The farmers have already started transplantation of Boro seedlings in the northern region to make the officially fixed farming programme of the cereal crop successful this season.Horticulture Specialist Khondker Md. Mesbahul Islam of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) said transplantation of Boro seedlings would get momentum soon as the farmers are facing some hurdles now due to the sweeping cold wave.“The farmers have already prepared their Boro seedbeds and they are taking all-out preparations for transplantation of the seedlings...
The holy Eid-e-Miladunnabi, marking the birth and demise of the Prophet Hazrat Muhammad (SM), was observed here as elsewhere across the country on Tuesday with due religious fervor and solemnity.Various organisations and institutions including Islamic Foundation Bangladesh (IFB), mosque and madrasa authorities, and literary and religious bodies chalked out elaborate programmes in observance of the Day.The programmes included arranging competitions of Hamd and Naat and religious songs for the students of different educational institutions at different venues followed by prize...
One killed in BograBogra : A man was killed and ten others were injured when a bus slewed sideways into a canal from Fatki Bridge on the Dhaka-Bogra Highway in Shahjahanpur upzila early Wednesday. The identity of the deceased could not be immediately ascertained while the injured were confirmed to hail from the district. Police, quoting witnesses, said the accident took place at Abir Classic point of the Dhaka-Bogra Highway around 2:30am, when a Rangpur-bound bus slewed sideways and fell...
Ferry plying on the Mawa-Kewrakandi route resumed on Wednesday morning after a disruption for nine hours due to dense fog.The ferry service on the country’s largest route had remained suspended since 12:00am for poor visibility caused by thick fog. Six ferries loaded with 110 vehicles with about 500 passengers who got stuck in the midstream of the Padma River started for destinations around 9:00am as visibility improved with disappearing of fog.Besides, 500 vehicles got stranded on both sides of the...
Joint force in separate drives arrested 11 activists of BNP and its ally Jamaat-e-Islami from different places in Kolaroa and Kaliganj upazilas early Wednesday on suspicion of their involvement in violence and sabotage acts.Superintendent of Police Chowdhury Monjurul Kabir of the district said a team of the joint force, comprising members of police, Rapid Action Battalion and Border Guard Bangladesh, conducted an all-out drive in Kolaroa and Kaliganj upazilas from Tuesday night to Wednesday morning and arrested the 11.Among the...
Farming of crops, particularly seed- potato, through tissue culture has brought a silent revolution in agricultural sector in Rajshahi region.Thousands of farmers of the region have changed their lot by growing quality crops especially potato through using tissue cultured saplings. To feed farmers with sterile saplings, 14 tissue culture laboratories are now functioning commercially in Rajshahi. Farmers are producing crops or vegetables by using these plantlets.It is learnt that there are more than 100 tissue culture laboratories which are being...
Non-government organisation Agriculture Sustainable and Socio-Economic Development Organisation (ASSEDO) distributed blankets Chapainawabganj on Saturday. The blankets were distributed among 500 cold-hit people of Alatuli and Narayanpur unions of Chapainawabganj sadar upazila under its Nadi O Jiban-2 project with the association of another NGO Concern Worldwide.Chairmen and members of the concerned UPs, officials of ASSEDO and local elites were present on the occasion.ASSEDO sources said, during the last flood, hundreds of families of the aforesaid two unions lost their residences, cultivable...
Barisal Correspondent :Agitated local people, students, guardians on Wednesday formed human chain and handed over memorandum to the administration with agitation procession protesting grabbing of school lands by ruling party backed man in the city and demanding punishment of the grabbers.Bangladesh Krishak Federation and Bangladesh Krishani Sava organised the programme in front of Ashwini Kumar Hall presided over by Zohra Rekha, president Bangladesh Krishani Sava district unit.Among others Riazul Huq Sumon, Sabir Sardar, Maksuda Begum, Rekha Begum, Manisha Chakraborty, addressed...
Police recovered beheaded body of a young man from rail track at Jhaoil village in Kamarkhanda upazila on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Manik Sarkar,22, son of Lebu Sarkar of Enayetpur of the district.Sirajganj GRP thana police said locals spotted Manik’s beheaded body on rail track under Jhaoil over-bridge on the Bangabandhu Multipurpose Bridge’s west connecting road in the morning and informed police.The body was sent to the district hospital morgue for an autopsy.Chandpur Correspondent says: Police recovered the body...