OUR CORRESPONDENT, KHULNA 2021-01-19 14:59:49
Hossain Sardar is a hearing-impaired farmer. He has cultivated eye-catching colourful plums in Khulna’s Dumuria. Each of his plum trees bears two to four maunds of fruits, which he is now wholes...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, MAGURA 2021-01-17 14:45:36
Tax has been collected from undisclosed assets for the first time in Magura. In 2020, a total of 72 clients paid tax on their undisclosed assets and the tax amount is over Tk 10 million, said officia...
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Three people including a policeman and an Ansar member were injured as a crude bomb was exploded at Gonipur Government Primary School polling station in Dagonbhuiya upazila during the municipality ele...
UNB 2021-01-15 17:30:56
The hustle and bustle of everyday life in Kurigram came to a halt on Friday as a mild cold wave swept across the district. Subal Chandra Sarkar, officer-in-charge of Kurigram Agricultural Meteorologi...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, SYLHET 2021-01-14 13:28:00
Farmers in Sunamganj haor areas are counting the labour cost of huge silt on their lands while preparing them for Boro cultivation this year. They are already in trouble due to late and slow recessio...
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Two people were killed and three others injured when a bus plunged into a road side ditch on Satkhira-Khulna highway at Bhairabnagar in Tala upazila of Satkhira district on Sunday. One of the decease...
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The Agriculture Department has fixed a target of producing 115920 tonnes of potato in the current Robi season in Jamalpur. According to the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office sources to...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, MAGURA 2021-01-08 13:03:11
Farmers in Magura are expecting a bumper production of mustard due to government support and favourable weather this year. According to Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Magura, a total of 1...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, BOGURA 2021-01-07 11:23:32
Honey farmers are expecting a bumper production of quality honey, due to favourable weather, in Bogura this year. The quality honey to be produced in the district could be worth Tk 100 million, accor...
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A woman has given birth to a baby girl with two heads at Jahan Private Hospital in Magura district, doctors said on Wednesday. The baby's mother, Sonali Begum, and her husband Palash Molla, a farmer,...
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Farmers have already exceeded the fixed farming target of sweet potato by 9.14 per cent and are expecting its super bumper output in Rangpur agriculture region during the current Rabi season. Officia...
PABNA, ROVING CORRESPONDENT 2021-01-04 11:12:49
Handloom units in Pabna are facing closure as weavers are now left with little money to run them during the Covid-19 pandemic. Weavers say they have not been able to sell their woven clothes at fair...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2021-01-03 15:38:34
Prices of winter vegetables have plummeted in Rajshahi, causing worries among vegetable farmers in the district. According to farmers, some of them got satisfactory prices of winter vegetables during...
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A female student of the Department of Law and Land Management at the Islamic University reportedly took her own life at Adarshapara area in Jhenaidah sadar upazila on Saturday evening. The deceased w...
-- 2021-01-02 18:05:51
Three youths, who reportedly drank excessive liquor on the 31st night, died at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital on Saturday morning. The deceased were identified as Faisal, 28, son of Ainul Islam of...
Nazimuddin Shyamol 2021-01-02 11:31:31
Migratory birds from Siberia and other cold regions have started flocking to the banks of the Karnaphuli River and the seashore in Chattogram after the onset of winter. The hill areas, sea beach and...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2021-01-01 12:46:34
The Sari-Gowain River is being polluted due to coal mine drainage from the upstream hilly region. It has been revealed in a research by the academics of Sylhet Agricultural University (SAU). The trans...
-- 2020-12-31 13:52:31
Seventy three rape incidents, among other crimes, were recorded in Magura district alone in 2020. The most striking rape incident took place on November 22, when some miscreants raped a housewife&nbs...
OUR CORRESPONDENT 2020-12-31 10:18:31
SYLHET: Speakers at a discussion meeting in Sylhet demanded immediate recovery of the illegally grabbed streams, canals and ponds in the city and taking steps for protecting all the water bodies. The...
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Grassroots farmers in Rajshahi are being delighted because they are getting good yield and the lucrative market price of the newly harvested onion everywhere in the region including its vast Barind tr...
-- 2020-12-28 16:22:58
A cold spell has continued to grip Bangladesh's northern regions for the last 10 days, with the mercury dropping below 8.0 degrees Celsius in some parts of the country. Chuadanga recorded the lowest...
-- 2020-12-27 17:05:40
A number of 26,000 dwellers of remote char areas of river-surrounded three upazilas –Shaghata, Fulchhari, Sadar — of Gaibandha are going to get electric facility by June next, an official...
ROVING CORRESPONDENT, PABNA 2020-12-25 13:48:23
Honey producers in Chalanbeel, the vast swathes of wetland in the northern region, are being forced to sell their farm produce at throwaway prices, beekeepers have alleged. They are struggling to rec...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2020-12-24 12:57:18
Hundreds of young people in Rajshahi's Godagari, one of the major tomato-producing hubs in the country, have become self-reliant by cultivating tomato, a cash vegetable. Traders from different part...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, RAJSHAHI 2020-12-23 14:24:56
As the winter has set in, more than 200 stalls of dhupi or vapa pitha, mostly run by women, have sprung up in different places, especially road crossings and corners, of Rajshahi city. Dhupi or vapa...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, CUMILLA 2020-12-23 12:50:44
A local market in Cumilla's Lalmai witnesses a sale of cow milk to the tune of 12,000 litres every morning. Some 15 milk traders buy the milk from some 2,000 small and medium dairy farmers at the loc...
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Braving the coronavirus pandemic, farmers have already exceeded the fixed production target of Aman rice despite massive damages caused to the crop by recent floods this season in Rangpur agriculture...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, BENAPOLE 2020-12-21 13:20:37
Fishermen are fishing in the Chitra River by illegally putting up enclosures, which result in disrupting the normal flow of the river in Jashore. Such illegal activity has been going on for so long w...
-- 2020-12-20 20:32:58
The tomato farming appeared as a fortune changer for many farmers as it made many peasants solvent in the region this year with also significantly infusing dynamism into the local economy. Sources sa...
OUR CORRESPONDENT, BOGURA 2020-12-20 14:59:11
Financially disadvantaged, more than 500 women artisans in Bogura are busy making kumrabori, a locally made popular food item, this winter season. They have already started selling it too. They say...
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