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Brahmaputra devours over 100 homesteads in Kurigram 

Brahmaputra devours over 100 homesteads in Kurigram 

-- 2019-08-31 13:40:34

Over 100 homesteads at Hatiya union in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram have gone into the gorge of the Brahmaputra River in a week as the riverbank erosion has taken a serious turn with the recession of fl...

Schoolgirl ‘kills self’ after being stalked in Pirojpur

Schoolgirl ‘kills self’ after being stalked in Pirojpur

-- 2019-08-31 12:23:37

A schoolgirl allegedly committed suicide by taking sleeping pills after being stalked by a youth in Bhandaria upazila headquarters in Pirojpur on early Saturday. The deceased was identified as Ruksan...

Teenage boy dies in Satkhira road crash

Teenage boy dies in Satkhira road crash

-- 2019-08-30 15:04:10

A teenage boy was killed in a road accident at Isakur in Shyamnagar upazila of Satkhira district on Friday. The deceased was identified as Sadek Hossain, 18, son of Samsur Hazari of Parulgaccha villa...

BGB declares red alert along Rajshahi borders

BGB declares red alert along Rajshahi borders

Our Correspondent 2019-08-29 21:20:08

RAJSHAHI, Aug 29:  To avert smuggling of rawhide, the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) has declared a red alert throughout the frontier of Rajshahi. According to sources, the wholesale rawhide trad...

Cassava grows well  in Lalmai hills

Cassava grows well in Lalmai hills

Our Correspondent 2019-08-29 21:19:08

CUMILLA, Aug 29: Cassava, also known as wood potato, is being cultivated in the Lalmai hills area of the district for many years. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) sources, s...

‘Syndicate’ controls jute market of Sirajganj

‘Syndicate’ controls jute market of Sirajganj

Roving Correspondent 2019-08-28 22:05:25

SIRAJGANJ, Aug 28: Jute growers in the district are worried over the present market price. A good number of growers said they got good price of their produce last year, but they are 'heartbroken' at...

Lack of road delays launch of  border haat at Dalfabazar

Lack of road delays launch of border haat at Dalfabazar

Our Correspondent 2019-08-27 21:18:23

SYLHET, Aug 27: Launching of a new border haat on Sunamganj district's Dalfabazar border would be delayed as the connecting road is yet to be ready, sources informed. Sources said, locals demanded im...

Bogura cultivators busy  growing early winter  vegetables

Bogura cultivators busy growing early winter vegetables

Our Correspondent 2019-08-27 21:17:28

BOGURA, Aug 27: Many farmers in the district are passing busy time growing early winter vegetables. Early winter cabbage, bean, carrot, cauliflower, spinach, red spinach, water spinach, Malaber spina...

Riverbank erosion makes 100 families homeless

Riverbank erosion makes 100 families homeless

BSS 2019-08-27 19:34:36

With huge losses of standing crops, riverbank erosion of the Padma River made 100 families homeless in the Harirampur Upazila of Manikganj district this year. Officials of local administration said h...

Bodies of two missing minors recovered from Habiganj pond

Bodies of two missing minors recovered from Habiganj pond

-- 2019-08-27 11:59:09

The floating bodies of two minor cousins were recovered from a pond at Ballavpur village in Baniachang upazila of Habiganj on Tuesday morning, 12 hours after they went missing. The deceased were iden...

Four kids drown in Magura

Four kids drown in Magura

-- 2019-08-27 10:34:56

At least four children drowned in Sadar and Sreepur upazilas of Magura district on Monday. Akayeed, 2, son of Enamul Haque of Gangnia village in Sadar upazila, met the watery burial in a pond near th...

Recent flood damages roads, bridges, culverts worth Tk 650m in Bogura

Recent flood damages roads, bridges, culverts worth Tk 650m in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-08-26 22:01:49

BOGURA, Aug 26: Some 115 major roads in the district have severely been damaged by the recent flood, causing untold sufferings to the locals. Sources at the Local Government Engineering Department (L...

Overall dengue situation improves in dists

Overall dengue situation improves in dists

Our Correspondent 2019-08-26 22:00:22

RAJSHAHI, Aug 26:  Officials of the Department of Health have started collecting samples of Aedes mosquito larvae for the second time in Rajshahi. Dr Gopendranath Acharya, director of Department...

Wax gourd brings good profit to Gopalganj growers

Wax gourd brings good profit to Gopalganj growers

Our Correspondent 2019-08-26 21:58:53

GOPALGANJ, Aug 26: A good number of peasants in the remote villages under Gopalganj Sadar upazila have been making a good profit by cultivating wax gourd. They are satisfied over the present market p...

Electrocution kills minor boy in Magura

Electrocution kills minor boy in Magura

-- 2019-08-26 11:40:35

A seven-year-old boy was electrocuted at Dighi village in Shalikha upazila of Magura district on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Abu Huraira, 7, son of Badsha Mia of the area, reports...

