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Police recovered a body of a woman in Kushtia's Bheramara on Wednesday morning.The identity of the woman could not be known immediately.Locals informed the police after seeing the body of the unidentified woman in the Chandipur GK canal area of Chandgram union under the upazila. Officer-in-...
Mostafa Hawlader, a court inspector (CSI), has been sentenced to two years imprisonment and fined Tk 70,000 or to suffer another four months in jail in default to pay the fine in a case filed by the Anti-corruption Commission (ACC) on charges of embezzlement of money and corruption in Kushtia. ...
A dilapidated, deserted building built 20-year ago as the residential quarters for physicians of Kushtia General Hospital, is now being used by students of Kushtia Medical College as their dormitory. However, construction work of two residential halls are going on and will be completed as soon as ea...
Brick Kiln Owners Association and brick kiln labourers staged demonstration in Kushia and Chuadanga on Thursday (February 4) demanding annulment of some sections of brick kiln act of 2013 and protesting raid against brick kilns. In Chuadanga, brick kiln owners and labourers brought out processi...
Barrister Selim Altaf George, MP from Kushtia-4 (Kumarkhali-Khoksa) constituency and presidium member of Jubo League, donated a pick-up truck for law enforcement agency members from his own fund. Barrister Selim Altaf George handed over the key of the pick-up truck through a brief function to O...
A farmer at Kumarkhali in Kushtia district has found an extra-High Yield Variety paddy seeds. The newly found seed variety yields 4 to 5 maunds of excess paddy per bigha of land than that of the conventional HYV paddy. Agriculture Department Officials informed, from this exceptional seed of ric...
While the polling of Kushtia Municipality was being held at ward-13 Barokhada Government Primary School polling centre, a councillor candidate in the election was arranging cooking of delicious foods for the voters in several large cooking pots at the field beside the school. The foods were the...
Posing as a van-puller, police arrested a fugitive convict from Cheuria area of Chapra union under Kumarkhali of Kushtia district on Friday noon.The arrested convict was identified as Arif Karigar (49) son of Azizul Haque Karigar of the same area. He is a fugitive convict awarded punishment for one ...
Regarding the remarks of BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, that “There is zero human rights in the country during the tenure of the present government", Awami League Joint General Secretary Mahbubul Alam Hanif said, "The biggest human rights violation took place in t...
Toma, a class 10 student from Maliyat village in Kumarkhali upazila of Kushtia has to walk three kilometers every day to Tebaria Girls' High School. At the end of the school, she has to walk that three kilometers again to return home. Like Toma, many other students of that school have to walk mi...
Even a year or two ago, farmers of Naoda Khemirdiar area under Bheramara upazila in Kushtia were making a living by cultivating the vast land around Maula Beel all year round. But due to lack of water this year, they could not harvest various crops including current Aman Paddy and Jute. This season&...
The election of Kushtia District Sports Association 2020-2024 was completed with tight security and great enthusiasm on Saturday. Kushtia District Sports Development Council won the election with full pannel.Voting for the four-year term was held at Kushtia District Sports Association’s pavili...
Moktar Hossain, 35, a rural youth from Kushtia, has succeeded in cultivating bees artificially after a long stint as an immigrant labourer. Water hyacinths and water lilies are blooming in hundreds of bighas of land in the village of Mat Maliat in Sadaki Union of Kumarkhali, Kushtia. The flower...
Subol Ali from Kushtia is only 22 years old. At this age, his height is 8 feet! However, part from brain tumour, he is suffering from various physical problems. Because of his gigantic body he cannot move properly. He has to move with the help of sticks. Subol’s height seems to be increas...
A Kushtia court sentenced a man to death and three others to life imprisonment on Thursday for killing the headmaster of a government primary school in 2015.Of the convicts, Munshi Mohamamd Shohag, 35, son of Munshi Rezaul Karim of Dayarampur in Kumarkhali upazila, received the death sentence. He is...
A suspected drug trader was killed in an alleged gunfight with police at Bagoan village under Daulatpur upazila of Kushtia on early Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Shahidul Islam alias Shahid, 34, son of Manik Ali hailed from Jamalpur village of the upazila. According to police,...
Two motorcyclists were killed and another was injured as the motorbike they were riding on fell into a pond at Kuthipara intersection of Khoksha upazila in Kushita on Monday night.The deceased were identified as Zia 40, son of Shamsuddin hailed from Kallyanpur village under Kumarkhali upazila ...
Catching of mother-hilsa (matured fish with eggs) is going on unabated from the river Padma by people of six villages under Khoksa upazila of Kushtia district by defying the ban.Those matured hilsa are being transported to the nearby towns through women and students of the char villages, it is learn...
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