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Baneshwar brims with mango mania during peak season

Baneshwar brims with mango mania during peak season

Baneshwar, the largest mango market of the country's "mango capital" Rajshahi, is abuzz with hordes of buyers and sellers, as the bazaar teems with activity during the succulent summer fruit's peak season. The streets of Baneshwar bazar are now awash with mangoes, as diverse varieties are brought

Ctg grapples with river pollution, hill cutting

Ctg grapples with river pollution, hill cutting

The natural environment of Chattogram is under hazardous threats due to the river pollution, uncontrolled hill and tree cutting, poor drainage and sewerage system, and discharging of clinical, industrial and household wastage everywhere. Sources said that the water of the Bay of Bengal at the Chat

Four die as truck crashes into autorickshaw in Naogaon

Four die as truck crashes into autorickshaw in Naogaon

Four people died and another person was injured after a truck crashed into an autorickshaw in Naogaon’s Mohadevpur. The accident occurred on the Naogaon-Rajshahi Highway in the Bagachara area of Hat-Chakgouri Bazar on Monday afternoon, said Mozaffar Hossain, chief of Mohadevpur Police Statio

Beef fattening endeavours generate income for rural people

Beef fattening endeavours generate income for rural people

Beef fattening activities have become vibrant everywhere in Rajshahi area as the villagers look for good profits ahead of the upcoming Eid-Ul-Azha, reports BSS.  This type of beef fattening everywhere in the region has been contributing a lot towards improving living and livelihood condit

Water hyacinths shrink Chandpur river routes

Water hyacinths shrink Chandpur river routes

    OUR CORRESPONDENT CHANDPUR, May 31: Thick and large water hyacinths in the Dakatia River have been impeding normal movement of the country boats and mechanided river vessels in Chandpur Sadar and Faridganj upazilas for the last 12 years. Not only that, smooth plying of river vesse

Two cousins drown in Chandpur pond

Two cousins drown in Chandpur pond

Two cousins drowned in a pond of Hosenur village in Chandpur's Sadar upazila on Friday.The deceased were identified as Nusrat, 8, daughter of Salim Khan and Chan Mia's daughter Mariam Akhter, 10, of the village.Both were students at Hossainpur Government Primary School.Md Billal Hossain Master, cha

Lalmonirhat road crash leaves three dead

Lalmonirhat road crash leaves three dead

Three people were killed and six others injured when a truck rammed into a CNG-run auto-rickshaw on Lalmonirhat-Burimari highway in Kaliganj upazila of Lalmonirhat district on Friday night. The deceased were identified as Rafiqul Islam, 36, son of Abdul Gafur, Mizanur Rahman, 32, son of Atiqul Isl

Gold worth Tk 14m seized at Benapole

Gold worth Tk 14m seized at Benapole

Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) said on Thursday they have seized 14 gold bars weighing around 1.630kg from Pachvulot border of Jashore's Sharsha upazila, reports UNB.  Lieutenant Colonel Tanveer Ahmed, commander of the BGB-21 battalion, said tipped-off that a consignment of gold was

Staff shortage plagues Barlekha health complex

Staff shortage plagues Barlekha health complex

Although upgraded to a 50-bed hospital from a 31-bed facility in 2018, the Barlekha Upazila Health Complex in Moulvibazar district is still operating with its previous staff. Locals allege that the authorities have not allocated the necessary manpower. As a result, patients are forced to seek serv