The Buddhist community of Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) observed their greatest religious festival Buddha Purnima at different temples with festivity and religious fervor today.Celebrating the birth anniversary of Lord Gautam Buddha, different relious programmes were taken from Buddist temple and…
With ten more days to appear the Bangla month of Joistha, commonly known as ‘Modhumash’ (honey month), the juicy fruit litchi has started appearing in the local markets of the region including Rajshahi city in limited scale like the previous…
Time has come to building the nation as self-dependent through overcoming the existing dependence on foreign aid and all of us work together to this end, speakers at a discussion here said yesterday.They viewed there are enormous resources and potentialities…
A total of 232 violence-victim rehabilitated young women have been rebuilding shattered lives after falling prey to child marriage, dowry, abuse, violence, repression and trafficking at premature ages.These young females have been continuing new journey through income generation activities now…
A farmer was killed and two others were injured by a lightning strike while working in crop field at Char Fatehjang village in Chandpur sadar upazila on Saturday afternoon.
The deputy minister for youth and sports Arif Khan Joy said here yesterday that the present government under the dynamic leadership of prime minister Sheikh Hasina is putting it’s best and sincere efforts for preserving the rights of workers side…
Overseas Employment and Expatriate Welfare Minister Engineer Khondoker Mosharraf Hossain said here yesterday evening that Bangladesh is a unique example of communal harmony where people of all religions live in peace and happiness.
Over 1.33 lakh char households have achieved hygienic sanitation and pure drinking water facilities to improve their health status reducing water borne diseases in the remote char areas in 10 northwestern districts.The laudable success has been achieved by the extremely…
A total of 40,925 farmers will get cash incentives of Taka 5.84 crore to buy seeds and fertilizers for the cultivation of Aus paddy in the current Kharif-1 season in eight districts under Rajshahi division.Of the total, 35,900 farmers will…
Police arrested an Indian national from Gohamabona village in Poba upazila on charge of illegal trespassing in Bangladesh territory on Wednesday.
Beautification work of Gaibandha Poura Park located at the heart of the town is nearly completion.
Thousands of rural women have the driving force in achieving self- reliance to accelerate socioeconomic advancement and empowering them sustainably by contributing a lot towards attaining sustainable rural uplift.
A minor boy drowned in the Bishkhali river at Patakata village under Sadar upazila here this afternoon.
National Legal Aid Day-2015 was celebrated in the district as elsewhere in the country on Tuesday with a call to stand beside the distressed to conduct their cases smoothly to get fair justice by the courts.
More than 10,000 extremely poor families have achieved self-reliance through commercial cultivation of sweet jumbo grass in the sandy char areas on the Brahmaputra basin in recent years.
Two people were killed in separate incidents of fire and electrocution in the district from Sunday night till Monday morning.
Acid terrorism victim female student Masuda Akhter Moni received Taka 50,000 as assistance at a ceremony here on Sunday from the Association of Development Agencies in Bangladesh (ADAB).
Optimum use of cultivable land adopting the latest technologies, newer cropping patterns and mechanisation of agriculture can keep crop production increasing to ensure food security despite climate change, said experts.
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.