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Beautification project launched in Chattogram

Beautification project launched in Chattogram

FE Online Desk 2018-04-25 12:17:19

Mayor A G M Nasir Uddin of Chattogram City Corporation has recently launched a beautification project with an aim to modernise the port city. The project, implemented by Berger Paints Bangladesh Limi...

City fire kills infant, injures two

City fire kills infant, injures two

-- 2018-04-25 10:22:17

A fierce fire broke out at a building in city’s Mirpur area early Wednesday, burning a seven-month old boy to death and leaving his parents injured. The deceased was identified as Tamim while t...

Commercial maize farming gaining popularity

Commercial maize farming gaining popularity

Our Correspondent 2018-04-24 21:36:02

MAGURA, Apr 24: Commercial maize cultivation is gaining popularity in the district. Sources said low production cost and high market price are the main reasons for expansion of the farming of the cro...

Fake village doctor rapes woman in name of exorcism

Fake village doctor rapes woman in name of exorcism

-- 2018-04-24 18:49:04

A fake village doctor, ‘kabiraj’, allegedly raped a housewife in the name of performing exorcism on her at Lichubagan of Sadar upazila on Monday. Aizul Haque Mufti, 50, had been known for...

Four die in Kishoreganj road accident

Four die in Kishoreganj road accident

-- 2018-04-24 16:59:15

At least four people were killed in a road accident in Kalikaprasad area of Bhairab upazila in Kishoreganj district on Tuesday. The deceased were identified as auto-rickshaw driver Sanaullah, Monwar...

Habiganj road accident claims two lives

Habiganj road accident claims two lives

-- 2018-04-24 15:33:31

Two people were killed and three others injured as a covered van hit them in Rokonpur area on the Dhaka-Sylhet highway under Nabiganj upazila of the district on Tuesday morning. The deceased were ide...

5.2 magnitude earthquake jolts Sylhet

5.2 magnitude earthquake jolts Sylhet

-- 2018-04-24 11:35:07

A moderate earthquake jolted different parts of Sylhet on Tuesday morning. Measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale, the tremor was felt around 10:08 am, according to Sylhet Met office data. The epicentre...

In-laws set man on fire following divorce

In-laws set man on fire following divorce

-- 2018-04-24 11:21:14

A young man was set on fire by his former in-laws at Daulatdihi village in Sadar upazila on Monday afternoon. The victim was identified as Moniruzzaman alias Rony, 28, son of Shafiur Rahman of Amaba...

Day labourer shortage hits  Sylhet Boro harvest

Day labourer shortage hits Sylhet Boro harvest

Our Correspondent 2018-04-23 22:06:30

SYLHET, Apr 23: Boro farmers of Sylhet division are suffering acute shortage of day labourers during the current harvesting season. Sources said paddy growers of the region are in difficult situation...

HSC examinee dies in Rajshahi road crash

HSC examinee dies in Rajshahi road crash

-- 2018-04-23 11:43:54

A Higher Secondary Certificate (HSC) examinee was killed in a road accident in Paba upazila on Sunday night. The deceased has been identified as Saiful Islam Roni, son of one Rezaul of Alimganj in th...

Aloevera cultivation gaining  popularity in Bogura

Aloevera cultivation gaining popularity in Bogura

Emdadul Haque 2018-04-22 21:47:40

BOGURA, Apr 22:  Aloevera, locally known as Ghritkumari, cultivation is gaining popularity in Shajahanpur upazila of the district. A good number of poor farmers have improved their socio-economic...

150 hectares of Boro land come under blast attack

150 hectares of Boro land come under blast attack

-- 2018-04-22 21:46:42

NETRAKONA, Apr 22 (UNB): Fungal disease 'blast' has affected different upazilas of the district, hindering Boro production during the harvesting season. The fungal attack has spread all over the upaz...

Chilli cultivation brings smile on faces of marginal growers

Chilli cultivation brings smile on faces of marginal growers

Our Correspondent 2018-04-22 21:45:59

SYLHET, Apr 22: Chilli growers of Sylhet division will complete their harvest within a few days. Sources said cultivation of varieties of chilli was increased during the last Rabi season. A good num...

Father, son die in Mymensingh road crash

Father, son die in Mymensingh road crash

-- 2018-04-22 13:10:33

A father and his son were killed while another three injured as a private car hit a covered-van on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway at Nishinda in Bhaluka upazila on Sunday morning. The deceased were identif...

RAB mobile court jails seven for selling Hilsha fry

RAB mobile court jails seven for selling Hilsha fry

-- 2018-04-22 11:59:28

A mobile court run by the Rapid Action Battalion or RAB has sentenced seven people each to two years in jail for selling ‘Jatka’ or Hilsha fry in Dhaka. Executive Magistrate Sarwoer Alam...

