District administration and the district livestock office of Chattogram have started the sale of milk, eggs, and meat at subsidised rates ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, aiming to provide the protein items at affordable prices. Deputy Commissioner Farida Khanam inaugurated the sale program
Dayemi Foundation, a charitable organisation in Bangladesh, in association with a UK-based donor, has distributed food items among 300 families in Nabinagar Upazila under Brahmanbaria district as support for the holy Ramadan at a programme on the premises of Sufiabad Shah Sufi Syed Azmat Ullah (RA)
A woman has allegedly hacked her three-year-old son to death in Narsingdi’s Raipura Upazila. The incident took place in Amirganj Union’s Dakkhin Mirzanagar area around 8:30 pm on Saturday, according to Adil Mahmud, chief of Raipura Police Station. The boy’s mother, identified as
A weeklong Shiv Chaturdashi puja and fair has begun at Adinath Temple in Maheshkhali in the district. Hundreds of shops have set up stalls around the temple to sell various products during the traditional fair. Organisers said the fair was inaugurated in presence of a large number of pilgrims on
The common utensils of the bell-metal industry, which were once very popular for household use in both urban and rural areas, are disappearing fast from the shops, families as well as society. Now-a-days, with technological changes, these articles have become obsolete in the day-to-day life. Prese
Potato farmers and traders of Lalmonirhat sadar upazila of the district blocked the Dhaka-Lalmonirhat for four hours on Saturday, demanding a halt to the increased cold storage rent in the current seasons. The demonstration began at 11:00 am at Mohendronagor Bazer area. Hundreds of vehicles and ot
A trader was killed allegedly by another trader following a money dispute after selling beef at Sener Bazar in Rupsha upazila of Khulna district on Friday night. The deceased, identified as Arif, was a butcher and son of Mohammad Ali from Sadar upazila. Shariful Islam, in-charge of Aichgati Polic
India's Border Security Force (BSF) is reportedly holding the body of a Bangladeshi man, who was shot near the border in Brahmanbaria's Kasba Upazila. The shooting occurred on Friday at the Putia border in Bayek Union, according to Kasba Police Station chief Mohammad Abdul Kader. The victim, iden
Bangladesh Navy in a drive on Friday rescued a young man, who had been abducted by miscreants on Thursday, at Boro Habir Para in Teknaf upazila of Cox’s Bazar district. The rescued victim was identified as Sabbir Ahmed. According to an ISPR media release, some miscreants called Sabbir out o
Three people sustained bullet injuries in a robbery attempt at Angaria in Sadar upazila of Shariatpur district on Friday night. The injured were identified as Tota Mia, 35, son of Dalil Uddin of Shariatpur district; Masum Mia, 30, a bulkhead worker and son of Joynal Mia; and Alamin, 19, a bulkhead
The body of a minor girl killed after a failed attempted rape allegedly by an ice cream seller, was recovered from a pond early Friday three days after she went missing in Munshinganj’s Sirajdikhan upazila. Police arrested accused Sabbir, 24, who gave a confessional statement to a court in t
Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) recovered four gold bars weighing around 2.335 kilogrammes from an abandoned cowshed in Chuadanda’s Damurhuda upazila on Thursday. According to a media release, signed by Lt Col Md Nazmul Hasan of the BGB-6 Battalion, a team of the frontier force cond
Ample production and sale of flowers have brought smiles to the farmers as well as traders of Rangur district this year as their income witnessed a boom in February, a month which holds special features centring round Pahela Falgun and Valentine's Day (on February 14) and the International Mother L
