Nation

The High Court on Sunday asked the government to act swiftly to stop erection of any structures – temporary or permanent – on the banks of the Buriganga, Shitalakhya, Balu and Turag rivers and earth filling and encroachment of any kinds on the rivers. The High Court bench of Justice ABM Khairul Haque and Justice ... Read more

Profit of taka 50,000 per acre possible The char people have been attaining remarkable success in eradicating poverty by farming Australian hybrid variety sweet jumbo grass in the sandy char areas on the country’s Brahmaputra basin during the past two years. The distressed char people have been achieving their faster economic self-reliance side by side ... Read more

Boro farmers in some northern districts, especially in Bogra, face a huge loss as they are forced to sell their produce far below the production costs and at almost half the prices they got last season. “My father lost more than Tk 1.36 lakh cultivating Boro in 3.33 hectares of land this year,” said Abdul ... Read more

On the inaugural day of the ten-day festival of documentary films on environment and people, the organisers screened ‘The Story of Tea Workers’, jointly directed by Philip Gain and Ronald Halder in the evening of Sunday at Drik Gallery in Dhanmondi. The festival is organised by the non-government organisation called Society for Environment and Human ... Read more

A rare-breed 105 kg Baghair (Bagarius bagarius) fish caught from the river Jamuna stole the spotlight as it was brought from Chilmari ghat in city’s Merul Badda market yesterday. “It is the largest Baghair sold in the city market in last 15 years. We bought it at Tk500 a kg and sold up to Tk800,” ... Read more

Emission of natural gas continues through six tube-wells and hundreds of holes at Shyampur and Anandapur villages, Titas River and Loiska Beel near Location No 3 of Brahmanbaria Titas Gas Field, posing serious risk for the locals. After such emission started noticeably about four years ago, a number of holes

Sand and stone from an unprecedented landslide created a natural dam on the Shankha river at Bandarban, completely obstructing its flow for over 60 hours since early hours Wednesday. Communication through the river has remained snapped because of the 20-foot long blockade across the 25-foot width of the river at Galenga in Ruma upazila of ... Read more

The village is familiar as ‘sickle village’. Its real name is Araibaria, located at Hossainpur Upazila in Kishoreganj district. In half of the country’s land, farmers had started cutting Boro paddy with sickles made from this village. About 1.5 million pieces of sickles have been made and sailed in this Boro season from the village. ... Read more

The speakers of a function held on Wednesday underlined the need for sustainable development of livestock in char areas through providing and ensuring the services by Government and Non government organisation. “Rearing of cows, goats and sheep is very profitable and it can play an important role to alleviate poverty and eradicate monga facing the ... Read more

Boatmen on the Karnaphuli River yesterday formed a boat-chain with a call to save the river from pollution and illegal encroachment. Environmentalists at a rally on a boat during the programme at 11:30am urged the government to improve navigability of the river through capital dredging on which the premier seaport, the lifeline of the country, ... Read more

Several dairy farm traders at West Patiya under Patiya upazila here poured huge quantity of dairy milk onto the street yesterday protesting low price of milk. Sources said traders of several dairy farms staged a demonstration at Shikalbaha intersection on the other bank of the Karnaphuli at around 11:00am demanding the government interference in saving ... Read more

The rate of human trafficking, estimated at 400 per month, across the border is alarming, experts viewed at an workshop attributing the reason as lack of coordinated efforts of the law enforcing agencies. The workshop on Anti-Trafficking Interventions in South Asia was jointly organised by Dhaka Ahsania Mission (DAM) and Concern Universal in the city ... Read more

Police arrested one person following a case filed with Patkelghata Police Station yesterday, accusing three officials of a so-called NGO of defrauding scores of unemployed youths of more than Tk 10 lakh. Victim Enayet Ali of village Tailkupi in Tala upazila sued Afaj Uddin Sardar, son of Ata Ullah Sardar, Dalim Morol, son of Salek ... Read more

At least four students of Dinajpur Medical College were injured in a clash between the activists of Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) and Islami Chhatra Shibir (ICS) on the campus yesterday. Campus sources said both sides equipped with sharp weapons clashed over taking control of the medical college campus, leaving three BCL and one Shibir activists ... Read more

Archaeologists recently found a broken clay seal with illegible ancient inscriptions during excavation at “Paharpur Buddhist Monastery” site in Naogaon district. They also dug out other artefacts including unknown earthen pots from the world heritage site. The Department of Archeology carried out the month-long excavation at the site that ended on April 16. Naheed Sultana, ... Read more

Many offshore islands have no shelter Several lakh people living in the coastal areas of Bhola district are highly vulnerable to cyclones and tidal surges as the shelters constructed the purpose are too inadequate to accommodate the large number of people during natural disasters. Around 1.5 lakh families living in chars (island) of high-risk coastal ... Read more

Meat, chicken, fish, eggs prices remain high Potato, pulses and edible oil prices increased further in the past week in the city because of shortage in ready stock. The prices of other vegetables remained stable, but meat, chicken, fish and eggs remained exorbitantly high. Consumers observed fresh increase in prices of several essential goods during ... Read more

The owners of brick-kilns in the district are using wood instead of coal for baking bricks violating government restrictions resulting pollution of environment and posing a serious threat to public health. District administration sources said, under the Brick Burning Control Amendment Ordinance, 1992, setting up of brick fields on crop land and near human settlements, ... Read more

The Ministry of Law appointed 101 lawyers from the rank and file of Awami League as public pleaders in 22 courts of Barisal and cancelled jobs of 35 lawyers appointed during the previous regime. The newly appointed lawyers started functioning from Wednesday. The appointment letter signed by Mir Shafikul Alam, Deputy Solicitor of the Law ... Read more