Slow progress in two government bridge construction projects has left hundreds of thousands of people to face serious inconveniences for years in Cox's Bazar and Sylhet. Our correspondent from Cox's Bazar reports, hundreds of thousands of people have been facing much hardship as the works for cons
Bitter gourd cultivation has been increasing every year in Manikganj Sadar upazila. Farmers are opting to cultivate the crop on a large scale, hoping for good yield with relatively lower production costs. But this year, natural disasters have dampened those hopes. Repeated rainfall, reduced yields
GAIBANDHA, Nov 20: A farmer of remote Hazirhat in Sundarganj has been using banana plant's stems, or portions forming the trunk-like structure, to produce a new processed fodder item for cattle, and addressing feed shortage in the area. The fodder from banana stalks are as cost effective as it is
BOGURA, Nov 17: Bogura - the district best known for its agricultural machineries- has now seen a boom in the local poultry industry, stemming from the vigorous growth of its other traditional businesses. The northern district has now emerged as a thriving poultry hub, where thousands of farms, ha
Bus services from Nathullabad Bus Terminal in Barishal remained suspended for the second consecutive day on Monday, leaving thousands of commuters grappling with the crisis. The bus operations on 23 intra-district routes have been halted since Saturday night after students of BM College allegedly
Two days of unseasonal rainfall in early November caused extensive crop losses across four districts in the Rajshahi agriculture region, damaging over 19,500 hectares of farmland and affecting nearly 43,000 farmers, according to the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE). Official sources said
Miscreants set fire to the July Memorial in Muktabazar area of Feni district town early Sunday. Police said a around 3:30 am group of helmet-wearing youths poured petrol on the monument and set it ablaze before fleeing. Feni Superintendent of Police Habibur Rahman and senior officials visited the
Miscreants set a bus on fire on Dhaka-Chattogram Highway at Shimrail in Siddhirganj upazila of Narayanganj district early Saturday. Shahinur Alam, officer-in-charge of Siddhirganj Police Station, said the miscreants set the stationary bus of ‘Naf Paribahan’ on fire around 6 am near the
Usually people visit hospitals when sick, now fish in Khulna can also receive medical care. A specialised fish hospital, ‘Fish Square Fisheries Hospital,’ was inaugurated in Dumuria of Khulna on Friday afternoon, to provide treatment and advice for fish diseases and aquaculture issues.
Unidentified miscreants set fire to a parked school bus in Manikganj early Friday, seriously injuring the driver asleep inside. The driver, Parvez Khan, 55, of Baraivikra village in Manikganj Sadar, was rescued by police as the fire quickly spread. Suman Chakraborty, sub-inspector of Shibalaya Po
Several thousand farmers in five upazilas of Lalmonirhat district have become very much frustrated as they are facing acute crisis of various non-urea fertilisers in the current seasons. The farmers are now very much busy cultivating different winter vegetables. Many of them cultivated early-vari
At least five people including, two housewives, have died receiving snakebites in Chandpur in the past nine months and as many as 555 people were also injured being bitten by venomous snakes in the district during the period. Snakebite has taken life of a young housewife in Matlab Dakhshin upazila
Suspected saboteurs cut down trees and placed them on the Dhaka-Chattogram railway tracks in the Maheshpur area of Feni Sadar upazila early Thursday, but a major accident was averted thanks to the prompt action of the Railway Engineering Department. According to railway police, a routine early-mor
