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Traders suffer as middlemen dominate Rangpur cattle mkts

RANGPUR, Aug 20: As the cattle markets of Rangpur district are dominated by middlemen and 'dalals' (brokers), the sellers and buyers of sacrificial animals at different cattle markets under the district are facing serious harassment.Both the buyers and sellers of sacrificial animals at most of the cattle markets or haats...

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Fridge, AC, fan, TV sales up in Rajshahi

RAJSHAHI, Aug 20: The sale of air conditioners, air coolers and fans has increased in the city markets following the prolonged rise of day temperature in the district. All the electric and electronics shops in the city were witnessing a large number of customers. The demand of charger fan has...

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Locals make handsome profit by running hotel for cows

TANGAIL, Aug 20: Residential hotel for cows is a new business concept among the traders of the district.Sources said some 300 families have been making a good profit by doing such hotel business.Gobindashi Cattle Market under Bhuapur upazila is well-known across the country. The cow traders from different districts come...

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Poor families in N districts get VGF rice before Eid

RAJSHAHI, Aug 20 (BSS): Some 1,54,250 poor and distressed families have been brought under vulnerable group feeding (VGF) programme in Rajshahi district to help them celebrating the upcoming Eid-ul-Azha festival.Under the specialised VGF programme, 3,085 tonnes of rice were allocated for distribution among the beneficiary families in nine upazilas and...

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Three die in Gaibandha road accident

GAIBANDHA, Aug 20 (UNB): At least three people were killed including a mother and her child as a bus crushed a CNG-run auto-rickshaw at Chaumatha area on the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway in Polashbari upazila in the district on Monday.The victims' names could not be known immediately.Officer-in-charge of Gobindaganj Highway Police Station,...

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Water inundating a large tract of cropland

PATUAKHALI: Water inundating a large tract of cropland in Charipara village under Kalapara upazila due to embankment collapse — Focus Bangla

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