Chandpur Correspondent : Two people drowned in separate incidents on Tuesday afternoon in Hajiganj Upazila.The deceased were identified as Alifa Begum (3 yrs), daughter of Ali Hossain , a resident of Kirtonkhola village and Dulal Hossain(50), a resident of Kakoirtola village under Gondorvo union in Hajiganj Upazila. Dulal was reportedly a patient who had no mental balance. He was suffering from epilepsy for a long time.Alifa suddenly went missing while playing with her playmates around her home. Actually she drowned....
Day: September 5, 2024
Bhangura (Pabna) Correspondent : The Fisheries Department conducted an operation on allegations of fishing by throwing prohibited nets in PatulSonaPatila Bill and Gumani River under Dilpashar Union under BhanguraUpazila of Pabna on Wednesday,. At this time, 40 banned nets named China Duari were seized. Upazila Fisheries Officer Nazmul Huda said that its estimated value is Tk. 2, 00,000. Upazila Fisheries Extension Officer Ali Azam said, the operation was conducted with the help of police under the leadership of SI Rabiul...
BSS : Mita Mormu, 20, an undergraduate student at Kakonhat Degree College under Godagari upazila in the district, has found the path of generating income through lamb rearing. She said sheep farming has a vital role towards women empowerment and poverty reduction at the grassroots. Many of her co-villager students have attained success through sheep farming, she added. Anandi Saren, 19, has become almost self-reliant through her household-based sheep farming besides contributing to her family and the society as a...
Chattogram Bureau : Protesters have laid siege to the Wasa building in Chattogram, demanding the resignation of Managing Director (MD)...
Gafargaon (Mymensingh) Correspondent : Gafargaon upazila and municipality BNP of Mymensingh has given 12 lakh 50 thousand cash as a donation in the relief fund of BNP formed to help the flood victims. On Tuesday (September 3) afternoon at the central office of the party in Nayapaltan of the capital to BNP Standing Committee member Dr. A ZM Zahid Hossain received this money On behalf of Gafargaon upazila and municipal BNP, convener of upazila BNP, prominent industrialist A. Under the...
Mir Anwar Hossain Tutul, Mirzapur (Tangail) : More than 50 assistant teachers of government primary schools in Mirzapur Upazila, Tangail, have been deprived of their rightful equalisation pay for the past 18 years, leading to immense financial and emotional distress. The teachers allege that irregularities, corruption, and manipulation by the Upazila Accounting Officer, Md. Sirajul Islam, are to blame for their prolonged suffering. According to the affected teachers, despite clear directives from the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education, they...
BBC : A mother and her three daughters were among seven people killed in Ukraine’s western city of Lviv, during...
AFP : Rising temperatures should trigger a global “red alert,” the United Nations’ weather and climate agency chief said Wednesday, after global heat indices again smashed records in August. The world saw record average temperatures in August for the second year running, preliminary data from the EU’s climate monitor seen by AFP showed. Scientists warn that these unprecedented temperatures are in large part driven by man-made climate change, which is causing more frequent and intense extreme weather events. And Australia,...
AFP : At least 20 people are missing, feared dead, following a boat mishap on the Mekong river in the “Golden Triangle” area between Laos, Myanmar and Thailand, officials told AFP on Wednesday. The incident happened late Monday during “strong currents” on the river that divides the three countries, Manop Senakul, the police chief in Thailand’s northern Chiang Rai province, told AFP. “At least 20 people are missing,” he said, adding that a further 16 Myanmar nationals had been rescued.Myanmar...
AFP : At least 81 people died and several were missing after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in Nigeria’s northeastern Yobe State, local officials told AFP on Tuesday. “Around 150 suspected Boko Haram terrorists armed with rifles and RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) attacked Mafa ward on more than 50 motorcycles around 16:00 hours on Sunday,” said Abdulkarim Dungus, a Yobe state police spokesman. “They killed many people and burnt many shops and houses. We are yet to ascertain the...
Al Jazeera : Incompetence, dishonesty and greed were behind the 72 “avoidable” deaths in the Grenfell Tower fire in London, a report into the 2017 tragedy has concluded. Delivered on Wednesday following a six-year inquiry, the final report stated that decades of failure by United Kingdom governments, indifference to safety by authorities, dishonest and incompetent manufacturers and installers of building materials, and a lack of strategy by firefighters were the main contributors to the shocking death toll. Those in the...