GAIBANDHA: Speakers at a function underscored the need for providing quality health services to the rural people to build a healthy nation and ensuring safe pregnancy to prevent mother and child deaths, reports BSS. They made the comments while addressing an advocacy meeting on Community Clinic Activity…

Foundation training on journos held OUR CORRESPONDENT, CHUADANGA A three-day foundation training on journalism for electronic media journalists was concluded at circuit house in the district town yesterday. Press Institute of Bangladesh (PIB) organised the training and about 35 local journalists participated…

RAJSHAHI: Mobile courts on Saturday seized 27,000-metre of current nets worth around Taka 10 lakh and over 80 kilograms of mother Hilsha fishes from different points of Padma River under three upazilas of the district, reports BSS. The mobile courts comprising respective upazila nirbahi officers and…

NARAIL: The National Sanitation Month and World Hand Washing Day was observed in the district town yesterday, reports BSS. To mark the occasion, a procession was held in the town which paraded different roads in morning. Showing documentary, hand washing demonstration and prize distribution ceremony…

A team of Rapid Action Battalion (Rab-14) arrested a woman and seized drugs from her possession at town’s Station Road area on Saturday night. The arrestee was identified as Airin, 30, wife of Noor Islam of Rahmatpur in Mymensingh sadar upazila. On information, the Rab team raided Station Road…

A court here has awarded death penalty yesterday to a father for killing his daughter. A court here yesterday sentenced one person to death and another to life term imprisonment in separate murder cases. The convicted persons are Maharaj Howlader from Bhechki village and Md Selim Bepari from Tetulbariya…