Two children died after drowning in a pond at Kumirmara Asrayan Project in Pirojpur Sadar Upazila on Friday morning. The deceased were identified as Jannati Akhter, 3, daughter of Yusuf Shesh, and Taifa Akhter, 3, daughter of Md Khalek Sheikh of the area, Azmir Hossain Majhi, chairman of Sharikatl
Farmers expect to make a hefty profit from the sale of seedlings of vegetables including cabbage and cauliflower in Churamankathi union of Jashore sadar upazila this season. Cabbage and cauliflower seedlings were produced on 750 bighas of land in Abdulpur of Churamankathi union last season. This s
Due to the ongoing situation in the country, 155 foreign students have left Sylhet and gone back to their respective countries. Among them are students from India and Nepal. It has been reported that they started returning to their countries since Saturday. Among them, 152 students left through T
Basabari Bazar in Sharsha upazila of Jashore district is the largest wholesale arum (mukhi kachu) market in the country. Local farmers sell lakhs of takas of mukhi kachu every day from morning till midnight in this market. They directly sell the agricultural product to the traders. Traders from a
Three people died in a head-on collision between two motorcycles in the Charpara area of Jindapur of Nabinagar Upazila of Brahmanbaria at 7:30 pm on Wednesday. Mahabub Alam, officer-in-charge of Nabinagar Police Station confirmed the matter, as per UNB reports. The deceased were identified as Sab
People on low incomes, especially day-labourers, across districts have been leading a miserable life in near starvation, as they found no work for the past three days amid the ongoing countrywide curfew. In Rangpur, thousands of rickshaw-pullers, day-labourers, street vendors or hawkers, roadside
Local farmers have expressed satisfaction over the massive production of Boro paddy this season due to favourable weather and easy availability of agri inputs. Now, farmers fear they would not get the fair price of their produce in local markets, agriculture officer Mobarak Hossain has told the FE
Two members of the armed separatist group Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF) were killed in a drive conducted by joint forces at Saikat Para in Ruma Upazila of Bandarban district on Wednesday. The identities of the deceased could not be known immediately, as per UNB reports. Joint forces conducted a
Abu Saeed, a student of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, who was killed in Tuesday’s clash during protests over quota reform, was laid to eternal rest after a namaz-e-janaza (funeral prayer) at his ancestral village in Pirganj Upazila in Rangpur. Hundreds of people participated in the funer
PABNA, July 16: A housewife has become a successful entrepreneur who earns a good sum of money every month from her flower garden she made on the rooftop of their house in Ishwardi municipality of the district. Jannatul Ferdous Juthi, wife of Enamul Haque Babu of Madhya Arunkhola village, has made
RAJSHAHI, July 16: As many as 6,000 people from 1,200 families at Chakrajapur Union of Bagha Upazila of the district have become homeless as the Padma riverbank erosion has turned alarming. Locals said three government primary schools have been relocated to other places due to the serious erosion.
Dhol Kalmi, a herbaceous plant whose stems can be used to make paper, is on the verge of extinction from the district. Once it grew extensively in fields and on roadsides and canal sides in all remote rural areas of the country. Dhol Kalmi flower that blooms throughout the year attracts public at
Green chilli price has become extremely prohibitive in Magura in recent days, reaching as much as Tk350 per kilogram. Although the common cooking item has become costlier in the markets, the growers are being deprived of their expected returns due to its price manipulation by influential middlemen
