Thakurgaon, India News

DHAKA: The Bangladesh Nationalist Party on Tuesday announced convening committees for its 71, out of 75 district units, dissolving the incumbent bodies and asked them to elect fully-fledged panels through council sessions by November 15.

Three people were killed and two others injured in a road accident near the Jamuna Bridge in Sirajganj district early today.

BSS, Rangpur The jute plants are growing well amid favourable climatic condition everywhere in all eight districts under Rangpur Agriculture Zone , officials and farmers said.

No visible steps have been taken yet in the bordering northern districts against swine flu although there was a false alarm of detecting the deadly virus in the neighbouring country.

RANGPUR: SHARP decline in potato production has kept business of the cold storages dull in eight northern districts this season.

Pottery traders sitting idle at Dinajpur Rail-Bazaar owing to absence of customers.

Potato price is galloping in the northern districts as the production faced a setback in the region this year.

The government yesterday replaced 23 deputy commissioners in a major reshuffle in the field level administration.

The country experienced its first nor'wester of the season in many districts of North-Bengal region in the early hours yesterday.

BSS, Rangpur The district and upazila administrations in northern districts, including Rangpur, have chalked out elaborate programmes in celebration of the Independence Day in the region on March 26 in a ...

The subjail in Islampur where Roy is currently lodged and the resident certificate issued by the Thakurganj block.

All manhole covers on the road from BDR Gate-4 near Jigatola are left open yesterday as search operations for missing BDR officers continue.

A potato field at Denti village under Pirgachcha upazila in Rangpur is in tatters as it is infected with late blight.Photo: STAR Porimol Palma A fungal disease -- late blight-- has badly affected potato crop in ...

BSS, Rangpur Speakers at a discussion meeting here said that some 894 new leprosy patients were detected in Rangpur, Nilphamari, Thakurgaon and Panchagarh districts last year and the country is yet to be freed ...

Bookshop owners in eight northern districts on Wednesday observed a daylong strike, demanding adequate supply of secondary level textbooks.

The Border Security Force of India today gunned down a Bangladeshi cattle trader at Chapshar border outpost under Haripur upazila of Thakurgaon, according to the Bangladesh Rifles officials.

BSS, Rangpur Normalcy returned almost everywhere in the northern region as the weather marked significant improvement with the disappearance of fogs and stronger appearance of the sun on Sunday.

RANGPUR: Potato production is unlikely to achieve target in eight northern districts of the country as vast tracks of potato fields have been damaged by bacterial diseases due to foggy weather.

At least eight workers of Jamaat-e-Islami including a former personal secretary of its Ameer Motiur Rahman Nizami were arrested in Pabna while 15 workers of BNP and Jatiya Party were held in three other ...

Bangladesh News.Net Tuesday 30th December, 2008 Dhaka/Former prime minister Sheikh Hasina and the nine-party alliance led by her Awami League recorded a landslide victory Tuesday, winning 259 seats of the 299 ...