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Demand for bamboo baskets increases in Rajshahi region

RAJSHAHI, Jun 04 (BSS): Demand for bamboo baskets and crafts is gradually increasing as harvest of vegetables and various fruits like mango, litchi and papaya and tomato going on in full swing.Growers and traders said bamboo baskets are suitable and appropriate for carrying and transporting fruits and vegetables than any...

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Museum of RU Zoology Dept holds a rich collection of 850 animal, reptile specimens

RAJSHAHI, Jun 04: The lion was standing firmly, while a crocodile was taking rest. Even, anyone may be surprised to see animals all together in the same room at the same time, although, the animals were not alive. It is a museum of the Zoology Department at Rajshahi University.There have...

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Low price disappoints Bogura brinjal cultivators

BOGURA, Jun 04: Brinjal growers of the district are disappointed due to low market price of the produce.Sources said farmers had to spend Tk 20,000 to Tk 25,000 to grow brinjal on one bigha of land. But now they are incurring around Tk 10,000 to Tk 15,000 from the yield...

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Jamuna, Padma erosion worries Manikganj villagers

MANIKGANJ, Jun 04 (UNB): The residents of Doulatpur and Harirampur upazilas have been passing days amid worries as violent riverbank erosions by the Jamuna and Padma devoured several hundred dwelling houses in the two upazilas over the last one week.Officials at the Water Development Board (WDB) here said they have...

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Construction of 122 bridges ends

MYMENSINGH, Jun 04 (BSS): Construction work of 122 rural bridges has completed in different rural areas of 13 upazilas in the district.Ministry of Disaster Management has implemented the project work spending over Tk 410 million under the supervision of District Relief and Rehabilitation Office (DRRO).District Relief and Rehabilitation officer M...

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Train crushes one in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Jun 04 (UNB): An unidentified man was crushed under a train in Dhorikhoborna area of the city early Monday.Md Aslam, sub-inspector of Railway thana, said that the accident took place when a Chapainawabganj-bound train hit the man, aged about 50, leaving him dead on the spot.Later, police recovered the...

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A farmer collecting ripen pineapples

TANGAIL: A farmer collecting ripen pineapples from a garden at Modhupur on Monday — Focus Bangla

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