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Jashore 10th grader ‘commits suicide’

Jashore 10th grader ‘commits suicide’

-- 2018-12-28 11:57:11

A class X student allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself from a tree after being failed to secure first position in the final examination at Ista village in Jashore’s Jhikargachha upazil...

Boro farming starts in Sylhet

Boro farming starts in Sylhet

Our Correspondents 2018-12-27 21:29:34

SYLHET, Dec 27: Boro paddy cultivation has started in all the four districts of Sylhet division as farmers began transplanting seedlings in the main cropland from seedbeds. An official at the DAE S...

Maize cultivation expands  in Jhenidah district

Maize cultivation expands in Jhenidah district

Our Correspondent 2018-12-27 21:28:09

JHENIDAH, Dec 27: Maize cultivation is expanding in the district for its popularity among the farmers. Every season cultivators make handsome profit from the crop amid favourable weather condition....

Miscreants torch AL election campaign office in Meherpur

Miscreants torch AL election campaign office in Meherpur

-- 2018-12-27 20:28:10

Miscreants torched an election campaign office of Awami League (AL) candidate for Meherpur-2 constituency at Bholadanga village in Gangni upazila early Thursday. Harendranath Sarker, officer-in-charg...

Three held with AK-22 rifle, ammo in Rangamati

Three held with AK-22 rifle, ammo in Rangamati

-- 2018-12-27 18:26:27

Members of joint forces morning arrested three people along with an AK 22 automatic rifle, three rounds of ammunition and four Chinese knives during a drive at Farua under Bilaichhari upazila in Ranga...

Rajshahi people hit hard by cold weather

Rajshahi people hit hard by cold weather

-- 2018-12-27 17:17:33

The unusual cold weather is disrupting normal life in Rajshahi and its adjacent areas for the last couple of days as the difference between maximum and minimum temperature was further reduced during t...

Excavation of five rivers begins in Panchagarh

Excavation of five rivers begins in Panchagarh

-- 2018-12-27 15:26:37

Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has begun excavation and re-excavation works of five rivers at a cost of Tk 1.5 billion in five upazilas of Panchagarh district. Deputy Commissioner of Panch...

Police recover elderly man’s body in Jashore

Police recover elderly man’s body in Jashore

-- 2018-12-27 11:42:42

Police recovered the decomposed body of an unidentified man from Bhairab River in Jashore on Wednesday. Locals spotted the floating body of the elderly man at Naoapara Ferryghat in Abhoynagar upazila...

Fire guts 180 rooms at Gazipur workers’ colony

Fire guts 180 rooms at Gazipur workers’ colony

-- 2018-12-27 10:41:58

At least 180 rooms at the workers colony in Chakrawarty area of Gazipur were gutted in a fire early Thursday. The fire originated from an electric short circuit at a tin-shed room of the colony aroun...

Bumper output makes chilli  farmers happy

Bumper output makes chilli farmers happy

Our Correspondent 2018-12-26 20:49:03

BOGURA, Dec 26: Bumper yield of chilli has made hundreds of grassroots peasants in the district happy this season. Sources said chilli production in the district has exceeded all the records in t...

80,690 hectares of land to come under Boro farming in Gopalganj

80,690 hectares of land to come under Boro farming in Gopalganj

Our Correspondent 2018-12-26 20:46:12

GOPALGANJ, Dec 26: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) in the district has taken a massive programme to grow Boro paddy on 80,690 hectares of land this season with a production target of 3...

Rajshahi growers eye 0.22m tonnes of mustard yield

Rajshahi growers eye 0.22m tonnes of mustard yield

-- 2018-12-26 20:44:56

RAJSHAHI, Dec 26 (BSS): Field-level agricultural extension officials and scientists concerned along with the growers are expecting a good yield of mustard seed this season as the government has taken...

Two motorcyclists die in Mymensingh road crash

Two motorcyclists die in Mymensingh road crash

-- 2018-12-26 16:16:40

Two motorcycle passengers have been killed after their vehicle was rammed by a bus in Mymensingh’s Nandail upazila. The accident occurred on the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj Highway in the Chamta are...

Man dies in road crash in Gazipur

Man dies in road crash in Gazipur

-- 2018-12-26 12:56:20

A man was killed and another injured when a truck rammed a covered-van on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Rajendrapur intersection in Gazipur on Wednesday. The dead man was identified as Mosharraf Hossai...

8,539 villages now under electricity coverage in Rangpur

8,539 villages now under electricity coverage in Rangpur

-- 2018-12-26 12:48:02

The Rural Electrification Board (REB) has brought 8,539 villages of Rangpur division under electricity coverage in last ten years improving human resources, rural economy and life-style of the rural p...

