RU Correspondent :A total of 75 ethnic minority community’s students of Rajshahi City Corporation were given scholarship on Wednesday.Social Welfare Office, Rajshahi, organised the scholarship giving ceremony at the City’s Hall Room of Nagar Bhaban.RCC mayor AHM Khairuzzaman Liton addressed the function as the chief guest.A total of Tk 7, 03200 were given scholarship among the students of small ethnic groups under the fiscal year of 2018-2029.Of them, 50 from primary level while 12 from secondary level, 8 from higher...
Dalit and excluded community members in a human chain rally in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall of the city Barisal on Friday demanded constitutional recognition and end of discrimination by birth, colour and profession.They also said “only laundry should be separated by colour” and stressed on implementing constitutional anti-discriminative and anti-apartheids directives to influence developments of socio-economic structures in the country.The programme was organised by Bangladesh Dalit and Excluded Rights Movement (BDERM) in cooperation with Nagorik Udyog to observe March...
Jhenaidah Correspondent :At last the Indian police on Wednesday afternoon has taken away the body of the unidentified young man age about 35 years from near the pillar number 60/35 of Abhoynagar in India that was found floating in the water of bordering Ichhamati River under Moheshpur upazila in Jhenaidah. Recovery of the body was delayed as the Indian counterpart of the police could not come to Bangladesh territory on Tuesday. Neither the border guard Bangladesh nor the police in...
BSS, Khulna :Secretary of Liberation War Affairs Ministry Tapon Kumar Ghosh here on Saturday afternoon said the government is working to prepare collaborators (Razakar) list from grass root level through local Muktijuddha command council.“List of Liberation War collaborators will be published by the Ministry after proper scrutiny, checking and cross checking in schedule time,” he said while speaking at a view exchange meeting with Paikgaccha upazila Muktijuddha command council after inaugurating construction works of Bangabandhu and Muktijuddha Complex at Paikgachha...
Staff Reporter, Kishoreganj :A Union Parishad member was killed by some miscreants at Bhuiyan Bazar in Pakundia upazila of Kishoreganj on Sunday night.The victim was identified as Md. Yousuf Ali, son of late Md. Idris Ali in Hossendi Union Parishad member of Pakundia upazila.Local people took him to Mymensingh Medical College and Hospital where duty doctors declared him dead.The body was sent to morgue for autopsy.A murder case was filed in this connection with Pakundia Police Station....
BSS, Rangpur :The farmers are expecting a better output of mustard in Rangpur agriculture region during the current Rabi season as harvesting of the crop began with better yield rates.Officials of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) here said harvest of the crop is nearing completion on the riverine char areas now while the process started getting momentum in the main land.With appearance of the newly harvested mustard oilseed, the average price of the crop fell down to Taka 2,100...
Our Correspondent :Incessant rain worsened the overall flood situation in low lying 325 villages of five upazilas in Gopalganj.Fresh areas were flooded as 114 beels in the district have swelled until Sunday morning and aggravated the condition of 20,339 marooned families, according to sources from the Water Development Board (WDB) and the district administration.Currently 1,165 families have taken shelters in 120 shelter centres in the district and relief has been provided to them, said relief and rehabilitation officer SM Rokha...
Housewife commits suicide in SylhetSylhet CorrespondentA housewife allegedly committed suicide by hanging herself with ceiling fan over a family feud at Nizampur village in Fenchuganj upazila of Sylhet district on Wednesday. The deceased was identified as Sima Rani Das, 37, wife of Nirmal Chandra Das, a resident of Nizampur village, according to a news agency report. Nandan Kanti Dhar, officer-in-charge of Fenchuganj Police Station, said Sima killed herself by hanging herself with the ceiling fan over a family feud around...
National Desk :Rangamati district administration issued a landslide warning and urged people to evacuate the risky areas around foothills on Saturday.District administrative Md. Mizanur Rahman said more than lakhs of people live in the foothill areas of Rangamati as the city itself is located over hills.To avoid casualties and losses, the warning was issued as heavy rain starting from early June can cause landslides.“Accidents due to landslides have become an annual event here. Administration is spreading awareness by installing signboards,...
