The farmers have started reaping benefits of the Alternate Drying and Wetting (AWD) irrigation technology saving huge underground water for irrigation to Boro fields also enhancing rice yield for food security.Following massive awareness building and technology dissemination activities being conducted…
A minor schoolgirl drowned in a pond in Shibpur area of Raipur upazila on Friday.The deceased was identified as Lamia Akhter, daughter of Latu Miah and a class II student of Kanchanpur Primary School.
At least 10 people were killed and over 50 others injured in a triangular collusion between a truck and two buses at Shimantabazar on the western side of Bangabandhu bridge link road in Kamarkhand upazila on Saturday. Two of the…
The indefinite transport strike, enforced by the Bus Owners and Sramik Oikya Parishad of the south-western region, entered its fifth day on Saturday.Bus services between the capital and 10 southeastern districts of Khulna division have remained suspended due to the…
About 300 bighas owned by an equal number of farmers have been brought under BARI mung bean-6 farming during the current season in the district.The variety has been farmed at farmers’ level under direct supervision of RDRS Bangladesh, a nongovernment…
Mostafa Kamal Majumder An ever smiling, unassuming, guardian figure and lovable elderly image of a vetern journalist that used to fill our minds with the utterance of the name – Hasanuzzaman Khan – is in the other world today. Admitted…
Hasanuzzaman Khan, life member of Jatiya Press Club, Dhaka, is dead. The last surviving founder member of the club, the centre of democratic movements in Bangladesh, Khan breathed his last at the Heart Institute Hospital at about 4 pm on…
Two persons were killed and 40 others injured when two buses collided head on at Vellakandi area on Magura-Faridpur highway this afternoon.
Members of the Coast Guard and the Border Guard Bangladesh in their separate drives in the district on Sunday rescued 13 people who were reportedly thrown into the sea from Malaysia-bound ships and salvaged by Myanmar fishermen earlier.In-charge of the…
Bangladesh Awami League (AL) and its front organizations today celebrated the homecoming day of the Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina through the day-long programmes.Chittagong city, north and south district units of AL celebrated the day through elaborate programmes including placing of…
Agri experts at a function urged the farmers to farm zinc enriched rice BRRI Dhan 64 in large scale to meet the necessary requirement of micronutrient for a human body and increase disease resistant capacity of children and mothers.“Zinc is…
Mayor of Rangpur City Corporation (RCC) Alhaj Sarfuddin Ahmed Jhantu today inaugurated renovation works of the KD Canal here in the city.
A ban has been imposed on mango harvesting and marketing in Bagha and Charghat Upazilas of the district till June 5 next to give optimum time for natural ripening.
Two people were killed and seven others injured in a collision between a bus and CNG-run auto-rickshaw in Jora bridge area of Ullapara upazila on Saturday night.The deceased was identified as Jharna Begum, 40, wife of Abdul Wahab of Kamarkhanda…
Coast Guard members recovered 32 lakh pieces of shrimp fry worth Tk 1.62 crore from the Tentulia River at Laharhat in Lalmohan upazila early Sunday.
Two siblings were killed by a lightning strike during storm at Napura village in Banshkhali upazila on Saturday morning.
One male and another female were killed and two others injured in two separate road accidents in two separate places in Tangail on Thursday night.Police said two persons including Pankjaj and Zakaria were going to Tangail by a motorcycle on…
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…
Burglars looted Tk 11 lakh from four offices at Baitul View Tower in the city’s Purana Paltan on Thursday night.
Customs Intelligence officials on Thursday night arrested a North Korean national on charge of running a bar illegally in Banani area of the city. They also seized 94 cans of beer, 10 bottles of whisky and 210 sex stimulant capsules…
Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized 4.80 lakh meters contraband current fishing net worth around Tk1.68 lakh from a passenger launch on river Meghna in Chandpur district on early Thursday.
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…
Two people, including a city corporation cleaner, were killed in separate accidents in the city on early Wednesday. The victims were identified as Asadullah Selu, 45, a cleaner of Dhaka South City Corporation, and Md Masud, 18, a motorcyclist. Sources…
A woman died from electrocution at Makrampur Ghunti in Gomostapur upazila on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Reshma,45, wife of Anwarul, a resident of the area,Locals said Reshma came in contact with a live electric wire while she was working…