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Haragachh bidi workers face health hazard

RANGPUR, Oct 16: Due to prolonged exposure to toxic dust of tobacco hundreds of bidi factory workers at different bidi factories under Haragachh union of Kawnia upazila in the district are facing severe health risk.Sources said the bidi workers, including a good number of women and children, are working at...

Handloom factories on verge of closure in Bogura district

BOGURA, Oct 16: Handloom factories in the district are on the verge of closure due to price hike of yarn and other raw materials against low market price of woven clothes.Already about 1,000 weavers and workers have become unemployed and nearly 40 per cent handloom has remained inoperative in Dupchanchia,...

World Food Day observed in Gopalganj, Magura

GOPALGANJ, Oct 16: World Food Day was observed in the district in a befitting manner on Wednesday. The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and Food Department, Gopalganj Sadar, jointly organised the programme with the theme 'Our actions are our future'.In this connection, a colourful procession was arranged where about 100...

Environ ministry takes up afforestation programme for Sylhet region

SYLHET, Oct 16: The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change has taken up a major afforestation programme for the Sylhet region. All the four districts - Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Habiganj and Sunamganj - are included in the programme for expanding the forest area.The ECNEC approved the much-desired project at its...

New bldg of Nilphamari hospital remains unused

NILPHAMARI, Oct 16: Nilphamari Sadar Hospital has been upgraded into 250-bed one from existing 50 beds and the construction of a six-storied building for the hospital has been completed recently at a cost of Tk 350 million.The newly-constructed building has been handed over to the hospital authority by the contractor...

SHMC construction nears completion

TANGAIL, Oct 16: The construction of Sheikh Hasina Medical College (SHMC) in the district is nearing completion.An official said, "Construction of the fifteen-storey building has already completed. Now the interior work is going on." The Tangail General Hospital was upgraded as medical college in 2015.Later, the construction of the government-run...

Teacher shortage hampers academic activities at 300 Cumilla primary schools

CUMILLA, Oct 16 (UNB): Academic activities at nearly 300 government primary schools are being seriously hampered due to the shortage of headmasters and teachers.There are 2,107 government primary schools in the district that have posts of 12,708 teachers, according to the district education office. Sources said 295 of these schools...

Farmers make profit growing watermelon on unused lands of fish enclosures in Khulna

KHULNA, Oct 16 (UNB): Ahad Ali Sheikh of Dumuria is actually a shrimp farmer by profession. Farming shrimp on 2.5 acres of land taken on lease in Nolghona Beel, he somehow managed to earn his livelihood.His fortunes have, however, changed dramatically after he planted watermelon seeds along the aisle of...