9,162 reports translated from the Bengali original, most recent first. বাংলা সংস্করণ
SATKHIRA — A mobile court sentenced a meat trader to two months in prison and fined him 30,000 taka on Sunday for supplying rotten meat to several restaurants in Satkhira city, including the Kacchi…
SATKHIRA — A 52-year-old farmer in Shyamnagar upazila was electrocuted by an electric trap he had set in his vegetable plot to ward off rats, neighbors and a local official said.
DEBHATA, Satkhira — About 50 farmers in Debhata upazila are growing off-season watermelons on the embankments of fish enclosures, drawing fresh attention to a model that uses idle land and fetches premium prices, the…
TALA, Satkhira — Jamaat-e-Islami does not seize fish enclosures or land or extract sand anywhere in the country, party Central Secretary Professor Golam Parwar said Monday at a youth and student rally in Tala…
KALIGANJ, Satkhira — Farmers in Kaliganj upazila are reaping success raising bagda shrimp with an improved traditional method that has cut disease losses and doubled returns within three months, the district fisheries department said.
Farmers in Satkhira's Kaliganj upazila are succeeding with an improved traditional method of bagda (giant tiger) prawn farming — no disease, fast growth, and double their investment back in just three months.
NARAIL — Police in Lohagara upazila arrested a 40-year-old man wanted in 13 drug cases and seized 2.5 kilograms of cannabis, officials said.
CHOUHALI, Sirajganj — Police arrested a 35-year-old man with 80 yaba pills in the Kodalia Bazar area of Chouhali upazila late Sunday, the officer-in-charge said.
DAULATPUR, Kushtia — At least a dozen armed gangs have long operated on the remote Padma River chars of Daulatpur upazila and the area bordering India, residents and police say, after recent clashes over…
KOLAROA, Satkhira — Decorative tiles handmade from clay in Murarikati village of Kolaroa upazila are being exported to Europe, the United States and other markets, bringing in about 150 crore taka in foreign exchange…
Sharif Uddin Juwel, a BNP nominee hopeful from Kushtia-1 (Daulatpur) and Dhaka North City Jubo Dal convener, said the people's votes will determine the country's leadership.
A man in Satkhira's Ashashuni claimed ownership of a British-era post office and padlocked it before officials reopened the building following protests.
Police recovered the body of a 52-year-old woman from under a railway bridge in Kushtia's Kumarkhali on Saturday. Investigators suspect she was raped and killed.
Jashore's GI-tagged date palm jaggery season formally opened in Chaugachha upazila on Sunday with a ceremony marking the start of tree tapping for sap collection.
The seasonal tapping of date palms to collect sap for Jashore's GI-tagged date-palm jaggery has been formally inaugurated in Chougacha upazila, where trees are prepared for the winter sap harvest.
Residents of Shalikha, Magura, accused a meat seller of secretly slaughtering a horse and selling its meat as beef. The seller fled before police arrived.
Administration officials recovered 77.835 metric tonnes of TCB rice from a dealer's warehouses at Binodpur Bazar in Magura's Mohammadpur upazila.
A 90-foot decorative gate built over the New Bazar bridge has become the main attraction of the five-day Katyayani Puja festival in Magura.
Eighty Hindu families in Jhenaidah's Shailkupa joined Jamaat-e-Islami at a ceremony Friday evening at a temple in Bhandaripara village.
A 2-year-old boy drowned in a pond while playing with ducks in Jhenaidah's Harinakundu upazila on Friday morning.
Bimal Pramanik, a farmer from Chhaikhada village in Jhenaidah's Kotchandpur, has become a millionaire after 30 years of cattle rearing that started with a single cow.
Shaheed Nur Ali College claimed the Usha inter-college football tournament title in Kaliganj on Saturday, defeating M.U. College 1-0 in the final.
Civic leaders, doctors, teachers and political activists met in Jhenaidah on Saturday to discuss a master plan aimed at making the district a model for development.
A growing trash dump on the Mohespur bypass, opposite the municipal office, has spread a stench through the area and is raising public health and pollution concerns.
Six people were injured and at least six homes vandalized when two rival factions clashed over local dominance in Magura's Sripur upazila on Saturday.
Jamaat-e-Islami secretary general Mia Golam Parwar said a November referendum should be held alongside the implementation of the July charter, with national elections to follow in February.
Khulna's new modern prison began operations Saturday as the first 100 inmates were moved from the district jail under heavy security.
Five people were injured when two BNP factions clashed at Kajdia Bazar in Khulna's Rupsa upazila on Thursday over rival nomination bids.
Religion Adviser Dr. A.F.M. Khalid Hossain said the interim government has made significant progress in 15 months but cannot undo 15 years of disorder in that time.
Md. Ruhul Amin, Jamaat-e-Islami's candidate for Chuadanga-2, met with print and electronic journalists at the Darshana Press Club on Saturday.
