RAJSHAHI: Speakers stressed on role of media towards reaching the services of family planning, maternal-infant and adolescent health to the target group of people including the grassroots population. There is an urgent need of bringing all the fertile couples and others concerned under the services.…

A woman was beaten to death allegedly by her husband following a family feud at Paikra village in Sadar upazila yesterday morning. The victim was identified as Nasima Khatun, 32, wife of Tahlim Bhuiyan, of the village. Being informed, police recovered the body of Nasima, who was married off to Tahlim…

Pabna: A Juba League activist was stabbed to death by some criminals at Dhanuaghat Sharatganj Bazar in Atgharia Upazila of the district yesterday, reports UNB. Officer-in-charge of Atgharia Police Station SM Faruk Hossain said a group of criminals waylaid Rafiqul Islam, 37, of Shatgachha village in…

‘Kathin Chibar Dan’, the biggest religious festival of the Buddhist people in Chitagong Hill Tracts (CHT), started yesterday at Rajban Bihar in the district town, with great enthusiasm.  A two-day-long programme including Pancha Shila prayers by weavers, making threads by spinning wheels,…