Category: Nation

The present government led by Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has put maximum importance on enhancing female education through various effective steps including distribution of stipends at various levels.

A farmer was killed by a lightning strike at Sadipur in Nagarkanda upazila on Saturday.

A boy was killed as a truck knocked down the bicycle he was travelling by at Kanchantala in Gomostapur upazila on Sunday morning.

A good number of women of rural and urban areas of the district achieved self-reliance after getting training from the Department of Youth Development.

Speakers at a discussion here today unequivocally called for ensuring safe water from source to all consumers for the sake of protecting the city dwellers especially the poor and extreme poor ones from various waterborne diseases.

Five villages under Atpara and Netrakona sader upazilas in the district were brought under rural electrification network yesterday by Palli Biddut Samity (PBS) Netrakona, an organization of Bangladesh Rural Electrification Board (BREB).

Speakers at a training session have underscored the need for safe fish farming besides promoting its production through the best use of hygienic fish feed alongside the existing natural resources.

At least 28 buffalos died when a thunderbolt struck them at Char Karfarma in Galachipa upazila on Saturday.

More than 1,500 women have come together from the poor and extreme poor communities like sweeper, chamarpara (tanner) and Jelepara (fishermen) for eradicating their long-lasting poverty and economical uncertainty in the city.

Speakers at a views-sharing meeting here have said that the Imams could play vital role in eradicating the curable disease of tuberculosis through bringing the infected patients under free treatment facilities.

Speakers at the concluding ceremony of a two-day workshop on Thursday called for ensuring normal growth, education and flourishing talents of the children through establishing their rights and improving social practice.

The expanding animal husbandry sector has been changing fortune of thousands of extremely poor people living in remote char areas in ten riverine northern districts on the Brahmaputra basin in recent years.

A man died from electrocution at Mela Bazar in Tala upazila on Wednesday.

Speakers at a views-sharing meeting have asked the teachers’ community for motivating the students and common people in creating social awareness to eradicate the curable disease of tuberculosis.

About 7,000 families, especially rural areas, in five upazilas of the district have been brought under solar power supply network by Grameen Shakti, a non-government organization.

Speakers at a workshop here have called for further improving social practice to ensure rights of all children, including girl children, for their normal growth, education and flourishing talents.

A total of 266 residential houses in village Bondhgaon under Atoari upazila in Panchagarh have been switched on with electricity supply facilities fulfilling long-cherished demand of the villagers.

Expansion of the industrial estate of Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation (BSCIC) in Rajshahi would create employment opportunities for around 5,000 people.

A construction worker died from electrocution while another was injured in Bagmara area of the city on Sunday night.

Eleven police personnel of Rangpur Range of Bangladesh Police received tri-monthly awards at a ceremony held today for their extra ordinary performances on different categories during the past three months.

The district health administration has completed preparations to make the National Vitamin A Plus and de-worming Campaign 25 April-2015 for the 4,68,675 under five babies successful in the district on April 25 next.

Speakers at a rally here today called for permanent measures to protect Rajshahi city and other vulnerable points from erosion of the river Padma.They said the unabated erosion by the mighty river has been posing a serious threat to various…

Speakers at an anti-corruption coordination meeting have stressed for bringing up of the young students with honesty, good moral character and patriotism to inspire them in building a corruption-free society.

A total of nine sewing machines were distributed free of cost among nine distressed women after providing training in Boda upazila of the district on Saturday afternoon.

It was quite unthinkable even a decade ago that the extremely poor char people living on the Brahmaputra basin could think about marriage registration or society without social curses like child marriage and dowry.

State Minister for Rural Development and Cooperatives Moshiur Rahman Ranga here today directed the concerned officials for successful implementation of the ‘One house, one farm’ project.

Police recovered the body of a madrasa student from under a bridge on the Haluaghat-Narayantala Road in Sadar upazila on Wednesday morning.

Farming of strawberry, a juicy and succulent fruit, is getting more popular among the farmers of Sadullapur upazila in the district day by day for being a highly profitable crop.

Thousands of the have-nots group char families, living in the riverine char islands, have successfully won over extreme poverty to change their fortune and lead better life on the Brahmaputra basin in recent years.