S.A.Shofiee, Sylhet :Low- income people go on a shopping spree in the footpath markets in the Sylhet divisional City on the eve of the Eid-ul-Fitr.The low-income group, especially slum dwellers and street people in the city, is crowding footpath markets for buying essentials, especially clothes, at cheaper rates.A large number of such type of shops have sprung up depending on labour areas of the district including, hocker Market, Hasan Market, Surma point, Zinda bazar area.Ali, a slum dweller who came...
National Desk :About 50 armed men, firing shots in the air, grabbed a 300-acre shrimp farm, owned by a foundation established by Nobel Laureate Dr. Mohammad Yunus in the Cox’s Bazar district, police said Wednesday.The unknown attackers raided the 25-year-old shrimp farm in Cox’s Bazar’s Chakaria Sundarbans under Rampura mouza on Monday night.The miscreants tied up 10 to 15 officials and employees of the farm, beat and drove them away. The farm is run by Grameen Fisheries and Livestock foundation...
Naogaon Correspondent : Two motorcyclists were killed and two others injured in a road accident on the Naogaon-Rajshahi regional highway in Bijoypur Bazar under Manda upazila of the district Wednesday. The deceased were identified as Rabiul Islam, 18, son of Ferdous alias Musa, resident of Chandail village under Dupchanchia upazila of Bogura district and Rocky, 25, son of Liton, a resident of Hajihat Bhabanipur village under Lalpur upazila of Natore district. According to local sources, four friends on two motorcycles...
Drug trader gets two years jailStaff Reporter, KishoreganjA mobile court of RAB- 14 led by Senior Megistrate Abu Taher Sayeed in a anti-narcotics drive at Newtown area in Kishoreganj town on Wednesday night arrested one drug trader recovered 20 yaba tablets. The court also sentenced drug trader get two years jailed for yaba and fined taka ten thousand. The convicted are Abdul Majed (48) son of Late Abdul Hamid of village West Tarapasha (Newtown) in Kishoreganj town. He was sent...
National Desk : Bangladesh Agricultural Research Institute (BARI) and Feed the future Bangladesh Integrated Pest Management Activities (IPMA) jointly organized a training on “Isolation, Multiplication and Formulation of Microbial Pesticides, Beauveria and Metarhizium” at BARI Seminar Room on Monday. Eighteen personnel from various countries participated in the trainer’s training funded by the USAID Mission, Bangladesh.BARI Director General Dr. Debasish Sarker was present as the chief guest in the opening ceremony of the trainer’s training. Chief Scientific Officer and Head of...