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Over 300 families depend on hand fan business in Joypurhat

JOYPURHAT, July 10: Over 1050 extreme poor people of some 300 families depend on hand fan business round the year in Joypurhat district from last few years.The demand of the fan is increasing alarmingly due to raising temperature in the area from the first week of June and it will...

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Fish farming in cage begins in Magura

MAGURA, July 10: Fish cultivation into cage has been launched in Magura formally on Monday. The programme is being run in the district with the help of district fishery department. In the inaugural ceremony of the programme Tk 0.8 million were distributed among 4 fishermen. Every fisherman was provided with...

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DAE targets Aus cultivation on 3,500 hectares of land in Gopalganj

GOPALGANJ, July 10: The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE), Gopalganj has taken a programme of Aus cultivation on 3,500 hectares of land in the district this season. According to DAE official sources, 1,300 hectares of Upashi variety and 2,200 hectares of local variety where provable production target at 5,062 tonnes...

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Two new LC stations on Sylhet-Meghalaya frontier soon

SYLHET, July 10: Process for setting 2 new LC stations in Sylhet-Meghalaya frontier region has been going on, informed an official.Of them one would at Dolura area on the Sunamganj-Balat border in the Meghalayan foot hills. About 10 acres of land would soon be handed over to the Customs department,...

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Rangpur region to produce 1.6m tonnes of Aman rice

RANGPUR, July 10 (BSS): The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of producing 1.639 million tonnes of Transplanted Aman (T-Aman) rice from 0.594 million hectares of land this season in Rangpur agriculture region.Officials of the DAE said the farmers already started transplantation of T-Aman rice seedling as...

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Two minors drown

FARIDPUR, July 10 (UNB): Two minor were drowned in a pond in Doksim Tepakhola area in the district town on Tuesday morning.The deceased were identified as Tabassum Reshma, 7, daughter of Lokman Meridha and Safayet Meridha, 5, son of Jakir Meridha. Both of them are from the same village.Locals said...

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Electrocution kills couple

JOYPURHAT, July 10 (UNB): A couple was electrocuted at Rangta village in Sadar upazila on Tuesday.The deceased was identified as Mujibar Rahman, 46, son of Abdul Aziz of the village, and his wife Karima Khatun, 37.Officer-in-charge of Joypurhat Police Station Selim Hossain said the couple came in contact of a...

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Schoolgirl dies in Sherpur road crash

SHERPUR, July 10 (UNB): A schoolgirl was killed as a speeding easy-bike ran over her at Dawdara village in Nalitabari upazila on Tuesday morning.The deceased was identified as Surma Begum, 7, daughter of Abdus Salam of the village, and a class one student of Dawdara Government Primary School in the...

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Good growth at a plot of Agar plantation

SYLHET: Good growth at a plot of Agar plantation in Barlekha upazila of Moulvibazar district. Many people are now engaged in the agar plantation as it has a big demand for producing valuable Aatar for the Gulf countries. — FE Photo

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