Indian prisoner dies in Jashore jail

Indian prisoner dies in Jashore jail

-- 2018-12-26 11:39:00

An Indian citizen accused in a gold smuggling case died of cardiac arrest at Jashore Central Jail on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Sanzid Bharma, 48, son of Mahindar Bharma of New Delhi. J...

Profuse vegetables yield cheers  Sirajganj, Sylhet growers

Profuse vegetables yield cheers Sirajganj, Sylhet growers

Our Correspondents 2018-12-25 21:47:55

SIRAJGANJ, Dec 25: Vegetable growers in the vast Barind tract are delighted as they have been getting repeated bumper yield over the last few years. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), the...

Naogaon quilt makers  passing busy time

Naogaon quilt makers passing busy time

Our Correspondent 2018-12-25 21:42:46

NAOGAON, Dec 25: In the middle of winter season, the demand for quilts increases manifold in Mohadevpur upazila of the district. The business of making hand woven quilts is an age old tradition in th...

Record 2.65m tonnes of Aman paddy output in Rangpur zone

Record 2.65m tonnes of Aman paddy output in Rangpur zone

-- 2018-12-25 21:41:37

The farmers have produced a record 1.76 million tonnes of clean Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) rice - 2.65 million tonnes of paddy - exceeding the production target by eight percent in Rangpur agriculture...

Three burned as fire breaks out in Narayanganj warehouses

Three burned as fire breaks out in Narayanganj warehouses

-- 2018-12-25 18:59:03

At least three peoples sustained burn injuries as a fire broke out in two cotton warehouses at Dhamgar in Bandar upazila of Narayanganj district on Tuesday. The injured -Anowar Hossain Anu, 40, Kayum...

Police recover bullet-riddled body in Cumilla

Police recover bullet-riddled body in Cumilla

-- 2018-12-25 13:25:38

Police in Cumilla have recovered the bullet-riddled body of an unidentified young man from an embankment along the Gomti river in Debidwar upazila on Tuesday morning. Locals spotted that the body in...

Warm clothes sale gains pace in Rangpur, Jhenidah districts

Warm clothes sale gains pace in Rangpur, Jhenidah districts

Our Correspondents 2018-12-24 21:02:38

RANGPUR, Dec 24: Sale of warm clothes has gained momentum in the district and its adjacent areas as mercury has plummeted across the region with the wintry chill intensifying over the last few days....

Sylhet farmers busy preparing Boro seedbeds

Sylhet farmers busy preparing Boro seedbeds

Our Correspondent 2018-12-24 21:01:29

SYLHET, Dec 24: Farmers in different areas of Sylhet division are busy for preparing Boro seedbeds. An official at the Sylhet divisional office of DAE said on Monday so far 25,975 hectares of land...

Hatirjheel road crash kills motorcyclist

Hatirjheel road crash kills motorcyclist

-- 2018-12-24 10:47:25

A motorcyclist was killed and another injured as their vehicle crashed into a road divider in city’s Hatirjheel area in the early hours of Monday. The deceased was identified as Rifat, 18, son...

Honey collection brings  boon for farmers

Honey collection brings boon for farmers

-- 2018-12-23 21:25:16

RAJSHAHI, Dec 23 (BSS): Many people have become financially solvent by beekeeping in the region including its vast Barind tract. Honey hunting is being expanded gradually to many new areas contributi...

Bitter gourd yield pleases Naogaon peasants

Bitter gourd yield pleases Naogaon peasants

Our Correspondent 2018-12-23 21:24:32

NAOGAON, Dec 23: Peasants in the district are happy over high yield and fair price of bitter gourd, a popular vegetable in the country.  Bitter gourd produced in the district is being sent to di...

Villagers beat leopard dead in Panchagarh

Villagers beat leopard dead in Panchagarh

-- 2018-12-23 11:58:20

A wild leopard was beaten to death by villagers in Panchagarh amid presence of police and Forest Department officials on Saturday. Ismail Hossain, a resident of Bashuniapara village, said his daughte...

Two die in Thakurgaon road mishap

Two die in Thakurgaon road mishap

-- 2018-12-22 13:02:43

Two young men have been killed after a tractor collided with a motorcycle in Thakurgaon’s Ranishongkoil. The accident took place near Gazirhat Degree College at around 9:00pm on Friday, said Ra...

Worker dies falling off from crane at RNPP

Worker dies falling off from crane at RNPP

-- 2018-12-22 11:55:27

A worker was killed while another severely injured after falling off from a crane while working at Rooppur Nuclear Power Plant (RNPP) project in Pabna’s Iswardi upazila on Friday. The victim wa...

Gopalganj road crash leaves van puller dead

Gopalganj road crash leaves van puller dead

-- 2018-12-21 14:54:41

A van puller was killed when a truck hit his van on Gopalganj-Tekerhat road in Muksudpur upazila in the early hours of Friday. The dead man was identified as Sattar Sheikh, 40, son of Kalu Sheikh fro...