Amanur Aman

Bauls in the western part of the country continue to live in constant threat of attacks and humiliation as the attackers enjoy complete impunity.

It’s the Chhatra League leaders, not the university or the hall administration, who are running the show at the dorms of Islamic University.

The lone state-owned alcohol manufacturer, Carew & Company Bangladesh, has earned about Tk 233 crore in sales in six months from July to December 2022 which is said to be 21 percent higher in comparison to the same period the year before.

Betel leaf grown in Kushtia is not only popular across Bangladesh, but also beyond the country’s borders with increasing exports in the last several years encouraging more farmers to cultivate the crop.

The 84-year-old Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Limited, a state-owned distillery located in the Darshana area of Chuadanga’s Damurhuda upazila, registered record sales in fiscal 2021-22 thanks to increased demand for its distillery products.

Amla is a small and tranquil village, akin to many other villages in the country, situated twenty-two kilometres away from the south-western Kushtia district.

The story of Matiar Rahman, who was arrested by Saudi police for “begging” in Madinah, has already gone viral on social media. While investigating Matiar’s background, a great deal of information has come to light.

Carew & Co (Bangladesh) Ltd, the country’s sole state-owned distillery, could face a shortage of sugar as sugarcane threshing at its mill in Chuadanga hit an all-time low this season.

Jamir Uddin, a landless and homeless day labourer, applied for a house at a government shelter project in 2018. Following his application, he was allotted a two-room house built on two decimals of land at Andulbaria Ashrayan Project under Jibannagar upazila of Chuadanga on June 20, 2021.

The country’s lone state-run distillery Carew & Company (Bangladesh) is planning to double alcohol production through an automation project and go for market expansion observing a recent hike in sales.

Years of encroachment has left the Kaliganga, which used to be one of the most prominent rivers in the country, in its death throes. But the authorities seem to have turned a blind eye to the crime.

The wave of Covid-19 patients has turned Kushtia General Hospital helpless. Every one and a half hours, someone is losing their life, and many are close to dying at the 250-bed medical facility. Doctors say the situation is truly out of their control.

A police official was arrested after shooting to death a woman, her seven-year-old son, and a man in broad daylight in Kushtia town yesterday.

The probe committee tasked with investigating alleged irregularities in procurement of medicine and medical equipment for Chuadanga Sadar Hospital and four upazila health complexes visited the district for the first time on Sunday, almost a year after its formation.

Amid the closure of Indo-Bangla land borders, Bangladeshi nationals are trespassing using several illegal points in six districts of the south.

Bangladesh nationals in Khulna division’s six districts have been using some points between Bangladesh and India to cross the border without visa.

The crisis of pure drinking water is deepening in Khulna division as the underground water level has also gone down in five previously unaffected districts, say experts.

The sheer brutality of the massacre shocks the people of Kushtia even today.

The famous 300-year-old date molasses market in Sarojganj of Khulna’s Chuadanga district is enjoying excellent business this year.

Bids for the construction work of two student halls at Kushtia Islamic University (IU) for Tk 108 crore have been opened despite the fact that names of the bidders had been leaked a few days ago.