Shayestaganj OC accused of demanding food items worth over Tk 10 lakh from 3 companies to entertain guests invited on the occasion of Police Day and Durga Puja

High yield of jute fails to make farmers in Faridpur happy as they are facing huge trouble to rot and process raw jute in absence of adequate water in local water bodies (Beels), canals and ponds.

An influential quarter is setting up an auto rice mill close to a government primary school at Atharodana in Ghatail upazila, ignoring local people’s objection.

Economic activities in four upazilas including three in Kurigram district and one in Lalmonirhat could not gain the momentum as desired despite the inauguration of the Sheikh Hasina Dharla Bridge over the Dharla river in 2018.

Sudden erosion by the Jamuna river has devoured several homesteads and vast farmlands within a few hours at Mazzan village in Sirajganj’s Shahzadpur upazila last week, creating panic among the villagers.

Police recovered the body of a local union parishad (UP) member from his second wife’s house at Joanpur in Naldanga upazila early yesterday.

Two children died in separate incidents of drowning in Lalmonirhat and Kurigram on Monday.

Violating rules and without taking permission from the authorities concerned a local influential man has been constructing permanent shops after taking lease of a rural market at Dhalapara in Ghatail upazila.

A local Awami League (AL) leader has dug a pond illegally posing threats to the surrounding cropland and homesteads. An act that he has done after failing to buy the villagers’ land at a cheap rate, locals said.

Thousands of villagers in Barguna’s Taltali and Amtali upazilas are worried about losing their belongings to continuous erosion of Payra river. The erosion has taken a serious turn recently posing threats to six villages in the upazilas.

A twelve-grader student has invented a robot surprising everyone in the village. Ahsan Habib, 18, of Kaliganj upazila in Lalmonirhat has named it ‘Chishti.’

Sukhobala Sen, 90, has been receiving old age allowance of Tk 500 for eight years but she can hardly afford to buy her prescribed medications for a week with the meagre amount of money.

Bikas Mandol of Sikdermollic village in Pirojpur Sadar upazila cultivated Boro paddy on his one bigha land spending over Tk 20,000, which he took on credit from different people and NGOs.

A freedom fighter’s aspirations to become a lawyer were muffled as he was shown failed in the LLB examination by the Rajshahi University authorities. But at last the indomitable spirit of the freedom fighter prevailed as he obtained the certificate after a 13-year-long legal battle with the university authorities.

Rural basket makers in Chapainawabganj are spending busy hours as the baskets are now in high demand for packaging mangoes of the district, one of the largest producers of quality mangoes in the country.

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Faridpur Municipal Bus Terminal has turned out to be a nightmare for both the passengers and transport workers due to lack of renovation works for a long time. A little to moderate rains flood the entire bus terminal causing immense sufferings.

A total of 1681 male and female workers from impoverished families of Lalmonirhat’s Patgram upazila are happy getting an opportunity to work under the government 40-day job creation project. Prior to joining the project, they were involved in risky stone crushing jobs.

Abdur Rob Siddiqui has been adjudged as the best school teacher in Rajshahi division for a third time.

Patients, doctors and staffers of Faridpur General Hospital have to tolerate the obnoxious stench of untreated wastes dumped in the open sky as Faridpur municipality authority has stopped collecting wastes for two months.