Mostafa Shabuj

The recent diesel price hike has made service providers increase charges for harvesting the largest rice crop, Boro, irrigating farmlands, and threshing the cash crop maize-- and farmers are struggling to cope.

PM says ‘covert manipulators’ trying to mislead public in the name of ‘reforms’

With scant funds and a handheld loudspeaker, Dilruba Nuri challenges wealth, patriarchy and electoral inequality

Countrywide farmers across 29 districts suffered losses worth Tk 212cr

Celebrations can turn tragic within the blink of an eye. And tragedies leave behind a trail of unimaginable grief, like a girl fighting for her life unaware of her mother’s demise and a father-husband whose life has just taken a turn for the worst.

A major hub for the sale and repair of motor vehicles has gradually emerged in Bogura over the past two years, drawing an estimated investment of Tk 1,000 crore.

Strangely enough, although the government is unable to meet power needs, it pays thousands of crores to government and private power plants as fixed charges or capacity charges every month with taxpayers’ money.

The government continues to help paddy farmers in a variety of ways to increase their output and, by extension, their profits, said Yusuf Rana Mondal, former additional director of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE), Bogura region.