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Sylhet tea industry hamstrung by investment crunch

SYLHET, Sept 28: Tea of Bangladesh is facing multifaceted challenges like inadequate investment, increased price of inputs including fertilisers, underdeveloped infrastructures, lack of irrigation facilities and above all lack of initiatives to introduce better cropping and management for raising per hectare yield. However, the tea sector is a slow growth...

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Beware of fox !

ROVING CORRESPONDENTBOGURA, Sept 28: Villagers under Shajahanpur upazila in the district are in fear of fox bite. Meanwhile, 24 people have already injured and some ten goats in Betgari area nearby the Dhaka-Rangpur Highway have also been attacked by foxes.Some 11 people have been bitten on Wednesday and 13 on...

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Taraganj cattle rearers passing sleepless nights

Our CorrespondentRANGPUR, Sept 28: The cattle raisers and farmers of different areas at Taraganj upazila in the district are passing days in anxiety as cattle theft incidents have become rampant in the upazila in recent times.Some 25 cattle were stolen by the organised gangs across the upazila during last one...

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Thrust on raising Boro yield in haor region

Our CorrespondentSYLHET, Sept 28: Speakers at a regional workshop in Sylhet town on Saturday laid emphasis on raising Boro paddy production in the haor region in the next coming dry season. The DAE alongside all the agriculture-related institutions should extend all-out assistance to the cultivators with a target to achieving...

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Dearth of answer sheets hits exams at CU

OUR CORRESPONDENTCUMILLA, Sept 28: Students’ sufferings have intensified at Cumilla University (CU) as the authorities are yet to make arrangement of required volume of answer sheets for the examinations.Thousands of students are facing problems due to the shortage of answer sheets in the examinations. They are not getting enough paper...

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