Commodity prices go haywire hitting commoners hard

Spiraling prices of the daily essentials including vegetables have brought the low and middle-income people to their knees in Rangpur, Lalmonirhat and Khulna districts during last couple of weeks, exacerbating fear of a further financial predicament. Our Rangpur correspondent reports: Excessive surge in prices of vegetables has added to the...

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Barishal's Sher-e-Bangla Hospital opens probe into fire incident

BARISHAL, Oct 14 (bdnews24.com): A committee has been formed to investigate the cause and damage of a fire that broke out on the ground floor of the medicine building at Barishal Sher-e-Bangla Medical College Hospital.Patient admissions in the medicine department will remain suspended until the fire site is declared safe...

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Gas cylinder blast kills three, injures 20 in Laxmipur

LAXMIPUR, Oct 14 (UNB): At least three people were killed and 20 others injured in a gas cylinder blast in a bus in Sadar upazila of Lakshmipur district early Monday.The deceased were identified as Suman Hossain, son of Batu Mia; Md Yusuf Mia and his brother Hridoy Hossain, sons of...

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