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JOYPURHAT, Bangladesh — Bangladesh Nationalist Party grassroots workers in Joypurhat-2 have launched a wide door-to-door campaign and leaflet drive to spread the party's 31-point program ahead of the upcoming parliamentary election, led by hopeful…
JOYPURHAT — A farmer in Kalai upazila is on track for a profit of about 7,000 taka after planting ash gourd on just 8 percent of his fallow land.
AKKELPUR, Joypurhat — Battery-powered auto-rickshaws have all but driven the pedal rickshaw out of this town, where only three pedal rickshaws remain in service.
KHETLAL, Joypurhat — A local volunteer group provided free eye care services in Khetlal upazila on Saturday, with patients getting vision tests, cataract screening and referrals for advanced treatment.
SINGRA, Natore — A fish farmer in Singra upazila has lost an estimated 35 lakh taka (3.5 million) worth of fish after his 12-bigha pond was poisoned, allegedly out of enmity.
NALDANGA, Natore — A crack appeared in a rail line in Naldanga upazila on Monday but was repaired in hours, with no accident reported.
GURUDASPUR, Natore — A young farmer in Gurudaspur upazila has created the shape of Bangladesh's national flag in his paddy field using two varieties of rice plants.
BARAIGRAM, Natore — Two students in Baraigram upazila who retook just one subject in the technical education board's SSC exam have been marked failing in a second subject that was not on their admit…
LALPUR, Natore — Cpl. Masud Rana, killed in a drone attack on a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Sudan, was buried with state and military honors beside his father's grave on Sunday afternoon.
NATORE — Farzana Sharmin (Putul), the BNP candidate for the Natore-1 (Lalpur-Bagatipara) constituency, has resigned from four institutional positions to contest the election.
SAPAHAR, Naogaon — Abdullah Hil Kafi, secretary of the Jamaat-e-Islami Sapahar upazila unit, died Saturday from injuries sustained when he was attacked by robbers on his way home from a party meeting.
Sixty students at a madrasa in Naogaon's Porsha upazila have been hospitalized with diarrhea, with 12 in serious condition transferred to other hospitals for treatment.
Unidentified people set fire outside a Grameen Bank branch office in Naogaon's Raninagar upazila early Wednesday, though police said no fire occurred at the bank itself.
A woman in Naogaon's Manda upazila left her newborn daughter at a health center hours after birth, leaving the father to file a police complaint.
Attackers vandalized a BNP membership drive stage in Pabna's Sujanagar upazila and injured at least five party workers, including a local volunteer wing president.
Two cattle traders were killed and five others injured when a motorized cart overturned on the Niamatpur-TLB road in Naogaon on Monday.
About 1,229 students from 27 secondary schools sat for the Mujibur Rahman Memorial Foundation's scholarship examination at Dhamoirhat Safia Pilot High School in Naogaon.
Police in Naogaon's Patnitala upazila are investigating the death of a young man whose body was found hanging from a tree hours after he begged for help on Facebook Live.
Barrister Najibur Rahman Momen, son of former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Matiur Rahman Nizami, has collected nomination papers for the Pabna-1 constituency for the upcoming national elections.
Three people died in separate fire, drowning and suicide incidents in Jashore's Chougachha upazila on Wednesday, police confirmed.
Naogaon's Badalgachhi recorded a minimum temperature of 12.9 degrees Celsius on Sunday morning as dense fog and cold winds gripped the northern district.
BNP leaders Shamsur Rahman Shimul Biswas and Habibur Rahman Habib submitted nomination papers for the Pabna-5 and Pabna-4 seats, respectively, ahead of the upcoming national election.
A Pabna court denied bail to Nishi Rahman, accused of drowning eight puppies in a sack, and ordered her sent to jail.
Two children drowned while bathing in the Boral River in Faridpur upazila of Pabna on Friday, police said.
Hasan Jafir Tuhin, the BNP-backed candidate for Pabna-3 and Krishak Dal central committee president, submitted his nomination papers for the upcoming national election.
An armed gang looted five jewelry shops and several merchants' homes in Bhangura upazila of Pabna, making off with gold and cash worth nearly 2 crore taka, victims said.
At least 10 people were injured in a clash over control of a riverside ghat in Pabna's Bera, where a BNP office was vandalized and set on fire.
A ninth-grader at a school in Pabna's Atgharia died after drinking poison following a beating by her teacher, her family said.
Naval police recovered the body of Hafizul Islam, a 30-year-old member of the Ganaadhikar Parishad, from a dredger by the Jamuna River in Sirajganj's Shahjadpur upazila.
BGIMA president and BNP candidate for Chuadanga-2, Mahmud Hasan Khan Babu, met with journalists in Chuadanga to discuss his election plans.
Dr. Mosleh Uddin Forid, the Jamaat-e-Islami candidate for Jashore-2 (Jhikargachha-Chowgachha), collected nomination papers for the 13th national parliamentary election.
