The health department authorities said the diarrhoea situation that broke out at Sajek union in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati on Wednesday night killing five people so far is now under control.Khagrachhari regional staff officer Major Robayet Jamil on Friday said…
Despite Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s assurance, the plan for constructing Navaron-Satkhira rail line remains only within the feasibility study.
Truck and stone quarry owners and workers went on an indefinite strike in Jaflong of Goainghat upazila on Saturday morning demanding reconstruction of the Sylhet-Jaflong Highway.The decision to enforce the strike came from a meeting by different associations, including local…
Two people were killed in separate incidents of lightning strike in South Sunamganj and Jamalganj upazilas on Thursday morning. The deceased were identified as Lutfar Miah,45, a resident of Laxmipur village in Jamalganj upazila, and Sayed Miah,30, a resident of…
Two minor boys drowned in a pond at Harong village in Chandina upazila on Wednesday.The deceased were identified as Siyam, 5, son of Mostafizur Rahman, and Robius Sunny, 4, son of Joynal Abedin, a resident of the village.
Wheat procurement drive has begun in Sundarganj upazila in the district on Wednesday amid much enthusiasm to the farmers. Manjurul Islam Liton, MP, formally inaugurated the wheat procurement drive in the upazila as the chief guest and acting upazila parishad…
Enhanced cultivation of zinc-enriched rice ensures food and nutrition security preventing deficiency of zinc, iron and vitamin-A for normal growth of the children and increasing disease resistant capacity, experts said yesterday.They were addressing a farmers’ field day organised by RDRS…
The mass killing committed by the Pakistani occupation forces on May 14, 1971 under Demra union in present day Faridpur upazilla of Pabna district still reminds crimes against humanity.It is estimated that 800-900 people mostly unarmed Hindu residents of Demra…
A pedestrian was killed as a drum filled with chemical exploded in Mitamain upazila headquarters on Wednesday morning.The deceased was identified as Nurullah, 35, son of Badsha Miah, hailing from Mohishakandi village in the upzila.
Livestock experts at a discussion have said the expanding animal husbandry sector has been accelerating socioeconomic uplift of the poor living in remote char areas in recent years.They were addressing inaugural ceremony of the ‘Livestock Technology Fair 2015’ organised at…
Reports received from different areas of southern region including Barisal city said that light tremor jolted their areas at 13:15:15 to 13:15:30 pm Tuesday noon.However the only Seismograph in southern region at Patuakhali Science and Technology University, remained out of…
Shipping though the Meghna-Ghashiakhali channel of the Kumarkhali River thrives again as the authorities are allowing a limited number of vessels to ply the route during high tides on an experimental basis, one month ahead of the formal reopening of…
Tobacco cultivation has started posing a serious threat to the food security and public health besides the environment in Chittagong Hill Tracts including Bandarban.In addition to motivating the farmers openly by offering incentives in cash and kind to cultivate tobacco…
Speakers at a discussion here yesterday stressed the need for making the educational institutions free from smoking and other tobacco uses to protect the young generation from the terrible curse of smoking.
A month long traditional Kali Puja for the Hindu devotees is going on at Kastha Kali Temple premises at Bharatkhali area under Saghata Upazila in the district from Pahela Baishakh, first day of Bangla New Year-1422.Like the previous years, the…
People from all walks of life today celebrated the 133rd founding anniversary of Khulna with enthusiasm and festivity here.Organized by Khulna Development Action Coordination Committee (GKDACC), the celebrations began with a colourful procession which paraded different city streets.
Speakers at a workshop in Rajshahi underscored the need for more vocational training for the youths so that they could build themselves as skilled human resources which is very important for making the country’s economy more vibrant.
A man died from electrocution at Ghop Nauapara Road in Jessore district town on Friday night.The deceased was identified as Shahin Hossain, 42, a trader and son of Abul Kalam Azad of the area.
Speakers at a discussion here have stressed on strengthening organisational activities of community policing to ensure peace preventing drug abuse, child marriage, dowry, repression and violence against women in society. The Sadar Upazila Coordination Committee of Community Policing Committee organised…
The 154th birth anniversary of the Nobel laureate poet Rabindranath Tagore was celebrated today in the city in a befitting manner.Different socio-cultural, literary organisations and institutions organized discussions and cultural functions to mark the day.
Train services of Dhaka and Chittagong and Dhaka-Sylhet resumed early Saturday after a suspension for about four and a half hours due to derailment of a train in sadar upazila on Friday.
With the rice imported from the neighboring country India available on the market, the demand for the local varieties of the staple has been on decline pushing 65 per cent of the rice mills in Pabna district of the northern…
An unidentified man was found dead at Khalishpur in the city today.Officer-in-charge of Khalishpur police station Anwar Hussain said, on information by locals they recovered the decomposed body wrapped into a sack from a locked house near Khalishpur Port School…
More than 1.60 lakh population from 35,640 poor and extreme-poor families in the metropolis are enjoying the taste of self-reliance through various income-generating activities.The distressed families, who struggled with poverty for a long, achieved economic self-reliance and well-being by adopting…
A housewife allegedly committed suicide following a family feud at Rangta village under Agailjhara upazila of the district this morning. The deceased was identified as Josna Bepari, 22, wife of Raju Bepari of the same village.
A total of 142 youths of Fulchhari upazila in the district got loan of Taka 35.50 lakh from the Department of Youth Development (DYD) on Wednesday.The main objective of the loan disbursement was to help the unemployed youths be self-reliant…
Malnutrition of the pregnant women, lactating mothers and children belonging to the poorer families in rural Bangladesh still remains as a major cause of permanent blindness, maternal, neonatal and infant deaths.According to experts, intake of the micronutrient-enriched small fishes like…
More than 11,000 rural people most of them women in the region have now become income-generators through bull fattening and other dairy farming activities contributing a lot to improving their living and livelihood condition.Various government and non-government organizations concerned have…
Khulna Development Authority (KDA) has decided to cancel the lease of Muzgunni Shishu Park in the city for breaching several conditions of the contract and for non-payment of arrears.The lease holder company has been ignoring the conditions of the contract…
Police recovered the bodies of two elderly women at Ghatakchar in Madaripur Sadar upazila early Wednesday One of the deceased was identified as Monosha Rani Baroi, 50, wife of Jiten Baroi, a resident of Joair village.Locals spotted the bodies in…