SMEs hit hard by August floods need govt assistance to survive
Most SMEs lost all of their belongings and now seek government assistance
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Half of Noakhali still reeling from flood
Sixty-year-old Kofil Uddin watched helplessly as floodwater crept into his home at Bhabani Jibanpur village in Noakhali’s Begumganj upazila on August 10. More than a month has passed, but the house is still under knee-deep water.
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Fish worth over Tk 576 crore washed away in flood in Noakhali
The ongoing flood has washed away the fish from 85,379 farms in Noakhali, causing losses of around Tk 576.50 crore as well as affecting thousands of fish farmers, said Noakhali Department of Fisheries sources
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Relief delivery is now the challenge
People wishing to distribute relief materials among the flood victims are finding it very difficult to reach remote areas due to a lack of boats.
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Millions cut off without food, power
Millions of people were still left without electricity and any means of communication, and relief materials had not reached many remote areas where families were stranded in flooded villages for days.
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He went to Dhaka to support his family
Says father of Hasan, 20, who was shot dead on July 18
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I couldn't save my boy, three bullets had pierced his body
"We were going for breakfast when my son got shot. He died without even having something to eat."
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May 8, 2024
An unusual contest in Subarnachar
The upazila chairman election in Noakhali’s Subarnachar today is going to be a battle of ballots between a veteran Awami League leader and a young one.
April 16, 2024
Release of MV Abdullah: Eid comes three days later for families of crewmen
Eid is about homecoming and family reunion. But this year’s Eid-ul-Fitr brought no such joy for the 23 crewmen of hijacked MV Abdullah.
February 8, 2024
Two raped in subarnachar: AL leader tried to make it look like a burglary
Two people, including a local AL leader, were sent to jail yesterday in a case filed over the rape of a woman and her minor daughter in Char Wapda union of Noakhali’s Subarnachar upazila early Tuesday.
September 23, 2023
Govt land grabbed to ‘rehabilitate’ hawkers in Noakhali
A group of people under the banner of Khudra Hawkers Somobay Samity Limited have illegally occupied around 65 decimals of public land in Noakhali town and are now constructing a two-storied wooden structure on the land for making commercial shops.
April 13, 2022
Soybean farmers in a hairy situation
Soybean growers in Subarnachar upazila of Noakhali are deeply concerned about incurring heavy losses this year as their fields are being attacked by a surge of hairy caterpillars, locally known as bichha poka.
March 14, 2021
Chaos in Companiganj: Businesses hit hard
In most restaurants of Companiganj’s Basurhat, an instruction is clearly written on the walls: “Conversations over politics are strictly prohibited.”
March 13, 2021
Killed In Companiganj Violence: The 2 had nothing to do with politics
Two lives have been cut short, caught in the crossfire of gunfights between the two groups of the ruling Awami League in Noakhali’s Companiganj in recent weeks.
March 12, 2021
Companiganj Al Infighting: Mirza’s rival held hrs after party warning
Hours after Awami League General Secretary Obaidul Quader yesterday warned of action against people involved in the deadly clashes in Noakhali’s Companiganj, men in plainclothes picked up Mizanur Rahman Badal, the rival of Obaidul’s brother Quader Mirza.
December 16, 2020
Tribute to Munier Chy, education for children lost to land dispute
Land dispute has locked up, over two decades, a primary school that had been opened up, in 1972, to commemorate martyred intellectual Prof Munier Chowdhury.
October 8, 2020
Local politicos behind his rise
Delwar Hossain, prime accused in the recent gang rape of a woman in Noakhali, engaged in various crimes under the patronage of local politicians from both the ruling Awami League and the BNP.
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