GAIBANDHA, May 14: Amid severe shortage of rabies vaccines across the country against intense demand, at least five people have died since last Wednesday after being beaten by 'rabid' dogs in Gaibandha. The deceased have been identified as Sultana Begum (39), Afroza Begum (50), Nanda Rani (55), Fu
Two people have died from electrocution after touching a live wire in Phulpur Upazila Mymensingh, according to police. The incident occurred around 2:15pm on Friday in Bhatta village of Ruposhi Union, said Phulpur Police Sub-Inspector (SI) Md Abul Bashar. The victims are Tajuddin, 40, son of Shuk
A schoolboy has died after being electrocuted while picking mangoes in Dighinala, Khagrachhari. His classmate was also injured in the incident. The accident occurred around 7:00 pm on Tuesday in the Noy Mile area of the Khagrachhari-Dighinala road, said Tapu Tripura, headmaster of Noy Mile Junior
SYLHET, May 11: While the farmers in greater Sylhet are still continuing their high labour-intensive venture to harvest Boro paddy, about 40 per cent of the job is yet to be completed for the extensive inundation of their fields caused by incessant rainfalls and runoff. However, officials of the D
Mango harvesting in Natore will officially begin on May 15 with the collection of Guti variety as the local administration announced the mango calendar on Monday. The schedule was unveiled at a meeting held with Deputy Commissioner Asma Shaheen in the chair at the conference room of her office. A
RAJSHAHI, May 10: The Rajshahi district administration has announced the "Mango Calendar" for the current season, setting a structured timeline for harvesting and marketing of mangoes across the region. According to the schedule, mango harvesting will begin on May 15 with the entry of Guti variety
RANGPUR, May 10: Peasants in different areas of the Rangpur agriculture region have become disheartened as a nor'wester accompanied by hailstorms has wreaked havoc on a large number of maize fields across the region during the past a couple of weeks. In addition, prolonged heavy rainfall over th
CHANDPUR, May 09: Over 25,000 people of seven villages in Gupti Paschim Union of Chandpur's Faridgonj Upazila have been deprived of convenient medical care as the Union Health and Family Welfare Centre lies abandoned with essential furniture and appliances stolen and functioning as a shelter for dr
Boro paddy growers in Magura have been facing low price for their produce, high labour cost and rain damage, while growers from Jashore said they face serious labour shortage and apprehension of significant rain damage. Our correspondent from Magura reports, some 39,535 hectares were brought under
MANIKGANJ, May 09: As the agriculture sector has also started taking a hit from the ongoing instability in the Middle East along with other sectors including energy, a surge in international prices of chemical fertiliser raw materials has pushed up production costs for farmers in Bangladesh. In a
Police recovered the body of a Bangladeshi man from the “no man’s land” area along the Fulgazi border in Feni on Thursday noon. The deceased was identified as Biswajit Sarkar, 61, son of late Gopal Sarkar of Rupsa village under Faridganj upazila in Chandpur district, UNB reports.
Loading and unloading goods along the Meghna and Dakatia rivers in Chandpur's Puranbazar have become immensely challenging for traders and labourers over the absence of adequate number of pontoons, or jetties. Nazmul Islam and Mainul Islam Kishore are among the trading association leaders who said
The government has taken initiatives to declare six "natural resource-enriched sites" of Sylhet, including Sada Pathor, a tourist spot in Bholaganj, 35 kilometres away from the city, and Shah Arefin Tila, a historically significant hillock in Companiganj upazila, as Environmentally Critical Areas (
