At the heart of Mymensingh city, surrounded by greenery, stands a two-storied tin-shed “castle” with a banyan tree in front of it.
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.
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.
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.
The local administration in Mymensingh has locked down the district until further notice in a bid to contain spread of the coronavirus.
Three persons are killed and five others injured in a clash over a trivial matter in Ishwarganj upazila of Mymensingh.
Two housewives and a third grader were allegedly raped in Patuakhali, Mymensingh and Panchagarh on Wednesday.
Seven people, including a three-year old, were killed in road crashes in Mymensingh, Dinajpur and Chattogram yesterday.
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.
Rail communication between Dhaka and Mymensingh is suspended as inter-district Teesta Express derails in Sripur upazila of Gazipur.
A Dhaka court sentences four militants of Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to life imprisonment August 17 serial blast case filed in Mymensingh 11 years ago.
A 12-year-old boy is tortured in Mymensingh and its video is leaked in the social media, giving rise to public outrage.
Bir Protik Taramon Bibi has been hospitalised due to severe respiratory and lungs diseases.
At least six people including five of a family are killed and two other wounded as a truck rammed a CNG–run three wheeler in Tarakanda upazila of Mymensingh.
The Executive Committee of the National Economic Council approves the 'Inter District Border Road Construction: Mymensingh and Netrakona Districts Part' with an outlay of Tk 457.30 crore, aiming to boost connectivity and trade between Bangladesh and India.
A man commits suicide after killing his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter at his residence in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh.
A war crimes tribunal has denied bail to Jatiya Party lawmaker MA Hannan and his son Rafique Sajjad in a case of crimes against humanity committed during 1971.
Two people including a female SSC examinee are killed in separate road accidents in Mymensingh today.
District administration imposes section 144 at a union of Mymensingh’s Nandail upazila, after two factions of the ruling Awami League announces holding rallies at the same venue simultaneously.