Number of dengue patients up  in some northern districts

Number of dengue patients up in some northern districts

Our Correspondents 2019-08-25 21:36:50

BOGURA, Aug 25: The number of dengue patients is increasing in some districts of northern region. Civil Surgeon Dr Gosul Azim Chowdhury of Bogura district said some 14 patients have been infected her...

Infant dies of dengue fever in Mymensingh

Infant dies of dengue fever in Mymensingh

-- 2019-08-24 18:47:14

A five-month old baby has died of dengue fever in Mymensingh amid a massive outbreak of the mosquito-borne disease across Bangladesh, reports bdnews24.com. The infant, Zarif Hossain, passed away duri...

Army sergeant killed in Bogura road crash

Army sergeant killed in Bogura road crash

-- 2019-08-24 18:38:08

An army sergeant was killed and six others injured after a passenger bus overturned at Rahobol on Rangpur-Bogura Highway in Shibganj upazila of Bogura district on Saturday. The deceased was identifie...

Lightning strike in Satkhira kills farmer

Lightning strike in Satkhira kills farmer

-- 2019-08-24 11:57:37

A farmer was killed and another injured in a lightning strike at Jalalabad village in Kalaroa upazila of Satkhira district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Delwar Hossain, 30, son of Duk...

Floating Aman seedbeds  gain popularity among  peasants in Rangpur

Floating Aman seedbeds gain popularity among peasants in Rangpur

Our Correspondent 2019-08-22 22:25:38

RANGPUR, Aug 22: Floating Aman seedbeds are gaining popularity among the peasants of different areas under Kawnia upazila in the district. With the assistance of agriculture officials a good of farme...

Lightning claims nine lives in four districts

Lightning claims nine lives in four districts

-- 2019-08-22 21:52:19

Nine people,  including a couple, were killed in lightning strikes in Faridpur, Manikganj, Magura and Bogura districts on Thursday. In Faridpur, four people were killed being hit by lightning st...

Murder suspect killed in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

Murder suspect killed in Mymensingh ‘gunfight’

-- 2019-08-22 16:18:26

The main suspect in the murder of an auto-rickshaw driver has been killed in a so-called shootout with detective police in Mymensingh’s Gafargaon, reports bdnews24.com.  The incident took...

Two Rohingyas die in BGB anti-drug drive

Two Rohingyas die in BGB anti-drug drive

-- 2019-08-22 16:16:03

Two Rohingyas have died in a so-called shootout with Border Guard Bangladesh, or BGB, in Cox’s Bazar’s Teknaf, reports bdnews24.com.  The incident took place in the Hoikong area adjo...

Newly-wed couple found dead

Newly-wed couple found dead

-- 2019-08-21 11:42:33

A newly-wed couple apparently took their own lives at Raghobdair village in Magura sadar upazila on Tuesday night, barely three weeks after tying the knot. The deceased were identified as Nirab Biswa...

Cumilla road accident claims lives of two

Cumilla road accident claims lives of two

-- 2019-08-20 12:43:17

Two people were killed and three others injured in a road accident at Kursap on Dhaka-Chattogram highway in Debidwar Upazila of Cumilla district on Tuesday morning. Inspector Monirul Islam, in-charge...

Hospitals, health complexes  face shortage of dengue kits

Hospitals, health complexes face shortage of dengue kits

Our Correspondents 2019-08-20 00:00:00

SIRAJGANJ, Aug 19: With the rise in the number of dengue patients across the districts of Rajshahi division, Sadar hospitals and upazila health complexes are facing acute crisis of dengue kits. Civil...

Youth electrocuted in Rajshahi

Youth electrocuted in Rajshahi

-- 2019-08-19 17:02:06

A youth was electrocuted in a shop at Godagari upazila in Rajshahi on Sunday evening. The deceased was identified as Jashim, 18, son of Hazrat Ali of Mohammadpur Joibattola village in the area. He pa...

Bridge collapses only three months after construction

Bridge collapses only three months after construction

-- 2019-08-18 16:23:45

A 40-foot bridge constructed at a cost of Tk 3.1 million has collapsed in only three months, causing extreme suffering to commuters. The bridge was constructed over the Abashongami canal at Purba Dho...

City road crash kills one

City road crash kills one

-- 2019-08-18 13:52:04

A man was killed in a road accident at Uttar Badda in the capital on Sunday. The deceased was identified as Shahidul Islam, 45, son of late Saidul Islam of Charikumarpara in Kamalkanda upazila of Net...

Minor boy killed over land dispute

Minor boy killed over land dispute

-- 2019-08-17 18:31:05

A two-year-old boy was slaughtered over a land dispute at Dalarkandi village of Austagram upazila in Kishoreganj on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Wasim, son of Abdul Wadud of the v...