OC in trouble for demanding biriyani, sweets
15 October 2023, 15:16 PM Country
Water scarcity hampers jute processing
19 July 2022, 18:00 PM Bangladesh
Auto rice mill near school
18 July 2022, 18:00 PM Bangladesh
Sudden Jamuna erosion makes many homeless
13 July 2022, 18:00 PM Natural disaster
Natore UP member found dead, wife injured
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM Crime & Justice
Two kids drown in Lalmonirhat, Kurigram
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM Accidents & Fires
Permanent shops on leased land!
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM Crime & Justice
Illegal pond: A threat to surrounding cropland
12 July 2022, 18:00 PM Crime & Justice
Payra erosion threatens Barguna villages
25 June 2022, 18:00 PM Bangladesh

Young, experienced makes the difference

The combination of experience and the spirit of youth could become good partners, whether in building society or running any organization. I have seen many successful examples built with this combination.
13 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Forgotten by society, unforgiven by hunger

“Many people like you come to visit us with a promise to help us but they never keep their words,” they resented.
12 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Danger at Kulaura health complex

Sadek Mia recently went to Kulaura Upazila Health for the treatment of his child. But soon an eerie feeling gripped him looking at the bleak surroundings.
10 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Aman harvest faces water stagnation problem

Farmers in Pirojpur and Jhalakathi are facing problem to harvest Aman paddy as most of the paddy plants have remained under rainwater.
10 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Indomitable spirit

Despite having multiple physical complications including visual impairment, 40-year-old Abdus Salam runs his family like any ordinary person without stooping low. Despite the cruxes, Salam is traversing the path of life with his head high.
9 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Demolished brickfields resume operations

Farmers of Purbo Saptana in Sadar upazila are getting frustrated as two illegal brickfields, demolished by the local administration about a year ago, have resumed their operation in full swing again.
9 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Women get less than half of what men get

Female workers in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram toiling hard on a chatal (paddy husking and drying yard) even braving inclement weather are being subjected to extreme discrimination in wages. 
6 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Pabna farmers eye bumper yield

Mohammad Kamruzzaman of Sujanagar upazila experienced a huge production cost in onion cultivation due to a high price of the seeds last year.
6 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Bridge collapse brings woes to villagers

More than 5,000 people of two unions in Barguna’s Taltali upazila are in great distress as the lone bridge connecting them has collapsed.
5 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Four outlaws get life term for murder in Pabna

A Pabna court yesterday sentenced four operatives of outlawed Purbo Banglar Communist Party (PBCP) for killing a man in Santhia upazila in 2006.
4 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Mobarak, with challenges, aces SSC

Despite having no fingers to grip a pen, Mobarak Ali, 16, has passed last year’s SSC examination obtaining GPA-3.84. Despite an insurmountable odd, Mobarak clung to the hope to pursue his education. He would write with his leg up to class two. Later, he learnt how to write gripping pen with his wrists.
2 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Tea workers passing hard days

Over four hundred workers of Baikunthapur Tea Garden in Habiganj’s Madhabpur upazila with their family members have been passing days in hardship as they are not getting paid their wages or receiving rations for nearly a month.
2 January 2022, 18:00 PM

Human-animal conflict: Nilgai dies in Thakurgaon after being chased by locals

​​​​​​​A Nilgai, the largest antelope in Asia, died after locals chased it at Muktarbasti village in Thakurgaon’s Ranishankoil upazila yesterday afternoon.
2 July 2021, 18:02 PM

Oxygen at Home: Bagerhat launches delivery service

The district administration of Bagerhat yesterday launched a service to provide oxygen cylinders to homes of patients with severe Covid-19 infection. Deputy Commissioner (DC) Muhammad Azizur Rahman inaugurated the operations of the service from the premises of Bagerhat Puratan Court Mosque.
1 July 2021, 18:00 PM

Covid-19 Fallout: Jhenidah mango growers feel the pinch

Loss in sales amid the pandemic situation has put hundreds of mango growers in Jhenidah in extreme financial difficulties.
1 July 2021, 18:00 PM

Mokbul’s magnificent cattle farm

Holy Eid-ul-Azha is knocking on our doors. In Bangladesh, we celebrate this Islamic event of sacrifice, popularly known as Qurbani Eid. Half of the total
1 July 2021, 18:00 PM

Tree theft thwarted in Kulaura forest

Kulaura upazila administration in a raid yesterday thwarted an act of organised tree theft and seized dozens of chopped down tree trunks from hills of Muroichhara forest in Kulaura upazila.
30 June 2021, 18:00 PM

Erosion hits Sirajganj town protection levee

Bangladesh Water Development Board (BWDB) has started urgent repair work on Sirajganj town protection embankment after the Jamuna river eroded at least an 80-metre section of the levee within two to three hours on Tuesday.
30 June 2021, 18:00 PM

Peanut farmers lose harvest to Madhumati

Peanut plants on at least 200 acres in five village of Alfadanga upazila in Faridpur have largely been destroyed after the Madhumati burst its banks and inundated the crop fields.
30 June 2021, 18:00 PM

No ICU in hospitals of Habiganj

Covid-19 patients suffer immensely as there is no intensive care unit (ICU) facility at the hospitals in Habiganj.
29 June 2021, 18:00 PM