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Students attend classes amid fear of bldg collapse

CHANDPUR, Oct 08: The students of a school in the district are attending classes amid fear as cracks have been found in the building of the institution. Constructed in 1996, the building of Neej Gachhtola Government Primary School in Sadar upazila may collapse anytime, said locals. The tin-roofed building is...

BGB seizes drugs worth Tk 125m in Teknaf

TEKNAF, Oct 08 (bdnews24.com): Border Guard Bangladesh, (BGB), has seized Yaba pills and crystal meth, also known as ice, worth an estimated Tk 125 million in two separate busts in Cox's Bazar's Teknaf Upazila.The drugs were recovered from the Haikong Checkpost and the Naf River area early on Saturday, said...

Thrust on highlighting CHT as orchard of Bangladesh

BANDARBAN, Oct 08 (UNB): Agriculture Secretary Md Sayedul Islam stressed the need to highlight the Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) as the orchard of Bangladesh."Cold storages need to be built to preserve the fruits grown in the CHT. Besides, the number of collection centres needs to be increased to collect and...

Cultivation restarts on Rangpur char lands

RANGPUR, Oct 08 (BSS): Like the previous years, many people have begun cultivation of winter crops adopting intercropping methods on char lands this season in Rangpur agriculture region. Officials of the Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) said that char people started sowing crop seed on char lands and dried-up riverbeds...

Three students killed in Jashore road crash

JASHORE, Oct 08 (UNB): Three twelfth-graders of the same educational institution were killed after a truck mowed them down on their motorcycle on the Benapole-Jashore highway on Friday night, police said.The accident claimed the lives of Asif, Arman and Salman - all twelfth-grade students at Jashore Sadar upazila's Natunhat Public...

Protecting migratory birds for ecological balance stressed

RAJSHAHI, Oct 08 (BSS): World Migratory Bird Day was observed in Rajshahi on Saturday with the call for taking immediate measures to protect the migratory birds and their habitats from pollution and other habitat depletion.Light and other environmental pollution is a serious and growing threat to migratory birds, which is...

Fire at Sylhet colony makes five families homeless

SYLHET, Oct 08 (UNB): A fire that broke out at a colony in the Sylhet city's Pathantula area on Friday has made five families destitute in the blink of an eye.According to Shahidul Islam, a unit leader of Sylhet Fire Service and Civil Defense, three firefighting units brought the blaze...

News Briefs (2022-10-09)

Man stabs mother-in-law to death FARIDPUR, Oct 08: A 55-year-old woman was stabbed to death allegedly by her son-in-law in Sabar village of Faridpur district early on Saturday. The deceased was identified as Rahima Begum of the village. Habil Hossain, officer-in-charge of Nagarkanda Police Station, said that Rahima stepped out...

Fishermen busy making fishing net at Moju Chowdhury Hat ghat in Laxmipur Sadar upazila of Laxmipur

Fishermen busy making fishing net at Moju Chowdhury Hat ghat in Laxmipur Sadar upazila of Laxmipur district on Saturday — Focus Bangla