SIRAJGANJ - A mobile court in Sirajganj's Kazipur upazila fined a trader Tk 20,000 on Sunday for selling fertilizer illegally, officials said.
SIRAJGANJ - A wedding in Sirajganj's Shahjadpur upazila collapsed Friday after a fight broke out over the customary hiding of the groom's shoes, with the groom's party leaving without the bride.
NAOGAON - Dried-fish production in Bhor Tetulia village of Naogaon's Atrai upazila, long known as the country's dried-fish village, has dropped sharply this season due to a shortage of native fish, traders said.
NAOGAON - Police detained four people in a district-wide crackdown on narcotics in Naogaon and seized 45 kg of cannabis along with other illegal drugs, officials said Sunday.
CHAPAINAWABGANJ - The Chhota Sonamasjid, a stone mosque built during the sultanate era in Chapainawabganj, is drawing growing numbers of domestic and foreign visitors, residents said.
CHAPAINAWABGANJ - The government has authorized the import of 900 metric tonnes of onion through the Sonamasjid land port in Chapainawabganj, an official said Monday.
The government has approved the import of 900 metric tonnes of onion through the Sonamasjid land port in Chapainawabganj, a plant-quarantine official said, as the first trucks crossed from India and pushed local retail…
CHAPAINAWABGANJ - A BNP candidate in Chapainawabganj-2 has drawn widespread criticism after telling supporters that once the party forms the government, "there will be no one to speak against me. What I say will…
SIRAJGANJ - Adarsha Group has accused the officer-in-charge and a sub-inspector at Sirajganj's Raiganj police station of misappropriating 13,950 liters of palm oil seized from one of the company's trucks. The seized oil is…
CHAPAINAWABGANJ - Tarikul Islam, from Alinagar village in Chapainawabganj's Gomastapur upazila, dropped out of school after the second grade. Stricken with polio in childhood, he lost the use of part of his body -…
LAKSHMIPUR - Charruhita union Jamaat-e-Islami organized a day-long free medical camp on behalf of ESIUM Ruhul Amin Bhuiyan, the Jamaat candidate for the Lakshmipur-2 (Raipur) constituency, providing care to more than 500 patients.
Chandraganj police seized five rifles and one locally made shotgun, wrapped in paper, from a graveyard in Noakhali's Begumganj upazila on Dec. 7.
Police arrested Nur Uddin Jiku in Rangamati on Tuesday, accusing him of manufacturing firearms under cover of his auto workshop in Chandraganj.
Consumer rights officials fined a hotel near a hospital after finding it used congealed beef fat to cook fish, chicken and curries, and stored stale food.
Half the units at the Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Corporation estate in Lakshmipur remain idle as gas, water, road and security problems frustrate entrepreneurs.
The Makimpur zamindar house in Sirajganj’s Raiganj upazila, built in 1885, draws visitors daily even as its lime plaster crumbles and authorities take no action to preserve it.
Training began Saturday at the regional population training institute in Kazipur upazila, built at a cost of nearly 20 crore taka and inaugurated online in March 2023.
Maulana Rafiqul Islam Khan, an assistant secretary general of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami, said at a memorial in Sirajganj that Osman Hadi was killed in a planned attack.
A discussion and prayer meeting was held Saturday in Sirajganj’s Belkuchi upazila to mourn Sharif Osman Hadi, who died Dec. 18 in Singapore after being shot.
The Anti-Corruption Commission has begun an inquiry into former Sirajganj-5 MP Abdul Momin Mondol and his personal assistant on allegations of embezzling state project funds.
Rakibul Islam Swadhin, 22, has been missing since a trawler accident at sea during an illegal voyage to Italy. His father paid 25 lakh taka to send him.
A rally and discussion at Sarail upazila offices marked International Migrants Day on Thursday, with Assistant Commissioner (Land) Sharmin Akter as chief guest.
A Sunni religious gathering organized by local youth in Bancharampur on Wednesday drew BNP and Krishak Dal leaders, with Mehedi Hasan Polash as chief guest.
Tapas, a former BNP nominee and district party secretary, picked up a nomination form Thursday for the Brahmanbaria-5 (Nabinagar) seat ahead of the 13th parliamentary election.
A blaze early Tuesday at a Partex Star Group warehouse in Nasirnagar destroyed roughly 650,000 taka in goods, with electrical short-circuit suspected, officials said.
Border Guard Bangladesh treated about 300 people and gave out winter clothing Thursday in Kasba upazila under the Sultanpur Battalion (60 BGB).
India's Border Security Force detained Munna, 18, after he crossed about 300 yards into Indian territory at Akhaura early Wednesday, BGB said.
A cabinet purchase committee on Thursday approved a 1.64 billion taka increase in construction cost for the four-laning of the 11.56-km Ashuganj-Sarail land-port highway section.
Sagar Mia was wounded in a shooting in Brahmanbaria's Munsefpara area on Wednesday evening in what police said stemmed from a prior dispute.