Rangpūr News

Jatiya Party chairman H M Ershad has welcomed the Supreme Court verdict on Bangabandhu murder trial. "The whole nation is proud today," he said on Thursday. Though the ruling Awami League blamed former military ruler Ershad for abetting the murderers,...

Maj Gen Ehteshamul Huq, the military secretary to the president, has been transferred to the army's Rangpur-based division as its general officer commanding, a highly-placed government official said Sunday night. The general was linked Sunday by Prothom Alo newspaper to...

Staff Correspondent A student of Bangladesh Health Profession Institute yesterday set herself on fire at her dormitory room of Centre for Rehabilitation for Paralysed (CRP) in Savar after she was expelled from examination for adopting unfair means.

Once Monga compelled a large number of villagers, mainly farm labourers and marginal farmers, to leave for other districts to forage for food and jobs during the lean period of October-November. Quite contrary to this feature, people are now passing...

Both the high yielding rice varieties (HYVs) mature in 115 days and can be harvested at least a month before the other HYV -- BR11-- that farmers have been growing so far during aman season. Early harvesting of the new...

I have got tremendous result from my paddy field," he said adding that he has produced nearly 7 tons of paddy per hectare on his land."...Aman varieties as it can be produced only in 110 days. "We need proper help...

Former military strongman H M Ershad says he only followed his predecessor General Ziaur Rahman in rehabilitating the killers of independence hero Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. "When he was in power (former president) Ziaur Rahman gave the killers of Bangabandhu jobs...

The deceased Jahangir Alam, 28, son of Md Aziz Miah of Laxmanpur at Badarganj in Rangpur, was a worker of Habib Steel Ship Breaking Yard. Police said the accident occurred around 12:30pm when Jahangir was resting beside an iron plate...

In an Inter-Service Public Relations Directorate press release yesterday, he said during his long service in Bangladesh Army he discharged duties in Sylhet region three times and last served as commanding officer of a BDR battalion there. "During these periods...