Record development works involving Taka 9 crore have been accomplished at different institutions of Shaghata Upazila in the district form 2009 to June 2015.The development works included infrastructure building, earth filling on school ground, connecting road building from institutions to…
A total of 18 academic institutions in secondary level of Sadar upazila today got equipments for multimedia class rooms from the government here.A simple function organized by Sadar upazila parishad was held at the auditorium of the parishad with UNO…
Workers of a readymade garment factory in Chittagong have demonstrated seeking payment of their outstanding salaries and allowances and locked up the factory manager for hours.
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…
A total of 300 farmers of the district got cash incentives of Taka 4.05 lakh to buy seeds and fertilizers for the cultivation of Aus paddy during the current Kharif-1 season.Each of the farmers has received Tk 1,350 to farm…
Three Bangladeshi women returned home through Benapole check post on Monday night after serving two years’ jail in an Indian prison. The returnees are Jannatul Ferdous,19, daughter of Haider Ali of Jessore, Anwara Begum,20, daughter of Nausher Sheikh of Khulna,…
A regional leader of the outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (ML) was shot and wounded in a ‘shootout’ between his cohorts and police at Kewa village in Pangsha uapzila early Tuesday.
Shaghata Union Parishad (UP) Complex Bhaban was opened in Kachua Haat area under Shaghata upazila in the district on Monday amid much enthusiasm to the locals and the public representatives. Deputy Speaker of the Bangladesh Parliament and local lawmaker Advocate…
Speakers at the inaugural ceremony of a training course on sewing and computer here have called for turning the unemployed youths into productive workforces to accelerate national development. Raipur union parishad has been organising the two-month long training course for…
Despite of identical work to male in farming fields, the female agricultural workers especially coming from the ethnic groups are still facing wage disparity in the region particularly in the vast Barind tract for long.Traditionally, most of the ethnic female…
A truck driver was killed and two helpers were injured in a road accident when a fish loaded truck collided with a stone loaded truck at Shaestaganj-Dewondi crossing on Dhaka-Sylet highway this morning.
Three motorcyclists were killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Mawa highway at Samashpur of Shrenagar upzila in the district today.The deceased were identified as Omar Faruk, 24, Sifat, 22, and Saimon, 23. They are resident of Kabutar Khola village of…