Chuadanga Correspondent : Police recovered the body of a young man from a brick kiln at Aramdanga village in Damurhuda upazila on Wednesday.The deceased was identified as Shamim Akhter Engine, 24, son of Abdul Rashid of the village.Police said workers of the brick kiln named ‘Navy’ spotted the body of Shamim in an abandoned house of the brick kiln in the morning and informed police.Later, law enforces recovered the body around 11:00 am and sent it to sadar hospital morgue...
Wild elephants damage houses, crops in JamalpurJAMALPUR: A herd of wild elephants from India damaged houses, crops and paddy fields at Makhanerchar village under Dewanganj upazila of the district on Friday. Local people said the wild elephants entered the village under Dangdhara union at about 11pm.During the attack, the elephants damaged 13 houses belong to Jahidul, Billal, Saidur, Anwar Hossain, Zahurul Islam and Shafiqul and also damaged wheat and vegetable fields. The herd also ate up paddy stored at homes...
BSS, Khulna :Khulna District Administration and Khulna City Corporation (KCC) are taking preparations to set up a total of 34 cattle markets in city and district.Cattle traders have already started to import sacrificial animals as Eid- ul-Azha, the second largest religious festival of the Muslims, is coming within three weeks.According to KCC sources, the city corporation will set up the lone cattle market in Zoragate area on August 26.The decision was taken on Wednesday at the general meeting of KCC...
Ahsanul Amin George, Khulna :Grabbing of two main rivers of Khulna has been going on unabated and authorities concerned are reluctant to evict the illegal structures beside the rivers. Influential people have occupied Bhairab and Rupsha for a long time , two main rivers of Khulna, posing threat to the city protection embankment.Some influential men have built up several establishments including concrete structures, occupying both the rivers from Rupsha bridge to Shiromoni area. They have built business centers, factories and...
Netrakona Correspondent :Two people died of electrocution and another suffered injuries at Nowapara village in Purbadhala upazila here on Sunday.The deceased were identified as Masud, 26, son of Abdul Hashim, and Ruma Akhter, 24, of the village.Relatives said Masud came in contact with a live snapped wire while going to a nearby pond to get his cattle bathed....
With the theme ‘Investing In Young People’ for future development, the World Population Day observed in Barisal on Friday.The programmes of procession, discussion and prize giving ceremony at ‘mother and child welfare centre’ of the city were jointly organised by the family planning directorate and different development organisations to create awareness about population growth and related issues and to a reality of the human right to plan for a family.The participants of the programmes called all to play a positive...
Ramgarh (Khagrachhari) Correspondent :The newly elected mayor and councilors of Ramgarh Municipality of Khagrachhari have been sworn in. The ceremony was held at Chittagong Divisional Commissioner’s Conference Room on Wednesday. Newly elected Mayor Md. Rafiqul Alam Kamal and 9 councilors of 9 general wards Md. Abdul Haque, Shyamal Tripura, Md. Zia Uddin, Md. Ahsan Ullah, Md. Shamim, Md. Jamal Uddin, Kazi Abul Basar, Md. Jasim Uddin Chowdhury and Md. Abul Kashem and 3 women councilors of 3 reserved wards Bibi...
Ishwardi (Pabna) Correspondent :The Western Railway is equipped with air-conditioned and locomotives imported from the United States. This time the first train drivers are running the train sitting in an air-conditioned (AC) room. So far, they have run the train to the destination with the help of air-conditioned (AC) bogies. Now the drivers are sitting comfortably in their AC compartments. For the last 3 days, four air-conditioned engines imported from USA are being operated experimentally on Rajshahi and Ishwardi routes.It...
BSS, Gaibandha :Harvest of wheat, one of the high value crops, has been progressing fast in all the seven upazilas...