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Humans occupy forest, 28 elephants die in last five years in Cox's Bazar

Humans occupy forest, 28 elephants die in last five years in Cox's Bazar

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-23 10:35:37

COX'S BAZAR: After Sherpur and Chattogram, elephant killing is also increasing in Cox's Bazar. According to the Forest Department, 26 elephants had died in Cox's Bazar in the last five years. A gang...

Bumper Aman yield makes farmers happy

Bumper Aman yield makes farmers happy

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-21 10:06:23

Farmers of Cumilla and Jamalpur districts are happy to achieve bumper production of Aman this season. Meanwhile, peasants are passing busy time harvesting the paddy in full swing in Bogura. Our Cumil...

Four workers suffer burn injuries in Narayanganj rice mill fire

Four workers suffer burn injuries in Narayanganj rice mill fire

-- 2021-11-20 21:27:16

Four workers suffered burn injuries in a fire that broke out at City Auto Rice & Dal Mill at Rupshi area of Rupganj upazila in Narayanganj on Saturday. The injured were identified as Belayert Hos...

Seven suffer burn injuries in Narayanganj cotton factory fire

Seven suffer burn injuries in Narayanganj cotton factory fire

-- 2021-11-19 19:54:53

Seven workers of a cotton factory suffered burn injuries as fire broke out in Narayanjganj's Bandar. The incident occurred on Friday morning in Dhamgor Monirbari area. Upon information, four units o...

Derelict Chandpur Railway Hospital building requires renovation

Derelict Chandpur Railway Hospital building requires renovation

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-18 09:26:59

CHANDPUR: The Chandpur Railway Hospital has remained abandoned for fourteen years. It has been lying in a damaged state after being hit by Cyclone Sidr on November 15, 2007.Since then, no steps have b...

Pilot algae farming project pays off

Pilot algae farming project pays off

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-17 10:28:47

COX'S BAZAR: Along the coast of Cox's Bazar, villagers have achieved success in farming algae experimentally. The officials of the Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) said the initial...

Sylhet City Corporation cancels tender again to dismantle vulnerable market

Sylhet City Corporation cancels tender again to dismantle vulnerable market

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-17 10:26:55

SYLHET: The Sylhet City Corporation (SCC) again retreated from its attempt to reconstruct the 40-year-old 'City Super Market', which was declared vulnerable years ago by the experts. The SCC last wee...

Aman rice harvesting goes on in full swing

Aman rice harvesting goes on in full swing

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-16 11:25:17

Aman harvesting is going on in full swing in Tangail and Panchagarh districts with the hope of achieving bumper output this year. Our Tangail Correspondent reports, the harvesting of Aman paddy has...

Day labourers in a tight corner

Day labourers in a tight corner

OUR CORRESPONDENT, TANGAIL 2021-11-14 10:00:05

A large number of day-labourers are passing very hard time across the district amid seasonal job crisis which will continue until Boro paddy plantation. About 40,000 labourers have to suffer a lot as...

Bogura farmers happy with cauliflower yield, price

Bogura farmers happy with cauliflower yield, price

OUR CORRESPONDENT, BOGURA 2021-11-14 09:54:58

Early cauliflower cultivation has brought smiles on peasants for getting bumper output as well as fair market price in the district this season. Farmers of the district are happy as they are selling...

Brahmanbaria railway station resumes full-scale operation

Brahmanbaria railway station resumes full-scale operation

-- 2021-11-13 19:47:22

Brahmanbaria railway station, which was vandalised and torched by Hefazat-e-Islam activists and supporters on March 26, resumed its full-scale operation on Saturday. The full-fledged operation of the...

Oil tanker explosion leaves one dead in Jhalakathi 

Oil tanker explosion leaves one dead in Jhalakathi 

-- 2021-11-12 17:14:51

A powerful explosion on an oil tanker on the Sungandha River in Jhalakathi on Friday left a crew member dead and seven others injured, local administration said. The tanker, Sagar Nandini-3, was anch...

Magura sees bumper Aman output

Magura sees bumper Aman output

OUR CORRESPONDENT, MAGURA 2021-11-12 11:29:39

The harvesting of Aman paddy is going on in full swing in the district, and farmers are very happy with good production this year. This season's bumper yield has been achieved for adequate rainfall,...

Over 50 illegal structures demolished in Chandpur

Over 50 illegal structures demolished in Chandpur

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHANDPUR 2021-11-11 13:05:42

Over fifty illegal slum-dwellers' structures were demolished on railway land in the Koila Ghat area in the town adjacent to Railway Boro Station on Monday. After lunch, the drive was abandoned when e...

Teen dies in Bogura after ward boy removes oxygen mask

Teen dies in Bogura after ward boy removes oxygen mask

-- 2021-11-10 15:30:58

An 18-year-old teenager died at Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College and Hospital (SZMCH) on Tuesday night after a ward boy allegedly removed his oxygen mask. The deceased was identified as Bi...

