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Light-trap gaining popularity as effective pest control method

BOGURA, Nov 05: Use of light-trap method in T-Aman paddy fields for pest detection has started gaining popularity among the farmers of Bogura district due to its effective result in the past few years. An environmentally sound device for detecting harmful insects, light-trap is coming to the help of hundreds...

Perilla farming pays off in Khulna

KHULNA Nov 05: Farming of SAU Perilla-1 (an edible oil seed) has yielded a remarkable success in Khulna district. Two farmers of Dumuria upazila have achieved success by cultivating Perilla for the first time. The Department of Agricultural Extension, Khulna is encouraging farmers to cultivate Perilla to produce high quality...

Dakope farmers in distress as collapsed dam floods paddy fields

KHULNA, Nov 05 (UNB): Last November, when Cyclone Bulbul had badly hit Bangladesh, Shekhor Sardar of Khona village spent days watching his ripe paddy getting washed away in deluge. A year later, he has again prepared his farm for paddy but is unsure about the future. Shekhor is not alone....

Good yield brings cheer to Sylhet vegetable farmers

SYLHET, Nov 05: Farmers in Sylhet region are happy enough with the good yield of early variety winter vegetables they have got this season. Prices of different varieties of winter vegetables are fair amid a good demand in the local markets of the district towns as well as the upazila...

Locals demand arrest of doctor in 24 hours

NATORE, Nov 05 (UNB): Local people formed a human chain at Ahmedpur Bus Stand in Barigram upazila on Thursday demanding arrest of the doctor responsible for the death of Ariful within 24 hours. They also threatened to besiege the local Police Station if their demand goes unheeded. Several hundred people...

Ex-RU VC Dr Altaf Hossain dies

RAJSHAHI, Nov 05: Former Vice-chancellor of Rajshahi University (RU) and retired professor of the university's Zoology department Dr Md Altaf Hossain died on Thursday. He was 75.Dr Md Altaf breathed his last at his residence in Uposhahor area of Rajshahi.Prof Dr Md Saiful Islam Faruki, president of Rajshahi University Teachers'...

Youth gets jail unto death for violating schoolgirl in Kushtia

KUSHTIA, Nov 05 (UNB): A Kushtia court on Thursday sentenced a young man to jail unto death for violating a schoolgirl after abduction in 2019.The convict is Yeasin Molla, 25, son of Ishak Molla of Charkhajura village in Jhenidah upazila.Kushtia District and Sessions Judge Munshi Mohammad Mashier Rahman handed down...

Fire guts 20 shops in Bandarban

BANDARBAN, Nov 05 (UNB): Twenty shops were gutted in a fire which broke out at Boro madok Bazar in Bandarban early Thursday.Mui Sui Thui, chairman of Romacri Union, said the fire broke out following gas cylinder explosion at a shop in the area at around 6:00 am and soon engulfed...