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Sylhet Aus farmers eye good yield

SYLHET, Sept 05: Aus harvest is nearing to end in all the four districts of Sylhet division. So far 152,220 hectares of land have already been harvested, an official informed on Wednesday. It includes 148,106 hectares if high yielding varieties and 3808 hectares of local while only 306 hectares of...

RMP, rover scouts working for road safety

RAJSHAHI, Sept 05: To bring discipline on road, The Rajshahi Metropolitan Police (RMP) in co-operation with rover scout students started checking of vehicles on road from Tuesday.The rover scout students have seen to checking licences of the drivers and papers of the vehicles that were plying in different streets of...

Ashrayan projects change fortune of 2,660 Gangachara families

RANGPUR, Sept 05 (BSS): Most of the river-eroded 2,660 families, rehabilitated under the Ashrayan Project since 1997, have changed their fortune in Gangachara upazila of the district.Acting deputy commissioner (DC) Ruhul Amin Mian said the homeless families were rehabilitated in three phases at 266 barracks in 19 Ashrayan projects and...

Manpower shortage hinders regular activities at Niamatpur Upazila Health Complex

NAOGAON, Sept 05: Acute shortage of necessary manpower including physicians and staff at the Niamatpur Upazila Health Complex has caused serious hindrance to healthcare services to around 0.25 million people of the area. Local sources said the 31-bed health complex was upgraded to 50-bed with different modern amenities in 2012...

Over 0.7m Rajshahi families get rice at Tk 10 per kg

RAJSHAHI, Sept 05 (BSS): More than 0.77 million extreme poor families in all eight districts under Rajshahi division have started getting rice at a rate of Tk 10 per kg since Monday last.The selected card holders will get 30 kilograms of rice every month through village ration dealers at a...

BRTA Jhenidah circle passing busy time

JHENIDAH, Sept 05: A total of 246 registration applications were submitted to the Bangladesh Road Transport Authority (BRTA), Jhenidah Circle since the starting of traffic week in the backdrop of countrywide students' movement for safe road.To cope with the extra pressure of work, the higher authority ordered extension of office...

Authority seizes 28 birds from Satkhira house

KHULNA, Sept 05 (UNB): Members of Wildlife Management and Nature Conservation Division seized 28 caged birds of nine species from a house in Agaijhara village under Tala upazila of the district on Tuesday.Being tipped off, members Khulna rehabilitation centre of the division conducted a drive at the house of Sheikh...

Two motorcyclists die in Gaibandha road crash

GAIBANDHA, Sept 05 (UNB): Two motorcyclists were killed when a tractor rammed a motorbike at Chithulia in Shaghata upazila on Wednesday morning.The deceased were identified as Sajib Ghosh of Shaghata and Naruttam of Gabtali in Bogura district.Mostafizur Rahman, officer-in-charge of Shaghata Police Station, said the accident took place in the...