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Pilgrims will have to pay Tk 2,20,550 to perform Hajj Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina on Monday ordered the authorities concerned to cancel the leasing licences of any haor if its lessee was found catching fish or pumping out water from it. The order was issued at the meeting of the cabinet held ... Read more

Anwar Ali, Rajshahi Strawberry growers and traders in Bangladesh are expecting Tk 10 crore in annual turnover, as they go into its first-ever commercial cultivation this year. Rajshahi University teacher Dr Manzur Hossain, who developed the fruit nearly a decade ago, expects nearly 25 tonnes of output from

Bapa urges govt Staff Correspondent Green environment leaders at a human chain yesterday demanded steps to implement the decisions by the depatrtment of enviroment immediately to protect environment of Jaflong and Companyganj from unscrupulous

Obaidul Ghani The government is planning to revise the fertiliser dealership policy as soon as possible after the current boro season to ease fertiliser distribution and sale at the grassroots level, said agriculture ministry sources on Wednesday. The above decision was taken at a meeting of the National Coordination and Consultant Committee on Fertiliser Management, ... Read more

WOMEN RESERVED SEATS IN JS Nomination submission closes today Staff Correspondent The submission of nomination for elections to the 45 reserved seats for women in the parliament, according to the revised schedule, closes today. The returning officers will scrutinise the nomination papers on March 15 at the Election Commission secretariat. The last date for the ... Read more

BSS, Rajshahi The farmers have started harvesting of lentil and Chickpea (gram) with expectation of bumper production everywhere in the northern region during the current season. Officials said, the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) has fixed a target of producing 1,04,415 tonnes of pulses including lentil, gram and mashkalai from around 1.04 lakh hectares of ... Read more

Kawsar Khan The supply of stone chips has dropped in recent times raising its prices in local markets because of a partial government ban on stone collection from two rivers in Sylhet. Since February 2, the Department of Environment (DoE) imposed a ban on the use of machines to collect stone from the Piyain and ... Read more

Staff Correspondent The ruling Awami League on Monday published the list of its 36 women candidates for women’s reserved seats in parliament, including two from allied parties and two others from the families of army officers slain in the February 25-26 BDR rebellion. The AL announced the names of its women candidates for reserved JS ... Read more

Md. Shakib Hasan The dowry has a long history in Europe, South Asia, Africa and other parts of the world. One of the major functions of the society and the state should be to protect women against ill treatment by their husbands and husbands’ kin. The giving of a dowry more or less disappeared in ... Read more

Star National Desk Law enforcers in fresh drives destroyed more poppy fields during the last one week. Poppy fields on 18 bighas of land were destroyed during three separate drives in Shahbazpur union under Shibganj upazila in Chapainawabganj district in

BSS, Rajshahi Strawberry cultivation has been gaining popularity in the northwestern districts since the last couple of years as the fruit has tremendous economic prospect for the grassroots farmers. Due to its prolong-winter climatic condition, the strawberry experts say, huge enthusiastic growers come here from different parts of the country to collect strawberry saplings every ... Read more

Tapan Chakraborty, Barisal Success in Strawberry cultivation in Barisal has created enthusiasm among the local farmers to go for massive cultivation of this sweet and nutritious fruit and the prospect of strawberry cultivation has been proved as bright in the district. Al Amin Talukdar Tutul, owner of Barisal Nursery at Baroitala under Charkawa union of ... Read more

Boro saplings threatened for scanty supply Our Correspondent, Moulvibazar Boro farmers in Rajnagar upazila under Moulvibazar district are worried as supply of fertiliser is too scanty to meet their requirement. Boro saplings are now turning reddish for want of fertiliser, said farmers of Kawadighi Haor areas in

A.T.M.Nurun Nabi Separate ministry and separate budget are indispensable for development of Bangladesh Railway (BR) and time has arrived to reintroduce the tradition of presenting separate railway budget in the Parliament and to have a separate ministry named ‘Ministry of Railway’. In India, there is separate ministry and separate railway budget for ages and that ... Read more

Int’l conference on climate begins Staff Correspondent Bangladesh must take bold steps to adapt to the climate change at the community level to reduce the risks and vulnerability of the common people, said speakers at an international conference on Wednesday. The six-day conference on community based adaptation to climate change aims at educating the Bangladeshi ... Read more

Our Correspondent, Barisal The Indian Hilsa importers of West Bengal have demanded price-cut of Bangladeshi Hilsa or to face stoppage of export from Bangladesh. Ajit Das alias Monu Babu and Md. Yunus Sikdar, President and Secretary of Bangladesh Fish Exporters Association of Barisal, informed this correspondent that their counter part Atul Das, Chairman of Hilsa ... Read more

Iqbal Siddiquee, Sylhet At long last, the ministry of LGRD has approved the organogram of Sylhet City Corporation (SCC), four years after submission of the same. However, the approved organogram allows a 650-strong manpower for 31 departments and sections of the SCC while the SCC had proposed for 850 staff to manage matters related to ... Read more

Our Correspondent, Kushtia Fifty-six fake Secondary School Certificate (SSC) examinees under Jessore board fled examination hall and did not turn up yesterday at Daulatpur (D-pur) centre. Thirty-five of them were giving proxy at the centre on Tuesday as examinees from Kamalpur High School while 21 others as examinees from Kalyanpur High School. Two headmasters, Abdus ... Read more

United News of Bangladesh . Dhaka Bhutan offered Bangladesh opportunity of importing surplus electricity from the Himalayan country to feed its power-hungry national grid in the wake of huge demand. As the Bhutanese ambassador in Dhaka made the offer Wednesday, the commerce minister, Faruk Khan, said Bangladesh would sign trade agreement with Bhutan within May ... Read more

BSS, Rajshahi Agronomists, researchers and scientists revealed that there has been a bright prospect of broccoli farming commercially everywhere in the northwestern region of the country. They said the prolonged winter climate being experienced in the region is suitable for cultivation of the non-conventional crop that is commonly known as green cauliflower. Its plant and ... Read more