The Jatiyatabadi Mahila Dal stepped up campaigning in Chuadanga's Darshana municipality, going door to door for BNP nominee Mahmud Hasan Khan Babu.
Dost Aid Bangladesh Society handed out 18 sewing machines to underprivileged rural women in Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga district to help them become self-employed.
Once a day laborer, Bellal of Khulna’s Batiaghata upazila now expects to earn 600,000 taka this season by growing watermelon out of season on fish-pond embankments.
All eight students of Adarsha Shikkha Niketan School and College in Terokhada who sat this year's HSC examinations failed. The college admitted 11 students for 2023-24 and now employs 13 teachers; its headmaster blamed…
All eight students from Adarsha Shiksha Niketan School and College in Terokhada upazila of Khulna failed this year’s HSC exams, even though the institution employs 13 teachers.
BRAC organized a health coordination meeting under its climate-change health program at the Rupsha upazila health complex in Khulna on Oct. 22.
About 1.5 million people in Khulna’s Phultala, Dumuria and Arongghata areas have been waterlogged for nearly two months as Bil Dakatia floods over 30,000 acres of farmland.
Hundreds of bodies are decomposing in the streets of el-Fasher in Sudan’s North Darfur after the Rapid Support Forces seized the city last week, killing at least 1,500 people.
Election Commissioner Md. Anwarul Islam Sarkar said the schedule for the next national parliamentary election will be announced in the first week of December, with voting in February.
Police arrested Rakibuzzaman Palash, 35, the former general secretary of Narail district Chhatra League, in the city’s Durgapur area on Aug. 27.
A committee investigating the death of Rajshahi University sociology student Sayma Hossain submitted its initial report Thursday with several recommendations for immediate action.
Sluice gates in Khulna’s Terokhada upazila have stopped working for lack of maintenance, leaving farmers worried about their crops as canals dry up and waterlogging spreads.
An Islami Andolan Bangladesh chapter in Khulna's Dighalia upazila presented honor crests to 20 students for outstanding results in the SSC and Alim examinations.
A housewife identified as Achiya Begum was killed when unidentified assailants slit her throat in Khulna's Phultala upazila. Police have detained a young man for questioning.
Two hilsa fish were caught in a government pond in Khulna's Paikgachha upazila, surprising local fishermen and officials.
Retail fertilizer dealers in Khulna's Dacope upazila formed a human chain demanding that they be included in the government's fertilizer policy as ID-card holders.
Baul singer Abdur Rahman Gazi, a beloved figure in folk music circles, has died at age 55 at a private hospital in Khulna after a long battle with liver cancer.
Police arrested Ramjan Kazi, 60, in Jashore on a charge of raping his 9-year-old granddaughter, allegedly after luring her with the promise of buying a toy. The child has been admitted to Jashore General…
The army has begun dredging 81.5 km across six rivers in Jashore's Bhabodaha region to ease chronic waterlogging, in a 140 crore taka (about $11.7 million) project expected to benefit more than 1 million…
Monoharnagar Secondary School in Jashore's Keshabpur upazila has been waterlogged for months, leaving a makeshift bamboo bridge as the only access for 190 students and staff.
Border Guard Bangladesh detained Ataur Rahman, 37, and recovered a pistol during a raid on a paddy storehouse in the Benapole border area, officials said.
A 70-year-old man was killed by his grandson-in-law in Jashore's Jhikargachha upazila in what locals say stemmed from a family dispute. Four others were injured.
JASHORE — A law and order committee in Chougachha upazila of Jashore district has banned students from bringing mobile phones to secondary schools and barred biri-cigarette shops within 200 meters of campuses.
JASHORE — Police arrested four men and seized illegal weapons, walkie-talkies, knives, a toy pistol and five motorcycles during a raid in Jhikargachha, Jashore district.
JASHORE — Border Guard Bangladesh detained a man and seized a 173.76-gram gold bar worth about 2.69 million taka at Chanpara Bazar in Jashore Sadar upazila.
MEHERPUR — Meherpur district BNP general secretary Kamrul Hasan led a leaflet distribution and public outreach in Komarpur Bazar to publicize the party's 31-point demand.
JASHORE — Assailants stormed into a tea stall in Manirampur upazila and stabbed a 35-year-old man to death, police said.
CUMILLA — A Bangladesh Nationalist Party union president from Chougachha in Jashore was killed in a motorcycle crash on the Dhaka-Chattogram highway, party officials said.
NILPHAMARI — Three families have been living under the open sky for three weeks in Nilphamari after a court eviction order was wrongly carried out, family lawyers said.
DINAJPUR — Jamaat-e-Islami has elected Maulana Abul Kasem as the new amir of its Nawabganj upazila unit in Dinajpur, party officials said.