Members of Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) detained 28 people from Benapole Bazar as they entered Bangladesh from India illegally through a border point here on Wednesday. The detainees, including 12 men, 10 women and six children, are reportedly residents of different villages in Narail and Khulna districts.…

RAJSHAHI: State Minister for Fisheries and Livestock Narayan Chandra Chanda has called for boosting livestock farms for meeting up the gradually mounting nutritional demands, reports BSS. He also urged all officials and researchers concerned to come forward and work together to improving living and…

Somapura Mahavihara was one of the most famous Buddhist monastic institutions of ancient Bengal. The excavated monastic complex at paharpur has been identified…

About 5000 poor families in 14 char unions of Sadar, Belabo and Raipura upazilas of the district achieved economic self-reliance through vegetables farming during the last ten years, reports BSS. Before taking up vegetables farming as the means of their subsistence at least half of them were in abject…

DINAJPUR: Police, in special drives from Wednesday night to this morning, arrested 58 persons and recovered 1800 liters of locally made liquor and 208 bottles of contraband Phensidyl syrup from 13 upazilas of the district, reports BSS. Sources with the district police said they were picked up from different…

MUNSHIGANJ: The ferry service on Shimulia-Kawrakandi route resumed this morning after seven hours suspension due to thick fog on the route, reports BSS. Manager of Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) of Shimulia, Giasuddin Patwary, said the ferry movement was suspended from 3 am due…

Awami League backed candidate Advocate Safia Khanam won the Zila Parishads (district councils) polls as chairman in Rangpur. Sources said Safia joined Awami League in 1976. Then she served as secretary of Bangladesh Mahila Awami League. In the mean time, she joined in a non-government office (NGO).…