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.
Five people including a patient are rescued after they get trapped as a lift collapsed while going up at Mymensingh Medical College Hospital.
A Mymensingh court sends two men including a journalist to jail, a day after they were arrested with firearms and sharp weapons in the district town.
Detectives in a drive arrest two people along with two pistols, six rounds of bullet and arms making materials from a local newspaper office in Maskanda BSCIC Industrial area of Mymensingh town.
At least three people including two women are killed and 16 others injured in a road accident at Gangashram on Mymensingh-Kishoreganj highway in Gouripur upazila of Mymensingh.
A 19-year-old girl is allegedly raped on a local bus by its driver in Nandail intersection area on the Mymensingh-Kishoreganj road.
A man is killed and two others are critically injured in a gas cylinder explosion at a filling station in Mymensingh this afternoon.
Two local Awami League activists have been held today for alleged involvement in the post-election murder of a Jubo League leader in Trishal municipality of Mymensingh.
The Supreme Court clears way for holding elections to Ranisankail and Gafargaon municipalities of Thakurgaon and Mymensingh districts.
The High Court stays the process for holding elections to the Gafargaon municipality in Mymensingh for three months due to anomalies in area demarcation.
Members of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab) detain an alleged member of banned militant outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) in Bhaluka upazila of Mymensingh.
