Bogura potters struggling to stay afloat with scanty income

BOGURA Jan 15: The Tk60-80 million pottery industry in Bogura enables the artisans to barley manage to survive, exclusively depending on the production of earthen pots and trays, which mainly covers the demand for the district's famed yoghurt.Around 2,000 families across Bogura's 12 upazilas depend on the craft, clustered in...

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Children out of school as erosion fury rages on in Gaibandha

OUR CORRESPONDENTGAIBANDHA, Jan 17: Locals of Chargram Jiadanga village in Gaibandha demanded immediate steps to re-establish a primary school as hundreds of children are unable to receive basic education after Brahmaputra River erosion claimed a neighbouring village last month and along with it, its sole primary school.River erosion took the...

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Jhenaidah's 21 heritage sites face ruin amid neglect

JHENAIDAH, Jan 17 (UNB): Jhenaidah's 21 officially recognised heritage sites across six upazilas, with their rusting gates, crumbling walls, and silent courtyards, now teeter on the brink of ruin, victims of neglect, indifference and the passage of time. Walking through the grounds of the 19th-century Nilkuthi building at Khalishpur in...

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BB aims to decrease inflation rate to 5pc approx. in near future

OUR CORRESPONDENTRANGPUR, Jan 17: The central bank aims to gradually decrease the inflation rate to approximately five per cent in the near future from its current level of over eight per cent, Bangladesh Bank (BB) Deputy Governor Dr Md Habibur Rahman said at the divisional-level monetary policy discussion meeting in...

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