Noakhali, Bangladesh News

KUTUBDIA: Salt evaporation lakes, vast stretches of shrimp cultivation and fields of Shutki drying in the sun stretch as far as the eye can see.

DHAKA: Bangladesh Nationalist Party will publish a white paper on ruling Awami League's oppression of opposition leaders and workers throughout the country.

With the onset of Eid ul Azha , it's time to unwind before the small screen. All the Bangla channels are offering a surfeit of entertainment ranging from special TV plays, tele-films, musical shows to magazine programmes.

DHAKA: With only seven days remaining for Eid-ul-Azha, sales of sacrificial animals at the Gabtoli cattle market, the lone permanent cattle market in the city, are yet to get momentum.

UNB, Barisal Special steamer, launch, sea-truck and ferry services on the major rivers and coastal routes will start for two weeks to ease the sufferings of the passengers on the occasion of holy Eid-ul-Azha. Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Corporation and Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority are launching the services.

Bangladesh could meet 40 percent of its soybean oil demand by producing Soybean locally, as there is a bright prospect for its farming.

Indira Gandhi rightly respected the East Bengali Muslim sub-nationalists and helped the emergence of sovereign Bangladesh Republic, says SOBHANLAL MUKHERJEE Many people, especially those belonging to the present generation, living in this sub-continent have wrong notions about the birth of West Bengal in 1947 .

UNB, Sangsad Bhaban The government has taken steps to introduce e-health or telemedicine as part of programmes to build Digital Bangladesh, Health Minister AFM Ruhul Huq informed Parliament yesterday.

The United Nations Development Programme in Bangladesh has urged all concerned to work collectively to develop and advocate for concrete and tangible steps to be taken by Bangladesh as the leader of LDCs to halt climate change as well as to adapt and mitigate its risks.

Our Correspondent, Barisal A 10-day restriction imposed by Directorate of Fishing on all sizes of hilsha fishing at four points of 7,000 square kilometers areas down the coast, the estuary and the rivers between October 15 and 24 to ensure safe spawning will be over on Saturday next.

Amalendu Prasad Mukhopadhyay In his article , Subrata Mukherjee explained the correct and historical role of Dr Shyamaprasad Mukherjee during the Partition days.

After his home slipped into the powerful currents of the Meghna River four years ago, Monoranjab Dus came looking for new land along this waterlogged stretch of coastline slowly emerging from the sea.

Two criminals were killed in 'shootouts' between their associates and law enforcers in the capital and Noakhali early today.

BSS, Rangpur The government launches Taka 75.95 crore for 40-days employment generation programmes from today in greater Rangpur of Rajshahi Division and other 11 districts in the country, an official said on Wednesday.

BSS, Dhaka More than a million ultra poor people living in geographically disadvantaged areas are set to come under a special programme that targets to ensure food security and employment for the poorest during five months of 'seasonal poverty' every year.

Nijhum Dwip is a small island under Hatiya upazila. It is situated in Noakhali District in Bangladesh.

DHAKA: Bangladesh and India will open 13th land port at Belonia today to expedite export and import business with the landlocked eastern Indian states known as Seven Sisters.

BSS, Dhaka The newly established Belonia-Feni land port is being inaugurated today to open a new avenue for Bangladeshi entrepreneurs for exporting more commodities to the northeastern region of India.

Ashikur Rahman, PhD Candidate, London School of Economics It is not only unfortunate that Gandhiji is not only a forgotten hero in Pakistan and Bangladesh, but his contribution towards attaining communal peace in Bangladesh fails to even echo from our political walls.

A monsoon depression in the northwest Bay and adjoining areas might trigger a heavy rainfall and 3-5 feet high wind-driven surge inundating low-lying areas of 14 coastal districts, offshore inlands and chars.