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Rangpur growers expect plentiful yield of wheat

Rangpur growers expect plentiful yield of wheat

Our Correspondent 2019-01-24 20:42:00

RANGPUR, Jan 24: The farmers in five districts under Rangpur agriculture region are expecting a plentiful yield of wheat during the current season. This year the wheat cultivators of Rangpur agricult...

Over 6,000 Narsingdi youth become self-reliant

Over 6,000 Narsingdi youth become self-reliant

-- 2019-01-24 17:00:39

Over 6,000 youth in Narsingdi district became self-reliant receiving training from Skill Development centre of BSCIC during the last 28 years. Assistant General Manager of BSCIC Industries Service ce...

Truck ploughs through shop, kills man in Noakhali

Truck ploughs through shop, kills man in Noakhali

-- 2019-01-24 11:30:00

A man was killed and six others injured when a truck ploughed through a shop on Sonapara-Kabirhat road at Kabirhat upazila in Noakhali on Thursday. The victim was identified as Golam Mawla, 45, a mas...

Massive flowering heralds bumper mango production in Bogura

Massive flowering heralds bumper mango production in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-01-23 21:40:07

BOGURA, Jan 23: Massive mango flowering here in Bogura district is predicting a bumper output this season as a large number of the mango trees have already started sprouting early. This year, farmers...

Floating cabbage farming gains  popularity in Gopalganj

Floating cabbage farming gains popularity in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2019-01-23 21:39:03

GOPALGANJ, Jan 23: Floating cabbage farming is gaining popularity among the farmers of Joaria union under Tungipara Upazila in the district as it is proved as a profitable crop in this region. This h...

Groundnut growers at Jamuna char  in Sirajganj expect good yield

Groundnut growers at Jamuna char in Sirajganj expect good yield

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-23 21:38:10

SIRAJGANJ, Jan 23: Due to favourable weather condition and timely supply of necessary agri-inputs, the groundnuts growers of char in Jamuna Rivers under Sirakgsnj district are expecting bumper output...

Jubo Dal leader found dead in Chattogram

Jubo Dal leader found dead in Chattogram

-- 2019-01-23 18:16:12

Police recovered the decomposed body of a local Jubo Dal leader from a house in Kazir Deuri area of Chattogram on Tuesday night. The deceased was identified as Rashedul Hasan Milton, 39, hailing from...

Cotton harvesting begins in Jamalpur

Cotton harvesting begins in Jamalpur

-- 2019-01-23 15:32:54

Farmers in Jamalpur have started cotton harvesting with a production target of 750 metric tonnes (MTs) of seed cotton in the current season. Sources concerned said the farmers cultivated different va...

Inmate dies while undergoing treatment at RMCH

Inmate dies while undergoing treatment at RMCH

-- 2019-01-23 12:26:17

A prisoner died while undergoing treatment at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Abdul Jabbar, 45, son of Javed Ali of Paba upazila, said Hafizur Rahm...

Landless char people change fortune by  cultivating BINA China-4 peanut

Landless char people change fortune by cultivating BINA China-4 peanut

Our Correspondent 2019-01-22 22:02:09

MAGURA, Jan 22: BINA China-4 peanut is turning fortune wheel of landless char people. BINA (Bangladesh Institute of Nuclear Agriculture) Magura sources informed, cultivation of BINA China-4 peanut is...

Cultivation of reproduced local species  of fish gets popular in Bogura

Cultivation of reproduced local species of fish gets popular in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-01-22 22:01:25

BOGURA, Jan 22:  With the initiative of a fisheries research institute, indigenous Bheda species fish cultivation is getting popular across Bogura district. Shantaher Fisheries Research Institut...

Bee keepers become self-reliant  selling honey in Joypurhat

Bee keepers become self-reliant selling honey in Joypurhat

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-22 22:00:22

JOYPURHAT, Jan 22: Over 250 bee farmers, trained by Bangladesh Small and Cottage industry (BSIC), have become self-reliant collecting honey in Joypurhat district. The areas from where honey was colle...

Rangpur peasants passing busy time transplanting Boro paddy

Rangpur peasants passing busy time transplanting Boro paddy

Our Correspondent 2019-01-22 21:59:37

RANGPUR, Jan 22: The peasants of Rangpur agriculture region are passing busy time in transplanting Boro paddy seedlings across the region this season. Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) source...

Four to die for killing woman in Sirajganj

Four to die for killing woman in Sirajganj

-- 2019-01-22 19:14:02

The husband of a woman is among four people sentenced to death over her murder in 2011. Sirajganj Women and Children Repression Prevention Tribunal handed down the maximum punishment on Tuesday. The...

ACC evicts brick kilns in Singair for polluting environment

ACC evicts brick kilns in Singair for polluting environment

FE Online Report 2019-01-22 18:24:09

Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) on Tuesday evicted two brick kilns at Singair Upazila in Manikganj on grounds of illegal operation, destruction of agricultural lands and affecting public health. A t...

