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.
Rab-14 arrests a close aide of executed JMB leaders Shayekh Abdur Rahman and Siddiqur Rahman alias Bangla Bhai in Gazipur.
The government has made Mymensingh division with Sherpur, Jamalpur, Mymenisngh, Netrakona districts.
A man is killed and at least three others are injured after a train crashed into a lorry in Sitakunda upazila of Chittagong.
A case has been filed against 10 named and 60 other anonymous people over the incident of ruling party men snatching away detainees from police custody in Mymensingh.
Bodies of three fetuses are found from a canal in Mymensingh town.
At least six people including two alleged war criminals were injured after a prison-van collided with a bus in Gazipur Sadar upazila.
Police arrest two people in Mymensingh for their alleged involvement in crimes against humanity committed during the 1971 Liberation War.
At least three people including two students go missing after a boat capsized in the Brahmaputra river at Gafargoan upazila of Mymensingh.
A Mymensingh court place zakat donor Mohammad Shamim, his son and six others on a three-day remand in a case filed following the deaths of 27 people in stampede during zakat distribution.
A police officer is suspended over the deaths of 27 people in stampede during Zakat distribution in Mymensingh.
