-29 18:16:27

Three people have died after a bus rammed an autorickshaw in Manikganj’s Shibaloy Upazila. The accident took place on the Dhaka-Aricha highway at 12 pm on Saturday, according to Riyad Mahmud, c...

70-year-old woman dies in fire in Chandpur

70-year-old woman dies in fire in Chandpur

-- 2022-01-28 17:11:23

A 70-year-old woman died on Thursday night in a fire that broke out in her house at Paschim Santoshpur village in Chandpur. The deceased was identified as Bely Begum, daughter of Lony Mia in Faridgan...

About 96pc brick kilns run illegally in Naogaon

About 96pc brick kilns run illegally in Naogaon

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-28 10:15:46

NAOGAON: Around 96 per cent brick kilns in the district are running without approval of the authorities concerned. Sources at the Department of Environment, Naogaon, said, "There are some 203 brick...

Sylhet city produces 54 tonnes of plastic waste every day

Sylhet city produces 54 tonnes of plastic waste every day

-- 2022-01-26 21:58:31

Around 54 tonnes of plastic waste was generated daily in Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) last year, according to a new study. “Of the plastic waste, the most used single-use plastic products were...

Head-on collision between bus, autorickshaw leaves five dead in Bogura

Head-on collision between bus, autorickshaw leaves five dead in Bogura

-- 2022-01-26 20:22:26

A head-on collision between a bus and an autorickshaw has left five people from the three-wheeler dead in Sherpur area of Bogura. The incident occurred at the Upazila’s Ranir Mor on Dhaka-Bogur...

Padmachhara Lake can be a tourist hotspot

Padmachhara Lake can be a tourist hotspot

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-24 09:25:09

SYLHET: Padmachhara Lake in Moulvibazar has every potential to become a tourist hotspot if proper initiatives are taken to develop it as a vacationers' destination. Located in Kamalganj upazila, the...

Siblings script success story in mushroom farming

Siblings script success story in mushroom farming

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-23 09:07:01

NETROKONA: There are only a few people, who can turn their pastimes into paychecks. Minhaj Uddin Ahmed and his younger brother Miraj Uddin Ahmed from Amtala, a small village in Netrokona's Kendua, ar...

RCC constructs STS for modern waste management

RCC constructs STS for modern waste management

-- 2022-01-21 16:22:10

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has a plan of constructing 30 Secondary Transfer Stations (STS) in each ward of the city in phases for removing and managing the household wastes and garbage in a moder...

Three die in Brahmanbaria road crash

Three die in Brahmanbaria road crash

-- 2022-01-20 19:17:10

Three youths were killed as the motorbike carrying them collided with a pickup van on Wednesday night on Dhaka-Sylhet highway in Bijoynagar upazila in Brahmanbaria district. The deceased were Antar M...

300-year-old ‘dighi’ being filled for building market

300-year-old ‘dighi’ being filled for building market

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-20 09:58:51

CUMILLA: The owner of Wazir Dighi has decided to fill the 300-year-old pond in Cumilla for constructing a community centre, a coffee house and a market. Located in the heart of the city (ward 5), t...

Authorities shut primary school as all teachers test Covid-19 positive

Authorities shut primary school as all teachers test Covid-19 positive

-- 2022-01-18 21:52:41

Authorities have shut down a government primary school in Laksam Upazila of Cumilla district for an indefinite period on Tuesday after all eight teachers tested Covid-19 positive. The teachers, inclu...

CCC dismantles illegal structures in Chattogram

CCC dismantles illegal structures in Chattogram

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-18 10:30:46

CHATTOGRAM: The Chattogram City Corporation (CCC) conducted a mobile court and demolished establishments built illegally on footpaths and drains at Muradpur in the port city today (Monday). Executi...

China plans to boost digital economy in 2021-2025

China plans to boost digital economy in 2021-2025

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-01-13 13:24:05

China's State Council on Wednesday rolled out a plan to facilitate the development of the digital economy in the 14th Five-Year Plan period (2021-2025). The country aims to raise the proportion of th...

Boro seedbeds kindle new hope for char farmers

Boro seedbeds kindle new hope for char farmers

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-13 09:35:52

RAJSHAHI: The crisis of land for preparing Boro seedbeds has long been a common issue for the farmers of Rajshahi. However, the farmers have recently come up with a way out by producing seedlings on...

Committee assigned to develop Patenga sea beach

Committee assigned to develop Patenga sea beach

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2022-01-12 12:50:18

CHATTOGRAM: The government has formed Chattogram Beach Management Committee to develop the Patenga sea beach and Parki sea beach at Anwara in the port city Chattogram. The Chattogram Beach Management...

A group of fishermen earns Tk 0.6m with a single cast of net

A group of fishermen earns Tk 0.6m with a single cast of net

-- 2022-01-10 18:20:47

A group of fishermen have caught about 300 maunds (1 maund = 37 kg) of fish in a single cast of the net that earned them Tk 600,000. Md Kalim Ullah, a fisherman from Pan Majher Para, and his team net...

Boro farmers worried about delay in embankment protection projects

Boro farmers worried about delay in embankment protection projects

OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2022-01-10 09:49:23

Flash floods in haor areas often cause huge damage to Boro harvest. In response, the government has initiated investment in embankment construction and repair. However, farmers in Sylhet's haor are...

Woman, two children dead after trawler capsizes in Cumilla

Woman, two children dead after trawler capsizes in Cumilla

-- 2022-01-03 19:16:31

A woman and two girls, believed to be members of the same family, have died after a trawler capsized in the Kathalia River in Cumilla’s Meghna Upazila. At least 10 others were injured after the...