Schoolboy dies in Ctg road crash

Schoolboy dies in Ctg road crash

-- 2019-01-22 16:47:09

A teenager has died in a road accident while on his way to school in Chattogram’s Dhanialapara. Kazi Mahmudur Rahman, an eighth grader, was killed when the tempo he was travelling on collided h...

Amnura by-pass rly station faces closure

Amnura by-pass rly station faces closure

Our Correspondent 2019-01-21 20:45:39

RAJSHAHI, Jan 21: Just 19-month after its inauguration, Amnura by-pass railway station under west zone railway in Rajshahi is going to be closed. Already an official letter to close the rail station h...

Tomato farming changes fate of poor farmers in Bogura

Tomato farming changes fate of poor farmers in Bogura

Our Correspondent 2019-01-21 20:44:43

BOGURA, Jan 21: With noticeable assistance of Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) tomato farming has changed fate of hundreds of poor farmers in Bogura district. Getting repeated bumper produ...

Gopalganj growers expect good yield of BARI Mustard -14

Gopalganj growers expect good yield of BARI Mustard -14

Our Correspondent 2019-01-21 20:43:39

GOPALGANJ, Jan 21: Farmers of Suktail Union under Sadar Upazila of the district are excepting a bumper production of BARI Mustard -14 this year. Subal Kirtania (70), a farmer of village Suchidanga...

Newborn dies due to ‘negligence’ at Mymensing clinic

Newborn dies due to ‘negligence’ at Mymensing clinic

-- 2019-01-21 17:40:21

A newborn died due to reported negligence at a private clinic in Krishtapur of Mymensingh on Monday. Harun-or-Rashid, a resident of Kolyanpur village in Sadar Upazila, said his wife Jannat Begum was...

Noakhali road crash leaves four dead

Noakhali road crash leaves four dead

-- 2019-01-21 17:23:42

Four people died and two others were injured in a road accident in Begumganj Upazila of Noakhali on Monday. Begumganj Police OC Firoze Hossain Molla said the accident occurred when when a bus collide...

BGB arrests 14 Bangladeshi nationals at Benapole

BGB arrests 14 Bangladeshi nationals at Benapole

-- 2019-01-21 17:13:32

Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) troopers arrested 14 Bangladeshis while entering the country illegally through Putkhali border at Charer Math on Monday. Of the arrestees, six are women and two are chil...

Fire guts 72 shanties in Narayanganj

Fire guts 72 shanties in Narayanganj

-- 2019-01-21 11:01:44

A fire that broke out at Chandmari slum in Narayanganj’s Fatulla in the early hours of Monday gutted 72 shanties. Narayanganj fire service sources said that the fire broke out in a jhut warehou...

Physician shortage hampers healthcare in Bogura UZ

Physician shortage hampers healthcare in Bogura UZ

Our Correspondent 2019-01-20 20:54:32

BOGURA, Jan 20: Medicare service is being disrupted severely due to acute shortage of physicians at Kahaloo Upazila Health Complex of Bogura district. According to hospital sources, some twenty five...

Lucrative price boosts sesame  cultivation in Sirajganj

Lucrative price boosts sesame cultivation in Sirajganj

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-20 20:53:33

SIRAJGANJ, Jan 20: Sesame is being cultivated abundantly across Sirajganj district due to its lucrative price this season. Farmers of the district showed more interest to grow the crops on a large sc...

RAB arrests couple with 5,300 yaba pills in Chattogram

RAB arrests couple with 5,300 yaba pills in Chattogram

-- 2019-01-20 17:11:44

Members of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) in a drive arrested a suspected drug trading couple along with 5,300 pieces of yaba tablets (worth Tk 2.65m) from Pahartoli area in Chattogram city in the early...

Police recover abducted minor’s body in Manikganj

Police recover abducted minor’s body in Manikganj

-- 2019-01-20 13:08:00

Police recovered the body of a minor boy from a lemon orchard at Jalsuka village in Saturia upazila of Manikganj on Sunday morning three days after his abduction. The deceased was identified as Jubay...

Plum cultivators happy with output, fair price in Natore

Plum cultivators happy with output, fair price in Natore

Roving Correspondent 2019-01-19 20:26:03

NATORE, Jan 19: A good number of plum cultivators of Gurudaspur upazila in Natore district are happy over bumper output and fair market price this season.Meanwhile, the cultivation of Baukul, Thai plu...

Pedestrian dies in Ctg train accident

Pedestrian dies in Ctg train accident

-- 2019-01-19 20:03:17

A pedestrian was killed as a city-bound train from Chittagong University hit him in Nasirabad area on Saturday afternoon. The dead man was identified as Shahin Alam, 45, son of Nur Alam, an inhabita...

Cumilla road crash leaves bus supervisor, helper dead

Cumilla road crash leaves bus supervisor, helper dead

-- 2019-01-19 16:30:03

A bus supervisor and a driver's assistant were killed in a collision involving three vehicles on the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Daudkandi Upazila's Iliatganj in Cumilla on Saturday. The victims were...