Agricultural extension and research officials in a workshop here yesterday  unequivocally called for promotion of growers level farm mechanization to boost crop outputs to feed the gradually increasing population, reports BSS. They revealed that the cropping intensity can be increased to 250 percent…

A court here yesterday convicted two people and sentenced them to death for killing a man at Digholkandi village in Daulatpur upazila in 2011, reports UNB. The condemned convicts were Rubel, son of Amir Uddin and Sujon, son of Mura of the village. According to the prosecution, Sabuj, a resident of the…

Detectives in a drive arrested the Joypurhat district unit Jamaat-e-Islami ameer from in front of Muslimnagar Women’s College on the edge of the district town yesterday. Tipped off, a team of the Detective Branch of police arrested Hasibul Alam Liton, ameer of Joypurhat district town unit Jamaat-e-Islami…

Police recovered the body of an unidentified man from Taratiteripara-Ejartala area under Muktagachha upazila of the district yesterday morning, reports BSS. Being informed, police rushed to the spot at about 9.30 am and recovered the hanging body from a tree. Later the body was sent to hospital morgue…

Chapainawabganj: A mobile court in Bholahat upazila in the district realized Tk. 1,50,000 as fine for running unlicensed brick kilns on Wednesday, reports BSS. Rapid Action Battalion (RAB)-5 sources said an operation team of RAB from Chapainawabganj camp along with executive magistrate Abul Hayat Md…

The Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) and farmers are expecting a bumper production of wheat in the district during the current season.      A total of 15,000 hectares of land have been brought under the cultivation this season in five upazilas of the district with a production…