• Shrinking farmland to endanger food security

    Non-agricultural use of land especially for the development purpose has recently seen a sharp increase in Sylhet division. By filling croplands, houses, roads, buildings and business establishments are being built in an unplanned manner.

  • Left incomplete for 5 years

    About five lakh people in two upazilas are suffering as a bridge, connecting Nilphamari Sadar and Kishoreganj upazila, over the Charalkatha river at Par Ghat area has remained incomplete for nearly five years.

  • The rat catcher

    Anwar Hossain has been trapping and killing rats since he was 16.

  • Boro cultivation on 4,000 hectares uncertain

    Cultivation of Boro on about 4,000 hectares of land in the current season seems uncertain due to permanent waterlogging along the Bhabadaha region in Jashore’s Monirampur upazila.

  • Most of iron bridges in a shambles

    The Roads and Highways Department (RHD) in Pirojpur has hanged signboards on both two sides of each iron bridge on Charkhali-Mathbaria road in the district saying that it is risky.

  • 2 held for raping 5th grader

    Police yesterday arrested two youths in connection with the gang-rape of a fifth-grader in Dimla upazila on Monday night.

  • AL council held, defying govt directive

    Amid the alarming rise in the number of Covid-19 cases, the triannual council of Bhangura upazila Awami League (AL) was held yesterday, defying the government directive on avoiding large gathering.

  • An epitome of success

    At one stage of life, she did not have money to pay the tuition fees for her college exams following marriage.

  • Dead body

    Indian national found dead

    Police yesterday recovered the body of a helper of a goods-laden truck from India at Benapole Port.

  • Arsa commander’s brother carried Bangladeshi ID

    Police have found that Mohammad Shah Ali, the brother of Ataullah Abu Amar Jununi, commander of Myanmar’s banned militant organisation Arakan Rohingya Solidarity Army (Arsa), bears a Bangladeshi national identity card.

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