Mostafa Shabuj

Fourteen-year-old Rabbi Rahman, a tenth grader from Bogura, is the youngest Bangladeshi swimmer to cross the Bangla Channel in the Bay of Bengal. He secured the first place in the 15th Fortune Bangla Channel Swimming competition in November last year, amongst 40 contestants of different age groups. It took Rabbi only 3 hours and 20 minutes to cross the 16.1 km channel from Teknaf jetty to St Martin’s Island.

The government is forging ahead with its plan to set up the country’s largest export processing zone on 1,842 acres of farmland under the Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district that the local santal community says belongs to them.

Habibullah Farzad, a Ph.D. scholar of the South Asian University, New Delhi and also a human rights activist, was beaten

A number of customers of Nagad have alleged that they were facing troubles in carrying out transactions on their accounts as the mobile financial service provider has suspended them on suspicion of unusual transactions with e-commerce platforms.

Questions are swirling in the air after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last week ending the rule of West-backed government of Ashraf Ghani. It took

Farmers cultivated Aus paddy on a reduced area in Bangladesh this year because of dry weather during the main transplantation season, said farmers and officials.

Just three or four years ago, Shihari and Dumori villages in Bogura’s Adamdighi upazila were buzzing with activity as some 400 small glass vial factories operated in the area.

It is expected that a student graduating from a reputed university would want a good job in the big city.

Seven out of 22 houses built for homeless people under the Ashroyon project-2 have partially collapsed following moderate rainfall in Koyerkhali area of Bogura’s Sherpur upazila four days ago.

“Around one and a half years ago, my sister-in-law, Taslima, died after suffering from post-pregnancy complications. She gave birth to a baby while still on the boat, heading towards the hospital. Unfortunately, she passed away before we made it,” shares 27-year-old Shahida Begum, a local of Kochkhali char.

A homeless freedom fighter and eight others, who have been blessed with a cluster of houses in Shajahanpur, Bogura, have found that even moderate rains can leave their new houses completely flooded.

The long wait of the char people for electricity in Gaibandha’s four upazilas has just prolonged as many electric poles set up by the district palli bidyut samity (rural electrification board) have been engulfed by furious Brahmaputra. The river erosion has taken a serious turn in the district since last month.

The hearsay of young Islamic preacher Abu Taw Haa Muhammad Adnan hiding in one of his friend’s house in Gaibandha created confusion.

Family members of the man, whose body was found at now-suspended Awami League leader’s house in Gaibandha, alleged that police dillydallied recording a murder case for hours, saying that the complaint should make no mention of the role of two police officers.

Gaibandha police has allegedly handed over a trader to a ruling party leader for his failure to pay debt. The leader allegedly kept him confined to his house, and almost a month later, the man was found dead there.

Around 300 women in Modonerpara village of Gaibandha’s sadar upazila have been using water hyacinths from a nearby water-body to craft flower vases for the past month.

The explosion that took three lives in Gaibandha’s Gobindaganj upazila on Wednesday was of an abandoned mortar shell of 1971, and no militancy link or sabotage plan was behind it, said police.

Twenty years ago, Abdul Gafur Sheikh was a poor day-labourer and debt-ridden and found it difficult to feed a family of six.

Around 150 students in Sherpur, Bogura, are making profits by rearing deshi (local breed) chickens at their own rooftops or backyards.

Due to the sharp fall in the number of theatre audience for commercial movies, curtains are being drawn on a 28-year-old cinema hall in Bogura’s Dhunat upazila.