Artisans in Thakurgaon are worried about making desired profit supplying idols of Swaraswati, the goddess of learning, as they are yet to get good response from clients for the closure of educational institutions due to coronavirus.

Two groups of villagers are divided over demolishing a Mughal-era mosque and building a new one in place of it.

A Chuadanga court yesterday sent a shop owner to jail in connection with a case for torturing a young man, tying him to a pole, bringing allegation of stealing some grocery items in Alamdanga upazila on Tuesday night.

Trucker Iqbal Hossain who crosses long distances often feels tired and exhausted but the glimpse of a host of beautiful flowers at Dashuria intersection in Pabna’s Ishwardi upazila on Bonpara-Kushtia highway refreshes and energises his mind.

Medical service for nearly 18 lakh people in Bagerhat is limping amid severe manpower crisis.

A section of influential locals has grabbed a canal in Barguna’s Amtali upazila and has been using it as a fish enclosure, obstructing the natural water flow.

The acute shortage of teachers has been hampering the academic progress of Baniachang Government Girls’ High School in Habiganj. The school established in 1968 currently has three teachers against about 566 students.

Aklima Begum, 22, wife of farmer Mohor Ali of remote char ‘Karai Barisal’ in Chilmari upazila of Kurigram, gave birth to her first child four years ago suffering from various complications.

Thousands of commuters are facing untold sufferings for months due to delay in construction of 8.5-kilometre-long Thakurgaon-Farabari road, located on the northern part of the district headquarters.

Boro cultivation in going on in full swing in all the upazilas of the district.

The incidents of throwing stones on moving trains in the West Zone (WZ) of Bangladesh Railway (BR) have been continuing unabatedly despite a campaign by BR to raise awareness.

Farmers in different upazilas of Jhenidah are earning a good profit as selling of molasses, produced from date juice, on peak this winter.

I have always said, “Before investing in agriculture, one must know where and why he is investing.” Without foreseeing the success or challenges there is always a risk ahead.

A gang of sand lifters has been choking the flow of the Brahmaputra in Roumari upazila of Kurigram district by creating a road across the river in Kartimari Boat Ghat area.

Abducted college student Durjoy Chandra Roy, 19, who went ‘missing’ from Aditmari upazila about seven months ago, still remained traceless.

A court here yesterday sentenced a man to life term imprisonment in connection with a case for killing a minor boy in Ishwardi upazila in 2014.

A bridge on a cropland at Ramakantapur village in Sujanagar upazila has remained unused since its construction over two decades ago due to lack of approach roads on either side of the unplanned bridge.

“I can’t pay the rent of the house in which my daughter and I live. The landlord called us and insulted us for nonpayment. Now, I don’t see any alternative to committing suicide,” Birangana Shila Guha said.

At least 15 children died of pneumonia at the government hospitals in Khagrachhari, Rangamati and Bandarban in the last two weeks, doctors at the hospitals said.

With the arrival of winter sale of earthen pots sees a sharp rise in different upazila of the district, famous for date juice.