Locals find dead body of man in Jashore

Locals find dead body of man in Jashore

-- 2018-04-22 11:40:22

A man was found dead in front of Khajura police outpost in the district town on Saturday night. Masudur Rahman Masud, a sub-inspector at the police outpost, said locals found Fasiar Rahman, 45, son o...

Four die in Gaibandha head-on crash

Four die in Gaibandha head-on crash

Agencies 2018-04-22 10:22:48

Four people, including a child were killed and 15 other injured following a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj. The accident occurred on the Dhaka-Rangpur Hi...

BINA-17 paddy yield delights Magura growers, officials

BINA-17 paddy yield delights Magura growers, officials

-- 2018-04-21 21:07:10

Our Correspondent MAGURA, Apr 21: A good number of farmers of Uzgram, Moghi and Ramnagar villages in the district have successfully produced BINA-17 paddy.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE)...

Record 10,308 tonnes of pulse output in Rangpur region

Record 10,308 tonnes of pulse output in Rangpur region

-- 2018-04-21 21:06:42

RANGPUR, Apr 21 (BSS): farmers have produced a record quantity of 10,308 tonnes of pulses during the just-ended Rabi season, higher by about 1,000 tonnes than the previous season, in Rangpur agricultu...

Four tourists detained for hunting birds

Four tourists detained for hunting birds

-- 2018-04-21 20:50:24

Four tourists were arrested for hunting birds at Monpura Island in Bhola on Saturday. A mobile court led by local Executive Magistrate Abdul Aziz Bhuiyan also fined each of them with Tk 50,000 and se...

N’ganj police officer closed for taking bribe

N’ganj police officer closed for taking bribe

-- 2018-04-21 16:56:13

A sub-inspector of Araihazar Police Station in Narayanganj was closed to the district Police Lines on Friday night for freeing three drug traders in exchange of bribe. The closed policeman is SI Raki...

Pabna school wall collapse: 4 primary students hospitalised

Pabna school wall collapse: 4 primary students hospitalised

-- 2018-04-21 16:38:09

Four students were injured as an under-construction wall of a school collapsed on them at Shibrampur in Pabna on Saturday morning. The injured students are Afrin, Afsana, Ami, Ismail. All are the stu...

Rangpur farmers witness record pulse production

Rangpur farmers witness record pulse production

-- 2018-04-21 14:09:06

The farmers have produced a record quantity of 10,308 tonnes of pulses during the just-ended Rabi season, higher by about 1,000 tonnes than the previous season, in Rangpur agriculture region. Officia...

Motorcyclist dies after collision with truck

Motorcyclist dies after collision with truck

-- 2018-04-21 14:06:18

A motorcyclist was killed as a truck hit his vehicle at Atahar area in Sadar upazila of Chapainawabganj district on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Akbar Ali, 50, son of Ayesh Uddin of Kalin...

Truck runs over woman in city

Truck runs over woman in city

-- 2018-04-21 11:35:48

A woman was killed when a truck hit a rickshaw carrying her in Dhanmondi area of the capital on Friday night. The deceased was identified as Masuda, 35, wife of Mohammad Jamal and a nurse of a privat...

Police recover missing man body in C’nawabganj

Police recover missing man body in C’nawabganj

-- 2018-04-21 11:32:17

Police recovered the floating body of an old man from the Padma River in Charalatuli-Horma area of Sadar upazila on Friday afternoon, 21 days after he had gone missing. Locals spotted the decomposed...

Man dies from electrocution in Benapole

Man dies from electrocution in Benapole

-- 2018-04-20 22:57:06

A man was killed after being electrocuted by live electric wire in Balunda village of Sharsha upazila on Friday morning. The deceased Usman Ali, 50, son of Budo Morol of the village, was a document w...

Traffic on Shariatpur-Shibchar road remain suspended after bridge collapse

Traffic on Shariatpur-Shibchar road remain suspended after bridge collapse

-- 2018-04-20 22:18:31

Traffic on the Shariatpur-Shibchar road remained suspended from Thursday night after a bailey bridge collapsed under the weight of an overloaded truck on the Kirtinasha river at Rajgaon-Arigaon area....

Bogura schoolteacher hacked to death over ‘extramarital affair’

Bogura schoolteacher hacked to death over ‘extramarital affair’

-- 2018-04-20 18:10:11

A school headmaster has been hacked to death in Bogura’s Adamdighi Upazila in the early hours of Friday. The teacher has been identified as 53-year old Abdur Rashid, a resident of Dumuria villa...

Youth ‘commits suicide’ jumping before train

Youth ‘commits suicide’ jumping before train

-- 2018-04-20 17:02:22

A young man allegedly killed himself jumping before a running train at Chatmohar Railway Station in Chatmohar upazila, Pabna on Friday morning. The deceased was identified as Sirajul Islam, son of Am...