Amateur cyclists make the grade
Bangladeshi cyclists Drabir Alam, Tanvir Ahmed, Mohammad Alauddin and Rakibul Islam, better known as Team BDC, claimed the Guinness World Record greatest distance cycled in 48 hours by a relay team by cycling 1670.334 km last month.
4 February 2022, 18:00 PM
Naz Garden, 1st 3-star hotel of north Bangladesh, up for sale
The pandemic has ended up being the final nail in the coffin for Hotel Naz Garden in Bogura, the first three-star establishment of northern Bangladesh, with the owner putting it up for sale to end it from haemorrhaging money.
29 January 2022, 18:00 PM
‘Logo Land’: Bangladeshi author Amit Biswas on logos of the Netherlands
Logo Land (Lecturis, 2021), a new book by Bangladeshi author Amit Biswas, takes a look at the origin and meaning of logos, exploring the depths of shapes, colours, and forms in the municipality logos in the Netherlands.
23 January 2022, 09:06 AM
Fistful of rice: A food bank formed by women from minority communities
Around 5,000 women, mostly from the minority communities, are finding self-sufficiency with every passing day.
16 January 2022, 18:00 PM
Bangladeshi cyclists secure Guinness record
A team of Bangladeshi amateur cyclists bagged a Guinness world record by cycling 1600 km distance in 48 hours.
8 January 2022, 17:34 PM
Factory fire kills five in Bogura
Five workers died in a fire that spread through three acres of a disposable plastic factory in Bogura’s Adamdighi upazila yesterday.
14 December 2021, 18:00 PM
Cashew nut processors in trouble for dearth of raw materials Higher import duty also blamed
Cashew nuts processors in Bangladesh are staring at a grim future because of a shortage of raw materials and higher import duty – an ominous sign that can stymie the growth of the budding industry and render thousands of workers jobless.
25 November 2021, 18:00 PM
Only Tk 50 shy of life?
Bogura Shaheed Ziaur Rahman Medical College Hospital authorities yesterday formed a four-member committee to investigate the death of a boy allegedly due to removal of his oxygen mask by a hospital employee for not getting a “satisfactory tip”.
10 November 2021, 18:00 PM
‘We don’t have a future’
In Taliban’s first news briefing since their return to power in Kabul, the group’s spokesperson said the new regime would be “positively different” from their 1996-2001 stint, which was infamous for deaths by stoning, girls being banned from school and women from working in contact with men.
9 November 2021, 18:00 PM
‘I want to commit suicide, but can’t leave my mother alone’
Since Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, Nargis Nayeel Sadat, 22, a business entrepreneur and women activist based in Kabul, is on the run along with her mother to save their lives after a Taliban court found her guilty.
22 October 2021, 18:00 PM
Silence of the river
Fishermen of Majhipara village look to the Akhira for their livelihood, but since October 17 they have been unable to answer the river’s call even though they need its bounties desperately.
22 October 2021, 18:00 PM
The 14-year-old who crossed the Bangla Channel
Fourteen-year-old Rabbi Rahman, a tenth grader from Bogura, is the youngest Bangladeshi swimmer to cross the Bangla Channel in the Bay of Bengal. He secured the first place in the 15th Fortune Bangla Channel Swimming competition in November last year, amongst 40 contestants of different age groups. It took Rabbi only 3 hours and 20 minutes to cross the 16.1 km channel from Teknaf jetty to St Martin’s Island.
23 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Planned EPZ in Santal Palli: BEPZA to go ahead despite protests
The government is forging ahead with its plan to set up the country’s largest export processing zone on 1,842 acres of farmland under the Gobindaganj upazila of Gaibandha district that the local santal community says belongs to them.
19 September 2021, 18:00 PM
We can behead ‘kafirs’ like you
Habibullah Farzad, a Ph.D. scholar of the South Asian University, New Delhi and also a human rights activist, was beaten
12 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Customers suffer as Nagad blocks accounts alleging suspicious transactions
A number of customers of Nagad have alleged that they were facing troubles in carrying out transactions on their accounts as the mobile financial service provider has suspended them on suspicion of unusual transactions with e-commerce platforms.
7 September 2021, 18:00 PM
Taliban takeover through two Afghans lenses
Questions are swirling in the air after the Taliban took control of Afghanistan last week ending the rule of West-backed government of Ashraf Ghani. It took
21 August 2021, 18:00 PM
Aus acreage shrinks for dry weather
Farmers cultivated Aus paddy on a reduced area in Bangladesh this year because of dry weather during the main transplantation season, said farmers and officials.
18 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Bogura glass vial SME cluster almost extinct
Just three or four years ago, Shihari and Dumori villages in Bogura’s Adamdighi upazila were buzzing with activity as some 400 small glass vial factories operated in the area.
12 July 2021, 18:00 PM
Change Maker: Back to roots to set up agro farm
It is expected that a student graduating from a reputed university would want a good job in the big city.
7 July 2021, 08:33 AM
Ashrayan Project-2: Seven houses collapse after moderate rain
Seven out of 22 houses built for homeless people under the Ashroyon project-2 have partially collapsed following moderate rainfall in Koyerkhali area of Bogura’s Sherpur upazila four days ago.
30 June 2021, 18:00 PM