'Abducted' college student found dead in Khulna

'Abducted' college student found dead in Khulna

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-10 14:23:58

Three days after he was allegedly abducted, a college student was found dead near the Agarghata Bazar area of Khulna's Paikgachha upazila on Wednesday morning. The deceased was identified as Aminur,...

Classroom shortage hampers teaching in Bogura primary school

Classroom shortage hampers teaching in Bogura primary school

OUR CORRESPONDENT, BOGURA 2021-11-10 10:46:14

Classroom shortage in Unahat Singra Government Primary School (USGPS) under Dupchanchia upazila in the district has been hampering smooth teaching for a long time. The school is earmarked for primary...

Plundering of trees rampant on Tanguar haor

Plundering of trees rampant on Tanguar haor

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-09 10:06:43

SYLHET: The plundering of natural plantations like Hijol, Koroch and other trees from different places on the renowned Tanguar Haor in remote Sunamganj has gone rampant in recent days. Such incident...

Heyday for betel-nut growers returns

Heyday for betel-nut growers returns

A CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-08 09:53:07

COX'S BAZAR: Betel-nut cultivation is increasing in Cox's Bazar as farmers see the return of the heyday for its lucrative market price. Trade sources say that the nut that is supplementary to betel...

Sramik League leader shot dead, protests flare in Cox’s Bazar

Sramik League leader shot dead, protests flare in Cox’s Bazar

-- 2021-11-07 17:08:55

Jatiya Sramik League leader Jahirul Islam Sikder has died from bullet wounds at Cox’s Bazar’s Jhilangja, triggering protests from members of the party in the area. After the news of the d...

Vegetable growers happy with price

Vegetable growers happy with price

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-07 09:57:43

NAOGAON: Growers in the district are happy with the fair prices of different vegetables at the beginning of this Rabi season. At the district wholesale kitchen markets, bean is being sold at Tk 100...

Pressure of passengers on train in Khulna owing to transport strike

Pressure of passengers on train in Khulna owing to transport strike

-- 2021-11-05 19:01:59

As long-distance bus services halted in protest against the sudden hike in fuel prices hundreds of people remained stranded at bus stations in Khulna on Friday. Many of them, desperate to reach their...

Diarrhoea outbreak in Jhenaidah afflicts 160 people

Diarrhoea outbreak in Jhenaidah afflicts 160 people

-- 2021-11-05 18:47:12

As many as 160 people have been admitted to Jhenaidah Sadar Hospital after being afflicted with diarrhoea in past two days, hospital sources said on Friday. Of them, 110 patients are currently underg...

Fear of attack by ‘unknown, murderous’ animal grips Gaibandha villages

Fear of attack by ‘unknown, murderous’ animal grips Gaibandha villages

Mashfiq Mizan 2021-11-05 13:00:27

At least 14 villagers including women and children have fallen victims of attacks by a wild animal, which local people called is mysterious, in Palashbari of northern Gaibandha district recently. One...

Price fall worries potato farmers, traders

Price fall worries potato farmers, traders

OUR CORRESPONDENT, CUMILLA 2021-11-05 12:38:58

The potato market in Cumilla's Daudkandi upazila has crashed following drastic price fall of the vegetable. Farmers and traders who have stored potatoes in cold storages are frustrated as they are not...

All seven Chandpur govt high schools sans headmasters

All seven Chandpur govt high schools sans headmasters

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-04 11:11:36

CHANDPUR: Educational activities are being hampered seriously for long for teacher shortages as all the govt high schools in the district run sans headmasters and 50 assistant teachers, sources said....

Building owner held over Ctg fire

Building owner held over Ctg fire

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-03 15:58:04

Police arrested the owner of 'Maryam Villa’ in connection with Tuesday's fire in the building in Chattogram’s North Kattoli area, which claimed the life of a woman and injured five others...

6,000 Benapole-bound trucks stranded at Petrapole in India

6,000 Benapole-bound trucks stranded at Petrapole in India

-- 2021-11-02 09:59:32

BENAPOLE: Around 6,000 goods-laden trucks are waiting in Petrapole's Kalitala parking lot of India to cross into Benapole Port. As the goods-laden trucks have been stranded, trade between the two c...

Seaweeds protect sand dunes of Cox's Bazar beach

Seaweeds protect sand dunes of Cox's Bazar beach

A CORRESPONDENT 2021-11-01 11:47:08

COX'S BAZAR: Rare minerals, including uranium, can be formed around the seaweeds of the Cox's Bazar beach. Its local name is Daungalta or Pinya Lata. The plant is also known as the 'sand maker' becaus...

Farmers suffer as 1,200 hectares of land remain fallow

Farmers suffer as 1,200 hectares of land remain fallow

OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-10-31 10:00:23

SYLHET: The local authorities took no measures to facilitate the poor small farmers to cultivate their own lands even in months as they cannot remove the sand from their croplands. About 1,200 hectar...