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It needs two more weeks to start the project: Officials

SYLHET, Dec 17: Through the authority concerned wanted to start the repair work on the crop protection embankments on December 15, it would be delayed further as water is yet to be receded from Sunamganj and other districts of the division. It may take two more weeks, officials said.Meanwhile, the...

Cultivation of zinc-enriched rice gaining popularity in Pabna

PABNA, Dec 17: Cultivation of zinc-enriched rice is gaining popularity in the district. Zinc is essential for human body, and a substantial portion of its demand can be met by consuming this rice variety. Khalilur Rahman, a farmer of Thanthania village under Maligasa union in Pabna Sadar, has cultivated BRRI...

Road accidents claim six lives across country

A total of six people were died in separate road accidents across the country in the last two days, report agencies.In Magura, an Indian national was killed and four others injured as a microbus overturned on the Magura-Jessore Road on Sunday morning.The Indian national was identified as Mohammad Islam, 33,...

Couple's mysterious death in Natore

NATORE, Dec 17 (UNB): A couple died mysteriously after taking dinner in Dhola village under Lalpur upazila on Saturday night.The deceased were identified as Abdus Sobhan and his wife Shefali Begum.Police said that the couple felt sick and started vomiting after taking their meals.Later, they were rushed to a clinic...

Police recover body of infant in Satkhira

SATKHIRA, Dec 17 (UNB): Police recovered the body of an infant girl behind a mango orchard close to Sadar Hospital on Sunday morning.Maruf Ahmed, officer-in-charge of Sadar Police Station, said that locals spotted the girl's body, aged around nine months, in the morning and informed police.Later, police recovered the body...

Faridpur mob lynches one

FARIDPUR, Dec 17 (UNB): A suspected cattle thief was killed in a mob beating at Sadipur in Sadar upazila early Sunday.The deceased was identified as Mati Sheikh, 29, a resident of Bilmamudpur village.Quoting locals, police said a group of cattle thieves, including Mati, came to Sadipur village riding on a...

Vitamin A helps increase disease resistance capacity of children: Experts

RANGPUR, Dec 17 (BSS): Health experts at an advocacy meeting on Sunday called for providing Vitamin A Plus to all under five babies to increase their disease resistant capacity and reduce death risks and prevent night blindness and other diseases. They came up with the call at the advocacy meeting...

Good yield, fair price delight marginal banana growers

Roving CorrespondentJOYPURHAT, Dec 17: Banana farming has brought smile on the faces of hundred of marginal farmers in the district this season as they got a bumper production of the produce. The growers are also delighted over the good market price.The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) office source said fair...

Manikganj eyes bumper mustard output

MANIKGANJ, Dec 17 (BSS): The mustard cultivators of the district are expecting a bumper production in the current season as the favorable weather is prevailing. Good yield of the winter crop and its fair price during the last several years, farmers of all seven upazilas of the district are spreading...