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Agri-loan, key to farming success

Starting today’s article with statistics provided by the Bangladesh...
Chuadanga Scam: Charges framed against four

A special tribunal in Kushtia framed charges against four people in...
Five illegal brick kilns in one village!

Several unauthorised brick kilns have been removing earth from the...

Seasonal sawmills bring relief to Kurigram char residents

Residents of Char Jatrapur, a remote river island or char in Sadar...
3 including mother and son drown in Mymensingh

Three people, including a mother and her son, drowned after falling...
‘Include independence manifesto in syllabus’

Speakers at a discussion yesterday urged the government to include...

Worker dies after falling from under-construction Payra Bridge

A worker died after falling from the under-construction Payra...
Mosque bears horrific memories of 1971

Soon after the crackdown by the Pakistan army on the unarmed people...
A derelict post office

Built in 1972 on Station Road, Shayestaganj post office building in...

Three land in jail over gang rape

A Noakhali court yesterday sent three men to jail in connection...
Bhabadaha’s Waterlogging: Farmers defy the odd on their own

Waterlogging has always remained a perennial problem in Bhabadaha...
2 workers go missing as stone-laden vessel sinks in Karnaphuli River

Two workers went missing today as a stone-laden vessel sank in the...

1 killed over land dispute

A man was killed during a scuffle between two groups of villagers...
Farmers’ human chain in Sylhet demands increasing prices of Aman seeds

Farmers in Sylhet today demanded increasing the price of Aman seed...
Collapse of under-construction bridge in Sunamganj: probe committee formed to identify reason

Road Transport and Highway Division today formed a four-member...

Mosque bears horrific memories of 1971

Soon after the crackdown by the Pakistan army on the unarmed people...
A derelict post office

Built in 1972 on Station Road, Shayestaganj post office building in...
LGED getting tough with rogue contractor

Local Government Engineering Department (LGED) in Rangabali upazila...
Hit hard by Covid-19: Female mushroom farmer struggling for survival

Shukuria Begum, 47, mother of three children at remote Laxmanpur...
Coal-laden vessel capsizes in Passur river near Mongla

A vessel carrying 848 tonnes of coal capsized in Passur river near...

Bhabadaha’s Waterlogging: Farmers defy the odd on their own

Waterlogging has always remained a perennial problem in Bhabadaha...
2 workers go missing as stone-laden vessel sinks in Karnaphuli River

Two workers went missing today as a stone-laden vessel sank in the...
Madrasa super found dead

Police recovered the hanging body of a madrasa superintendent from...
Chopping a branch you’re sitting on

Incidents of ever-increasing manmade forest fires at the Sundarbans...
Visually impaired students making fine jute products

They may not have the ability to see the light but their mind is...

Farmers’ human chain in Sylhet demands increasing prices of Aman seeds

Farmers in Sylhet today demanded increasing the price of Aman seed...
Collapse of under-construction bridge in Sunamganj: probe committee formed to identify reason

Road Transport and Highway Division today formed a four-member...
Hillocks, forests in Ruma face onslaught of AL leader

The environment and natural resources in ecologically sensitive...
Fakhrul receives first Covid-19 vaccine dose at Kuwait Maitree Hospital

BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir has received the...
Tarique Rahman sued under DSA

A case was filed against BNP acting chairman Tarique Rahman under...

PM orders procurement of 3 crore more Covid-19 vaccine doses

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has issued directives for procurement...
5 injured in gas cylinder blast in Panchagarh

At least five people, including three teenagers, were injured as a...
All schools, colleges to reopen on March 30: education minister

The government has decided to reopen all primary, secondary and...

Bodies of mother and infant daughter recovered from corn field in Bogura

Police in Bogura recovered the bodies of a woman and her infant...
25 BNP men released on bail from Khulna jail

Twenty-five leaders and activists of BNP have been released on bail...
Bangladesh last in South Asia according to Global Food Security Index 2020

Bangladesh’s overall food security situation has deteriorated for...

2 held in Habiganj over attempt to rape college student inside bus

A helper and supervisor of a bus were handed over to police for...
5th phase polls to 29 municipalities tomorrow

The fifth phase elections will be held in 29 municipalities under...
Youth dies after falling from bus roof in Bagerhat

A young man died after falling from the roof of a running bus in...

Tangail’s canals disappearing fast as grabbers filling it up

The canals flowing through different areas in Tangail town are disappearing one after another, thanks to the illegal grabbing and negligence by the authorities.
50-year-old man arrested for raping woman in Rangamati

A 50-year-old man was arrested in connection with the rape of a woman in Baghaichhari upazila of Rangamati.
SC to hear appeal against HC verdict barring female marriage registrars on April 4

A full bench of the Supreme Court will hold a hearing on April 4 on an appeal challenging the High Court verdict that barred women from becoming Nikah (Muslim marriage) registrars in the country.
Man killed in landslide while ‘razing hill’ in Khagrachhari

A man died today in a landslide while he was allegedly cutting a hill on his own land in Ramgarh upazila under Khagrachhari.
Dam collapses in Brahmanbaria; 60 acres of crop land submerged

About 60 acres of crop land in Sohagpur village has been submerged as a dam on a canal collapsed in Ashuganj upazila of Brahmanbaria today.
5 killed, 15 injured as bus hits truck in Sirajganj

At least five people were killed and 15 others were injured as a bus collided with a truck after its tyre got punctured at Konabari near the Bangabandhu bridge west zone of Sirajganj this morning, police said.
Covid-19 vaccine: 20 lakh doses arrive at Dhaka airport in 2nd consignment

The second consignment of Covid-19 vaccine from India – 20 lakh doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine – has reached Dhaka.
Six get life term for murder

A Kishoreganj court yesterday sentenced six people to life term imprisonment in connection with a case for killing a housewife in 2011.
Thai guava bears hope in Chougachha

Idris Ali of Jashore’s Chougachha upazila has found success in cultivating Thai guava at his village.
Average production of paddy decreases, Boro sees rise

Within over a decade, average production of paddy has decreased in Pirojpur though it is one of the important districts in growing paddy in the southern areas of the country. But of the Aus, Aman and Boro, the production of Boro has increased during this period.