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Once highly dependent on Indian cattle for meeting the huge demand of sacrificial animals during Eid-ul-Azha, Bangladesh is now experiencing a large scale of cattle meat production at the local farms have staged a ‘quiet revolution’ in animal husbandry.Officials at the Department of Live...
A fifty-five year old man died of mosquito-borne disease dengue at a private hospital here on Saturday.The deceased was identified as Badsha Molla, of Jafrabad area in Sitakunda.Dr Nurul Hayder, medical officer (disease control) of Civil Surgeon office, said Badsha Molla died of dengue at Park View ...
The people of Rajshahi eye for a new spirit of hope as the construction of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Silicon City (hi-tech park) is going on at Haragram-Nabinagar area in the city.Just a few months ago the area was full of illegal slums where quarrelling, violence and gathering of drug peddl...
A good number of peasants in the remote villages under Gopalganj Sadar upazila have been making a good profit by cultivating wax gourd. They are satisfied over the present market price of the vegetable.According to the officials at the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), about 170 hectares of...
A police constable has been severely beaten by an angry mob over allegations of sexual harrassment against him in Rajshahi. Police subsequently rescued him from the enraged locals and took him to a hospital. A departmental case has been filed against him.The constable, Sabbir Hossain, lives in a ren...
Many farmers in the district are passing busy time growing early winter vegetables.Early winter cabbage, bean, carrot, cauliflower, spinach, red spinach, water spinach, Malaber spinach and snake bean grow well in the district. The cultivators make extra profit from the produce every season.The veget...
Three members of a family drowned in the River Korotoa at Chondijan village in Sherpur upazila of the district on Thursday. The deceased are Chandon Sarker, 36, his daughter Kiron, 6, and nephew Apurbo, 5. Chandon Sarker, an employee at Sherpur Shedcom Park City, went to his native village Chondijan...
A 12-year-old girl died of mosquito-borne disease dengue in Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH) on Thursday morning.The deceased was identified as Manisha Akter, 12, daughter of Makbul Hossain of Dinajpur district. Dr Sultan Ahmed, acting director of RMCH, said Manisha first got admitted to Dina...
A Brahmanbaria court sentenced a woman to three years in jail for killing her husband over extra-marital affair and his step brother to life in prison in the same case.The victim was identified as Shafiqul Islam, husband of the convict Mosamat Mariam, 25, who is the daughter of Lal Miah, hailing fro...
Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) seized 100,000 pieces of contraband yaba pills from Saint Martin’s Island on Thursday, said a press release issued by Coast Guard. Acting on a tip-off, the Coast Guard members conducted a drive at a jungle in South Para area and recovered 1 lakh yaba pills fro...
Two people died after being diagnosed with dengue in Mymensingh and Khulna on Wednesday.In Mymensingh, Hafizul Islam, 34, a readymade garment worker from Darirampur village under Trishal upazila, died on the way to Dhaka from Mymensingh Medical College Hospital (MMCH) in the morning.According to fam...
A court on Wednesday sentenced a man to death penalty for killing one person in Nabopalli area under Sonadanga police station in the city, reports BSS.The court also fined Taka 5,000 to the convict. Judge of Metropolitan Sessions Judge Court Md Shahidul Islam handed down the verdict against Khokon, ...
A Sirajganj Court on Tuesday awarded death penalty to a youth for raping and killing a girl in 2014. Sirajganj’s Women and Child Repression Tribunal also fined convict Nur Islam, 30, Tk 1 lakh.He was also given life term imprisonment for abducting the victim and fined Tk 50,000, in ...
A pickup van driver was killed and three others were injured as his pickup van collided head-on with a truck in Char Proshonnodi area on Dhaka-Barisal Highway under Moksudpur upazila of the district on Tuesday, reports BSS.The deceased was identified as Keramot Matbor, 65, hailed from Madaripur dist...
Bangladesh Coast Guard (BCG) seized 3,60,000 pieces of yaba pills in a drive from Teknaf in Cox's Bazar on Monday.A team of Bangladesh Coast Guard seized the big consignment of yaba pills from an engine-run boat on the canal in Teknaf, said a press release.The boat was seized during the drive bu...
Bus workers went on a wildcat strike on all the routes of the district protesting alleged attacks on fellows and inflicting sufferings.Satkhira Bus Owners’ Association President Saiful Karim Sabu said a group of youths beat bus conductor Liton Hossain at Puratan Satkhira on Satkhira-Ashashuni ...
A housewife died of mosquito-borne disease in Shibchar upazila in Madaripur. This death makes a total of 8 deaths in the district including 4 ones in Shibchar upazila.The deceased was identified as Sumi Akter, 30, wife of speedboat driver Anwar fakir, hailing from Kanthalbari area of Shibchar upazil...
A member of United People's Democratic Front (UPDF) was killed in a reported gunfight with army men at Baghaihat Ujubazar in Baghaichhari Upazila on Friday.The deceased was identified as Shantimoy Chakma Sumon, 35, an accused in Naniarchar Upazila chairman Advocate Shaktiman Chakma murder case, ...
A farmer was killed and another injured by a lightning strike at Jalalabad village in Kalaroa Upazila in Satkhira on Saturday morning. The deceased was identified as Delwar Hossain, 30, son of Dukhe Dafadar of Ekhra village, while the injured was Milon Hossain son of Mandar Mollah at Jalalabad villa...
Janmashtami of Sri Krishna, one of the major festivals of the Hindu community, was celebrated across the country on Friday with due religious fervour and enthusiasm. Bangladesh Puja Udjapan Parishad and other religious, cultural and social organisations chalked out elaborate programmes in different ...
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