Some 25,000 families, mostly victims of river erosion and landless, changed fortune through farming pumpkin on sandbars in Rangpur agriculture region in last nine years. Earlier, these landless families had to live in miseries on the shoals ((char landmass emerging from riverbed), riverside flood control…

Police recovered the throat-slit body of a local Awami League leader from a paddy field in Kanchanpur village of Adamdighi upazila yesterday. The deceased was identified as Nazrul Islam, 55, publicity secretary of Chapapur Union Awami League Unit and of Mandirpur village in the upazila. Quoting family…

Clinic owner lands in jail    UNB, Gopalganj A mobile court here on Friday sentenced a clinic owner to three months' jail for conducting cesarean section without any doctor and nurse at his clinic in Kotalipara upazila. The convict was identified as Deshbandhu Biswas, 50, owner of Shantilata…