Mymensingh
A fight for survival: Jatra artistes in dire financial crisis due to elections
The artistes have told The Daily Star that they wait for winter season for contracts, but this year, the scenario is totally different due to impact of general election and its ongoing movements. Now, people have been engaged in election campaign, bypassing cultural activities.
Who have highest/lowest bank deposits in Bangladesh?
Dhaka division’s 4.19 crore people in 13 districts have stored in banks a total of Tk 9.79 lakh crore, around 85 per cent of which, or Tk 8.32 lakh crore, belong to the people living inside Dhaka district alone.
BOOK REVIEW: NONFICTION / Songs of our soil: In praise of Mymensingh’s Bangla folk ballads
Folk-ballads are living archives that represent the imagination, values, ideas, and aesthetics of the people to whom they belong. Folk-ballads are living archives that represent the imagination, values, ideas, and aesthetics of the people to whom they belong.
Mymensingh locked down
The local administration in Mymensingh has locked down the district until further notice in a bid to contain spread of the coronavirus.
3 killed in Mymensingh clash
Three persons are killed and five others injured in a clash over a trivial matter in Ishwarganj upazila of Mymensingh.
2 housewives, 10-year-old girl raped
Two housewives and a third grader were allegedly raped in Patuakhali, Mymensingh and Panchagarh on Wednesday.
Seven killed in road crashes
Seven people, including a three-year old, were killed in road crashes in Mymensingh, Dinajpur and Chattogram yesterday.
Ninth grader tries to take her own life after ‘rape’
A ninth-grader attempted to die by suicide allegedly after being raped several times and publicly beaten up by the rapist in Mymensingh’s Gafargaon on Thursday.
Myanmar man among 6 killed in 'shootouts'
A murder suspect, an alleged robber and four alleged drug peddlers were killed in separate “gunfights” with law enforcers and BGB men in five districts yesterday.
Gafargaon education officer caught red-handed while taking bribe
Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) claims to have caught an education official red-handed while taking bribe in Gafargaon upazila of Mymensingh.
Police outpost ransacked in Mymensingh
Some Jubo League men ransacked a police outpost in Mymensingh Town Hall area on Thursday night, about an hour after snatching a criminal from the law enforcers' custody, police said.
2 killed in Mymensingh road crash
Two people are killed when a bus hit a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Kalarampur in Nandail upazila of Mymensingh.
Youth dies of 'heart attack' in custody
A youth died in police custody on Friday night, around four hours after he had been detained allegedly with 15 Yaba tablets in
2 killed over fishing in Mymensingh clash
At least two people are killed and 25 injured in a clash that took place in Phulbari upazila of Mymensingh today over fishing in a water body.
The water saver
It takes 14 million litres of irrigation water to produce six tonnes of Boro rice on one hectare of typical farmland in Bangladesh.
Electrocuted, 2 killed falling off train
Two passengers died and three injured as they fell off a commuter train after being electrocuted in Trishal upazila of Mymensingh.
Captivating during his stay in Mymensingh
As the light breeze blows, the leaves of the old banyan tree on the Jatiya Kabi Kazi Nazrul Islam University campus in Trishal of Mymensingh sway back and forth, as if it is dancing to the tune of music.
Life-term convict flees from police custody
Wearing hand-cuffs and shackles, a life-term convict flees away from police custody by jumping off a Mymensingh-bound moving train in Trishal area.
HC gives go ahead to cadet Pollen's murder case
A High Court bench refuses to stay the trail proceedings of a case filed for killing a student of Mymensingh Girls' Cadet College in 2005.
