Non-stop rains cause extensive damage to early-variety beans

PABNA, Oct 07: Early-variety beans have sustained extensive damage due to continuous rainfalls in Ishwardi and Atgharia upazilas of Pabna districts this season. Ishwardi and Atgharia upazilas of Pabna have a good name for producing beans and other vegetables of valuable varieties. Four fifth of the total bean production in...

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Flooding worsens in M’singh as 50 more villages inundated

MYMENSINGH, Oct 07 (bdnews24.com): Heavy rain and mountain runoff has worsened flooding in the Haluaghat, Dhobaura and Phulpur upazilas in Mymensingh district.At least 50 more villages have been inundated by the water, leaving nearly 150,000 people from the 23 unions in three upazilas stranded.The primary and secondary schools of the...

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Nylon fence erected along 40 kms of Sundarbans to tackle human-wildlife conflict

KHULNA, Oct 07 (UNB): The Forest Department has installed nylon fence in 40-km areas at critical locations in the Sundarbans to halt the entry of tigers, deer and other wild animals to locality and increase the tiger population in the world's largest mangrove forest.Sources at the Forest Department said they...

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