Prices of green chili and aubergine have shot up suddenly in retail markets in Kishoreganj, hurting the people of fixed and low-income people in this holy month of Ramzan. Green chili is selling at Tk 100 to Tk120, against Tk 30 to 40 a week ago,  aubergine is selling at Tk 80 to 90 against Tk…

A good number of children in the char areas of Sadar and Raipura upazilas of the district are being deprived of the right to compulsory primary education due to poverty, ignorance, shortage of schools and lack of communication facilities, reports BSS. Several Union Parishad (UP) chairmen and members…

The construction work of incomplete Baradaha Bridge over Bangali River on Gaibandha-Nakaihat-Gobindaganj Road in the district is nearly completion amid much enthusiasm to the locals, reports BSS. According to sources the construction work of the much awaited bridge started in 1997 and the government…

Police recovered the body of a woman from a rented house at Natun Courtpara area in Jhenidah on Friday night. Police said the deceased -- Mina Begum, 45, of Chougachha upazila --  had been living with her husband Mizanur Rahman and son Al Amin in the past few months. On Friday noon, her husband…

A college student was killed and 20 others were injured in a clash between two rival groups of people at Nilokhiya village in Belabo upazila of Narsingdi yesterday. The warring people also set fire to about 50 houses. Roni, 20, of Nilokhiya village and a second year HSC student of Hazi Asmat College…

Two beaten to death OUR CORRESPONDENT, Satkhira Two men were beaten to death in separate incidents in Ashashuni and Sadar upazilas on Friday.  Azmal Huda, officer-in-charge of Ashashuni police station, said Aminur Rahman, 35, of Badartala village had given Tk 5 lakh as loan to Israfil of Kadakati…