Solar power has appeared blessings for many char (a tract of land surrounded by the waters of an ocean, sea, lake, or stream) people as it turns the local…

Members of Bangladesh Coast Guard yesterday rescued three kidnapped fishermen and arrested two suspected robbers, including an Indian national, along with arms and bullets from a canal under Satkhira range in the Sundarbans. The arrestees are Golam Molla, 36, a resident of Rampal upazila in Bagerhat…

A man was hacked to death by some miscreants at Shangkarpasha village in Sadar upazila on Monday morning. The deceased was identified as Siddiqur Rahman Khalifa, 60, son of late Kashem Ali Khalifa, a resident of the village. He was an assistant of a lawyer.   Hayatul Islam Khan, superintendent…

A mobile court yesterday sentenced 11 fishermen to one year jail for illegally catching Hilsa, violating a fishing ban. A team of Fisheries Department conducted a drive at Bholar Khal in Meghna River and arrested the fishermen in the morning. They also recovered 4,000 metres of net, two trawlers and…