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BOGURA, July 28: Weeks of heavy monsoon rain and upstream flows from northern rivers have damaged crops largely across parts of Bogura, leaving thousands of farmers facing steep financial losses while government relief remains limited, acco...

SYLHET: Despite good yield this summer, prices of vegetables have increased in Sylhet -- along with some other items of the kitchen market, locals and farmers said. During a visit to kitchen markets in Sylhet city's Subidbazar, Ambarkhana,...

Erosion by the Teesta River has turned fierce in the past ten days wreaking havoc across different areas of Gangachara upazila of Rangpur district while swelling of the water level of the Padma River has intensified riverbank erosion in Dau...

A clash has broken out between residents of two villages in Bhairab, Kishoreganj, over the naming of a local market, leaving one man dead and more than 50 others injured. The violence also disrupted rail services, with the Egarosindur Prov...

CHANDPUR: Chandpur residents have been suffering due to the dilapidated condition of several roads. The roads include: two kilometre Roghunathpur-Balia GC Road in Chandpur Sadar Upazila, a one kilometre Rampur Sholakhali-Santosepur road in...

KUSHTIA: The 64 CCTV cameras installed in Kushtia town for maintaining law and order and curbing crime have been lying inoperative for around two years. This surveillance system of the district police has not been activated since it was va...

Police recovered the bodies of four people from different parts of Naogaon within a span of six hours on Sunday. Three of them died after drowning, while the body of another youth was recovered from his home. In Badalgachhi upazila, Nur I...

LALMONIRHAT, July 25: Nur-e-Alom Bappy (40) had been working at a readymade garment factory in Dhaka after graduation in 2015 ; but during the coronavirus pandemic he lost job as the authorities went for a mass retrenchment process. After...