‘Handicrafts can make women self-reliant’

Need-based training on handicrafts can be the vital means of making the grassroots women income-generators besides self-reliant, reports BSS. There should…

Solar panels light up houses in remote areas

Solar panels have lit up the lives of the poor villagers in the remote areas of Islampur upazila in Jamalpur district who could not afford power connections. Bishwajit, a meritorious Class-IX student at Patharshi village in the upazila, belongs to one such family. “I had never expected to see…

Death in road crash sparks protest in Habiganj

Habiganj: A motorcyclist was killed in a road accident on Dhaka-Sylhet highway at Bashina in Bahubal upazila of the district yesterday morning, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Mozammel Haque, 25, an employee of SEMCO Company and hailed from Shah Paran area of Sylhet. Police said as a vehicle…

Ferry stuck in hidden Padma shoal

Munshiganj: A Ro-Ro ferry Ruhul Amin carrying with nine buses, two trucks and 11 small vehicles got stuck in a hidden shoal in the middle of the Padma River yesterday morning, reports UNB. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation (BIWTC) authorities said its ferry Ruhul Amin got stuck in a hidden…

Abducted man rescued, 2 held

Detectives rescued an abducted businessman and arrested two people for their alleged involvement in the abduction from Mymensingh town early yesterday, within eight hours of his abduction. The arrestees were identified as Khorshed Ali, 26, of Dadiar Char in Nakla upazila of Sherpur and Forkan Ali, 24,…

news in brief

Two killed in road accident GOPALGANJ: Two people were killed and four others injured as a bus hit an auto rickshaw in Khanderpar area on the Maksudpur- Rajpat road under Maksudpur upazila of the district yesterday morning, reports BSS. The deceased are Shamsu Khan, 75 and Eklin Miah, 18, residents…

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